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

Author:Christopher Hyatt & Lon Milo DuQuette
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: New Falcon Publications
Published: 2013-01-01T04:30:00+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.]

LIBER DCCCXI

ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

A NOTE ON THEURGY

I

IAO the supreme One of the Gnostics, the true God, is the Lord of this work. Let us therefore invoke Him by that name which the Companions of the Royal Arch blaspheme to aid us in the essay to declare the means which He has bestowed upon us!

II

The divine consciousness which is reflected and refracted in the works of Genius feeds upon a certain secretion, as I believe. This secretion is analogous to semen, but not identical with it. There are but few men and fewer women, those women being invariably androgyny, who possess it at any time in any quantity.

So closely is this secretion connected with the sexual economy that it appears to me at times as if it might be a by-product of that process which generates semen. That some form of this doctrine has been generally accepted is shown in the prohibitions of all religions. Sanctity has been assumed to depend on chastity, and chastity has nearly always been interpreted as abstinence. But I doubt whether the relation is so simple as this would imply; for example, I find in myself that manifestations of mental creative force always concur with some abnormal condition of the physical powers of generation. But it is not the case that long periods of chastity, on the one hand, or excess of orgies, on the other, are favourable to its manifestation or even to its formation.

I know myself, and in me it is extremely strong; its results are astounding.

For example, I wrote Tannhauser, complete from conception to execution, in sixty-seven consecutive hours. I was unconscious of the fall of nights and days, even after stopping; nor was there any reaction of fatigue. This work was written when I was twenty-four years old, immediately on the completion of an orgie which would normally have tired me out.

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