Not necessarily. Scientific Illuminism shares a lot with science, and although there are Thelemites who view the Thelemic pantheon as just that, gods, a great many view it a scientific principles describing forces at work in nature.
If this is no bias for Hod vs. Netzach, then it is likely an adaptation of the will to scientific status quo. Maybe we should perceive it as a sort of sacrifice for the sake of promotion.
Paul Case states on p.199 of the Book of Tokens:
Yet is this naught but words
Without the key supplied
by the understanding heart.
Love is that key. Love, not reason;
For reason followeth after love,
And when reason would enslave love,
Then is reason but a tyrant
Punishing itself with what it trieth in vain
to enslave.
Love cometh first as thou mayest see in Tarot,
Where the Empress cometh before the Emporer.
Without love reason is sterile,
For love is the generatrix of true imagery.
Reason can arrange, reason can harvest;
But the harvester weareth also
the mask of death.
Theoretically speaking, when you do your Will, even doing something mundane like washing the dishes feels ecstatic, like the best love you've ever made.
As this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpJdHS1pV0 shows, we still have a very long way to go.
The Sun was seen to die in Winter, only to be reborn in the Spring. After performing, the phallus was seen as dead and spent. However, since we know now that the Sun does not die, that formula no longer works.
This will hold true for the christians. But the old egyptians saw the eb and flow of the Nile, and it was still the same water. I think there is nothing new under the sun.
Although it is true that Crowley had no love for Christianity, it is a simplification to describe the Book of Law solely under those terms.
I didn't hint at "solely". Again I like to cite Paul Case (p.197), because also the Book of the Law doesn't proclaim eternal truths.
The Great Work directs itself always
toward the building of the Temple of ADONAI.
And in its earlier stages there are needs
which do not continue
throughout the building process.
Yet men mistake the scaffolding for the building itself,
And thus pay idolatrous reverence to old rules
which have no longer any useful purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhrBDcQq2DM
Have we all got that out of our system? Good, then we can move on.
By the way, those women do have large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them.
goodness, that philosophy is infective!