Quotes from Don Webb

The nature and purpose of Xeper is hidden in the myth of the contendings of Set and Horus. In the Temple there are two views of Xeper. One is the Nietzschian view that Xeper is the process of becoming who you are. That is to say, becoming reflects being. The second view is that Xeper is free willed; you can become anything you want to. Neither of these ideas is actually exclusive. Let's see why.

Crowley's self submitting not to a god but to his Self, the Left-Hand Path was remanifested in the West. The roots of this had been developing in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche and the magick of Paschal Beverly Randolph and the yoga-tantra blend that Pierre Bernard had brought to the American West Coast

Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.