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A Chapter from The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage by Dion Fortune. Please keep in mind this book was written just after the First World War.
I read this chapter the other day I it is related with discussions here, so I figured I will post it for everyone to read, for it is directly related with Sexual Magic, a secret that was not allowed to be spoken of in the era the book was written.
This IS the Occult viewpoint. Of course, everyone is free to disagree.
Promiscuous Intercourse and Unnatural Use of the Sex-Functions
Promiscuous sex-relations are not regarded lightly by the occultist, because he well knows their consequences upon the inner planes and the causes they set going in the unseen world.
The true value can only be obtained from the sex-relationship by bringing all the seven bodies of man into union, and this is a task, not merely for a lifetime, but for an evolution. The tender affections, intellectual sympathies, and spiritual ideals must all be mated, and this consummation cannot be achieved save by long years of intimate companionship. The fleeting union can engage no more than the senses, and effectually prevents a deeper union being formed, because in each new relationship we have begin all over again. We never touch the higher planes save by fidelity.
Whenever we touch a soul as intimately as we do in sexual intercourse, a karmic tie is made and a rapports exist for a considerable time thereafter. Therefore it is well to ask ourselves with what conditions we are establishing a rapport when entering into such a union. Will the psychic forces that find entrance into racial consciousness through the channel opened up by a brothel prove beneficial to a soul when admitted to its innermost recesses?
Perhaps such considerations, were they more widely known, would serve to check the actions of those who are uninfluenced by the fact that their sensuality forces upon society a pariah cast which is denied all that makes life of any worth.
Concerning the unnatural forms of sexuality it is not customary to write save in books intended for the medical profession, but it is necessary to refer to them here because they form, together with a knowledge of the power of certain drugs to affect consciousness, part of the stock-in-trade of black occultism. To be drawn by mystical cunning into a web of vile debauchery can scarcely be the object of a student of occultism, and he who seeks initiation into an occult fraternity had better be shrewdly observant, for not all fraternities serve the higher interests of humanity.
The Way of Initiation is not a scientific pursuit but a religion, and only the pure in heart can know God. Any tampering with morality is a danger signal, and the neophyte should avoid any occultist whose life is not above reproach. The Kingdom of Heaven is not to be obtained at the price a man’s or woman’s self-respect, nor can we hope to obtain an initiation that is of value by condoning evil. Unless a lodge is imbued by sufficiently high ideals to make it expel the unclean, keep out of it.
An occultist may deliberately devote himself to evil, or, through ignorance of the forces he is handling, he may get into the hands of evil, and in either case he is a danger to a neophyte. There are not many men in the Western esoteric tradition at the present time who are deliberately evil, not in the English lodge at any rate; but there are a very great many who are appallingly and disgracefully ignorant of that which they claim to teach, and they are just as dangerous, in fact more so, for a wicked man can be bought off or frightened, but there is not means of appeal to a fool is out of his depth.
Wherever drugs or sex are played with there is danger; the true occultist advances to a knowledge of the hidden side of things by spiritual intuition which is obtained by study, discipline, and purity of life.
Sexual perversion, so far as it concerns practical occultism, may be divided into two types – solitary stimulation of the generative organs and mutual stimulation by two people of the same sex.
In the first case, injury is inflicted upon the nervous system because there is an output of energy without any corresponding return through the medium of the etheric double, as described in the previous chapter. In addition to this, the energy thus put forth escapes into space, and is not return to the Divine, as it should be; and if, as is almost always the case, the act is accompanied by phantasy, thought forms are built upon the lower planes of the unseen worlds, and these thought-forms are liable to be ensouled by evil forces, and to becomes active upon their own account, hanging about in the neighbourhood of the place where they were generated and influencing its atmosphere and all persons who come into it, prompting them to sensuality. These thought forms are the incubi and succubi of mediaeval legend.
With regard to sexual stimulation between people of the same sex, this is a well-known way, in conjunction with ritual, of producing occult development. It has been practiced in the mysteries of all races and ages in the periods of their decay, as the records of ethnologist and historians show. Two streams of force of the same type of called forth, and naturally find no channels of return, as the vehicles are both of the same polarity. These forces are therefore available for magical purposes; hence the extensive use of what are commonly called obscene practice as one of the easiest ways of obtaining power. Something of the same lack of scruple is shown when drugs are used to develop clairvoyance. These things can be done, but there is a price to pay, that price being that the person so experimenting shall give himself over unreservedly to evil. If he attempts a divided allegiance, he will develop what psychologists term conflict, and mental breakdown will follow. It is more than tragic that young boys should be foully made us of in black occultism. The public do not realize the significance of certain scandals that keep on cropping up, and therefore they do not take them sufficiently seriously.
