Evidence of the Mystery 1 :

There is a remarkable concurrence of what is good for an individual and what is good for the society and
environment that an individual is part of. Eating vegetarian, biking instead of driving, engaging with
nature … life abounds in things that are healthy for the group having satisfying analogs in what is healthy
for an individual.

Orientation 1:
“As above, so below”

Evidence of the Mystery 2 :

Diversity
IDIC
Everything is mythology, everything is persuasion, everything is the will of the people – the words and
laws just an analog, can never be wholly internally consistent (Godel)

Orientation 2:
“Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law”

Evidence of the Mystery 3:

Endings – things end. Pass away. The finiteness of existence. Fixed duration of time.

Orientation 3:
Acceptance of endings / cycle of life

- God must be familiar. Mundane. This is the experience of your own consciousness – your
separateness as a being. Your experience of time passing. For religions, always the problem of
the people who existed before the religion was founded.
- God must address the The Mystery. The question of why other things exist as they are can be
explained by revealing the transitions from how things existed before, with the exception of
your experience of existing. It seems to you as if you have always existed, even if you believe
there was a time before which you did exist. A time before which you have no memories.
Memory must be part and parcel of The Mystery. Challenges to The Mystery : brain chemistry.
Traumatic injury.
- Morality and the Great Work. Is it just a resource allocation issue? What is moral for a sole
consciousness existing alone?

Equivalence of Love, Empathy, and Transcendence

Thelema as being libertarian, to laissez-faire
Self-love : as treating your future self with empathy
Ethics as discovering alternatives, and evaluating each with empathy