The problems of Good Government have labored the best minds for the last 2400 years. In the best of all possible worlds, the laissez fairre "mind yur' own business" approach to one's 6.4 billion plus neighbors would suffice. Such theoretical anarchy simply does not work, since almost no one can distinguish, completely, between their will and their wants; in other words, between their instincts and their false,artificial whims. The whole history of advertising and "Democracy", Fascism, and Communism alike prey upon such confusions.

The True Will of the individual is, all too often (as any parent knows!), contradictory to most individual "wants" - the latter usually being of transitory, impulsive origin and contradictory to one's own well-being. Rather, to do one's Will is to do one's function; for a songbird to attempt to sing like James Brown would be as ludicrous as for a midget to go out for the NBA, or for an intellectual to take 'the Bible' literally. Nonetheless, most of us have not yet attained self-mastery, or "Individuation". In order to govern masses of people whom more often than not act on unnatural, artifical impulses (fostered by the Media and parasites of all ilk), 3 Schools of Thought exist, to whit:

The Masses are stupid, do not know their will, and are a menace to themselves and others. Therefore, teach them carefully constructed falsehoods so as to check their activities. Belief - a symptom of partial knowledge - is dangerous, only full Knowledge is "The Good"; the masses are, in general, incapable of full Knowledge/The Good. So, build society as a firm structure whereby the masses of ignoarnt, dangerous humans toil as slaves - who are to be treated kindly insofar as this is possible ("The Happy Slave"), but sacrificed for their Rulers' perceived security when considered necessary - for the relatively few Adepts/Knowledgeable Ones.

Such is the rationale behind all "Paternalistic Autocracies" and "Benevolent Dictatorships" alike.

No one knows what is right for another, "One's meat is another's poison", etcetera. All attempts at government have either , through wilful or accidental misdeeds, enslaved the masses of the populus.

The problem with the anarchists is that, although they shout for all who will listen that all laws are man-made gibberish, the Law of Force is very real; anarchists employ this very Law in their bomb-throwing and brow-beating rhetoric. After the French Revolution comes the Reign of Terror. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat becomes the Dictatorship of the Red Army. Worse still, anarchy is a red herring - for, all "Laws" being but arbitrary and "man-made", for all that, it is impossible for 2 or more individuals to exist without written or unwritten understandings. Also, Nature is hierarchical, and there will always be Dominants, Submissives, and fence-sitters. Authority and Laws are indeed fictions, but the lead in a gun is very real, and the decisions of leaders you refuse to recognize nonetheless cause real actions to be taken. In short, anarchism is neither desirable nor undesirable - it is impossible.

From the Greek, "Thelema", which means "Will", this school was developed by the famous French Philosopher Rabelais, nearly 500 years ago. Rabelais' idea was that *any* human being is capable - at least those who are not too damaged or stuck in their ways - of evolving past their several million year old phylogenetic 'brutish' habits and institutions, internal and external. Laws of state and such are best if they constantly, truly try to implement a happy medium whereby the Freedom of the Individual *and* the Collective Unit are respected.
*Class Reconciliation - rather than Class Warfare - is here the watch-word.*

All societies, essentially, pretend to apply the principles of this third method, but, not being ruled by Adepts (i.e. , Self-Enlightened/Individuated Human Beings), they are clueless as to how to really rehabilitate and educate the masses, let alone their children, let alone themselves! Historically, all such States decay and fall prey to the parasitical corruptions of Financiers, Priests, Rabbis, and Mullahs. The enlightened state would treat the masses as Marcella Motta, whom I paraphrase, once put it, in discussing the relations of the Adept (similar to, say, a 'Zen Master') to humanity:

The Adept/Ideal Leader would naturally act in an intelligently selfish manner, for, seeing that all Things are an Unity, it would be sado-masochistic to do anything but be as beneficial an influence on all beings and all things as practicality allows. (This is similar to John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism", but on a higher plane). When self-defense is required, one is being sado-masochistic if they do not utterly destroy the threat, but to do so is merely a necessary amputation so that the whole organism may better survive and evolve. There is nothing new in this, for long before Rabelais, Rome (and, after him, Victorian England) saw itself in such a benevolent, "paternalistic" light; but their Leaders were only half-wise, schooled by books and Arte of War, but not in psychology, biology, physics, astronomy, anthropology, sociology, etc. - in short, they lacked the benfit of hindsight that succeeding exponential growth of technological developments has afforded the present generations.

