Sex magic

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 of sex magic is
the concept that sexual energy is a potent force that can be
harnessed to transcend ones normally perceived reality.

Success in any case requires the adjuvancy

of a superior woman. THIS IS THE LAW! A
harlot or low woman is useless for all such lofty
and holy purposes, and just so is a bad, impure, passion-driven apology for a man. The
woman shall not be one who accepts rewards
for compliance; nor a virgin; or under eighteen
years of age; or anothers wife; yet must be one
who hath known man and who has been and
still is capable of intense mental, volitional and
aectional energy, combined with perfect sexive and orgasmal ability; for it requires a double
crisis to succeed...

Paschal Beverly Randolph

Main article: Paschal Beverly Randolph

The earliest known practical teachings of sex magic in

The entire mystery can be given in very few

words, and they are: An upper room; absolute
personal, mental, and moral cleanliness both of
the man and wife. An observance of the law
just cited during the entire term of the experiment -- 49 days. Formulate the desire and keep
it in mind during the whole period and especially when making the nuptive prayer, during
which no word may be spoken, but the thing
desired be strongly thought...[1]
Randolph himself was greatly inuenced by the work of
English Rosicrucian and scholar of phallicism, Hargrave
Jennings.

2 Ida Craddock
Main article: Ida Craddock
Paschal Beverly Randolph

In the latter part of the 19th century, sexual reformer

the Western world come from 19th-century American oc- Ida Craddock published several works dealing with sacultist Paschal Beverly Randolph, under the heading of cred sexuality, most notably Heavenly Bridegrooms and
Psychic Wedlock. Aleister Crowley reviewed Heavenly
The Mysteries of Eulis:
Bridegrooms in the pages of his journal The Equinox, stating that it was:
If a man has an intelligent and loving wife,
with whom he is in complete accord, he can
...one of the most remarkable human docwork out the problems [of how to achieve maguments ever produced, and it should certainly
ical results] by her aid. They are a radical soulnd a regular publisher in book form. The ausexive series of energies...The rite is a prayer in
thoress of the MS. claims that she was the wife
all cases, and the most powerful [that] earthly
of an angel. She expounds at the greatest length
beings can employ...it is best for both man and
the philosophy connected with this thesis. Her
wife to act together for the attainment of the
learning is enormous.
mysterious objects sought.
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3 ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS

...This book is of incalculable value to every student of occult matters. No Magick library is complete without it.[2]

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 Crowleys account, Reuss approached him and
Sexual techniques from Craddocks Psychic Wedlock accused him of having revealed the innermost (sexual)
were later reproduced in Sex Magick by O.T.O. initiate secret of O.T.O. in one of the cryptic chapters of this
book. When it became clear to Reuss that Crowley
Louis T. Culling.[3]
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
3 Ordo Templi Orientis
all the Britains.[5][6][7]
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 Oriamme.[4] In 1912, the editors of Oriamme
announced:
Our order possesses the key which opens
up all Masonic and Hermetic secrets, namely,
the teachings of sexual magic, and this teaching
explains, without exception, all the secrets of
Freemasonry and all systems of religion.[4]

3.1

Aleister Crowley

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 dierent degrees as follows:[8]
VIII: masturbatory or autosexual magical techniques were taught, referred as the Lesser Work of
Sol
IX: heterosexual magical techniques were taught
XI: anal intercourse magical techniques were
taught.
Professor Hugh Urban, Professor of Comparative Religion at The Ohio State University, noted Crowleys emphasis on sex as the supreme magical power.[6] According to Crowley:
The Book of the Law solves the sexual
problem completely. Each individual has an
absolute right to satisfy his sexual instinct as
is physiologically proper for him. The one injunction is to treat all such acts as sacraments.
One should not eat as the brutes, but in order to
enable one to do ones will. The same applies
to sex. We must use every faculty to further the
one object of our existence.[9]
3.1.1 Writings on sex magic
Main articles: Works of Aleister Crowley and Libri of
Aleister Crowley
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.
Liber IAO - IAO. Sexual Magick. Gives three
methods of attainment through a willed series of
thoughts. The active form of Liber CCCXLV.

