Chapter XV of Moonchild by Aleister Crowley

“The forces which made man, alone of all animals, erect, love to see him thank Them for that independence by refusing to surrender it.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “In the Love of Romeo and Juliet was no Flaw; but family Feud, which imported nothing to that Love, was its Bane; and the Rashness and Violence of their Revolt against that Repression, slew them.”
  2. “Self-seeking for the brute,-for Man the Sacrifice of Self; the world’s thrones for the weak and foolish,-Self-empire for the Strong and Wise; Hatred grown into Love, and all the darkness of Ignorance illumined by the Light of Lights, which is the Law of Uttermost Compassion:-thus shall it be on earth when the Great Law shall have at last worked out the Destiny of Man
  3. “To pretend to be someone else, to restrict yourself from the natural expression of your love is true sin to us.”
  4. “One must advance towards the darkness without fear. Not because there is nothing to fear; rather because fear forces the unknown into its own ugly shape, a shape that we all know too well. Nothing truly new can come into our consciousness while fear dominates.”
  5. “What truer statement of individual freedom and spiritual expression can there be, when through the act of love we connect with the divine?”