"Do what thou wilt" - as diametrically opposed to the Anarchists' "Do whatever you want" (as to the Fascist/Communists' "Do what we tell you", as well as to the "Democrats"/Machiavellians' "Do what we tell you you want"), means that a child who would rather learn Beethoven than football be allowed to do so; yet it equally allows the next Michael Jordan to abandon their piano lessons if they so will it. This was the essence of Rabelais' "Thelema", or, in his words, "Fais ce que Veulx." St. Augustine, of all people, said some 1600 years ago, "Love God, and Do what ye wilt". The essence of the con-game whereby the Economists and Religionists have robbed humanity blind is that they obscured the Ancient Egyptian concept of "God", "Asar-un-Nefer", meaning, "Myself made perfect", and exteriorised such perfection out of the realms of human attainment - unless, of course, one invited the Priests to rule and filled their tithes accordingly for the "divine dispensation" that makes such a farcical replacement for the self-overcoming, gruelling yet rewardiung process of self-mastery and individuation. Only the individual can discover their True Will, but the State can, theoretically, educate and legislate the chances of that happening to a vastly greater degree than our current States, whom forget that Plato's Big Lie (cf. The First School, above) personifies the fall of Athens, from an excess of slaves; the collapse of the Southern United States from similar reasons (i.e., fear and confusion in the ruling classes from having to domicile huge numbers of (understandably) angry slaves - leading to desperate actions by the South's leaders, whom bit off more than they could chew and were vanquished; the Romans had the better idea, in general, and made most subjected peoples Roman citizens instead!

However, when Kings, Queens, Priests, Rabbis, Mullahs alike become the 'Management' of Authority over Peoples, they also take on the Responsibilities of the Educator and parent alike. As such, their own deficits will invariably deform and warp their children/ constituencies that their authority only exists in order to benefit in the first place! Disaster occurs when our Leaders do not earn their Crowns by Self-Mastery, as the Anicent Chinese wanred. In Rome, the half-wise 'Leaders' fell prey to Religious and Economic Doctrines of 'Us vs. Them', 'My God vs. your God', 'Man against Nature'. This has been the Judeo-Christian heritage of the last 2000 years, whose fruits hath borne Watts, Bosnia, Auschwitz, lynchings, environmental self-destruction, and our own backyards mined with hydrogen bombs as the ultimate "Security" abusrdity. Clearly, the pre-Judeo Christian "Great Lie" of Plato (upon which the former were modeled) has had it's day, if it ever had one.

The Problem with System I - the Platonic/Machiavellian School - is that our Leader/s have NOT really been "Philosopher Kings"/Adepts; nor are the financiers, nor are the Religious Leaders. They are sick human beings whom have not balanced their personal and phylogenetic deficits with their genius, and as such, are powerful, half-wise, half-repressed brutes, ignorant of many parts, and therefore of the whole, no matter how correct their theoretical appreciation of Universal/Historical/Material/Spiritual concepts may be (they are often incorrect here, too, of course). These megalomaniacal cowards - Pope and President alike - refuse to confront their own imperfections 100 %; thus, they can never attain to real power, knowledge, leadership. The most important skill to Leadership that they lack is that which Nietzsche, whom I paraphrase, cherished:

The true leader - the Adept/Individuated Human Being - would seek to fuse their identity and purpose with the "Spirit of the Times", not insulate themself from or exploit to one's own narrow-minded "advantage". Again, to paraphrase Nietzsche, whom, along with Crowley, is a rare true expositor of the Thelemic School:

One last word for the Marxists out there - Marx was right - insofar as his saying that 'The Educators must be educated'. But the Marxists err as do the religionists; wo-man is not to be educated by stale, insipid, emotionally charged, utopianistic dogma; rather, the would be Elite must master themselves. This Science of Self-Mastery - the Third School of Politique - is called, "Thelema". Earnest seekers of Self-Mastery will find help from certain Teachers - not politicans or priests!