Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit: The Secrets of Erotic Magic

by Jason Miller

The sexual act is possibly the most potent--and pleasurable--gateway to the primordial and the divine. From the Tantric mysteries of Hinduism and Buddhism and the inner alchemy of Taoism, to the sacrament of the bridal chamber in Christianity--and, of course, the traditions of Western Magic and Witchcraft--sex pervades the highest and most secret teachings all over the world.
In "Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit," Jason Miller draws upon his training in Eastern and Western mystery schools to produce a frank, comprehensive exploration of sexual sorcery and spirituality. In clear language, he will show you how to take your magic to the next level, teaching you:
How to use the moment of orgasm as a gateway to the highest levels of spiritual attainment.
The use of sexual elixirs in alchemy and practical sorcery.
How to work with sexual spirits and gods.
The dangers of sex magic and how to avoid them.
A grimoire of sexual spells and rituals.
This daring and tantalizing work throws open the doors into the realms of sexual magic that have been hidden behind secret orders and arcane terminology for far too long--until now.

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

224 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2014

About the author

Jason G. Miller, who also works as Inominandum, has devoted over 20 years to the study of witchcraft and magick in its many forms. He is a Sovereign of the Chthonic Ouranian Temple, and initiate of Ordo Templi Orientis, and a member of the Terra Sancta Sangreal Sodality, as well as an initiated Tantrika of the Nyingma and Bön lineages of Tibet. He writes regularly for the journal Behutet , and a frequent contributor to Witchvox, and Voice of the Old Ways.

Reviews

[Belinda]

The writing is clear, and provides a foundation rather than starting in the middle. However, I found myself wanting to fast forward to the good parts. Once I reached them, I realized that his sex magic was just a combination of taoist and tantric sex magic manifestation techniques that I was already familiar with. However, putting my hand on this book at least confirms that the solidity of what I do know. I am ready to search for more.

[Michelle Avery]

Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit is one of Jason Miller's most ambitious books because he tackles a subject that occult literature often handles badly. Sex magic tends to get presented either as something scandalous and forbidden or reduced to the incredibly basic idea of “raise sexual energy and direct it toward a goal.” Miller approaches it as an entire field of magical and spiritual practice with its own history, techniques, spirits, risks, and possibilities.

What immediately sets the book apart is its scope. Miller doesn't treat sexual magic as an invention of twentieth-century Western occultism. He looks across Hindu and Buddhist Tantra, Taoist inner alchemy, Christian mystical traditions, Western ceremonial magic, witchcraft, and other esoteric currents to examine the recurring relationship between sexuality, altered consciousness, vitality, and encounters with the divine.

I particularly appreciated that comparative approach because it demonstrates something important without pretending all these traditions are secretly teaching the exact same thing. Human beings across cultures have repeatedly recognized sexuality as an unusually powerful experience and asked whether that power could be directed toward transformation, magic, or spiritual attainment. The answers they developed were very different, but the question itself appears again and again.

Miller is also refreshingly practical. He isn't satisfied with giving a historical overview and leaving everything safely theoretical. The book explores altered states associated with sexual experience, magical intention, sexual spirits and deities, alchemical ideas, practical sorcery, and ritual applications. There's even a grimoire of workings. Like his other books, the emphasis is ultimately on what practitioners actually do.

At the same time, he doesn't pretend that every technique involving sexuality is automatically profound simply because it's taboo. That's something I really appreciated. Occultism has a long history of people dressing up questionable behavior in mystical language, particularly when sex, initiation, teachers, and hierarchical groups intersect. Any serious discussion of sexual magic needs to acknowledge boundaries, consequences, and the ways these practices can go wrong. Miller doesn't leave that out.

There's also a deeper idea running underneath the practical material: sexuality can occupy a strange threshold between body and consciousness. It is intensely physical while also capable of radically altering attention, emotion, identity, and perception. That makes it fertile territory for magical experimentation, but it also explains why sexual practices have accumulated so much religious symbolism across cultures.

This is where the “Spirit” in the title becomes important. The book isn't simply about using sex to obtain things. Miller is interested in what erotic experience might reveal about consciousness, spiritual transformation, relationships with spirits and gods, and the practitioner's relationship with their own embodied existence.

As with Real Sorcery and The Elements of Spellcrafting, what I like most about Jason Miller is his refusal to make magic unnecessarily precious. He can discuss esoteric traditions and sophisticated magical ideas and then immediately ask the practical question: what does this actually accomplish? That attitude is particularly valuable with a subject as vulnerable to exaggerated claims and occult posturing as sex magic.

Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit definitely isn't the first book I'd hand someone completely new to magic, but for an established practitioner interested in erotic magic, it's one of the more substantial treatments I've encountered. It takes the subject seriously without becoming humorless, acknowledges its dangers without becoming prudish, and explores its spiritual dimensions without pretending sexuality has to be sanitized before it can become sacred.

Jason Miller opens a door that occult writers have spent a very long time alternately hiding, sensationalizing, and whispering about. More importantly, he gives you enough context to understand what might actually be on the other side.

[Julian Mercury]

Sex magic has suffered from two equally unfortunate kinds of occult writing. One treats it as the most dangerous secret ever whispered behind the doors of an initiatory order, usually by men who seem terribly impressed with themselves for having discovered orgasms. The other sanitizes the subject into such vague language about sacred union and divine energies that one begins to wonder whether anybody involved is actually having sex. Jason Miller, thankfully, is considerably more matter-of-fact. Sex is pleasurable, messy, powerful, potentially distracting, occasionally spiritually profound, and useful for magic. We can proceed from there.

