WICCA 202
CLASS LOG

INTIMATE SPELLWORKINGS

GIVEN BY ARCADIA

<Arcadia> For nearly two thousand years, in the western world at any rate, the idea of sex has been almost synomonous with sin

<Arcadia> This unhappy aberration in man's philosophy, productive of so much misery and frustration,has been in complete contrtast with eariler ways of thinking among pagans of the ancient world

<Arcadia> and with a good of eastern mystical philospophy

<Arcadia> Upon some of the ancient temples of India,magnificent scuptures protray gods and goddesses in very conceivable embrace

<Arcadia> The sacred Yab-Yum , or Mother Father pictures, showed male divinities united in sexual climax with their female partners

<Arcadia> The basis for this world wide observation of interplay of opposites thought out manifest of Nature

<Arcadia> The followers of so chaste and ascetic a philosphers as Pyrogoras bore witness to this idea in ancient Greece

<Arcadia> To the medieval alchemists the Great Work came for the union of opposites

<Arcadia> The chinese sages based both philosophy and magic the interplay of complimentary forces which they called Yin and Yang

<Arcadia> Ritual nudity as a magical practice is very old

<Arcadia> The naked dances organized by pagan cult of witchcraft in times past were denounced by the church

<Arcadia> In those days when the country side was much less populated than it is today, large bonfires could be lit in places to provide light and warmth, and a gay glowing center of magic to dance around

<Arcadia> by dancing naked, in a state of "oneness with nature" witches contacted the universal life energy, and felt themselves rejuvenated

<Arcadia> The ancient rites of fertilty and vitality belonging to the Old Religion of Nature still take place in the countryside of Europe and America.

<Arcadia> particularly at the full moon

<Arcadia> They are done for luck, for enjoyment and the continuance of an old tradition

<Arcadia> The Christian church ordained sex to be for one purpose only, namely the procreation of children,

<Arcadia> to use it and to enjoy it for any other purpose was sin

<Arcadia> But the secret practioner of magic have always denied this idea

<Arcadia> Sex they say, has three functions,

<Arcadia> propagation of the race, sheer enjoyment, and revitalization of exchange of vital magnetism

<Arcadia> For the last function, intercourse was not absolutely necessary. It could take place between a man and woman by touching, kissing and embracing, especially if each were nude.

<Arcadia> The only provision was that they must be in sympathy with each other, so that their auras bleanded harmoniously.

<Arcadia> Modern medical science supports these contentions, insofar as it has proved that a woman can only conceive for a brief time of a few days out of her monthy menstral cycle

<Arcadia> Yet she is fully capable of enjoying sexual intercourse throught the entire cycle.

<Arcadia> As there is three functions of sex, so if exists in three forms of activities, auto-sexual, homosexual and with a member of ones own sex

<Arcadia> or with a member of the opposite sex

<Arcadia> Again with the idea of the magical number three, or the triad appears

<Arcadia> All these forms of sexual activities have been used both in magic and religion from time immemorial

<Arcadia> Old fashioned moralists have made a fuss about " self abuse" or masturbation.

<Arcadia> It was even suppose to be the " sin against the Holy Ghost" as well as being responsible for everything from ingrown toenails to insanity

<Arcadia> Today however, physocologists regard it as a "perfectly natural thing?

<Arcadia> so what what all the agitation really about?

<Arcadia> Just possibly because of the use of human sexual secretions, both male and female are alluded to under the symbolism of alchemy

<Arcadia> the male as the essence of blood of the Red Lion, and the female as the gluten or essense of the White Lion

<Arcadia> The strange symbolism of alchemy was one way secret brotherhoods concealed sexual nature of their rites which might have otherwise been renounced as ' abmoninations' simply because they involved sex

<Arcadia> The idea behind this practice is the vital essence of the body gives off power, which can be directed by the mind and will of the magician for some specific end

<Arcadia> In the case of animal sacrifice, it is the freshly spilt blood which gives off the vital power

<Arcadia> But, say those magicians who practice sexual rites, why use such a brute and cruel method of killing some living creature, when there is a pleasanter method at hand?

<Arcadia> Magica sexualis, or sexual magic, has been the well kept secret of inner circles of many occult brotherhoods, of both east and west

<Arcadia> It has been disguised in curious symbolism and abtruse terms, because frank discussion of such ideas had not been possible.

<Arcadia> Because sexual enjoyment was the great sin, any ritual that involved sex must automatically be black magic and devil worship

<Arcadia> Quite a deal of this mentality still lingers today. The Pagans of anceint times thought differently.

<Arcadia> They believed that what gave pleasure to humans also gave pleasure to the gods

<Arcadia> wo theings are evidently very important for the practice of sexual magic: mainly that the partners should be in complete harmony with each other, and that they should be sexually potent.

<Arcadia> Occultism has a good deal of advice to give both these points.

<Arcadia> It is almost impossible to talk about the revival of magic in modern times without mentioning Aleister Crowley.

<Arcadia> the flamboyant and eccentric poet and mystic who gloried in the dubbed "The Wickest Man in the World," yet his wickeness consisted mainly of practicing sexual magic.

<Arcadia> which as we have seen, was nothing new in the western world, wither in theory or in practice.

<Arcadia> On the contrary, ritual sexual intercourse, was a very old idea indeed, probably as old as humanity itself.

<Arcadia> Obviously it is the opposite of promescuity . Intercourse for ritual porposes should be with a carefully selected partner.

<Arcadia> at the right time and the right place.

<Arcadia> How indeed could there be anything truly magical about an act that has been rendered common, tawdry and degraded?

<Arcadia> We hear a good deal about the so called permissive society. But what in practice does the great permissive society permit?

<Arcadia> A happy natural loving relationship between man and woman, or the flaunting of everything that is ugly and eventually repulsive?

<Arcadia> It's main preoccupation is not so much sex as the commercialization of sex. and amid all the discussion of sexual technique, what ever happened tolove?

<EricBr> gone?

<Arcadia> It is love and only love that can give sex the spark of magic. To approach magica sexualis , in a cold-blooded, clinical manner is ultimately self defeating.

<EricBr> nod

<Arcadia> The old practioners use to choose a sexual partner with great care and practice only with her so a bond and affection could result.As Charles Leland wrote in Aradia, the Gospel of Witches:

<Arcadia> Are not the charms of love of every kind, and its enjoyment of beauty in all its forms in Nature, mysteries, magical, or miracles?

<Arcadia> Thank you.....