Love

It is impossible to advance in the Great Work without the force of love. - Samael Aun Weor

Levi: Love and Passion

When the magnetic atmosphere of two persons is so equilibriated that the attractice faculty of one draws the expansive faculty of the other, a tendency is produced which is termed sympathy; then imagination, calling up to it all the rays or reflections analogous to that which it experiences, makes a poem of the desires which captivate will, and if the persons differ in sex, it occasions in them, or more commonly in the weaker of the two, a complete intoxication of the Astral Light, which is termed passion par excellence, or love. Love is one of the great instruments of magical power, but it is categorically forbidden to the Magus, at least as an intoxication or passion. Woe to the Samson of the Kabbalah if he permit himself to...

Plato: The Mysteries of Love

Excerpts from the Symposium of Plato. Not mine the word which I am about to speak, but that of Phaedrus. For often he says to me in an indignant tone: "What a strange thing it is, Eryximachus, that, whereas other gods have poems and hymns made in their honour, the great and glorious god, Love, has no encomiast among all the poets who are so many. There are the worthy sophists too-the excellent Prodicus for example, who have descanted in prose on the virtues of Heracles and other heroes; and, what is still more extraordinary, I have met with a philosophical work in which the utility of salt has been made the theme of an eloquent discourse; and many other like things have had a like honour bestowed upon them. And only to think that there should have been an eager interest created about them, and yet that to this day no one has ever dared worthily to hymn Love's praises! So entirely has this great deity been neglected." Now in this Phaedrus seems to me to be quite...

Samael Aun Weor: Love

God as Father is wisdom. God as Mother is love. As Father, God resides within the Eye of Wisdom. The Eye of Wisdom is located between the eyebrows. As love, God is found within the Heart-temple. Wisdom and love are the two basal pillars of the great White Lodge. To love, how beautiful it is to love. Only the great souls can and know how to love. Love is infinite tenderness... Love is the life that beats in every atom as it beats in every sun. Love cannot be defined because it is the Divine Mother of the world; it is that which comes to us when we really fall in love. Love is felt within the depths of the heart; it is a delectable experience; it is a consuming fire; it is divine wine, a delight to those who drink it. A simple perfumed handkerchief, a letter, a flower, give rise to great inner uneasiness, exotic ecstasy, and ineffable voluptuousness within the depths of the soul. No one has been able to define love; it has to be lived, it has to be felt....

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Shakespeare: Love and Lust

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger:I hate not love, but your device in love,That lends embracements unto every stranger.You do it for increase: O strange excuse,When reason is the bawd to lust's abuse!'Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled,Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name;Under whose simple semblance he hath fedUpon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,As caterpillars do the tender leaves.'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.'More I could tell, but more I dare not say;The text is old, the orator too green.Therefore, in sadness, now I will away;My face is full of shame, my...

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