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Notes
Introduction
(1)
See Ellic Howe's article in: Richard Cavendish,
Encyclopedia of the Unexplained
(New
York: McGraw
Hill, 1974), pp. 91-92, and Francis King,
Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion
(London: Spearman, 1971),
pp. 115-121.
(2)
Howe, in: Cavendish, Encyclopedia of the
Unexplained,
pp.
91-92; and Adolf Hemberger,
Organisationsformen, Rituale, Lehren und magische
Thematik der freimauerischen und freimauerartigen
Biindeim deutschen Sprachraum Mitteleuropas. Teil I:
Der mystisch-magische Orden Fraternitas Saturni
(Frankfurt/Main: the author, 1971). This latter work is
hereafter cited as: Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS.
(3)
Hans-Jürgen Glowka, Deutsche Okkultgruppen
1875-1937
(Munich: ARW, 1981), pp. 69-77; F. W.
Lehmberg, Magische Sonderdrucke und Interna
der
Fraternitas Saturni
(Munich: ARW, 1980); Friedrich-
Wilhelm Haack, Die Fraternitas Saturni als
Beispiel
fur
einen arkan-mystagogenen Geheimorden des 20.
Jahrhunderts
(Munich: ARW, 1977) Aythos, Die
Fraternitas Saturni: Einesatum-magische Loge
(Munich: ARW,
1979). For a full discussion of how these
documents came to be published, see Chapter 1, p. 31.
Chapter 1
(1)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS, p.
166.
(2)
See note 7 below for a more complete treatment of
Wronski's possible role in the history of the FS.
(3)
The best treatments of Ariosophy are by
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of
Nazism
(Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1985), and James
Webb, The Occult Establishment (LaSalle, IL: Open
Court, 1976), pp. 275-344.
(4)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 3.
(5)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 29.
(6)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 29.
(7)
For further details on Hoëne-Wronski, see James
Webb, The Occult Underground (LaSalle, IL: Open
Court, 1974), pp. 248-258, and Thomas A.
Williams, Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism (University,
AL: University of Alabama Press, 1975), pp. 66- 69.
(8)
Webb, The Occult Underground, p. 257, and
Williams, Eliphas Levi, p. 66.
(9)
Certainly the most reliable discussion of the
doubtful German origins of the Golden Dawn is offered by
Ellic Howe in his The Magicians of the Golden
Dawn
(York
Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1978), pp. 1 - 33.
See also Ithell Colquoun, Sword of Wisdom:
MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn
(G.P.
Putnam's Sons,
1975), pp. 75-131; et passim.
(10)
See pp. 7ff. below.
(11)
See Webb, The Occult Establishment, pp.
275ff.; et passim, and Goodrick-Clarke,
The Occult
Roots of Nazism.
(12)
The best general discussion of these organizations is
provided by Karl Frick in his book Die
Erleuchteten
(Graz:
Akademische Druck und Verlags-Anstalt, 1973).
(13)
See Glowka, Deutsche Okkultgruppen, p. 92.
(14)
Franz Bardon, Frabato: Ein okkulter Roman
(Wuppertal: Dieter Rüggeberg, 1979). There is an
English translation of this, also by Rüggeberg, published in
1982.
(15)
Glowka, Deutsche Okkultgruppen, p. 68.
(16)
On the history of Monte Verita and the interconnections of
various figures there, cf. Webb, The
Occult Establishment,
59-61.
(17)
On the history of the O.T.O., see Ad Verbatim, "An
Introduction to the History of the O.T.O" in
The
Equinox,
Vol.
III, No. 10 (Thelema Publications, 1986),
pp. 87-99, J. Gordon Melton, "Thelemic Magick in
America" in: Joseph H. Fichtner, ed.,
Alternatives
to
American Mainline Churches
(Barrytown, NY:
Unification Theological Seminary, 1983), pp. 67-87; ebb,
The Occult Establishment, pp. 59-61, et
passim;
Francis King, The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. (New York:
Samuel Weiser, 1973), pp. 9-35; King,
Sexuality,
Magic, and Perversion,
pp.
96-114; and Benjamin Walker, Tantrism (Wellingborough, UK: Aquarian Press,
1982), pp. 109-112.
