Re: LOVE UNCONTROLLED BY WILL

[shadowdancers@...]

--- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, preist@g... wrote:
> Dear IOX,
> 
> Bardon's statement about Love is a complicated one to say the very 
> least. Showing much resemblence to Aliester Crowley's statement 
> of "Love is the Law, the Law under a strong will."
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> 
> > Love and Live well,
> Peter Reist
Just thought I would add my two cents worth to Peter's in-depth 
info. "true" love becomes a matter of definition. In terms of Kashmir 
Shaivism, for example, the only "true" love would be the love 
experienced after (during) union with the divine, Shiva, or the 
universal energy of consciousness. (this would not deny the realism 
of human love, however. Another subject for another time.)
Also, St. Augustine also had a phrase very similar to this which pre-
dated Crowley's. 
Crowley's version "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Love is the Law, Love under Will." has multiple references, including 
to sexual magick. There is also some indication to me that Bardon's 
version hints in that direction also, considering the material it is 
placed in context with.
The original Pattern on the Trestleboard that Peter mentions referred 
to the various sephira at the numbers 1-10. Thus, subsitute the 
word "Foundation" for Love in line 9 and you have Paul Foster Case's 
original version, sephira 9 being the foundation.