Crowley in Golden Dawn garb

De Nuptis Secretis Deorum Cum Hominibus - Sexual

magick

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Liber Stellae Rubeae - According to Crowley, a secret ritual of Apep, the heart of IAO-OAI, delivered
unto V.V.V.V.V. for his use in a certain matter of
The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis). Sexual
Magick veiled in symbolism.
Liber Agape vel C vel Azoth - The Book of the Unveiling of the Sangraal wherein it is spoken of the Wine
of the Sabbath of the Adepts. Secrets instructions
of the ninth degree of the O.T.O. (Sex Magick)
Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni - A perfect account
of the task of the Exempt Adept considered under
the symbols of a particular plane, not the intellectual. Sexual magick veiled in symbolism.
Liber A'ash vel Capricorni Pneumatici - Analyzes the
nature of the creative magical force in man, explains
how to awaken it, how to use it and indicates the
general as well as the particular objects to be gained
thereby. Sexual magick heavily veiled in symbolism.
The Book of Lies - includes some techniques in symbolic language, including extended mutual oral sex
(Chapter 69) while intoxicated on hashish.
The Paris Working - A record of homosexual magick
operations.
Energized Enthusiasm - An essay developing the idea
of creativity as a sexual phenomenon. Specially
adapted to the task of attainment of control of the
Body of Light, development of intuition, and Hatha
yoga.

Le Rite sacr de l'amour magique (The Sacred Ritual of

Magical Love.)
Later that year, she also published La Lumire 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
Mystre 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 inuenced the surrealist art movement. The Lexique
succinct de l'rotisme in the catalog of the 1959 International Surrealist Exhibition in Paris noted her important
inuence.[13] Surrealist Sarane Alexandrian wrote a detailed account of her life.[14]

6 See also
Babalon Working
Marjorie Cameron and Jack Parsons
Chaos magic
Charge of the Goddess
Coitus reservatus (also known as karezza)
Eroto-comatose lucidity
Embryonic stem cell

Arnold Krumm-Heller

According to Samael Aun Weor, Arnold Krumm-Heller

taught sexual magic without ejaculation.[10]

Great Rite
Hieros gamos
Ior Bock
Maithuna

Maria de Naglowska

Neotantra
Orgasm control

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 Confrrie
de la Flche 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 Randolphs previously little known ideas and teachings was
the source of Randolphs subsequent inuence 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,

Religion and sexuality

Sacred prostitution
Satanic ritual abuse
Spirit spouse
Tantra
Tantra techniques (Vajrayana)
Taoist sexual practices
Venus Buttery
Yab-Yum
Maria de Naglowska

Notes and references

[1] Randolph, Paschal Beverly (1996). Appendix B: The

Mysteries of Eulis". In Deveney, JP. Paschal Beverly Randolph : A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist,
Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. pp. 327342. ISBN 978-07914-3120-7.
[2] The Blue Equinox. III. Aleister Crowley (ed.). Detroit
MI: Universal Pub. Co. 1919.
[3] Culling, Louis T. Sex Magick. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn
Publications, 1988.
[4] The Magical World of Aleister Crowley, page 78
[5] King, Francis The Magical World of Aleister Crowley page
80
[6] Urban, Hugh. Unleashing the Beast: Aleister Crowley,
tantra and sex magic in late Victorian England. Ohio State
University
[7] Crowley, Aleister (1921). Book of Lies. p. 6. Retrieved 31 May 2010. 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 ashed 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...
[8] Crowley, Aleister. Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley, p.
241
[9] Crowley, Aleister (1970). The Confessions of Aleister
Crowley, ch. 87. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 0-8090-3591-X
[10] Samael Aun Weor (2001) [1961]. GIAO. The Perfect
Matrimony. Glorian Publishing. ISBN 0-9742755-0-6.
[11] Versluis, Arthur (2005). Gutierrez, Cathy, ed. The Occult
in Nineteenth Century America. Aurora, CO: The Davies
Group. p. 29. ISBN 1-888570-83-0.
[12] Deveney, John Patrick (1997). Paschal Beverly Randolph:
A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist. State
University of New York Press. p. 226.
[13] Rosemont, Penelope (1998). Surrealist Women: An International Anthology. Athlone Press. pp. lvi and xlii. ISBN
9780485300888.
[14] Alexandrian, Sarane (1977). Les Librateurs de l'amour.
pp. 185206.

EXTERNAL LINKS

8 Further reading
Wilson, Robert Anton (1988) Sex, Drugs and Magick: a journey beyond limits; revised ed. (First ed.
entitled Sex and Drugs: Chicago: Playboy Press,
1973)
Stone, Karl. The Moonchild of Yesod: A Grimoire
of Occult Hyperchemistry. (2012).
Stone, Karl. The Star of Hastur: Explorations in
Hyperchemistry. (2015).
Urban, Hugh B. (2006) Magia Sexualis: sex,
magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism.
Berkeley: University of California Press

9 External links
Forms of Tantrism by Samael Aun Weor

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