(18)
John Symonds, The Great Beast: The Life
and
Magick of Aleister Crowley
(Frogmore, UK:
Mayflower, 1973), p. 179.
(19) A
typescript of a "Statement of relations between
myself, Aleister Crowley, and Heinrich Tränker
(1925)," is printed in Aythos, Die Fraternitas
Saturni.
(20)
See Howe, The Magicians of the Golden
Dawn,
pp.
1-25.
(21)
Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn,
p. 7.
(22)
For a detailed study of the history of the
Theosophical Society see Bruce F. Campbell,
Ancient
Wisdom Revived
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,
1980).
(23)
For an in-depth look at the history of Ariosophy and
the lives of its major proponents, see
Goodrick-Clarke, Tne Occult Roots of Nazism,
passim.
(24)
For a general history of runes, see Ralph
Elliott, Runes: An Introduction (Manchester, UK:
Manchester University Press, 1959); and for an in-depth look
at the magical usage of runes see Stephen
Flowers, Runes and Magic (New York: Peter Lang, 1986).
But for a practical occult study see the works of
Edred Thorsson, Futhark: A Handbook of Rune
Magic
(York
Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1984), and
Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology
(York Beach,
ME: Samuel Weiser, 1987).
(25)
This work has been translated and introduced by
Stephen E. Flowers as The Secret of the
Runes
(Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1988).
(26)
Spiesberger's published works that concentrate on
rune-magical aspects are Runenmagie (Berlin:
Schikowski, 1955), and Runenexerzitien fur
Jedermann
(Freiburg/Breisgau: Bauer, 1958).
(27)
For a study of the revival of interest in astrology during
the early twentieth century in Germany, see
Ellic Howe, Astrology in the Third Reich (Wellingborough, UK:
Aquarian Press, 1984).
(28)
The events of the "Weida Conference" are
reported by Hemberger, Der mystisch- magische
Orden
FS,
pp. 29-30; Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 4;
Symonds, The Great Beast, pp. 391-392, 396-397;
Aleister Crowley in: Aythos, "Statement of relations
between myself, Aleister Crowley, and Heinrich
Tränker (1925) [5 pp. typescript]; and Eugen Grosche
(Gregorius) in: Haack, Die Fraternitas Saturni, pp. 20- 25.
(29)
This is according to Gregorius' account of
things; see Haack, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 22.
(30)
Symonds, The Great Beast, pp. 41 Off.
(31)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 30, and Aythos, Die
Fraternitas Saturni, p. 3.
(32)
See Haack, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 28, and
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS,
p. 30.
Chapter 2
(1)
See also the book by Gregor A. Gregorius, Die
magische Erweckung der Chakra im Ätherkörper des
Menschen
(Freiburg/Breisgau: Bauer, 1953), a version of
which was published in the May 1951 issue of the
Blätter.
(2)
This theme is extensively dealt with in
Magischer
Brief
1
(1925); see Gregor A. Gregorius, Magische
Briefe
(Berlin: Schikowski, 1980).
(3)
The practice of pendulum magic was the theme
of Magischer Brief 5 (1926). A new edition of this
was also issued: Gregor A. Gregorius,
Pendelmagie:
Handbuch der praktischen Pendellehre
(Berlin: Schikowski, 1955).
(4)
Satanistische Magie was the title of
Magischer
Brief
7
(1926), which was reprinted as Gregorius,
Satanische Magie
(Berlin: Schikowski, 1983). For the full
implications of what is meant by "Satanic," see note
(11) below.
(5) On
the various Gnostic sects, see Benjamin
Walker, Gnosticism: Its History and Influence (Wellingborough, UK:
Aquarian Press, 1983), pp. 133-160.
(6)
The most extensive surveys of the ancient forms
of Gnosticism are those of Hans Jonas, The
Gnostic Religion
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1963, 2nd ed.)
and Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature and
History
of
Gnosticism
(San
Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987);
while perhaps the book by Walker, Gnosticism,
remains the most convenient.
(7)
These general descriptions can be found in any
textbook of astrology, most of which are ultimately
derived from Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (London: Heinemann, 1940).
(8)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 243.
(9)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 245.
(10)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden, FS, p. 245.
