The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism by Arthur Versluis

Author:Arthur Versluis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sexuality/Spirituality
ISBN: 9781594779862
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2010-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

John Pordage’s Inner Alchemy

We should recall, at this juncture, that in Asia itself, Tantra is expressed through a multifold “twilight language” whose intricate symbolism always offers a range of meanings, and that therefore it should hardly be surprising that if anything even remotely like tantrism were to exist in Europe, it would probably also be expressed very rarely in written form. If it were in written form, it would most likely be expressed only through allusive and elusive symbolism, particularly given the fierce and even deadly outrage that it would likely provoke among the dogmatic moralists.

Thus we are not surprised to find that when, in “Philosophic Epistle on the True Stone of Wisdom,” John Pordage writes about spiritual alchemy, he does so using traditional alchemical language to refer to the human body. Pordage begins by elaborating on the “equipment” or means necessary for alchemy, especially that

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