Emotions what are they?
I think that love and hate are different to what the average person experiences. Love causes me to form attachments. This bonds get in the way of my mind trying to concentrate during ritual and often need to be alleviated before a person can pass in through the void. So unless you're hoping to become a left hand rather instead of a babe of the abyss better get ready to alleviate your attachments.
But there is a kind of spiritual love that can exist without causing attachment simply joy.
On the other hand attachments that I've had which have caused me pain have cause such a shift in emotions that i was able to reach an altered state and commune with a deep side of myself which i didn't realise I could. Becuase of the caring nature of this spirit and the fact that it appeared as an "attractive" version of myself, I still wonder if it could have been my HGA.