Taboo: Sex, Religion & Magick by Christopher Hyatt & Lon Milo Duquette

Author:Christopher Hyatt & Lon Milo Duquette [Hyatt, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Falcon Publications
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Aleister Crowley

Often called the "Wickedest Man In The World"

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

by

Aleister Crowley

[The following essay is probably the most explicit work on Sex Magick that Crowley wrote for public consumption. Written in the Spring of 1912 when he was "hovering between London and Paris," it was published in Equinox Vol. I no. 9.

There has been much speculation over the years as to whether the ceremony described below did indeed take place or if it was purely a creation of Crowley's rich imagination. His reference to the Royal Arch and Rose-Croix degrees of Freemasonry intimates that the group would have been a highly irregular branch of Masonry or perhaps Ordo Templi Orientis. Although some elements of the following ceremony are similar to the Mass of the Gnostic Catholic Church (the primary public ceremony of the O.T.O.) and Crowley was very actively involved in the O.T.O. in 1912, it is obvious that it is not the "Mass" as celebrated by the O.T.O.

Historically "true" or not, Energized Enthusiasm remains one of the clearest expositions of the underlying theory of Sex Magick and an excellent, if idealized, example of its execution for public worship. We include it in its entirety.]

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