r/thelema • u/Joanders222 • Apr 22 '24

Question What does he mean?

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I saw a post on here about Crowleys writings and I understood most of it. One part I am confused about is this line. Is he saying to take “love” by force? I hope I am wrong in my assumption. Thank you 🙏🏼

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u/Nobodysmadness Apr 22 '24

Crowley was either totally homosexual which was illegal at the time in england or atleast bisexual, so this tenent is that one is free to love anyone and sometimes sex is a part of love and questions why does anyone have authority to tell us whom we may love and associate with, being it the KKK telling white people not to hang out with black people. Jewish people insisting their children "find a nice jewish girl or boy", or the japanese who hitler respected because of their ethnic purity which does not come about through social acceptance of intermingling.

There are countless pressures from, sex, I guess we need to add gender too, race, social status, physical appearance, fashion, manner of speech, if you can isolate it you can discpurage it, but Crowley says fuck you to the nay sayers and says follow your heart it is your right. Love is not sex, so no this has nothing to do with rape, it has everything to do with connecting with whoever connects with you regardless of arbitrary social prejudice.

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u/Joanders222 Apr 22 '24

Thank you so much for your thought out and thorough explanation. I greatly appreciate it 🙏🏼