Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
It says in The Book of the Law, "Love is the law, love under will." The nature of Will is Love, and it is brought to fruition through Love. Love means union, and is generally used in two contexts:
By this definition, all experiences are instances of Love; every experience is an instance of a point-of-view uniting with a possibility. The Book of the Law states that this must be "love under will." Aleister Crowley explains: "Needless to say, of course, it is necessary in actual practice to use
one’s judgment in choosing the phenomenon which one next proposes to
assimilate. One should not necessarily shoot oneself or another out of
mere curiosity. The right of choice is with the individual. At the same
time it should be remembered that “The word of Sin is Restriction' [The Book of the Law, I:41].
No other individual has any right to determine or restrict the choice
of another except in such cases as the experience of one includes for
all practical purposes the experience of the other; as in the case of
parents and young children."
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| 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" |