ε Gesta de Amore from the Book of Wisdom or Folly in The Libri of Aleister Crowley

“Then, per contra, Martin Luther, being a Giant of Will, and also the Eighth Henry of England, as a mighty King, bent them to overturn the whole World that they might have satisfaction of their Loves.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Thus the Loves of Abelard and of Heloise were destroyed by the System of Repression in which they chanced to move. Thus Beatrice was robbed of Dante by social Artificialities; and Paolo slain on account of Things external to his Love of Francesca.”
  2. “There are very many for whom in their present Incarnations this Great Work may be impossible; since their appointed Work may be in Satisfaction of some Magical Debt, or in Adjustment of some Balance, or in Fulfilment of some Defect.”
  3. “Know that herein the Relations between Numbers, though they be mighty in Power and prodigal of Knowledge, are but lesser Things.”
  4. “we are born into a World which is in Bondage to Ideals; to them we are perforce fitted, even as the Enemies to the Bed of Procrustes.”
  5. “The Fault, that is Fatality, in Love, as in every other Form of Will, is Impurity.”