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Come on, I can't honestly believe you are making this argument in good faith. This is coming from a perspective of religious bigotry. Most thelemites that I kn
by metalforever 4y ago
Come on, I can't honestly believe you are making this argument in good faith. This is coming from a perspective of religious bigotry. Most thelemites that I know do believe that they are doing the right thing. The "sexual" idea in this case is an analogy to the enlightenment concept of the "unification of opposites". The temple furniture in the OTO's Gnostic Mass is set up to resemble the Tree of Life. The Unification during the ritual occurs to represent unification above the abyss if looking at the temple furniture and ritual in earnest. There's nothing wrong with this concept - similar ones are present in other (popular) religions.
These people aren't doing anything awful. They're just choosing to go about enlightenment using a different or alternative path ("All Roads Lead to Rome"). A lot of the OTO is just nerdy types of IT people. They're your coworkers in the office.
Finally, what you said about "subhuman animals" is just a complete fabrication. I'm not even sure where you got that from. It's not in any of the literature.