Categotry Archives: Thoughts

Sixteen days ago, I became a Jew. Well, that’s when the public ceremony was. I actually fulfilled the three requirements 2 days before: beit den, hatafat dam brit, and immersion in the mikveh. So, what’s it like being a Jew? Has anything changed? Before that happened, I thought I’d be at this point and be able to say “Nope! I’m… (more…)

Last week was a spectacular week for me. I went through the circumcision (hatafat dam brit, in my case), beit den (religious court), and mikveh (ritual immersion). I then went before my community and became a Jew. Words cannot express how I feel now. It is an experience unlike any I’ve ever experienced. It was a deeply emotional and religious… (more…)

Baruch Atah Adonai Eleheinu Melech Ha-Olam Shehecheyanu vekiyemanu vehigianu lazeman hazeh. We praise you, Eternal God, Sovereign of the Universe, for giving us life, sustaining us, and enabling us to reach this season. In Judaism, there is the idea of tikkun olam – repairing the world. The idea is that we look around us at the world and see God… (more…)

This article is not my work. It is posted by permission and is the work of the blogger Princeofcups518. The original can be found there. In 1904, Aleister Crowley produced one of the most profound and bizarre books ever written – The Book of the Law. Some see it as a masterpiece, others see it as absurd, even obscene. The… (more…)

As many of you know, I consider the “religion” of Thelema to be more accurately described as a religious philosophy. Gnosticism, and its subset, Thelema, is really the search for God and how one should go about it. It doesn’t define God for you, so many Thelemites also belong to religions – which do define God for them. In January,… (more…)