On Love, Charity, Gifts, Poison, and Death

We hear so much about love since at least the 1960s, well me in particular having been born mid-decade, that one begins to wonder what the word actually means.

In Corinthians, Paul tells us to abide in faith, hope, and charity and charity is the greatest of these. We are also told that charity is love.

Aleister Crowley also valued love. “Do as thou wilt shal be the whole of the law.” and “Love is the law. Love under will.”

So then in the 1960s we have a bunch of Crowleyites, like the Beatles, singing about love.

“Love love love” repeated over and over “All you need is love.”

But what are they really talking about?

And when you love somebody, what do you do? You give them a gift. But in German, “gift” means "poison." So what is going on here?

In David Lynch's seminal independent thriller, Blue Velvet we are told that “love letters” are bullets as Denis Hopper's character threatens to send these love letters right to the heart of Kyle McLaughlin's character.

Here's where it gets crazy: We have Charity equaling love and in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower we are told that Char, in the high speech only has one meaning, and that is "death."

We know that English was an invented language with many of the words added by Francis Bacon as he translated the Bible into English and we know that Bacon was a very intelligent occultist. So Char-ity = death and gift = poison and words don't mean what we think they mean.

How can we know love is good if we don't really understand what the occultists who gave us our language mean by it?