Whore of Babylon. Painted by Gnostic Saint William Blake in 1809.
Powerful Female Adepts in Western Sex Magic(k)
By Catherine Auman
As with most things occult, what was once secret and elite is now widespread and populist. Mainstream magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue invite readers to use sex magic to materialize their dreams through the power of orgasm. No longer is sex magic hidden away behind closed doors. In the consumer society of the Western world, sex magic has morphed from an occult path for male initiates into a technique for anyone desiring to manifest BMWs and glamorous vacations.
Throughout the previous five thousand years of the patriarchy, sex magic ran as an underground current in Hindu and Buddhist tantra, Taoism, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and the mystical branches of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. For the most part androcentric traditions prized celibacy, denigrated sensual pleasure, and conceptualized spirituality as belonging to a higher realm. When sex was used in codified rituals in esoteric traditions, the male aspirant used sex magic to gain power and elevate his consciousness. Women were utilized as merely disposable tools in this process.
This denigration of women as lesser participants in sex magic (and life) began to change in the mid-19th Century when the world was alive with new ideals of individualism, science, free will, equality, and progress. Notable and powerful female sex magic adepts stepped forward to contribute their knowledge and experience. Despite this, they have been underrepresented in occult history.
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Throughout the previous five thousand years of the patriarchy, sex magic ran as an underground current in Hindu and Buddhist tantra, Taoism, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and the mystical branches of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. For the most part androcentric traditions prized celibacy, denigrated sensual pleasure, and conceptualized spirituality as belonging to a higher realm. When sex was used in codified rituals in esoteric traditions, the male aspirant used sex magic to gain power and elevate his consciousness. Women were utilized as merely disposable tools in this process.
This denigration of women as lesser participants in sex magic (and life) began to change in the mid-19th Century when the world was alive with new ideals of individualism, science, free will, equality, and progress. Notable and powerful female sex magic adepts stepped forward to contribute their knowledge and experience. Despite this, they have been underrepresented in occult history.
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