Magia Sexualis: Sexual Practices for Magical Power
Autor Paschal Beverly Randolph, Maria de Naglowska Traducere de Donald Traxleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2012
• Based on the practices of P. B. Randolph, occult rival of H. P. Blavatsky
• Reveals how to perform sex magic rituals for specific real-world results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses
• Explains how to create magical talismans, such as rings with specific planetary forces, how to enliven a painting, and how to charge an effigy
Conceived by Paschal Beverly Randolph, Magia Sexualis has been heralded as the most influential book about sex magic ever written, surviving to the present day solely through Maria de Naglowska’s French translation. Published more than 50 years after Randolph’s death, the authorship of this “translation” has been repeatedly called into question: While the greater part of the content can be traced to Randolph’s known works, a very significant portion cannot--leading to the conclusion that this work was supplemented by Naglowska’s own sex magic work and extensive occult teachings.
Magia Sexualis explains Randolph’s meticulous science of sex magic, practiced by the Brotherhood of Eulis and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Beginning with exercises to develop essential skills, the book explains in step-by-step detail how to perform sex magic rituals for specific results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses, how to charge and use a “volt”--an effigy of a specific person you want to influence or protect, how to enliven a painting in order to influence those around it, and how to create magical talismans with specific planetary forces, using what Randolph calls “fluid condensers.” This work from two great occult minds shows that true power of the spirit is acquired in conjunction with the power of sex--affirming that “sex is the fundamental force in every being, the most powerful force in Nature, and the most characteristic evidence of God.”
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ISBN-13: 9781594774188
ISBN-10: 1594774188
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 14 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Inner Traditions
ISBN-10: 1594774188
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 14 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Inner Traditions
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Notă biografică
Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875) was an African American doctor, Rosicrucian, and occultist who introduced sex magic to North America. The founder of the Brotherhood of Eulis and a known occult rival of H. P. Blavatsky, he authored several books, including Eulis: The History of Love. Maria de Naglowska (1883-1936) was a Russian occultist, mystic, and founder of the Brotherhood of the Golden Arrow, whose conferences in Paris in the 1930s were attended by many now famous avant-garde and notorious writers and artists, such as Julius Evola, Man Ray, and André Breton. Donald Traxler is both a translator and student of the occult. He lives in Martinez, California.
Extras
Preface
An Instrument of Initiatic Knowledge
Doctor Paschal Beverly Randolph is one of the great, mysterious figures of nineteenth-century occultism. There has been much talk about him, and much heated discussion of his bizarre theories by those not initiated into them, outside of his students and secret adepts. But it has never been possible to reconstruct the personality and intimate life of this American mulatto, who trusted no one and constantly surrounded himself with absolutely impenetrable mystery. Silence was his emblem and the watchword that he imposed on all those who approached him.
Still, the few details, furnished by some of his friends, attest that this man, possessed of an unusual strength of will and a tenacious perseverance, completely mixed his personal life with the work to which he had consecrated himself from his youth. He had only one goal, and never withheld from it the smallest bit of his energy: to know the supreme laws of Life and of the Creation, by means of continual study and experience.
Randolph was the first who fearlessly raised the veil covering the nudity of Isis, and this immense courage allowed him to proudly proclaim that the key to all the mysteries of the Universe is to be found in Sex.
“Sex is the greatest magical power of Nature,” Randolph said, and he demonstrated it to his students.
Randolph had begun his studies in the heart of the secret society known as the H. B. of L. (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor), whose headquarters were located in Boston, on Boylston Street. But, in about the year 1870, he founded his own initiation circle, E. B. (Eulis Brotherhood), and, together with the doctors Fontaine and Bergevin, he examined occult data in the light of contemporary science--the mysterious, the incomprehensible, were boldly brought to the state of clear truths, controlled by strict laboratory procedures.
This was a true revolution in the occultists’ world, for it took away the most redoubtable weapon of the merchants of mystery.
