Translation help

heosphorus · Post by **heosphorus** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:14 pm

I am curious how to translate into ancient Greek these two phrases:

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Love is the law, love under will.

I believe that the 2nd phrase is something like this:

He agape estin o nomos, he agape hypo to thelema.

I have no clue about the first phrase except the involvement of the verb thelein/ethelein. Thanks.

annis · Post by **annis** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:14 pm

heosphorus wrote:Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Love is the law, love under will.

Eek! Thelemites learning Greek!

So I don't know Crowley's work well enough to know what he means by the first sentence. The future tense is used: "shall be." Is this a prediction about the future or a command?

heosphorus · Post by **heosphorus** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:51 pm

Shall be is in the future tense of what WILL be, not as a command. ESTE i believe is the correct verb form here in greek. Essentially it says 'do what you want will be the whole of the law'.

Heosphorus

heosphorus · Post by **heosphorus** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:53 pm

By the way, what's wrong with being a Thelemite?

Heos

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