Love
Thelema for Beginners - Part 04.
Thelema for Beginners was developed by IAO131 and is hosted here by the Thelemic Order. While it is not an official publication of The Thelemic Order we consider it to be a balanced overview of Thelema.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
- 00. What is Thelema
- 01. Who is Aleister Crowley
- 02. The Book of the Law or Liber AL vel Legis
- 03. Will
- 04. Love
- 05. Holy Guardian Angel
- 06. Ethics/Morality
- 07. Practices of Thelema
- 08. Thelema's Relation to Past Philosophy and Religious Systems
- 09. Symbols of Thelema
- 10. Thelemic Media
- 11. Thelema in Society
- 12. Thelemic Organizations
- 13. More Information
- Union between a point-of-view (you) and one of infinite possibilities in Experience.
- Union between opposites, the mystical Union
- Eight Lectures On Yoga by Aleister Crowley
- “First Lecture – First Principles” by Aleister Crowley in Eight Lectures On Yoga
- “Each person as a star” by IAO131
Quotations
“Elsewhere it is written— surely for our great comfort—’Love is the law, love under will.’ This is to be taken as meaning that while Will is the Law, the nature of that Will is Love. But this Love is as it were a by-product of that Will; it does not contradict or supersede that Will; and if apparent contradiction should arise in any crisis, it is the Will that will guide us aright. Lo, while in The Book of the Law is much of Love, there is no word of Sentimentality. Hate itself is almost like Love! “As brothers fight ye!” All the manly races of the world understand this. The Love of Liber Legis is always bold, virile, even orgiastic. There is delicacy, but it is the delicacy of strength. Mighty and terrible and glorious as it is, however, it is but the pennon upon the sacred lance of Will, the damascened inscription upon the swords of the Knight-monks of Thelema.”
– Aleister Crowley, “Liber II: The Message of the Master Therion“
“IT IS WRITTEN that ‘Love is the law, love under will.’ Herein is an Arcanum concealed, for in the Greek Language [Agape], Love, is of the same numerical value as [Thelema], Will. By this we understand that the Universal Will is of the nature of Love. Now Love is the enkindling in ecstacy of Two that will to become One. It is thus an Universal formula of High Magick. For see now how all things, being in sorrow caused by dividuality, must of necessity will Oneness as their medicine… Understand now that in yourselves is a certain discontent. Analyse well its nature: at the end is in every case one conclusion. The ill springs from the belief in two things, the Self and the Not-Self, and the conflict between them. This also is a restriction of the Will. He who is sick is in conflict with his own body: he who is poor is at odds with society: and so for the rest. Ultimately, therefore, the problem is how to destroy this perception of duality, to attain to the apprehension of unity.
– Aleister Crowley, “De Lege Libellum“
Love is the Law, love under will.
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