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

“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.” [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. “The Fault, that is Fatality, in Love, as in every other Form of Will, is Impurity.”
  3. “Now as Literature overfloweth with the Murders of Love, so also doeth History, and the Lesson is ever the same.”
  4. New Aleister Crowley 2012 post links to the Libri of Aleister Crowley
  5. “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.”