There are two kinds of power. One is power over, which is always destructive, and the other is power from within, which is a transcendent and creative power.
StarhawkThe Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.
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