Aleister Crowley: Quotes about love

“Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes”

Aleister Crowley

Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Context: Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Love , Selfishness

“This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Love

“I chose therefore the name.
"MAGICK"
as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of all the available terms.
I swore to rehabilitate
MAGICK,
to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I have kept my Word.”

Aleister Crowley

Introduction.
Magick Book IV : Liber ABA, Part III : Magick in Theory and Practice (1929)
Context: In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Work, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and deceptions of material existence.
I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. "Theosophy", "Spiritualism", "Occultism", "Mysticism", all involved undesirable connotations.
I chose therefore the name.
"MAGICK"
as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of all the available terms.
I swore to rehabilitate
MAGICK,
to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I have kept my Word.

Love , Hate , Fear

“Love is the law, love under will.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:57.
Variant: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)

Love , Law

“The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Love , Spring , Birth

“I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.”

Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law

I:29.
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)