With science supporting and controlling the miracle, the latter became a concrete reality under certain well-determined conditions, but it looked like humbug and lying when those conditions were not fulfilled.
A ferocious campaign was then directed at Randolph. He was accused of having betrayed the traditions, of having revealed the key of the mystery, reserved for the initiates, of having thrown pearls before swine.
Madame H.-P. Blavatsky fought him violently. Between her and him there was one of those spiritual wars of which we have an example in the well-known case of the conflict between Peladan and Eliphas Levi.
The founder of the Theosophical Society unleashed a sort of occult duel against Randolph, which caused, they say, the premature death of the latter.
But all this agitation, visible and invisible, around the name and work of Randolph made him famous, if not rich. His novels were read and commented upon, although often in a contradictory manner. His Asrotis, his Dhoula-Bell, his Magh-Thesor, his She, and his Master Passion, knew their hour of glory, while his theoretical treatises, such as The Magnetic Mirror, The Ansairetic Mystery, Communication with the Dead, and The Intimate Secrets of the Mysteries of Eulis, got the passionate attention of specialists.
Still, in all the books, light was not shed completely. P. B. Randolph--who in spite of what his detractors said, did not throw pearls before swine, knowing the dangers of too hasty revealing--kept the definitive keys for complete understanding of his work for the members of his circle, the Eulis Brotherhood.
The volume that we offer to the reader today contains some of these keys: magical abstracts and recipes accompanied by explanatory notes, which Randolph’s disciples transcribed in their own handwriting, from the Master’s dictation.
These fragments, infinitely precious because formidably efficacious, have in addition been supplemented by some chapters, taken on the one hand from the theoretical part of the Intimate Secrets of the Mysteries of Eulis, and on the other, from The Magnetic Mirror, notably from the introduction to this work and from its practical part, which has still never been published.
In delivering these keys to the cultivated public of our time, we declare ourselves to be the defenders of Randolph’s work, while rejecting the stupid accusation of black magic.
And anyway, what do those two words mean, that even today so many not-very-enlightened persons pronounce with fear? Nothing, except a superstitious fear, remains of a long period of somber ignorance.
Magic is a science, which differs from the so-called positive sciences due to the psychic and spiritual factors, which it implies just as well for the object as for the subject of the operative act. Magic is never either white or black; but it can be benefic or malefic, according to the purpose for which one makes use of it. Magic is a weapon, and like all weapons, one can make use of it for the good or ill of oneself or another--but because it is powerful, it is obviously dangerous in unskillful hands.
But magic is also a sacred and royal science in the sense that it cannot be acquired by someone who is not worthy of it; and morbid neuroses and often even madness are the share
of those who give themselves to it without the requisite aptitude and preparation.
It is necessary to be armed with patience, with calm, and with a great courage to clear its first threshold, and above all, it is necessary to love this science for itself, and not for the material and personal advantages that it procures.
P. B. Randolph had these qualities and still more; that is why he became a great magician, whom all vaguely feared and envied. If he died young, while his adversary, Madame H.-P. Blavatsky, triumphantly lived to a very advanced age, it is, undoubtedly, because his task on this earth was finished more rapidly than that of the founder of the theosophical movement.
--Maria de Naglowska
An Instrument of Initiatic Knowledge
Doctor Paschal Beverly Randolph is one of the great, mysterious figures of nineteenth-century occultism. There has been much talk about him, and much heated discussion of his bizarre theories by those not initiated into them, outside of his students and secret adepts. But it has never been possible to reconstruct the personality and intimate life of this American mulatto, who trusted no one and constantly surrounded himself with absolutely impenetrable mystery. Silence was his emblem and the watchword that he imposed on all those who approached him.
Still, the few details, furnished by some of his friends, attest that this man, possessed of an unusual strength of will and a tenacious perseverance, completely mixed his personal life with the work to which he had consecrated himself from his youth. He had only one goal, and never withheld from it the smallest bit of his energy: to know the supreme laws of Life and of the Creation, by means of continual study and experience.
