Thelema and Social Class

"Acceptance of the Law’ does not put you automatically in the ‘ruling class’. If you are a street-sweeper, you will remain a street-sweeper, unless your True Will is to become something else. As the Alchemists rudely put it, you must have gold to make gold; you change from your present position in space and time, not from another’s. Therefore, Initiation does not produce a change of social class; it merely improves the efficiency with which you handle your inherited and acquired qualities, it does not give you new qualities. You don’t grow a pointed tail, or horns. You remain what you are. ‘I Am That I Am’ — and not something else."

• Motta