yogiman
There is also this interesting passage
Thanks to firemaid, and also to closrapexa and ravenest for their enthousiastic responses. (I feel a need to butter, because my post is not related to the thread title).
It's not so easy to sense whether something is your true will. For instance, when my head is lifted up she is the girl of my dreams, but when my head is drooped down I am not so sure anymore. And it can also be problemetic. It is not unlikely at all that Nelson Mandela was doing his true will before he was incarcerated for 27 years.
Divination artefacts, particularly tarot and i ching, will be important tools in guiding you. And it seems to me that from a thelemite perspective when you are doing hatha yoga, or some other exercise/ritual prescribed by Crowley there is a high probability you are doing your true will. Strangely, in his 8 lectures on yoga, he is not mentioning the 5 yamas as if they are fixtures that stand in the way of doing our true will in a universe that requires constant adapting.
from the wikipedia
Ahimsa (अहिंसा): non-violence
Satya (सत्य): benevolent truth, absence of falsehood
Asteya (अस्तेय): non-stealing
Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्य): spiritual advancement by education and training. Some traditions associate Brahmacharya with celibacy.
Aparigraha (अपरिग्रह): non-appropriation, absence of avarice
I don't see the principal difference between hatha yoga positions and the 5 yamas, in the sense that the yamas represent as it were mental positions, which make our mind healthy, like yoga makes our body healthy. The only downside could be that you are blindly obeying a set of rules, but we do that in anyway:
Maybe it is a good idea to fight fire (conditioning) with fire (yamas) in order not to fall prey to the wrong forces of the subconscious.from the BoT, p.77
At his feet, couchant, is the Lamb and Flag, to confirm this attribution on the lower plane; for the ram, by nature, is a wild and courageous animal, lonely in lonely places, whereas when tamed and made to lie down in green pastures, nothing is left but the docile, cowardly, gregarious and succulent beast. This is the theory of government.
Thelema arose about a century ago, and there will have been lots of people in the meantime who have been dedicated practitioners for decades. Have they all been successful, or is it wise to add some wisdom at hindsight?