Temple of Our Lady of the Stars

Temple of Our Lady of the Stars A Thelemic School of the Western Mystery Tradition. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

Following the year 1904, when The Book of the Law was produced, a
radical reformulation of Hermetic mystery schools began. This
Qabalistic book, dictated to the mystic and magician Aleister Crowley
by Aiwass, a being beyond human conception or comprehension, declares
that Thelema, or the essential Will of each human being, should be the
basis of a rigorous type of occultism that has since come to

be known
as scientific illuminism. The Temple of Our Lady of the Stars is a Toronto-based mystery school
that trains committed individuals in this practice. It teaches
Hermetic science, meditation, ceremonial magick and Qabalistic
psychology in a proven, graduated system that includes both group work
and private study. And it offers a community of aspirants for those
who seek to grow in Love, Power and Wisdom. The aim of the Temple is to guide each member to realise his or her
own True Will: the truth, purpose, essential reality or dharma that is
unique for every individual, yet which can be discovered and
comprehended by following a set curriculum. This process includes the
way towards transformative mystical illumination, just as such
illumination in turn deepens our grasp of the nature, function and
scope of individual True Will. The Temple also maintains a link with, and is warranted by, the
A.’.A.’., the ‘higher’ mystery school founded by Crowley and George
Cecil Jones in 1907, and which offers a more advanced system for
completing mystical and magical initiation for those able and prepared
to attempt them. Completion of the First Order of the Temple's system
fulfills the Student requirement of A.'.A.'., as well as preparing
aspirants for the ordeals brought by deeper initiation. Interested applicants may contact the Temple Cancellarius at

[email protected]

Love is the law, love under will.

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/a-statement-from-the-warden-of-the-temple/
04/11/2022

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/a-statement-from-the-warden-of-the-temple/

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law Back in 1995, I took initiation with a Thelemic fraternity that then had a Temple in Toronto. Coincidentally, at the same point in time, I met David Shoemaker, who had begun his work in Thelema a year or two earlier. I stayed with that …

Basic Stuff We Forget
01/04/2022

Basic Stuff We Forget

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law The following notes are from a public talk I never gave. They summarise a lot of what my own teachers dinned into me in the first couple of years I was working a Thelemic system. I should know all this material by heart now, …

Realisation is different to getting a vision. Among other things, it requires a good brain.
12/29/2021

Realisation is different to getting a vision. Among other things, it requires a good brain.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law The disagreement I had with a friend last week stays with me. Her view was that very many people experience visions, or samadhic realisations, and not just people in mystery schools or who pursue one of the major mystical paths. I agreed, but insisted....

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/verily-thou-art-not/
08/29/2021

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/verily-thou-art-not/

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The practice of the Via Negativa is an old one in mystical schools. Whatever the idea, or precept, or proposition, the aspirant questions or denies it, moving every further away from a specific affirmation of belief. For people who insist that faith i...

Intersecting Aeons.We tend to think each of the Aeons pushed its predecessor aside as it emerged. The reality is a littl...
04/08/2021

Intersecting Aeons.
We tend to think each of the Aeons pushed its predecessor aside as it emerged. The reality is a little more complicated.
http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/intersecting-aeons/

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. An esoteric school in Toronto that instructs the initiated in the ways of Thelema & the Western Mysteries.

Angels: A look at what they are, and aren't, in the context of magick.
12/23/2020

Angels: A look at what they are, and aren't, in the context of magick.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It’s Christmas, even for Thelemites. So, the topic of angels seems apposite. What are they, and how do magicians assume they function? The Qabalistic World of Yetzirah – Formation – is about the activity that puts intent and form into motion. Br...

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/false-connections/
12/18/2020

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/false-connections/

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The term apophenia was coined by a psychiatrist called Klaus Conrad in a 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia (as it was then understood). He defined it as “unmotivated seeing of connections [accompanied by] a specific feeling o...

On the uses and perils of excessive introspection:
07/20/2020

On the uses and perils of excessive introspection:

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Recent months have offered not so much an opportunity for introspection as an unrelenting insistence on it. For many of us, there isn’t a lot more to look in upon. A recent essay by M.M. Owen on Hermann Hesse on the Aeon website takes …

Self and the Digital City.We talk a lot about the distractions of online life, especially during this quarantine. But ho...
06/07/2020

Self and the Digital City.
We talk a lot about the distractions of online life, especially during this quarantine. But how does it affect not just our behaviour but our actual sense of self?

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Few things are as disconcerting to people who train in a Thelemic system as being asked to memorise a chapter of one of the Holy Books. We live in a time when anything and everything is available online, and memorising anything seems irrelevant. A …

Loneliness in a time of isolation.
04/23/2020

Loneliness in a time of isolation.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law Where I live in Mexico, we’re still self-quarantining on a voluntary basis. As a result, while I keep myself alone at home most of the time, I do meet one or two friends for safely distanced walks or conversations every few days. I had …

A few thoughts on the waves of fear rolling over and around us right now:
03/15/2020

A few thoughts on the waves of fear rolling over and around us right now:

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. As the pandemic spreads, we’re all challenged to look at what’s happening in terms of our professed beliefs and attitudes. Most Thelemic groups are cancelling or minimising meetings and ceremonies, for example, but there’s obviously a raft of is...

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/clarity-and-clouds/
02/23/2020

http://www.ladyofthestars.ca/clarity-and-clouds/

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. To some extent, Crowley’s discovery of yoga parallels the use of depth psychology in most mystery schools today. Used discerningly, psychological insight helps us bring the mind to quietude, which is also the aim with yoga: after all, Patanjali’s ...

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