Sorath (Hebrew
is the name
of the
Spirit of the Sun, the letters of which, when added
together according to the rules of gematria, render the
sum 666. See, for example, Aleister Crowley, "The
Temple of Solomon the King," reprinted from
The
Equinox
(Vol
1, No. 5) in: The Qabalah of Aleister
Crowley
(New
York: Samuel Weiser, 1973), p. 35,
et
passim.
(11)
The relationship between the entities called
Lucifer and Satan, as seen in the FS doctrine, is made quite
clear in the figure illustrating the composite nature
of the Saturnian sphere on p. 60. Satan is merely
the "lower octave" of the Saturnian sphere, of which
Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, is the "higher octave." This
is a purely (neo-)Gnostic viewpoint and has little or
nothing to do with Judeo-Christian understandings of the
names involved.
(12)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 43.
(13)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,p.
162-163.
(14)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 163. Note the Nietzschean imagery and terminology here.
Friedrich Nietzsche outlined his Apollonian/
Dionysian thesis in The Birth of Tragedy, a
convenient edition of which is translated by W. Kaufman (New
York: Vintage, 1967).
(15)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 43.
(16)
These descriptions are taken from Hemberger,
Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
p.
162.
(17)
These terms are discussed by Hemberger,
Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
p. 11.
(18)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 29.
(19)
These aims are outlined by Aythos, Die
Fraternitas
Saturni,
p. 6.
(20)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, pp. 25-26.
(21)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 20.
(22)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, pp. 26-27.
(23)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
p. 3.
(24)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 249.
(25)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, pp. 27-28.
(26)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 31.
(27)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 28.
(28)
It is virtually impossible to criticize the doctrines of the
FS from the perspective of the teachings of
archaic Gnostic sects, as they themselves were disparate
and even encouraged the practice of wild
speculation and doctrinal innovation. Again the most
convenient source materials on Gnosticism available in
English are: Walker, Gnosticism, Rudolph,
Gnosis, and
Jonas, The Gnostic Religion. Also of interest here are
Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian
Gnostics
(Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1986), and
James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library
(San
Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981).
(29)
Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, trans. R. Myers
(New York: Avon, 1968), pp. 223ff.
(30)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 244.
(31)
See Jean I. Young, trans., The Prose Edda
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1954), pp.
32ff., and esoteric commentary by Thorsson,
Runelore,
pp.
143ff.
(32)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS, p.
179.
(33)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
p.
176. The FS doctrines on this subject are a
synthesis of H. P. Blavatsky's theosophy as outlined in her
The Secret Doctrine (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical
University Press, 1970 [orig. published 1888]), and
the theories of Hans Hörbiger.
(34)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 252.
(35)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 243.
(36)
Gregor A. Gregorius, "Das göttliche und
negative Prinzip" in: Blätter (March, 1954) p. 7, and
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 175.
(37)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
pp. 243, 252.
(38)
In other words there is a complex of three
parallel dimensions, all occupying the same "space."
(39)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 176
(40)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
pp. 176-177.
(41)
Gregor A. Gregorius, Magia Cosmosophica
(=
Magischer Brief No. 9), p. 10.
(42)
For a convenient look at the Gnostic doctrine of
aeons, see Jonas, The Gnostic Religion, pp. 51 - 54,
Walker, Gnosticism, pp. 32-34, or Rudolph,
Gnosis,
pp.
67-87.
(43)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 29.
(44)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 30.
(45)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, pp. 46-48.
(46)
Gregor A. Gregorius, "Mephistopheles oder
Lucifer?" in: Blätter (April, 1953), pp. l- ,and Hemberger,
Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
p. 34.
(47)
See, for example, in his Satanische Magie,
pp.
33ff. On the Barbelo-Gnostics in general, and the
situation with pre- or non-Christian Gnostics, see
Rudolph, Gnosis, pp. 247ff.; 285ff., and Walker,
Gnosticism,
pp.
150-158.
(48)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 249.
(49)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 249.
(50)
See Gregorius in: Blätter (August, 1952), p. l.
(51)
Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, pp. 30-32.
(52)
See Gregorius as cited by Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp.
85-86.
(53)
This is discussed by Gregorius in an article
entitled "Das Chrestos-Prinzip als esoterische Basis" in:
Blätter (March, 1954).
