Description
Magic, almost in its entirety, is connected to sexuality. It is through the natural magic of love that sex magic operates, harnessing the forces that join lovers together. In this extensive study of sex magic in the Eastern and Western Mystery traditions, Sarane Alexandrian explains how there is a sex magic connected with every religion, spiritual belief system and initiatory society. Exploring sexual practices in folk magic, high magic, alchemy and religion, the author begins with a complete overview of love magic in the Middle Ages, including accounts of the use of potions, powders, spells and enchantments, and he reveals how these techniques related to the religious practices of the time. He introduces the Taoist sexual alchemy practices of Mantak Chia, the secret tantric practices of the Tibetan bons, sexual shiatsu and a Vietnamese practice called mouth moxa. Examining the sacred sexuality that arose in Western initiatory orders in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alexandri
