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Magia Sexualis - Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (Hardcover)
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Magia Sexualis - Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (Hardcover)
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Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the
western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century
that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic -
the use of sex as a source of magical power - emerged. This book,
the first history of western sexual magic as a modern spiritual
tradition, places these practices in the context of the larger
discourse surrounding sexuality in American and European society
over the last 150 years to discover how sexual magic was
transformed from a terrifying medieval nightmare of heresy and
social subversion into a modern ideal of personal empowerment and
social liberation. Focusing on a series of key figures including
American spiritualist Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley,
Julius Evola, Gerald Gardner, and Anton LaVey, Hugh Urban traces
the emergence of sexual magic out of older western esoteric
traditions including Gnosticism and Kabbalah, which were
progressively fused with recently-discovered eastern traditions
such as Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. His study gives remarkable new
insight into sexuality in the modern era, specifically on issues
such as the politics of birth control, the classification of sexual
'deviance', debates over homosexuality and feminism, and the role
of sexuality in our own new world of post-modern spirituality,
consumer capitalism, and the Internet.
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