There exists a talisman of universal application.
In the Elemental Kingdom it is represented represented by pyramis, fire; in geometric terms by the pyramid or triangle and in biological terms by the phallus. As the sun radiates life and light throughout the solar system, so the phallus radiates life and light upon earth, and, similarly, subserves a power greater than itself. For as the sun is a reflection of Sirius, so is the phallus the vehicle of the Will of the Magus.
In the non-initiate the phallic power operates independently of and often at variance with, its possessor; it functions capriciously, regardless of the individual. The phallic power possesses the individual, not vice versa. In the case of the initiate, however, the position is reversed.
The O.T.O. possesses the secret knowledge of rectification and the means of release from the thraldom of unregenerate instinct. It instructs the operator in the proper use of the Elemental Fire, the right building of the Pyramid, the successful wielding of the Magick Wand.
The control of the Elemental Fire involves the inhibition of the usual physical results of sexual congress. The libido is not "earthed", but directed by the Will to incarnate in a form specially prepared for its reception.
Liber Agape, the enchiridion of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O., shows how sexual magick is based on the assumption that no cause can be baulked of an effect. If the natural effect is annulled, the discharge of energy is not lost, it forms a subtle or astral image of the idea dominant in the mind at the climax of coitus. Ordinarily this idea is one of lust, and because of this a tendency or habit is set up in the mind, which consequently becomes increasingly difficult to control. This tendency must therefore be destroyed.
The mental exaltation generated by a magically controlled orgasm forms a lucent lenselike window past which stream the vivid astral imagery of the subconscious mind.
Specific images are evoked and "fixed"; they become instantly and vitally alive.
As their luminous presence is obsessive, magical safeguards are essential to offset actual obsession. These images are dynamic links with the deeper centres of consciousness and act as keys to the experience or revelations which form the object of the Operation. To incarnate such experiences is the object of sexual magick. It is necessary, therefore, to formulate the will with great care and with strict economy of means. There must be nothing in the mind at the moment of orgasm except the image of the "child" which it is
intended to bring to birth. Objurgations against masturbation, onanism, coitus interruptus, karezza and other apparently sterile methods of using sexual energy, follow logically upon awareness (however consciously unacknowledged this awareness may be) of the sacramental nature of the generative act. Erroneous conclusions drawn from incomplete apprehension of the factors involved led in the past to the "fire and brimstone" admonitions directed against "abuses", which at one time were thought to lead to degeneration of the nervous system, blindness, paralysis and insanity. In actual fact, none of the energy is lost, though it fails to find a field of operation in the matrix which nature has provided for it. It breeds, instead of physical offspring, phantoms composed of tenuous matter. Through the deliberate and persistent practice of such "abuses", qliphotic entities are engendered;
they prey upon the mind and feed upon the nervous fluid. As Crowley notes:
"The ancient Jewish Rabbins knew this, and taught that before Eve was given to Adam the demon Lilith was conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves, and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man".1
Many long and tedious dissertations on the possibility of a "witch" giving birth to offspring after union with the devil in the form of an incubus should be understood in the sense that children are born of such unions, though not physical children. Any discharge of energy, of any kind, has an effect on all planes. If results on one plane are baulked-as would happen in the case of the incubus-then they appear on another. According to ancient authorities on Witchcraft, incubi and succubi were personifications of the devil himself. The devil is synonymous with the creative spirit in man. Crowley goes so far as
to declare that "the satyr is the True Nature of every man and every woman".
The incubus or succubus is the exteriorization, or extrusion, of the satyr in each individual. It represents the subliminal Will; in effect, the Dwarf Self or Holy Guardian Angel. It is this principle in man that is immortal, and it is inextricably bound up with the sexuality, which, in turn, is the key to its nature and the means of its incarnation. (âŚ)
Dr. Kellner, who reformed the O.T.O. In modern times was initiated in the use of the sexual current by an Arab named Soliman Ben Aifa, and two indianTantrics Bhima Sen Pratap and Shri Mahatma Agamia Paramahansa.
It is not certain, but it is very likely that they were initiates of the Vama Marg, or left-hand path. The cleary tantric element in some of the instructions of the 'OTO Involving the use of sex becomes so clear.
The term Vama Marg, despite the details of Sir John Wodroffe, is still under a cloud of errete interpretations generated by emotional reactions to ideas alien to Western thought.
I do not expect to succeed where such authorities have failed, but I reaffirm once again that the expression "left-hand path" is a technical term indicating the magical use of sexual energy, sometimes with the help of female helpers (Shakti), as in the case of tantric, and female companions (Manjaris) as in the case of Sahajiya.
The tantric especially those of the sect Kaula, follow practices similar to those of certain African cults or neo-African such as voodoo and the Obeah. But the assistance of women is not always necessary and not always used.
In the system of spiritual culture that includes the sexual use of women and establishing a high ideal of reverence for the feminine principle as the Shakti, or power-aspect of the universe, not the product of psychopaths, unless we postulate the existence of an unbroken line of culprits that extends for countless centuries.
Neither the original African concept of sex is in no way inferior to the highly developed and complex formulas used by alchemists or Rosicrucians in their Great Work of transformation of the vulgar metal of the worldly passion into the pure gold of spiritual light.
Is the bigotry of the Orthodox religionist and the blind stagger in the dark of psychologists materialists which sees these systems as a morbid expression of the primordial creative impulse.
Crowley's life was a struggle against a mindset that led to suppress in the name of a servile creed - whether it was religious, liberal arts or sciences - the secret and sacred source of life in favor of a reflection deformed psychological impotence typical of those who prescribe the suppression and restriction of a way of life. The only pity that AL recognizes is the restriction, cause of all the "sins".
When Crowley took over the leadership of 'O.T.O. , It did so with the intent to promote individual liberty under the law of Thelema. He incorporated the fundamental principles of this law in Liber Oz, that published in 1942. In the space of a few hundred words, he declared what he described as the political program of the 'OTO In the outside world.
The old Aeon, like any other event was inevitable and it aroused exactly that current that his ministers were trying to suppress, if not destroy.
The sexual energy inhibited from 2000 years, as a result, it now consumes a tremendous orgasm, the impetus which in physical terms will projects the human consciousness with ultraphysical signs.ĂŹ. The projection is the formula of Ra-Hoor-Kuith; Horus is its active phase.
There will explosion, disintegration and reintegration of elements again downloaded in vehicles whose substance will have a subtle nature and relatively immaterial, approssimatosi to the scientific concept of entities seen in AL.
During dictation of AL, Crowley asked for a "sign" and Nuit exclaimed: "The sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body" (...).
Since an Aeon follows another, it will appears changes in the sexual nature of the organisms that will develop the thelemic concept. The pro-parent (Female) dominated the Aeon of Isis, parthenogenesis was the formula of that era. In 'Aeon of Osiris, the progenitor (Male) prevailed. The Aeon of Horus, is the Aeon of the '' Son Crowned and Conqueror "- it will see the merging of the two sexes in one. The bisexual Baphomet of the Templars symbolizes this concept.
In the language of Thelemic magick, Heru-Ra-Ha - solar consciousness - phallic - it manifests itself as active current as represented by Horus Ra-Hoor-Kuith (IX) and as the passive current represented by Set, or Shaitan, or Hoor Paar-Kraat (XI). These are dual ways of the Baphomet operation.