(54)
On the octave structures of Saturn, see Hemberger,
Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp. 34
and 250,
and Gregorius in his article "Mephistopheles oder
Lucifer?" in Blätter (April, 1953), pp. 1-7.
(55)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
p. 96.
(56)
Hemberger Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
pp. 84-85.
(57)
This is the first and most strongly alluded to in
Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) I:49:
"Abrogated are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs.
Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the
Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also
are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the
adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and
splendor is the Lord initiating." Upon this Crowley
himself commented: "The Formula of the New Aeon
recognizes Horus, the Child crowned and conquering, as
God." See Aleister Crowley, The Law is for All
(Phoenix, AZ: Falcon Press, 1985), p. 106.
(58)
See, for example, King, Sexuality, Magic, and
Perversion,
pp.
115-119, or Howe, "German Occult
Groups," pp. 91-92.
(59)
See the bibliography in the 1927 Sexual
Magie
(=
Magischer Brief 8), reprinted in Magische
Briefe
(Berlin: Schikowski, 1980), for some idea of the
scope of this FS "sexology." In the 1920s Berlin, where
Gregorius lived, was the center of the developing
science of sexology; see Erwin J. Haeberle, ed.,
The
Birth of Sexology
([?]:
World Association for Sexology, 1983).
(60)
For some idea of the doctrines and structure of the
O.T.O., which has established the standard of
sex-magical practice, see King, The Secret
Rituals of
the
O.T.O.,
and
King, Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion.
Aleister Crowley's own few explicit works dedicated to
this are conveniently available, bound together as
Liber Agape/De Arte Magica, ed. Ray Sherwin (East
Morton, UK: Kadath Press, 1986). An alternate
system, also made popular through publication, is that
presented by Louis T. Culling, A Manual of Sex
Magick (St.
Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1971).
(61)
As mentioned before, Gregorius devoted a whole
study, Die magische Erweckung der Chakra im
Ätherkörper des Menschen,
to
this topic in 1953.
(62)
See Rudolph, Gnosis, pp. 71-87; Jonas,
The
Gnostic Religion, passim;
and
Walker, Gnosticism, pp.
28-69.
(63)
For a convenient presentation of the myths
surrounding Lilith, see Barbara Koltuv, The
Book of
Lilith
(York
Beach, ME: Nicholas-Hays, 1986).
(64)
See the discussion of Hemberger, Der
mystischmagische
Orden FS,
pp.
176-177.
(65)
Gregorius, Blätter (December, 1961), p. 18, cited
by Hemberger in Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 112.
(66) A
prosaic but accurate translation would be: "A
woman who is not afraid of the night or death is worthy
and will be initiated."
(67)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
pp.
113-115.
(68)
(Haar, Germany: Akasha, 1986).
(69)
See Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga
(Dallas, TX: Sangreal, 1972), pp. 9-13.
(70)
Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga, p. 13.
(71)
This translation is the one used in translations of
correspondence between Gregorius and
Crowley; see Aythos, Die Fraternitas Saturni, p. 2 of
Gregorius' letter to Master Therion dated 27°
(1926); perhaps "Love without Pity," or "Pityless Love"
would be more poetic.
(72)
See Walther Kaufman, The Portable Nietzsche
(New
York: Viking, 1954), pp. 200- 202.
(73)
"I am perplexed... "are reportedly Crowley's last
words, see Symonds, The Great Beast, p. 454. For an
illuminated interpretation of these facts, see Michael A.
Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth By Night:
Analysis and Commentary
(San
Francisco: Temple of Set
[Privately Published], 1985), pp. 17-18.
Chapter 3
(1)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 243.
(2)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 251. See also the concept of the "Absolute"
promulgated by
Hoëne-Wronski as discussed by James Webb,
The Occult Underground (LaSalle, IL: Open Court,
1974) p. 258.
(3)
This is the title of a poem by Gregorius written in
1943, but first published in 1955 in Blätter No. 60,
see p. 62 above.
(4)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 250.
(5)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 113.
(6)
Karl Spiesberger, Magische Einweihung (Berlin:
Schikowski, 1978) and Magische Praxis (Berlin: Schikowski, 1978).
These volumes were previously published under
the title Hermetisches ABC by Bauer in
1964.
(7)
These were published by Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp.
