Season 3 Episode 31, “Introduction to the book Overthrowing the Old Gods”. - a podcast by Stanford Green aka. Cee Bee

In this episode, CeeBee talks about the book "Overthrowing the Old Gods" written by Aleister Crowley and rewritten by Don Webb.

Two Paths Out of the Confusion of the World

The world is a confusing place. Various ideologies and commodities, religions, and fads compete for your attention. They want your soul, they want your flesh, and worse still they want your money. As the pace of human material progress quickens, each little demon and angel shouts for you to join its parade. This has been true for hundreds of years, maybe even thousands of years. These days the shouts are louder, and the myth that you can go down all the paths at the same time is stronger than ever. The good thing about this mishmash is that many paradigms old and new—well traveled or seldom traversed, ancient or modern, intellectual or simple—are available to the seeker.

Many of the paths in the West have their roots in the work of Aleister Crowley. From Scientology to Wicca, from the Rosicrucian Order to the Temple of Set, the First Beast’s seeds have grown into a huge forest of magickal, philosophical, and religious trees. Crowley used the term “magick” to distinguish the Work of a magician from a stage conjuror. The spelling adds the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, which signifys (in Crowely’s numerology) “Will”—the force used and refined by the practice of magick. This book is offered as an aid to some who wish to further their link to Crowley’s 666 Work; to others it is a challenge to clarify their thinking; to others still, an explanation of their current spiritual and magickal paths. It is not written to offend anyone. It is not written as an ultimate Word or guide. If it makes you think, I am happy; if it makes you do, I am happier still. My viewpoint differs from much of mainstream occultism. I reject the purely pragmatic view of chaos magickians; I distrust the righteousness of my Right-Hand-Path brethren; and I deny the anything- goes approach of postmodernism. I assert that magick is a road to self- power and mastery over the self and the cosmos. I assert that all may enter our path and that the path of seeking measurable self-chosen goals in the world is the path of self-training. A Word, as we shall see, is an

encapulization of a worldview. We might, for example, say that Liberty was the Word of Thomas Jefferson. As one aligns one’s self with a Word, the Word both informs the soul and strengthens the deeds of the person who is learning/practicing/furthering it or—as magickians say—“Working” with it. Thelema, a New Testament Greek word, is usually translated as “Will”—but in its original context meant a strongly held desire. If I say, “I will go to work tomorrow,” a different word would be used because no matter what, I am going to be there. If I say, “It is my will that you dine with me,” then I would use the word Thelema. For the magickian, Thelema begins with self- knowledge (I know I want to eat with you) but grows into a Law of the Cosmos (because I desire it, it will happen, even if you think it won’t). The word Thelema is my notable in the Lord’s Prayer—“thy Will be done on Earth as in Heaven.” Crowley’s system changes this into “My Will be done!” This becomes the essence of the Left-Hand Path, although he lacked the modern usage of that terminology. For a great understanding of the Left- Hand Path historically, the interested reader should consult Stephen Flowers’ Lords of the Left-Hand Path.

Thank you for listening. Peace Family. 

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