I don't have any answers, necessarily. Just a few thoughts:
LD330 wrote:Why should you do your will in the first place?
Consider that it doesn't tell you to do
your will, but rather that doing
Thou's will is the whole of the Law.
Thou, in Hebrew, is
Ateh, the first word of the Qabalistic Cross, and all that that implies.
What does a person get out of it? (What value is being posited by doing one's will?)
I don't know that there is a value attached to it. It's simply a statement that doing
Thou's will is all there is and that one has no right beyond doing that.
Is it possible to -not- do your will? Isn't everything you do, on some level, willed?
I would say that it is not possible not to do
Thou's will. We may not understand the correlation at the time, but I tend to agree with the idea that everything is willed and, not only that, that everything we do is
necessarily part of our own particular vector of
Thou's Will which we label: "My True Will". Others tend to disagree with me. I have yet to have someone follow me all the way down the rabbit hole of that discussion to really hash it out, though.
Say I don't, or attempt not to, do my will. As this is said to be a law, who is enforcing the law and what happens if one does not follow the law?
I don't see it as possible to violate the Law any more than it's possible to violate the law of gravity. I see the Law as an expression of Sanathana Dharma, the eternal Law of cosmic order, the ever-present and unbroken net of cause/effect.
danica wrote:It's about experience, and about Action. Intellectualizing it to the point of "it's all the same" and "why bother" leads nowhere. (If it's really all the same to you, why bother living at all?)
I'd say that this captures the difference between different approaches to the same ends. Experience and Action embeds one more fully in the Universe until one becomes One with it (Karma & Hatha Yoga/Ceremonial Magic & Ordeals); Intellectualizing (and I'd add real meditation) simplifies the Universe until it resolves itself into One Thing that is No Thing (Jnana & Raja Yoga/Qabalah & the Sacred Magick).
I wouldn't necessarily correlate "it's all the same" with "why bother?"
Go in all ways contrary to the world.