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Sex magic (sometimes spelled sex magick) is any type of sexual activity used in magical, ritualistic or otherwise religious and spiritual pursuits. One practice of sex magic is using the energy of sexual arousal or orgasm with visualization of a desired result. A premise posited by sex magicians is the concept that sexual energy is a potent force that can be harnessed to transcend one's normally perceived reality.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

Paschal Beverly Randolph

The earliest known practical teachings of sex magic in the Western world come from 19th-century American occultist Paschal Beverly Randolph, under the heading of The Mysteries of Eulis:

Randolph himself was greatly influenced by the work of English Rosicrucian and scholar of phallicism, Hargrave Jennings.

Ida Craddock

In the latter part of the 19th century, sexual reformer Ida Craddock published several works dealing with sacred sexuality, most notably Heavenly Bridegrooms and Psychic Wedlock. Aleister Crowley reviewed Heavenly Bridegrooms in the pages of his journal The Equinox, stating that it was:

Sexual techniques from Craddock's Psychic Wedlock were later reproduced in Sex Magick by O.T.O. initiate Louis T. Culling, a disciple of C.F. Russell.^[3]

Ordo Templi Orientis

Carl Kellner, the founder of Ordo Templi Orientis, (O.T.O.), claimed to have learned the techniques of sex magic from three adepts in this art.^[4] Beginning in 1904, references to these secrets, Kellner, and the O.T.O. began appearing in "an obscure German masonic periodical called Oriflamme."^[4] In 1912, the editors of Oriflamme announced:

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley became involved with Theodor Reuss and Ordo Templi Orientis following the publication of The Book of Lies between 1912 and 1913.^[5] According to Crowley's account, Reuss approached him and accused him of having revealed the innermost (sexual) secret of O.T.O. in one of the cryptic chapters of this book. When it became clear to Reuss that Crowley had done so unintentionally, he initiated Crowley into the IX° (ninth degree) of O.T.O. and appointed him "Sovereign Grand Master General of Ireland, Iona and all the Britains."^[5]^[9]^[6]

While the O.T.O. included, from its inception, the teaching of sex magick in the highest degrees of the Order, when Crowley became head of the Order, he expanded on these teachings and associated them with different degrees as follows:^[7]

Professor Hugh Urban, Professor of Comparative Religion at The Ohio State University, noted Crowley's emphasis on sex as "the supreme magical power".^[8] According to Crowley:

Writings on sex magic

Crowley wrote extensively on the topic of sex magick. Some of these works were published and made available to the general public, others were secret and could only be obtained by initiates of Ordo Templi Orientis.

Arnold Krumm-Heller

According to Samael Aun Weor, Arnold Krumm-Heller taught sexual magic without ejaculation.^[10]

Maria de Naglowska

Maria de Naglowska (1883–1936) was a Russian occultist, mystic, author and journalist who wrote and taught about sexual magical ritual practices while also being linked with the Parisian surrealist movement. She established and led an occult society known as the Confrérie de la Flèche d'or (Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow) in Paris from 1932 to 1935. In 1931, she compiled, translated and published in French a collection of published and unpublished writings by American occultist Paschal Beverly Randolph on the subject of sexual magic and magic mirrors. Her translation and publication of Randolph's previously little known ideas and teachings was the source of Randolph's subsequent influence in European magic.^[11] She augmented the text with what she claimed were some of his oral teachings.^[12] The following year, she published a semi-autobiographical novella, Le Rite sacré de l'amour magique (The Sacred Ritual of Magical Love.)

Later that year, she also published La Lumière du sexe (The Light of Sex), a mystic treatise and guide to sexual ritual that was required reading for those seeking to be initiated into the Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow. Her later book on advanced sexual magic practices, Le Mystère de la pendaison (The Hanging Mystery) details her advanced teachings on the Third Term of the Trinity and the spiritually transformative power of sex, and the practice of erotic ritual hanging and other sensory deprivation practices. Beyond occult subjects, Naglowska also influenced the surrealist art movement. The Lexique succinct de l'érotisme in the catalog of the 1959 International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris noted her important influence.^[13] Surrealist Sarane Alexandrian wrote a detailed account of her life.^[14]

See also

Notes and references

1. ^{{cite book| last = Randolph| first = Paschal Beverly| editor = Deveney, JP| title = Paschal Beverly Randolph : A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician| publisher=State University of New York Press| location=Albany, NY| chapter = Appendix B: The Mysteries of Eulis| pages=327–342| isbn=978-0-7914-3120-7| year=1996}}
2. ^{{Cite book| publisher = Universal Pub. Co.| volume = III| others = Aleister Crowley (ed.)| title = The Blue Equinox| location = Detroit MI| year = 1919}}
3. ^Culling, Louis T. Sex Magick. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1988.
4. ^¹²The Magical World of Aleister Crowley, page 78
5. ^¹King, Francis The Magical World of Aleister Crowley page 80
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib333.htm |title=Book of Lies |last=Crowley |first=Aleister |year=1921 |page=6 |accessdate=31 May 2010 |quote=Shortly after publication [of the Book of Lies], the O.H.O. (Outer Head of the O.T.O.) came to me... He said that since I was acquainted with the supreme secret of the Order, I must be allowed the IX {degree} and obligated in regard to it. I protested that I knew no such secret. He said `But you have printed it in the plainest language'. I said that I could not have done so because I did not know it. He went to the bookshelves; taking out a copy of THE BOOK OF LIES, he pointed to a passage... It instantly flashed upon me. The entire symbolism not only of Free Masonry but of many other traditions blazed upon my spiritual vision. From that moment the O.T.O. assumed its proper importance in my mind. I understood that I held in my hands the key to the future progress of humanity... }}
7. ^Crowley, Aleister. Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley, p. 241
8. ^¹Urban, Hugh. Unleashing the Beast: Aleister Crowley, tantra and sex magic in late Victorian England. Ohio State University
9. ^Crowley, Aleister (1970). The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 87. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux {{ISBN|0-8090-3591-X}}
10. ^{{Cite book|last=Samael Aun Weor |authorlink=Samael Aun Weor |title=The Perfect Matrimony |origyear=1961 |year=2001 |publisher=Glorian Publishing |isbn=0-9742755-0-6 |chapter=GIAO}}
11. ^{{cite book|last=Versluis|first=Arthur|title=The Occult in Nineteenth Century America|year=2005|publisher=The Davies Group|location=Aurora, CO|isbn=1-888570-83-0|pages=29|authorlink=The Occult in Nineteenth Century America|editor=Gutierrez, Cathy}}
12. ^{{cite book|last=Deveney|first=John Patrick|title=Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist|year=1997|publisher=State University of New York Press|pages=226}}
13. ^{{cite book|last=Rosemont|first=Penelope|title=Surrealist Women: An International Anthology|year=1998|publisher=Athlone Press|isbn=9780485300888|pages=lvi and xlii}}
14. ^{{cite book|last=Alexandrian|first=Sarane|title=Les Libérateurs de l'amour|year=1977|pages=185–206}}