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Ex-OTO here. Left to do my own thing, which I think Crowley would approve of. Not that I give two fucks 
But damn. Br. Reese. Naming names and hitting hard.
Thelema was on the front lines of late-capitalist blandization / enshittification , creating an early environment where grifting, simp-farming dirtbags could rub shoulders with some of the most wonderful people, and sincere magicians found in all of occulture.
A couple of gems from Br. Reese.
"I blame the late J. Daniel Gunther most of all. It isn’t just him, but those who reacted to him as well. As best I can tell, Gunther started the Cult of the Angel. He did precisely what Crowley warned people not to do with the phrase, Holy Guardian Angel: “incur the grave danger of building a philosophical system upon it.” And other A∴A∴ group heads turned around and, instead of pushing back on the Cult, doubled down."
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"Let’s burst this bubble now. No one needs a magical Order. No one needs a YouTube guru. No one needs a 93-day retreat. Some people just want to be nominal Thelemites. What difference does it make to you? Let’em be! Stop ridiculing every person who doesn’t play hopscotch over every imaginary circle of the Tree of Life in the order demanded by yet another “beginner book” regurgitating outdated Victorian occultism because it’s the only thing they know because they aren’t educated in anything else and because they are too afraid of “religion” to realize that’s what they’re doing anyway while screaming that they’re running away from “religion.”
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But damn. Br. Reese. Naming names and hitting hard.
Thelema was on the front lines of late-capitalist blandization / enshittification , creating an early environment where grifting, simp-farming dirtbags could rub shoulders with some of the most wonderful people, and sincere magicians found in all of occulture.
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A couple of gems from Br. Reese.
"I blame the late J. Daniel Gunther most of all. It isn’t just him, but those who reacted to him as well. As best I can tell, Gunther started the Cult of the Angel. He did precisely what Crowley warned people not to do with the phrase, Holy Guardian Angel: “incur the grave danger of building a philosophical system upon it.” And other A∴A∴ group heads turned around and, instead of pushing back on the Cult, doubled down."
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"Let’s burst this bubble now. No one needs a magical Order. No one needs a YouTube guru. No one needs a 93-day retreat. Some people just want to be nominal Thelemites. What difference does it make to you? Let’em be! Stop ridiculing every person who doesn’t play hopscotch over every imaginary circle of the Tree of Life in the order demanded by yet another “beginner book” regurgitating outdated Victorian occultism because it’s the only thing they know because they aren’t educated in anything else and because they are too afraid of “religion” to realize that’s what they’re doing anyway while screaming that they’re running away from “religion.”
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