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Title: Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion by Francis King ISBN: 0-922915-74-1 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Sexuality, Magic and Perversion...
Comment: SEXUALITY, MAGIC AND PERVERSION is a short book giving a rough detail of sex-magic from the 19th century to the early 1970s. I gave this book four stars only because it did not go into enough detail and adequately explain the theology behind occult practices of sex-magic.
Sex-magic forms an esoteric element in Eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, and is known as Tantra. Tantric texts supplement orthodox Buddhist and Hindu scriptures and form their own cannon of literature. Forms of sex-magic may have been practiced in pre-Christian Europe, and may have continued underground during the rise of the Christianity. The concept figures in primal fertility religions that developed in cultures based on agriculture and the changing of the seasons and the monitoring of the sun, moon and stars to determine the time of the years to plant and harvest crops. This frequently took on sexual imagery, for example spring rains being like the male seed fertilizing the female earth. It is said that the "witches" persecuted by the Church were followers of some such ancient cult. There is some speculation regarding the status of witches during the Middle Ages. Occultists claim that they were practitioners of a pre-Christian universal Goddess religion. Others, such as the noted scholar Rev. Montague Summers, claim that these witches were literally in leage with Satan himself and that the stories of them copulating with [satan] and casting spells to disrupt the Faithful are true. The status of these so-called "witches" is not well understood by either side, pro-, or anti-Christian.
Modern interest in sex-magic originated from the stories brought back to Europe from travelers during the Victorian Era. Various cults sprang up which practiced heterosexual, homosexual and masturbation rites, animal sacrifices, poisons, abortions and black masses. Two of the most well known occult groups from the past 100 years are the Order Templi Orientis (OTO) and the Theosophical society. British occultist Alestier Crowley, rocket scientist Jack Parsons and Madame Blavaksky are among the noted figureheads in those occult groups.
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazed to find this reprinted.
Comment: I read this book roughly five years ago, and since then have always reccommended it to anybody interested in the history of sexual magic in general and the magico-sexual practices of Thelema's founder and his descendant ideologies (i.e. Wicca, LaVey Satanism, etc.). Mr. King starts with an interviewing a witch named "Marian" and then branching out into the history of Gardner and neopaganism, then traces the practice of sex magic through history from the beginning of civilisation to the present. Perhaps the best reason to read this book is that the author acquaints us with the more obscure figures in magical history, and this gives us a good springboard for further and more in-depth research. A great beginning book for anybody with a serious interest in this subject!
Fr. Jason Spadafore
(A modern-day Montague Summers)
Rating: 5
Summary: A seminal, ground breaking work on human sexuality
Comment: Sexuality, Magic & Perversion by Francis King is a controversial, revelatory, highly recommended volume of original research that investigates sexuality in religions and traditions all over the globe, from fertility cults and tantricism to Islamic mysticism and Crowleyan sex magick. A tantalizing study of the mystical aspect of sex, heavily researched and presenting information about the life and work of outspoken yet little-known figures who distinguished themselves, for good or for bad, in the intersecting fields of sex and religion. Sexuality, Magic & Perversion had been out of print and a collector's item for decades. This new Feral House edition will admirably serve to introduce a whole new generation to this seminal, ground breaking work on human sexuality.
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Title: Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left-Hand Path Sex Magic by Nikolas Schreck, Zeena Schreck ISBN: 184068061X Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Modern Sex Magick: Secrets of Erotic Spirituality by Donald Michael Kraig, Linda Falorio, Nema, Tara ISBN: 1567183948 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley by Richard Kaczynski ISBN: 1561841706 Publisher: New Falcon Publications Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin by Barbara Ulrich, Jerry Stahl, Mel Gordon ISBN: 0922915768 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sexual Alchemy: Magical Intercourse With Spirits by Donald Tyson ISBN: 1567187412 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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