Sexuality, Magic and Perversion by Francis King

Author:Francis King [King, Francis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Gnostic Dementia, Counter Culture, 20th Century, v.5, Amazon.com, Mysticism, Retail
ISBN: 9780922915743
Google: kwYMAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0922915741
Publisher: Feral House
Published: 2002-03-31T15:00:00+00:00

1 An interesting light was thrown on the general morals of the Order by a Knight named Theobald de Taverniac who completely denied that he and his fellows were guilty of sodomy. The charge was ridiculous, he said, “because they could have very beautiful and courtly women whenever they liked, and they did have them frequently when they were rich and powerful enough”.

2 Thus Guillaume de Arblay said that when he was received into the Order there was placed on the altar a head with two faces, a terrible look and a silver beard. He told his inquisitors that he believed the object to be a holy relic, the head of one of the eleven thousand virgin martyrs of Cologne. It is possible that Guillaume put down the “terrible look” to either virginity or martyrdom, but I cannot surmise why he thought the lady should have had two faces and a silver beard!

3 The late Aleister Crowley owned a talisman called Segelah (it was intended “for finding a great treasure” and was taken from the mediaeval Abramelin system of magic) that had been consecrated in this way. I have seen it, and it is a most unpleasant looking object, smeared with dried semen and menstrual blood. Crowley never succeeded in “finding a great treasure” except, as his followers would say, in a metaphorical sense. The present owner of the talisman, however, has used it as a means of discovering rare books, seemingly with great success.

4 The Socialist League was later captured by an anarchist faction, after which event it was regarded with loathing by all orthodox Marxists. In its early years, however, it was almost completely Marxist, with Engels indulging in a good deal of behind-the-scenes string pulling. William Morris was one of the League’s founders, and although he is today generally regarded as a libertarian (on strength of News from Nowhere) at the time he described himself as being “with Marx contra mundum”.

5 He also enjoyed a brief but successful career as a war-correspondent.

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