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               Bi/Pan Sexuality And The New Aeon

                         By: William Hunter (Frater BOZO II)

          "One of Crowley's most frequently expressed
           ideas was that as the years progress into
          this new age, more and more people will come
        into incarnation with bisexual characteristics.
          They will be epicene. I never expected to see
         this statement corroborated as early as it has
          been."
                         Israel Regardie 1970


     The New York Area Bisexual Network (NYABN) is today in the
same position that the Gay Rights movement and Sexual Revolution
itself was twenty years ago. Bisexuality as a cultural norm is in
fact the natural next step for our society to take. It is, I
believe, the evolutionary trend of the entire human species as we
prepare ourselves for the next step off the planetary surface and
into space. This statement is corroborated by a number of trends
in the overculture. The specific trend I have the most first hand
experience with is the emergence and spread of a philosophy known
as Thelema. (The word Thelema is the greek word for Will.) The
purposes of this essay are first, to present the Aeon Model of
human evolution as an option for viewing the ever increasing
technological and social changes that surround all of us. Second-
ly, I will to present the philosophy of Thelema, a game plan for
living, as a powerful and effective option for bi/pan sexual
people to make positive changes in their lives. The Thelemic
movement, like the bisexual movement, is a valuable social entity
because it is a new unformed social structure towards which power
and resources can flow. This helps diversification.

       "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

     This sentence is one of the two precepts that are the
quintessence of Thelema.
     This does not mean do whatever you want. No. It means do
whatever you will, whatever your Will is to do, and nothing else.
Will in this context is something similar to what the Lord's
Prayer the good Cathloic nuns were so anxious to teach me means
by "Thy Kingdom come, thy Will be done." Every man and woman of
us has a Will. It is what could be also called a destiny, what
you were meant to do. Except that by Will we mean a course that
you yourself must first go through the hard work to find and then
live. The moment by moment course of your life. There are no gods
upon whose backs we can piggy on to salvation; there is only the
divinity inherent in every man and woman, and there is the
resolve to take responsibility for that divinity, and to train
your self to gain conscious access to it. On a more pragmatic
level, Will is what you are best at, your own genius: if it be
dance or (for me) writing, or fixing car engines, and the life we
each live to make the best use of our talents. Finally, Will is
that mysterious energy, the life force that fuels every cell in
your body. There is no grace. There is no guilt. There is no law,
save "Do what thou wilt."
     Wants are a different matter. You can want to make love to
somebody and want to remain faithful to your lover. You want to
stay home from work but you also want money. You can want to be a
artist, but lack the discipline to show up for a dinner date on
time. Wants often conflict. Your Will is the one course of action
you have an absolute right to follow every time Practically
speaking your Will can be only one choice of action at a time
among all the myriads of choices open to you. "Do what thou wilt
and none shall say nay." Your Will is similar to your physical
muscles, train it and it grows stronger. You grow stronger
through the self-discipline needed to find your Will, and the
momentum you gain from living it out.
     There is uncompromising freedom in choosing your will, and
unrelenting responsibility for having done so. This is one of the
essential differences between Magick, which was the name Aleister
Crowley (or uncle Al as he is known to Thelemites with senses of
humor) gave to his system of self training, and Religion. Al-
though Magick (not stage illusions--rabbits out of hats) answers
the same kind of needs that religion does, it is not the same.
Magick is the concious creation of all kinds of change in accor-
dance to your Will. (This includes fixing the plumbing, or
writing a book, as well as weird rituals!) There is no need to
take anything on the authority of some God or Devil, or even
Priest or Rabbi or Minister, unless it is the Will of the in-
dividual to do so. Magickians have always been hated by priests
and religionists. This is simply because, first, magickians don't
believe you gotta pay some priest to do what you can do best for
yourself and, second, because magickians are the kind of people
who don't even believe that you have to do homage to some deity
when, as the line from the Gnostic Mass states "There is no part
of me that is not of the Gods." Psychologists call this as having
an internal vector of control. Self control. A magickian is a
pragmatist, and a religionist is a dogmatist.

               "Love is the Law, Love under Will"

     This is the second sentence that along with the first above
forms the quintessence of Thelema.
     The only word that has the universality to adequately
describe the course of any person who is in touch with and doing
their Will is love. Love is any and every process which causes
change to more complex levels of organization. Love is that which
liberates, which promotes diversity and freedom. It is any act
made free of the strictures of fear. It is DNA. The will to love
is found in any combination or union that creates, be it between
a hydrogen and two oxygen atoms to make water, or between two
people to create ecstasy (or a baby). The will to love permeates
every corner of the multiverse. It is what compelled hydrogen
atoms aeons ago to begin spiralling out of some mystery still
beyond the understanding of the wisest into flesh and bone human
beings. Love is evolutionary. We are, literally, and figurative-
ly, each and every one of us, a star, self-contained, self-
propelling, and yet we take delight in each other. We exchange
words and touches and emotions together, and together we can free
ourselves from the only sin possible to the human being who has
the courage to take responsibility for their own evolution:
restricting our own wills or the wills of others. Restricting the
chance of union and love.
     There are three common traits among people who are dogmatic.
First is a lack of sense of humor about what they believe. Second
is a surrender of responsibility for what to believe (and there-
fore for what to do) to some Authority, invariably some very
human representative of some deity(s). Third is a terror of and
willingness to take any measure to stamp out anybody who believes
differently. These people have all mistaken their map of reality
(i.e. religion/politics/philosophy) for the reality itself. They
have restricted their very perceptions to a set of ideas that
because of their rigid and all-pervading correctness, cannot
change. Cannot change. If sin is to be measured by a standard
that promotes the survival and happiness of an individual rather
than some power elite, it will have to be measured by the in-
dividual.
     The current societal standards concerning sex are as restri-
cting and outmoded as the institutions that support them and are
supported by them. All of you reading this have, whatever your
other (like me, many) failings are have at least shown the
courage to step beyond these standards. But having rejected
something we have had the sense to see as being poisonous to our
selves, we are often left with nothing to affirm.


          Bi/Pansexual People in the Aeon of the Child

     Now after all the diatribe against deities, the first thing
naturally to do to clear things up is to tell you about the deity
who has supplanted all the deities along with background inform-
ation on how this occurs.
     An aeon is a description (model) of a stage in the evolution
in the human race as a whole similar to the stages of the life of
a person.
     The first A