Randolph was the first who fearlessly raised the veil covering the nudity of Isis, and this immense courage allowed him to proudly proclaim that the key to all the mysteries of the Universe is to be found in Sex.
“Sex is the greatest magical power of Nature,” Randolph said, and he demonstrated it to his students.
Randolph had begun his studies in the heart of the secret society known as the H. B. of L. (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor), whose headquarters were located in Boston, on Boylston Street. But, in about the year 1870, he founded his own initiation circle, E. B. (Eulis Brotherhood), and, together with the doctors Fontaine and Bergevin, he examined occult data in the light of contemporary science--the mysterious, the incomprehensible, were boldly brought to the state of clear truths, controlled by strict laboratory procedures.
This was a true revolution in the occultists’ world, for it took away the most redoubtable weapon of the merchants of mystery.
With science supporting and controlling the miracle, the latter became a concrete reality under certain well-determined conditions, but it looked like humbug and lying when those conditions were not fulfilled.
A ferocious campaign was then directed at Randolph. He was accused of having betrayed the traditions, of having revealed the key of the mystery, reserved for the initiates, of having thrown pearls before swine.
Madame H.-P. Blavatsky fought him violently. Between her and him there was one of those spiritual wars of which we have an example in the well-known case of the conflict between Peladan and Eliphas Levi.
The founder of the Theosophical Society unleashed a sort of occult duel against Randolph, which caused, they say, the premature death of the latter.
But all this agitation, visible and invisible, around the name and work of Randolph made him famous, if not rich. His novels were read and commented upon, although often in a contradictory manner. His Asrotis, his Dhoula-Bell, his Magh-Thesor, his She, and his Master Passion, knew their hour of glory, while his theoretical treatises, such as The Magnetic Mirror, The Ansairetic Mystery, Communication with the Dead, and The Intimate Secrets of the Mysteries of Eulis, got the passionate attention of specialists.
Still, in all the books, light was not shed completely. P. B. Randolph--who in spite of what his detractors said, did not throw pearls before swine, knowing the dangers of too hasty revealing--kept the definitive keys for complete understanding of his work for the members of his circle, the Eulis Brotherhood.
The volume that we offer to the reader today contains some of these keys: magical abstracts and recipes accompanied by explanatory notes, which Randolph’s disciples transcribed in their own handwriting, from the Master’s dictation.
These fragments, infinitely precious because formidably efficacious, have in addition been supplemented by some chapters, taken on the one hand from the theoretical part of the Intimate Secrets of the Mysteries of Eulis, and on the other, from The Magnetic Mirror, notably from the introduction to this work and from its practical part, which has still never been published.
In delivering these keys to the cultivated public of our time, we declare ourselves to be the defenders of Randolph’s work, while rejecting the stupid accusation of black magic.
And anyway, what do those two words mean, that even today so many not-very-enlightened persons pronounce with fear? Nothing, except a superstitious fear, remains of a long period of somber ignorance.
Magic is a science, which differs from the so-called positive sciences due to the psychic and spiritual factors, which it implies just as well for the object as for the subject of the operative act. Magic is never either white or black; but it can be benefic or malefic, according to the purpose for which one makes use of it. Magic is a weapon, and like all weapons, one can make use of it for the good or ill of oneself or another--but because it is powerful, it is obviously dangerous in unskillful hands.
But magic is also a sacred and royal science in the sense that it cannot be acquired by someone who is not worthy of it; and morbid neuroses and often even madness are the share
of those who give themselves to it without the requisite aptitude and preparation.
It is necessary to be armed with patience, with calm, and with a great courage to clear its first threshold, and above all, it is necessary to love this science for itself, and not for the material and personal advantages that it procures.
P. B. Randolph had these qualities and still more; that is why he became a great magician, whom all vaguely feared and envied. If he died young, while his adversary, Madame H.-P. Blavatsky, triumphantly lived to a very advanced age, it is, undoubtedly, because his task on this earth was finished more rapidly than that of the founder of the theosophical movement.