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I read this chapter the other day I it is related with discussions here, so I figured I will post it for everyone to read, for it is directly related with Sexual Magic, a secret that was not allowed to be spoken of in the era the book was written.
This IS the Occult viewpoint. Of course, everyone is free to disagree.
Promiscuous Intercourse and Unnatural Use of the Sex-Functions
Promiscuous sex-relations are not regarded lightly by the occultist, because he well knows their consequences upon the inner planes and the causes they set going in the unseen world.
The true value can only be obtained from the sex-relationship by bringing all the seven bodies of man into union, and this is a task, not merely for a lifetime, but for an evolution. The tender affections, intellectual sympathies, and spiritual ideals must all be mated, and this consummation cannot be achieved save by long years of intimate companionship. The fleeting union can engage no more than the senses, and effectually prevents a deeper union being formed, because in each new relationship we have begin all over again. We never touch the higher planes save by fidelity.
Whenever we touch a soul as intimately as we do in sexual intercourse, a karmic tie is made and a rapports exist for a considerable time thereafter. Therefore it is well to ask ourselves with what conditions we are establishing a rapport when entering into such a union. Will the psychic forces that find entrance into racial consciousness through the channel opened up by a brothel prove beneficial to a soul when admitted to its innermost recesses?
Perhaps such considerations, were they more widely known, would serve to check the actions of those who are uninfluenced by the fact that their sensuality forces upon society a pariah cast which is denied all that makes life of any worth.
Concerning the unnatural forms of sexuality it is not customary to write save in books intended for the medical profession, but it is necessary to refer to them here because they form, together with a knowledge of the power of certain drugs to affect consciousness, part of the stock-in-trade of black occultism. To be drawn by mystical cunning into a web of vile debauchery can scarcely be the object of a student of occultism, and he who seeks initiation into an occult fraternity had better be shrewdly observant, for not all fraternities serve the higher interests of humanity.
The Way of Initiation is not a scientific pursuit but a religion, and only the pure in heart can know God. Any tampering with morality is a danger signal, and the neophyte should avoid any occultist whose life is not above reproach. The Kingdom of Heaven is not to be obtained at the price a man’s or woman’s self-respect, nor can we hope to obtain an initiation that is of value by condoning evil. Unless a lodge is imbued by sufficiently high ideals to make it expel the unclean, keep out of it.
An occultist may deliberately devote himself to evil, or, through ignorance of the forces he is handling, he may get into the hands of evil, and in either case he is a danger to a neophyte. There are not many men in the Western esoteric tradition at the present time who are deliberately evil, not in the English lodge at any rate; but there are a very great many who are appallingly and disgracefully ignorant of that which they claim to teach, and they are just as dangerous, in fact more so, for a wicked man can be bought off or frightened, but there is not means of appeal to a fool is out of his depth.
Wherever drugs or sex are played with there is danger; the true occultist advances to a knowledge of the hidden side of things by spiritual intuition which is obtained by study, discipline, and purity of life.
Sexual perversion, so far as it concerns practical occultism, may be divided into two types – solitary stimulation of the generative organs and mutual stimulation by two people of the same sex.
In the first case, injury is inflicted upon the nervous system because there is an output of energy without any corresponding return through the medium of the etheric double, as described in the previous chapter. In addition to this, the energy thus put forth escapes into space, and is not return to the Divine, as it should be; and if, as is almost always the case, the act is accompanied by phantasy, thought forms are built upon the lower planes of the unseen worlds, and these thought-forms are liable to be ensouled by evil forces, and to becomes active upon their own account, hanging about in the neighbourhood of the place where they were generated and influencing its atmosphere and all persons who come into it, prompting them to sensuality. These thought forms are the incubi and succubi of mediaeval legend.
With regard to sexual stimulation between people of the same sex, this is a well-known way, in conjunction with ritual, of producing occult development. It has been practiced in the mysteries of all races and ages in the periods of their decay, as the records of ethnologist and historians show. Two streams of force of the same type of called forth, and naturally find no channels of return, as the vehicles are both of the same polarity. These forces are therefore available for magical purposes; hence the extensive use of what are commonly called obscene practice as one of the easiest ways of obtaining power. Something of the same lack of scruple is shown when drugs are used to develop clairvoyance. These things can be done, but there is a price to pay, that price being that the person so experimenting shall give himself over unreservedly to evil. If he attempts a divided allegiance, he will develop what psychologists term conflict, and mental breakdown will follow. It is more than tragic that young boys should be foully made us of in black occultism. The public do not realize the significance of certain scandals that keep on cropping up, and therefore they do not take them sufficiently seriously.
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