The Great Work of the Flesh: Sexual Magic East and West

By Sarane Alexandrian

An within examine intercourse magic in jap and Western secret traditions

• information the intercourse magic practices of P. B. Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Julius Evola, and Maria de Naglowska

• contains a whole assessment of affection magic within the heart a while, with debts of using potions, powders, spells, and enchantments

• Explores intercourse magic options of the East, together with Taoist sexual alchemy

Magic, virtually in its entirety, is attached to sexuality. it really is in the course of the traditional magic of affection that intercourse magic operates, harnessing the forces that sign up for fanatics jointly. during this huge examine of intercourse magic within the jap and Western secret traditions, Sarane Alexandrian explains how there's a intercourse magic hooked up with each faith, religious trust method, and initiatory society.

Exploring sexual practices in folks magic, excessive magic, alchemy, and faith, the writer starts with a whole review of affection magic within the heart a long time, together with bills of using potions, powders, spells, and enchantments, and he unearths how those concepts with regards to the spiritual practices of the time. He introduces the Taoist sexual alchemy practices of Mantak Chia, the key tantric practices of the Tibetan bons, sexual shiatsu, and a Vietnamese perform referred to as “mouth moxa.”

Examining the sacred sexuality that arose in Western initiatory orders within the past due nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Alexandrian info the improvement of P. B. Randolph’s white sexual magic and the black sexual magic of Aleister Crowley, in addition to explaining the practices of Austin Osman Spare, Julius Evola and the Ur crew, and Maria de Naglowska. He unearths the medical rules underlying intercourse magic and the way winning effects are assured through the impacts of the heavenly our bodies and the radiant powers of colour, quantity, scents, and actual routine, which accentuate the task of the human bioelectric box. Alexandrian additionally information the tantra practices of Margot Anand, the sexual rituals of Wicca, and magical “sex aids,” together with talismans and jewels.

Providing entire functional info, the writer explains how, via intercourse magic, a pair can extract from one another what they're lacking in terms of virility and femininity, multiplying their energies tenfold and merging the carnal and religious worlds to adventure transcendent adventures within the inner most depths of truth.

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