Magia Sexualis: Sexual Practices for Magical Power

by Paschal Beverly Randolph, Maria de Naglowska, Donald Traxler (Introduction)

A step-by-step guide to the occult science of sex magic

• Based on the practices of P. B. Randolph, occult rival of H. P. Blavatsky
• Reveals how to perform sex magic rituals for specific real-world results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses
• Explains how to create magical talismans, such as rings with specific planetary forces, how to enliven a painting, and how to charge an effigy

Conceived by Paschal Beverly Randolph, Magia Sexualis has been heralded as the most influential book about sex magic ever written, surviving to the present day solely through Maria de Naglowska’s French translation. Published more than 50 years after Randolph’s death, the authorship of this "translation" has been repeatedly called into question: While the greater part of the content can be traced to Randolph’s known works, a very significant portion cannot—leading to the conclusion that this work was supplemented by Naglowska’s own sex magic work and extensive occult teachings.

Magia Sexualis explains Randolph’s meticulous science of sex magic, practiced by the Brotherhood of Eulis and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light. Beginning with exercises to develop essential skills, the book explains in step-by-step detail how to perform sex magic rituals for specific results, such as greater strength or enhancement of the senses, how to charge and use a "volt"—an effigy of a specific person you want to influence or protect, how to enliven a painting in order to influence those around it, and how to create magical talismans with specific planetary forces, using what Randolph calls "fluid condensers." This work from two great occult minds shows that true power of the spirit is acquired in conjunction with the power of sex—affirming that "sex is the fundamental force in every being, the most powerful force in Nature, and the most characteristic evidence of God."

Genres: Occult, Magick, Sexuality, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Witchcraft, Magic

187 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Paschal Beverly Randolph was a medical doctor and occultist, notable as perhaps the first person to introduce the principles of sex magic to North America, and, according to A.E. Waite, establishing the earliest known Rosicrucian order in the United States.

Randolph died at the age of 49, under disputed circumstances. According to Professor Carl Edwin Lindgren, D.Ed., many questioned the coroner's finding that Randolph died in Toledo from a self-inflicted wound to the head, for many of his writings express his aversion to suicide. The evidence was conflicting. R. Swinburne Clymer, a later Supreme Master of the Fraternitas, stressed that years later in a death-bed confession, a former friend of Randolph conceded that in a state of jealousy and temporary insanity, he had killed Randolph. Randolph was succeeded as Supreme Grand Master of the Fraternitas, and in other titles, by his chosen successor Freeman B. Dowd.

In 1996, the biography Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician by John Patrick Deveney and Franklin Rosemont was published.

(source: wikipedia)

Reviews

[Obi Lourdes · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean...wow.

I chose to read this book because of my interest in cultivating and using sexual energy. It touches lightly on that subject before devoting most of its length to straight-up magic: spells, mirrors, perfumes––the whole shebang. I'm not interested in that stuff. So I would give it 2 stars for my purposes, but if you are looking for spells then I guess it would serve you.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sex magic text from the last 1800's - obviously a must read.This text seems to make more sense than the 1988 Magickal Childe edition. But after reading that one twice and now reading this, the repetition itself may have led to clarity. Roughly 50 pages on Magic Mirrors which is good historically but after understanding the idea of traveling in the spirit vision (Astral travel) and basic evocation with the triangle of art the idea of magic mirrors gets me about as excited as using the pendulum.
His chapter on the Living Tableaux is very interesting and I have had some independent success with similar techniques.

[Baroness · Rating 1 out of 5]

This read is not the sexual connection I’m seeking.

[Walter Five · Rating 5 out of 5]

Readers of this book will in the 21st century largely fall into three categories-- Rosicrucians seeking further works of Dr. Paschal B. Randolph, Thelemic Sex Magicians who purchased the Magickal Childe's "Sexual Magic" 30 years ago, and modern-day readers already familiar with Maria de Naglowska's "The Sacred Rite of Magical Love: A Ceremony of Word and Flesh," "The Light of Sex: Initiation, Magic, and Sacrament," and "Advanced Sex Magic: The Hanging Mystery Initiation."

All will be well served by this recent new translation. The translator and editor is quite familiar with Dr. Randolph's works, and is often able to cite page and paragraph of works such as "The New Mola" and "The Ansieratic Mysteries" to firmly ascertain what are Randolph's teachings, and what portions are certainly Ms. de Naglowska's own additions. Even so, there are parts and portions unattributed in the published writings of either.

A close comparison with the Magickal Childe edition shows some changes in translation; there are times the translator suggests that Ms. Naglowska may have been working from a hand-written manuscript, and offers what seem to be logical suggestions. I suspect that the wealth of material available through the Internet, 1st edition reproduction PDFs of all of Dr. Randolph's works, as cited in the present edition, greatly assisted the present translator to identify when the material steers sharply away from Dr. Randolph and towards Ms. de Naglowska's. I mention this because there is some speculation that Mr. Swineburn-Clymer edited and watered-down some of Dr. Randolph's more revealing passages in the later editions he published throughout the 20th century after buying the publishing rights to Dr. Randolph's works from his widow in 1905.

[Serenity L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok. This is not what you expect from a book on sex magic. Kinda slow getting started. Takes weird tangents. But by mid book it becomes very interesting. There are very detailed instructions regarding mirror scrying and portraits. That was very useful. I would have given it 5 stars had not I had preconceived ideas of what I thought this book was supposed to be

[Pin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only read this to rebel against the inanity of the sexual revolution every child is now the victim of, everyone is desperately waiting for spring while I'm practiving the winter skills

[Komani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magia sexualist

[Nico]

You can find my review published in Spiral Nature Magazine here:
http://www.spiralnature.com/reviews/m...