In concluding this essay I would like to share a few words concerning Voodoo before moving on to tantra, sexuality and sex magick. Again my purpose is to demonstrate that Organic Gnosticism has very strong roots in occult and metaphysical research as well as being derived from personal experience. If the concepts which I share are different than what is commonly accepted I have my own very personal reasons which are based upon personal experience and not simply head tripping book knowledge.
In the book “The Mark of Voodoo” Sharon Caulder Phd. describes her trip to the Republic of Benin to discover her spiritual roots. This is the story of her amazing experiences with sub-Saharan African Voodoo- the root of all Voodoo- including her initiation into the spiritual hierarchy as a full-fledged chief and her romance with the supreme chief.
A few notable points from this book, her teacher Daagbo was invited to Paris where spiritual leaders from eighty-five different countries were invited to show their power. Most were given an hour or two but he was given an entire morning. He had been invited by the Dalai Lama!
Another notable point was when she described a young boy walking across the compound where the tribe lived. The young boy suddenly stopped and began to crow. He had been possessed by the spirit of a dead rooster. . . The people lacked the personal shields to protect themselves from such possession.
At a critical point in my own journey I found my own spiritual father and mentor, Voodoo Bob. He claimed to be the only white Voodoo Highpriest or Priestess in Minnesota. He had married a Voodoo Queen in New Orleans and she had taught him. They had a son together. Voodoo Bob was one of the most interesting people I have ever met and had a double Phd in Psychology and Divinity. He taught briefly at a University in Wisconsin, but left to lead a totally different life of enriched poverty. He was the most spiritual person that I have ever known and really lived according to his beliefs in total trust that everything he needed would come to him.
He asked me to do a drawing of Marie Laveau for his High Altar and I did two, one light and one dark because she was both light and dark. She is the High Priestess and Empress in the tarot drawings. He worked with both the light and dark energies and his altar was so powerful and sacred that you could sense the power radiating from it ten feet away. Of course he talked to Marie Laveau and taught me to as well. I set up my own altar and even though I no longer have it, Marie Laveau is my guardian spirit and guide.
Voodoo Bob told me that I had filled my head up with worthless knowledge, that I had to learn how to empty my mind. All the answers to all the questions of the universe were there to access at any time. All you had to do was open the door, reach in and take what you wanted. You didn’t have to carry that information around with you all the time! I didn’t understand and didn’t know how to empty my mind. That is until I realized that when I was drawing and doing artwork I emptied my mind and was receptive to what came through. That was my real break through, an understanding of allowing things in and not trying to hold everything in my head all the time. He taught that things were so simple I was having trouble grasping them because I was making them too complicated. And so it was and so I was!
Ultimately things are so simple there is nothing to say or to teach; only to do and experience. While I will continue sharing some references on tantra, sexuality and sex magick it is with the understanding that none of what I share is really needed. It is offered as an antidote to the toxic concepts we are already contaminated with!
Sigmund Freud thought that psychosis was formed by inner conflicts and that it was sexual energy which held the psychosis together. Wilhem Reich thought the same thing and wrote about it in several books, among them “Selected Writings” and “The Function of the Orgasim”. Carl G. Jung broadened this with the concept of the anima and animus, or male and female aspects of the human psyche. I’ve read and studied all three over the years including Jung’s “Red Book”.
The OTO taught sex magick and I studied all the works of Aleister Crowley including the extremely rare “OTO Rituals and Sex Magick” published by Peter König which is worth $600 for a used copy if you can find it. I’ve also read the 3 volume “OTO Phanomon Reload” which gives the entire history of the OTO. I can say that the rituals and passwords contained in “OTO Rituals and Sex Magick” are the same ones that I received during my OTO initiations. I was initiated into the 3rd Degree OTO but chose to leave due to severe differences.
I’ve also read “Liebe im Orient” the three volume deluxe edition of the first German publications of Anangaranga; Kamasutram; Der Duftende Garten Des Scheik Nefzaui”. These ancient texts published by Dr. Ferdinand Leiter and Dr. Hans H. Thal contained forwards by Hanns Heinz Ewers and Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld.
Another extremely rare book is “Demons of the Flesh; the complete guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic” by Nikolas and Zeena Schreck. This book is also impossible to find and very valuable. Zeena Schreck is the daughter of Anton LaVey the founder of the Church of Satan.
Not as rare but just as valuable include:
“Taoist Soul Body”; “Alchemy of Sexual Energy”; “Secrets of Love”; “The Tao of Immortality” by Mantak Chia. These books share the secret teachings of sexuality and tantra in the eastern traditions and describe how sexual energy is used in the birth and creation of the immortal physical body. Here are some excerpts:
“The sixth formula is difficult to describe in words. It involves the incarnation of a male and a female entity within the body of the adept (this might correspond to the Crown Chakra, Sahasrara). These two entities have sexual intercourse within the body. It involves the mixing of the Yin and Yang powers on and about the crown of the head and being totally open to receive energy from above and regrowth of the pineal gland to its fullest use. When the pineal gland is at its fullest, it will serve as a compass to tell us in which directions our aspirations can be found. Taoist Esotericism is a method of mastering the spirit, as described in Taoist Yoga. Without the body, the Tao cannot be attained, but with the body, truth can never be realized. The practitioner of Taoism should preserve his physical body with the same care as he would a precious diamond because it can be used as a medium to achieve immortality. If, however, you do not abandon it when you reach your destination you will not realize the truth.”
This past spring I reached that final destination in the permanent activation of my etheric body after almost thirty years of work. More about that later.
Famed occultist Dion Fortune wrote about sexuality and the use of sexual magick in high magick in her novels and even clarified it in “The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage”; “The Circuit of Force”; and “Lost Secrets of the West”.
Julius Evola wrote about sexuality and sex magick in “The Hermetic Tradition”; “The Yoga of Power”; “Eros and the Mysteries of Love”; and “The Mystery of the Grail”.
I’ve already written elsewhere about how ancient alchemy teaches these same mysteries and the massive book by Mary Anne Atwood “Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery with a Dissertation on the More Celebrated of the Alchemical Philosophers Being an Attempt Towards the Recovery of the Ancient Experiment of Nature”.
But it was the books of Mantak Chia that really got me started on the tantric path in learning the secrets of sperm retention. This cultivation of sexual energy led me upon a path I have written of elsewhere in Organic Gnosticism. I was propelled upon a journey that developed and permanently activated each astral body one at a time over twenty some years from the highest to the lowest. This culminated in the permanent creation and activation of my etheric body this past spring. This was a completely mechanical process driven only by the generation of these energies. No special technique, ritual or practice was required.
In this essay I’ve tried to prove that this knowledge has been known by the mystery schools of all ages and hidden beneath a symbolic overlay of traditions, rituals and absurdities. The only thing required is the generation of massive amounts of physical energies to propel personal experiences. As Voodoo Bob told me, there is no need to carry all that knowledge and garbage in your head! You just need to open the door and reach inside and it is there! Each person must travel a unique path and find their own way. I’ve tried to offer some catalyst as antidotes to the toxins we have already been infected with!
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