"...love one another..." I John 4:12

[aethyrflux]

many online sources, including ex Lilitu, refer to Saint Augustine's words about this passage as: "AMA ET FAC QUOD VIS"

although wikiquote' provides an unmodified citation, from the author Aurelius Augustine (St. Augustine of Hippo)'s Epistulam Ioannis ad Parthos, Tractatus VII, 8the original Latin is: "DILIGE ET QUOD VIS FAC

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[onesandzeros]

Do what thy wilt shall be the whole of the law is an echo of a passage in the Bible? Well ain't that somethin?

[aethyrflux]

Crowley occasionally admitted that his whole gig was pretty much based on reclaiming what he found useful in the dogma that was drilled into him growing up with the Plymouth Brethren...

"the Christians to the lions!" (well, they acted so much better back in those days)

[aethyrflux]

also q.v. Tim Maroney's Introduction to Crowley (In five voices): Christianity

& this work is filled with delightful historical references, hilarious side notes, and compelling conjecture: The Gospel According to Saint Bernard Shaw (A complete study of the origins of Christianity, by Aleister Crowley)

and fwiw, here're my collected writings on christianity, if you're ever curious...