δ Legenda de Amore from the Book of Wisdom or Folly in The Libri of Aleister Crowley

“In the pure Outrush of Love in Desdemona for Othello was no Flaw; but his Love was marred by his consciousness of his Age and his Race, of the Prejudices of his Fellows and of his own Experience of Woman-frailty.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “In the Fable of Adam and Eve is this great Lesson taught by the Masters of the Holy Qabalah. For Love were to them the eternal Eden, save for the Repression signified by the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thus their Nature of Love was perfect; it was their Fall from that Innocence which drove them from the Garden.”
  2. New Aleister Crowley 2012 post links to the Libri of Aleister Crowley
  3. “The Fault, that is Fatality, in Love, as in every other Form of Will, is Impurity.”
  4. “Consider well thy conscious Thoughts and Acts, for they are under the Dominion of thy Will, and moved in Accord with the Operation of thy Reason; this indeed is a necessary work, enabling to comprehend in what manner thou mayst adjust thyself to thine Environment.”
  5. “Now as Literature overfloweth with the Murders of Love, so also doeth History, and the Lesson is ever the same.”