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Thelema The religious or mystical system which Crowley founded, into which most of his nonfiction writings fall, he named Thelema. The word is the ancient Greek θελημα, "will", from the verb εθελω, ethelô, meaning "to will" or "to wish." Thelema combines a radical form of philosophical libertarianism, akin in some ways to Nietzsche Some links for you http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osstitle.htm http://www.freemasonwatch.freepress-fre ... ewage.html http://www.vetssweatshop.net/dogma5.htm http://www.blackraiser.com/nazorig.htm http://www.psychicalexplorers.com/enews ... alwar.html Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a famous and influential German philosopher. The son of a pastor, he was very pious as a child. A brilliant student, he became professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in 1869, but retired in 1879 due to poor health. From 1880 until his collapse in January 1889, Nietzsche led a wandering, gypsy-like existence as a "stateless" person, writing most of his major works during this period. His fame and influence came later, with the help of his sister. She has been associated with the Nazis in the 1930s, and is responsible for selective quoting of his philosophy in Nazi ideology. Nietzsche is famous for his rejection of what he calls "slave morality" (which he felt reflected the inverse of the "will to power" and a perversion of useful altruism); his attacks on Christianity (a character in one of his works declared that "God is dead"); his origination of the Übermensch concept (translated as "Overman" or "Superman") in only one of his books; his embrace of a sort of a-rationalism; and something he called "the Will to Power" (Wille zur Macht), possibly best regarded as an early attempt at psychology. Nietzsche was strongly influenced by Arthur Schopenhauer and his concept of "the Will to live". H.L. Mencken's book on Nietzsche described his work as an early effort to reconcile the philosophical implications of Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest" evolutionary theory with contemporary moral and ethical systems. He greatly disliked Darwin and his idea of "the survival of the fitest". In many respects his thinking anticipated the "heredity" side of the ongoing debate about which has more influence on human behavior: learning vs. heredity in the modern discipline of psychology. ("Irrationalism" in human behavior typically stems from genetic/instinctively-derived impulses). Nietzsche's thoughts also anticipated the "biological world view" and genetic interpretation of social behavior in the modern discipline of sociobiology (c.f. one can find updated "Nietzsche" in A New Morality From Science: Beyondism by Dr. Raymond Cattell, which draws from concepts elucidated in Sociobiology: The New Synthesis by Harvard professor Dr. Edward Wilson as well as other emergent disciplines such as "medical anthropology." Nietzsche's concept of breeding upwards towards the "higher man" is indirectly addressed in biological interpretations of human history, such as Dr. Elmer Pendell's Why Civilizations Self-Destruct or Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West). Every human action, according to Nietzsche, is born of a basic instinct to exercise one's own power in some way. Gift-giving, love, praise, or harmful acts such as physical violence, carrying tales, etc. all stem from the same unconscious motive: to exert the will. The theory of the will to power is not limited to the psychology of human beings. Instead, it is the essential nature of the living universe, manifest in all things. Growth, survival, dominance in business or physical competition, all are seen as elements of this will. Some see Nietzsche's "will to power" or, as he famously put it, the ability to "say yes! to life" as life-affirming. Creatures affirm instinct in exerting power and dominance. The suffering born of conflict between competing wills and the efforts to overcome one's environment is not evil, but a part of existence to be embraced in that it signifies the healthy expression of the natural order. Enduring satisfaction and pleasure result from living by instinct and successfully exerting the will to power. This 'will to power' has some affinities with Hegel's theory of history. Nietzsche pointed out that in order to smooth over conflict between disparate interest groups, opinion leaders of civilizations start to tell white lies. Future generations often take white lies at face value, and add their own white lies, so that over time so many white lies get built on top of each other so that moral, ethical, and religious theological systems become Byzantine, convoluted, and even inverted (or to use a more modern term "Orwellian") compared to "common sense" morality that would be obvious in a primitive setting. Particularly dangerous is "slave morality" which is actually a two way street: the lies a master (or oppressor or greedy exploiter or a "Big Brother") tells his slaves (or the oppressed or the "used") to keep them in a place unfairly beneath their real talents and abilities, and the lies the slaves (or otherwise oppressed or expoited) tell their masters (or more powerful people) to avoid incurring their ill favor. Nietzsche then tried to dissect how elements of "slave morality" have become embedded within ethical and religious theological systems. On a theological level, "slave morality" can include promoting mysticism in the place of hard-headed pragmatism, and glorifying weak and unproductive people over strong and efficient producers. An American population expert, Dr. Elmer Pendell, took this theme further with a biological intepretation of history in his classic work "Why Civilizations Self-Destruct." To