Re: TRANS: love is the law

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

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> There are many meanings of love, and law...
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> And there are many meanings of the copula...
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> Is love an attribute, aspect and/or part/subset of law here, or is it
> the other way around? Subset/part is a bit unlikely, leaving:
The beauty of it :) Very idiomatic English, but it seems so
straightforward and simple if looked at uncritically :) The context of the
quote makes it seem that 'love' refers to a general, spiritual phenomenon,
rather than a specific feeling toward an individual or group.  'Law' is
metaphorically used here as in 'law of nature/ the universe', i.e. it is
demanded by the universe.  Hard to explain, this is just a metaphor that
Western culture in general probably takes so much for granted that most
people probably wouldn't even recognize it as such. (Others: spatial
words to describe time; conflict/warfare terminology to describe a whole
array of phenomenon; etc.)  The quote is from _The Book of Thoth_ (Crowley
1944).


beawan jin,
.yasmin.