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The way you spin determining your alignment has a basis in magick as well, as moving Deosil is associated with invoking and light-oriented workings. It is also associated with magick that keeps the order of things, and the Golden Dawn system of magick generally always moved deosil around the temple for example except for the very end to close it. Widdershins is associated with banishings and destructive workings, not necessarily evil or chaotic by itself as you need to banish whatever you are working, but it is associated with tearing down the order of things. For example, in liber V Vel Reguli you move widdershins to banish out the mindset of the old aeon and then you do a sort of widdershins spiral moving in a deosil direction to invoke the new aeon which subverts or repurposes a lot of the ideas of the old (though Thelema absolutely isn’t satanic, it repurposes a lot of ‘satanic’ symbols to subvert their original meaning into something new and constructive. I can’t really say Thelema really fits into the law, chaos or neutral category - it is in a sense ultra-lawful (man has no right but to do thy will, which essentially could be said to mean you have no right to do anything but the will of God, though what ‘God’ is up to person to person to interpret because something so infinite and grand as ‘God’ can only be interpreted through oneself and understood through oneself ‘there is no God but man’) and ultra-chaotic at the same time (destroying the old order and olde meaning of things, for the sake of creating something new). Nevertheless, satanic organisations like the o9a use widdershins movements in their rituals to bring about the destruction of the current order and the pretty much the incoming of Chaos in their society, they especially use it in rituals for magical assassinations (followed by an orgy, supposedly)