--Maria de Naglowska
Cuprins
Introduction: The Most Influential Book about Sex Magic Ever Written by Donald Traxler
Part I
The Introductory Notes
Preface: An Instrument of Initiatic Knowledge by Maria de Naglowska
1 Introduction to the Mysteries
2 The Faith of Eulis
3 The Polarization of the Sexes
4 The Magical Chain and Its Divinities
Part II
The Principles
5 “Volantia” (Sign A)
6 “Decretism”
7 “Posism” (Sign S)
8 “Tirauclairism”
Part III
Magic
9 Astrology, Perfumes, Colors, Sounds
10 Magical Sexual Operations
11 The Correction of the Senses and Faculties
12 The Sex of the Child
13 Fluid Condensers
14 “Volts”
15 Magical Charges
16 Special Conditions for the Preparation of Planetary Charges
17 Special Conditions for the Preparation of Projecting Charges
18 Individual Fluid Condensers
Part IV
Magic Mirrors
19 Magical Mirrors
20 The Instigating Sand
21 The Different Models of Magic Mirrors
22 Special Magic Mirrors
23 Living Tableaux
24 Living Statues
25 Final Note
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“Magia Sexualis is one of the most influential books on sexual magic, and a classic of the occultist genre. This long overdue new translation is a very welcome addition to any collection of books on sexuality, occultism and magic.”
“The practices contained in this work present an antidote to the disconnection of technology, the detachment of the corporeal and re-immerse the participant with the act they are engaging in. We can only hope, if people combat and remedy the removal of their souls from the actions of their bodies, it will spread to other areas of all of our lives.”
“In the field of esoteric studies no one is more mysterious and fascinating than the self-created American original, Paschal Beverly Randolph. Here Traxler provides an accurate translation of his most puzzling and practical text. This text would not have existed but for the synthesizing effort of the European original, Maria de Naglowska, under whose hand this work was made manifest. This translation thankfully helps preserve both of these important and obscure figures in our sphere of knowledge.”
“This undisputable classic of the occultist movement is now available in a reliable English translation. The pioneering importance of Paschal Beverly Randolph is well known since John Patrick Deveney’s great monograph of 1997, but Maria de Naglowska remains largely unknown. Magia Sexualis should be an incentive for further investigations into one of the most mysterious personalities in the history of sexuality and its multiple liaisons with esotericism and the occult.”
“Randolph was a pioneering practitioner of sex magic and believed that the procreation of the species was a natural miracle, that love was the universal law of the cosmos and the sex act between a man and a woman could open up the way to the attainment of altered states of consciousness and the experience of other realities. Recommended.”
“The practices contained in this work present an antidote to the disconnection of technology, the detachment of the corporeal and re-immerse the participant with the act they are engaging in. We can only hope, if people combat and remedy the removal of their souls from the actions of their bodies, it will spread to other areas of all of our lives.”
“In the field of esoteric studies no one is more mysterious and fascinating than the self-created American original, Paschal Beverly Randolph. Here Traxler provides an accurate translation of his most puzzling and practical text. This text would not have existed but for the synthesizing effort of the European original, Maria de Naglowska, under whose hand this work was made manifest. This translation thankfully helps preserve both of these important and obscure figures in our sphere of knowledge.”
“This undisputable classic of the occultist movement is now available in a reliable English translation. The pioneering importance of Paschal Beverly Randolph is well known since John Patrick Deveney’s great monograph of 1997, but Maria de Naglowska remains largely unknown. Magia Sexualis should be an incentive for further investigations into one of the most mysterious personalities in the history of sexuality and its multiple liaisons with esotericism and the occult.”
“Randolph was a pioneering practitioner of sex magic and believed that the procreation of the species was a natural miracle, that love was the universal law of the cosmos and the sex act between a man and a woman could open up the way to the attainment of altered states of consciousness and the experience of other realities. Recommended.”
Descriere
Magia Sexualis explains Randolph’s meticulous science of sex magic, practiced by the Brotherhood of Eulis and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light.