The breadth of the book surprised me. Miller moves through Western occultism, Tantra, Taoist inner alchemy, sexual fluids and elixirs, orgasm as a magical gateway, spirits and gods connected with sexuality, practical sorcery, and the possible dangers of erotic magical work. I do not think every tradition covered here can be understood deeply in a book this size, and occasionally I wanted him to remain with one current rather than moving on to the next. Still, the comparative approach makes an important point. Occult traditions across cultures have repeatedly noticed that sexual arousal can alter consciousness dramatically, and magicians being magicians, they eventually asked what else could be done with that state.

As a gay man, I am particularly sensitive to sex-magic systems that quietly assume heterosexual intercourse is a miniature model of the cosmos. There is a long occult history of turning penis and vagina into metaphysical absolutes and then working backward until the entire universe becomes heterosexual. Miller is much less dependent on that kind of symbolism. What interests him is the energy, attention, altered consciousness, exchange, desire, and magical leverage available through sexuality. That makes much of the material considerably easier to detach from any particular configuration of bodies. I have always found that more persuasive anyway. If erotic magic possesses genuine power, it would be rather peculiar for the cosmos to become confused because the participants have matching equipment.

Where Miller is most himself is in refusing to let sex magic float away into mystical abstraction. There are things to accomplish with it. There are also risks, spirits one might encounter, practices that require judgment, and moments when extraordinary intensity should not be mistaken automatically for extraordinary wisdom. I appreciated that sobriety because erotic experience can make people unusually willing to believe that whatever they just felt must have been spiritually significant. Sometimes it was. Sometimes you simply had a spectacular evening.

I don't think this is Miller's strongest book, and I would put The Elements of Spellcrafting and Consorting with Spirits above it. But it is one of the more useful books I have read on erotic magic because it neither apologizes for sex nor worships it. Sex can open doors in consciousness. It can fuel sorcery, devotion, communion, and transformation. It can also make otherwise intelligent occultists behave like complete idiots. Any serious magical treatment of sexuality ought to leave room for all of those possibilities, and Miller does.

[Christian]

Jason Miller is a quite capable and as far as I can see, trustworthy author on a broad range of matters pertaining to the practical occult. With "Sex, Sorcery and Spirit" he underlines this reputation further, introducing to an important, but quite difficult topic. Many other people probably would crash the whole undertaking and I am not entirely sure, if this is to be talked about ritual- and practise-wise at all in public. But given the case, one could not really fare better, I imagine. Some of the practices in here are for solitary exercise anyway and detailed nicely enough to work with them. A lot essentially takes up pranayama practices as far as I can see, so that may be a line of further inquiry although the topics related to ritual sex are probably guarded in the inner courts of the resective temples and traditons - and with good reason.

[David]

Not necessarily a bad read, just really not what I was looking for. The gods references are all over the place, as if a pagan can choose a god(dess) simply to suit their needs. The author does acknowledge that the technique and rituals can be adapted, it just comes across in the writing a little strangely.
There are a few parts of chapters that I found both helpful and intriguing.
To the authors credit, he does state that one should adapt the rital and technique to ones own preference.
Overall, to this somewhat seasoned practitioner, there wasn't a whole lot to be gleaned from the text, but what was useful will be worth investigating.

[Jon Daniels]

Miller goes alot deeper than the usual charge-a-sigil-at-orgasm thing, theres Tantra, Taoist alchemy, sexual spirits, elixirs and a whole section of actual sorcery at the end. I especially appreciated that he talks about risks and complications because sex magic has a long history of people becoming complete idiots the second desire gets mixed into the ritual, apparently enlightenment does not cure bad judgement. Some of the material isnt really my tradition but altered states are altered states, and chaos magicians have been getting into gnosis through much stupider methods for decades.

[Aryelle]

Great Read

Every part of this book was amazing; I think I found my new favorite author. I like this author because of how real he is. There were topics in this book, the author didn’t agree with, but still spoke about them which I valued. I think everyone who practices, whether it’d be sex magic or not, should read this book. Knowledge can be taken and added to your practice and it doesn’t even have to be extreme, it can be very simple and mundane.

[Kat]

The author has a very relatable writing style. Small bits of humor made for a fun read. With such a touchy and controversial topic, I appreciate the author’s openness towards addressing serious issues that are inevitably involved in this work, and also the guidance on finding balance in such things. Overall great read.

[Fiona]

Covers purifications, and inner heat practice among others. This book also covers a surprising amount of the content of his (very expensive!) course called Level Up. The book is better for explaining those parts that are duplicated.

[豆儿]

Read this as part of my trauma recovery curriculum designed by ChatGPT. I laughed so hard when the author said “If a teacher tells you that you are his or hers from a former life, that he or she has been waiting for you, or any other kind of trip like that, leave.” 😭🤣💀💀💀😭😭😭

[Merit]

Good book to read, but I would never flip back through it for any kind of reference. Entertaining and maybe it will lead you into a different form of thinking about your inner prana.

[Samantha Strong]

Jason Miller always knows what he's talking about.

[Antoinette]

Very informative and fun. I really like Jason Miller's books.

[Igwe Valentine]

Amazing book am wowed!!!

[The Raven]

moderno 🧐