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Re: Sickly-Sweet Ethics Defined

Aug 04, 1997 11:17 AM
by techndex


At 03:07 PM 8/3/97 -0400, Jerry wrote:
<friendly snips>

>
>Sentimentality is exactly what I meant by "sickly sweet ethics."
>In the Crowleyian sense, its love without will.  Love without being
>directed by will tends to mire down in sentiment and mushy 
>goody-goodyness that sounds nice but goes nowhere. But will
>without love has its own set of problems, which I find in all too
>many occult and magical organizations.  The two should go
>together.

Not only is will without love the cause of a lot of problems but it can
lead directly to the left-hand path. But you probably were implying this as
well. :-)

Lynn

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