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As far as context, Christianity looks at different TYPES of love. Filial (brotherly) love, sexual love, the True Love of Christ (sometimes called agape), and I think there is a fourth one that I forgot.
Anyway, I bring that up because I think Crowley's love focuses on the lust / sexual to the exclusion of others. I don't think for a moment that his "love" should be compared to the Christian notion of love.
Just sayin'. I'm not trying to pound my bible or anything, but I want to provide context for that "love" that Crowley spoke of.
You are probably correct. At best, Crowley's "love" is "attraction" - like "gravity" or "affinity". It always "bothered" me that Hubbard's Tone Scale and concept of ARC had NOTHING to do with with almost ANY version of "love". Though, my main concerns were of love of the "higher" variety.
Hubbard's notions hinge on "agreement" (ARC, where "R" is reality, based SOLELY on "agreement"). A notion like "unconditional love" cares not at all about "agreement", and can be sent out or directed with a clean intention of "well-wishing", regardless what you "get back" ("exchange") or what the recipient agrees with or doesn't agree with.
The whole over-exaggerated importance of "exchange" always bothered me too. Sure, there should be a fair "exchange" in most relationships, but it excludes the notion of "freely sending out with unqualified compassion". Scientology is OBSESSED with "exchange". Especially when the "giving" is TO THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY!
Exchange by Dynamics involves looking at what you give and what you get back on and from each dynamic. Again, where can a notion like "unconditional love" or "selfless compassion" fit in? They can't. And, that is because the Scientology philosophy NEVER involves a notion of "selfless". It is all about "beefing up" the "self". Giving without getting something back is a crime in Scientology. It's viewed as "out-exchange". It's viewed as a form of "out-ethics". But, all "random acts of kindness" ARE "out-exchange" to the card-carrying Scientologist.
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