the extent that the study of ethics can be broadly lumped into three categories (obedience-oriented, contractual, and utilitarian), Nietzsche clearly rejected obediance-oriented philosophies (one either obeys or does not obey a higher authority) in favor of a utilitarian approach (one weighs costs and benefits on ones own to determine the ethical implications of an action). According to Dr. Norman Ravitch, professor of history at U.C. Riverside, "What Spengler, Toynbee, and Nietzsche can teach us is how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, despite superficial differences, were all forged and/or altered by a religious revolution in ancient Iran associated with the name Zoroaster or Zarathustra. The central notions of dualism between Good and Evil, Salvation through an Expected Messiah, and the Final Battle between St. Michael and Satan animate these world religions and their devotees. Pragmatism, reason, and common sense have little place in these primitive Semitic world views. All conflict is interpreted as part of a cosmic struggle between Good and Evil and there is no room for compromise or tolerance." Nietzsche's assessment, of both the antiquity and resultant impedements presented by the ethical and moralistic teachings of the world's mono-theistic religions, eventually led him to his own dualistic epiphany. Resulting in his work ("Also Sprach Zarathustra"). Nietzsche is important as a precursor of existentialism and an inspiration for post-structuralism and an influence on postmodernism. However, dry academic summaries of his thought cannot capture the liveliness of his writing, and his extraordinary sense of humor, as in the famous exchange: "God is dead" - Nietzsche; "Nietzsche is dead" - God, and the riposte, "Some are born posthumously!" - Nietzsche. In many respects his writings today appear "romantic" relative to modern sociobiological and medical anthropological theory in the same sense that the Wright Brothers' flying machines appear quaint relative to modern high performance jets. Nietzsche may have contracted syphilis as a student (some think the is the cause of his madness) and endured periods of illness during his adult life, which forced him to resign from the University of Basel. After the completion of Ecce Homo his health rapidly declined until he collapsed: In Italy, wearing only underwear, he tearfully embraced a horse because it had been beaten by its owner. From that moment on he never recovered. Nietzsche spent the last ten years of his life insane and unaware of the immense success of his works. The cause of Nietzsche's condition has to be regarded as undetermined, as doctors later in his life said they were not so sure about the initial diagnosis of syphilis, since he lacked typical symptoms. Other possibilities could be a tumor or an endogenous illness, possibly paranoia. In his important work "The Anti-Christ[ian]" Nietzsche frontally attacked German scholarly Christianity for what he called its "transvaluation" of healthy instinctive values. He went beyond agnostic and atheistic thinkers of the Enlightenment who felt that Christianity may simply be an untrue religion to claiming it may have been deliberately propagated as an inherently bad and subversive religion (or in late 20th century parlance: a "psychological warfare weapon" or "ideological computer virus") within the Roman Empire by the Apostle Paul as a form of covert revenge for the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple during the Jewish War. However, in the Anti-Christ, Nietzsche has a remarkably high view of Jesus, claiming the scholars of the day fail to pay any attention to the man, Jesus, and only look to their construction, Christ. Hmm sounds like satan again here, where I have heard this before Mr Banks? Hmmm from Muslims! According to the American writer H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche felt that the religion of the ancient Greeks of the heroic and classical era was superior to Christianity because it portrayed strong, heroic, smart, and muscular men as role models and did not try to demonize healthy natural desires, such as creativity and writing poetry. Nietzsche made it "OK" to view one's pre-Christian ancestors as "noble savages." His works have also been valued as a religious "deprogramming tool," such as in the large tome "Which Way Western Man?" by former American Christian minister and co-founder of the ACLU William Gayley Simpson in which he recounts in great theological detail how Nietzsche's works allowed him to see the light of Darwin and overcome the dysfunctional "slave morality" that had been programmed into him by society and co-religionists. Works: Die Geburt der Tragödie, 1872 (The Birth of Tragedy) Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, 1876 (Untimely Meditations) Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, 1878 (Human, All Too Human) Morgenröte, 1881 (Daybreak, or The Dawn) Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, 1882 (The Gay Science) Also sprach Zarathustra, 1885 (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Jenseits von Gut und Böse, 1886 (Beyond Good and Evil) Zur Genealogie der Moral, 1887 (On the Geneaology of Morals) Der Fall Wagner, 1888 (The Case of Wagner) Götzen-Dämmerung, 1889 (The Twilight of the Idols) Der Antichrist, 1895 (The Antichrist) Nietzsche contra Wagner, 1895 (Nietzsche vs. Wagner) Der Wille zur Macht, 1901 (The Will to Power, a highly selective collection of notes from various notebooks, not intended for publication by Nietzsche himself, but released by his sister) Ecce Homo, 1908 (Behold the Man, an attempt at autobiography; the title refers to Pontius Pilate's statement upon meeting Jesus of Nazareth) |
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