As usual, it depends on how we define our terms.
Transcending Self-Authorization
Could we have avoided the excesses of Consensus Thelema if Crowley had not framed the religious experience in terms of Self?
From Thelema to Consensus Thelema
It’s one thing to decide you don’t want to establish a state religion. All considerations of Thelemic or any religious orthodoxy aside, that’s a lesson humanity has learned from the experience of history. But it’s quite another thing to replace your religion’s defining beliefs with an empty space or a question mark.
Thelema and Secularism
The idea that truth—spiritual or otherwise—reduces to personal truth isn’t “Thelemic” per se. It’s just secularism. That’s one of the defining stroke of the secularist worldview.