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Kabbalah and Sex Magic - A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy (Hardcover)
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Kabbalah and Sex Magic - A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy (Hardcover)
Series: Magic in History
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In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of
the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing
extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful
story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in
late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New
Age ritual practice. Kabbalah and Sex Magic traces the evolution of
a Hebrew microcosm that models the powerful interaction of human
and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of
Western sex magic. Focusing on Jewish esoteric and medical sources
from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia,
Iberia, and southern France, Segol argues that in its fully
developed medieval form, kabbalah operated by ritualizing a mythos
of divine creation by means of sexual reproduction. She situates in
cultural and historical context the emergence of Jewish
cosmological models for conceptualizing both human and divine
bodies and the interactions between them, arguing that all these
sources position the body and its senses as the locus of culture
and the means of reproducing it. Segol explores the rituals acting
on these models, attending especially to their inherent erotic
power, and ties these to contemporary Western sex magic, showing
that such rituals have a continuing life. Asking questions about
its cosmology, myths, and rituals, Segol poses even larger
questions about the history of kabbalah, the changing conceptions
of the human relation to the divine, and even the nature of
religious innovation itself. This groundbreaking book will appeal
to students and scholars of Jewish studies, religion, sexuality,
and magic.
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