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Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson. Wilson revealed to me the key to Aleister Crowley's Magick. The secret was -sex!! Crowley had combined yoga breathing and concentration techniques with the sex act. I had heard about Tantra, the Indian Left-hand path. In religious rituals the male would take on the identity of the Hindu God Shiva, and the female would play the role of the Hindu Goddess Shakti. In the act of sex they would combine the duality of male/female, dark/light, positive/negative represented by their coitus and achieve the trance of Oneness where all opposites are melded into a unity.: the unity of the Cosmos. This ritual awakens the fire-snake or the Kundalini that is believed to lie dormant at the base of the spine. The Kundalini is the primordial power that lies behind all phenomenon. This is what Crowley was doing, but instead of putting it in an Eastern mystical context he was bringing it to the west and utilizing our God-forms as well as the God's from Ancient Egypt. Now I understood Crowley's basic secret. I began to find books that revealed more and more about this sexual magick. The best author on this subject turns out to be Mr. Kenneth Grant, an Englishman who was actually under the tutelage of Crowley during the last few years of Crowley's life. I learned that there is more to this Magick then just utilizing the sex energy to reach higher states of consciousness. There is also a method of sorcery in which the genital secretions of the partners of this rite are co-mingled and imbibed as a sacrament. This sacrament can grant the magician almost unlimited powers. So where did Crowley obtain this information? Where did all of these very esoteric and specific rituals come from? In the year 1913, Crowley was approached by a man named Theodor Reuss. Reuss claimed to be the Grand Master of an organization known as the O.T.O.; The Ordo Templi Orientis or The Order of the Templars of the East. Reuss accused Crowley of revealing very important secrets of the O.T.O in one of his books. Crowley was dumbfounded. He had done no such thing! Well, apparently he had. Reuss went to Crowley's book shelf and took down his Book of Lies. Turning to chapter 36 Reuss read: "Let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and provided with his Mystic Rose.] Later in the same chapter it is written: "Let him drink of the Sacrament and let him communicate the same." The Rood is the penis and the Rose is the vagina. Drinking of the Sacrament is the imbibing of the genital secretions. Without even knowing it Crowley had revealed the most esoteric secret of Western Ceremonial Magick! "It instantly flashed upon me," wrote Crowley. " The entire symbolism not only of Freemasonry but of many other traditions, blazed upon my spiritual vision." After this meeting Reuss immediately made Crowley the Head of the O.T.O of Great Britain. As the British head of the O.T.O Reuss had to make Crowley privy to where these secrets had germinated from. In the latest Crowley biography; Do What The Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin, the author quotes Crowley's good friend Gerald Yorke who remembers speaking with Crowley about this meeting: "[Reuss] explained to Crowley the theory behind that school of Alchemy which uses sexual fluids and the Elixir of Life. He enlarged upon the Baphomet tradition of the Knights Templar and traced its alleged survival through the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light [a nineteenth century esoteric society]. He then showed the connection with those Tantrics who follow the left hand path[utilizing ritual sexual intercourse as a means of spiritual union with the godhead], and the Hathayogins who practiced sexual mudras
[sacred postures]." Now there were two more connections; the Knights Templar and their idol of worship, the Baphomet. But where had the O.T.O come from and what was their relationship to these Knights of Christ?
order. The book The Templar Revelation by Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince meticulously goes over the latest findings to make a very good case for this theory. It is well known in most occult circles that the archetype of Jesus Christ - the dead and risen God - is the same archetype as Osiris from Egypt. Every culture has a mythological figure that represents the dying of the worldly ego and the rebirth of a higher stage of consciousness. Christ was well aware of this. Having spent much time in Alexandria he was extremely aware of the myth of Osiris. It is believed that Christ went out of his way to emulate the Egyptian God Osiris, to the extent of actually having himself crucified so that he could experience a near- physical death and live out the myth of the dead and risen God. What is left out of the Bible is that Christ needed a female consort to complete the myth. Osiris had his Isis, Shiva had his Shakti, and Christ had his Magdalene. In the myth of Osiris, the God is cut to pieces by Set. Yet, Isis manages to scrape up all of his parts and glue them back together, except for his penis, which in some versions of the story has been eaten by a fish. Nevertheless, magickally, Isis is able to impregnate herself with this emasculated corpse, and gives birth to their son, the "Crowned and Conquering Child" Horus, who eventually avenges his fathers death. The key to this birth or rebirth is sex! It is believed that in Egypt sex had been used as a sacrament and a religious rite for centuries. Picknett and Prince write: "Some of the most sacred ancient Egyptian rites were sexual -for example, a daily religious observance on the part of the Pharaoh and his consort that involved him being masturbated by her. This was a symbolic re-enactment of the god Ptah's creation of the universe, which he effected by similar means. Religious imagery in palaces and temples unequivocally depicted this act" (1) A contemporary of Jesus Christ was Simon Magus. Simon had been accused of holding blasphemous sexual rites and practicing sorcery. As Osiris had his Isis and Jesus his Mary, Simon had Helen. Simon Magus had been known as a sorcerer and a sex magician ,and was seen as representing the satanic opposite of Christ But, according to Picknett and Prince: "Simon Magus and Jesus were, as far as the early Church was concerned, dangerously alike in their teaching, which is why Simon was accused of having tried to steal the Christians' knowledge. This is tacit admission that his own teaching was, in fact, compatible with that of Jesus-even that he was part of the same movement. The implications of this are disturbing. Were the sexual rites of Simon and Helen for example, also practiced by Jesus and Mary Magdalene? According to Epiphanius, the Gnostics had a book called the 'Great Questions of Mary', which purported to be the inner secrets of the Jesus movement and which took the form of 'obscene' ceremonies." As contemporaries and as rival cult leaders, I think it's pretty obvious that what one man knew, so did the other! This is the secret doctrine that was passed onto what later became the Knights Templar, then the Rosicrucions, the Freemasons, and later the O.T.O." (2) Crowley has hinted in many of his publications that he held the real secrets of Christ. The pre-Church Gnostics were revered by Crowley as carriers of the true secrets of Jesus Christ. In one of Crowley's most important publications, The Equinox of the Gods he writes: "Refuse the Law, you put yourself beyond it's pale. It is the Law that Jesus Christ,
or rather the Gnostic tradition of which the Christ-legend is a degradation, attempted to teach; but nearly every word he said was misinterpreted and garbled by his enemies, particularly by those who called themselves his disciples." But Crowley knew the real Law of Christ. The Templars knew, the Masons knew and the Rosicrucians knew. The way to true enlightenment was also the way to life. Sex is the basis of all things. The uniting of opposites is the secret of the world: God and Beast, Lingam and Yoni, Good and Evil, Creation and Destruction.