195-197; and in
Die
Fraternitas Saturni
Aythos
prints the entire document
entitled the "Rule of the Rightful-Illuminated- Secret
Ritual and Magical Lodge/Grand Lodge FRATERNITAS
SATURNI," which came into effect under
Gregorius in April of 1963.
(8)
For a treatment of these "study circles," see
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 169.
Chapter 4
(1)
One general picture of FS training techniques and
elements can be seen in the two- olume
Hermetisches
ABC
by Karl Spiesberger (Fra. Eratus). This work
was later retitled Magische Einweihung (vol. I) and
Magische Praxis (vol. II) and is published by Schi
kowski. This program was originally set up within the FS and
later re-edited by Eratus.
(2)
The classic text for vocalic breathing is that by B.M.
Leser-Lasario: Lehrbuch der Original-Gebarden-
Atmung
(Gettenbach/Gelnhausen: Lebensweiser-Verlag, 1931).
(3)
This odic force is much discussed in FS literature. The
term was coined by Karl von Reichenbach (see
The Odic Force [New York: University, 1968], pp.
92-93), who defined the force as a "power penetrating all
matter and space" and who derived the name
from the name of the Norse god Od-in—which he
thought of as the "All-transcending."
(4) In
Faust's magical work he began with the
contemplation of the Earth-Spirit; see J.W. von Goethe,
Faust,
trans.
C.E. Passage (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965),
pp. 22-24.
(5)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
pp. 243-244; 253.
(6)
These are available in old reprint series such as
Das Kloster, J. Scheible, ed. (Stuttgart: J. Scheible,
1845-1849).
(7)
See S. Angus, The Mystery Religions (New York:
Dover, 1975), pp. 76ff.; 135ff.
(8)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
p. 243.
(9)
See especially Hemberger, Der mystischmagische
Orden FS,
pp.
23-27 for printed material
derived from Gregorius' own occult novel,
Exorial:
Der
Roman eines dämonischen Wesens
(Berlin-Grünewald: Winkler, 1960).
(10)
For details on FS rings, see Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp.
218- 220 and Lehmberg,
Magische Sonderdrucke, passim.
(11)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS, p.
121.
(12)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
pp.
23-27; 90, and Gregorius, Satanische
Magie,
pp.
29ff.
(13)
This is also recorded by Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp.
23-24.
(14)
These four "Egyptian tests" were supposed
initiatory trials based on the four elements Earth, Water,
Air and Fire. It is from Mozart's The Magic
Flute
that
this Masonic tradition seems to have had its
greatest impact on the lore of the FS.
(15)
These are outlined by Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp.
90-91.
(16)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
pp. 95-103.
(17)
Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden
FS,
pp. 99-100.
(18)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
pp.
96-99 for a description of this.
(19)
Albert Pike (1809-1891) was Grand Commander of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in
Charleston, SC, and was reputed to have established a
Luciferian agenda centered in a Palladian Order within the
AASR. The dubious source for most of this is the swarm
of anti-Masonic literature produced on the
European continent in the late 1800s. See Webb,
The
Occult Underground,
pp.
144-147, and H.T.F. Rhodes,
The
Satanic Mass
(Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1954), pp. 186ff.
On the Nobel Prize-winning poet Giosué
Carducci and his "Hymn to Satan," see Gerhard
Zacharias, The Satanic Cult, trans. C. Trollope (London: George
Allen and Unwin, 1980), pp. 125-132.
(20)
On the general nature of the Saturnian
eucharist, see Hemberger, Der mystisch- agische
Orden FS,
pp.
102-103.
(21)
These are outlined by Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
p.
108.
(22)
This mysterious unnamed substance could be an
extract of mandrake or damiana. This is based on the
correspondence between these herbs and the Moon
in Crowley's 777. See The Qabalah of
Aleister
Crowley
(New
York: Samuel Weiser, 1973), p. 98.
(23)
Hemberger only briefly discusses these
aspects; see Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, pp.
146-147.
(24)
See Bardon, Frabato, passim.
(25)
The only ritual of this order ever published for
public view is the Elektrische Vorspiele (Electrical
Preludes) in Anton LaVey's Satanic Rituals (New York: Avon,
pp. 106-130).
(26)
(London: Spearman, 1971), pp. 116-119.
(27)
This ritual is described by Hemberger, Der
mystisch-magische Orden FS,
pp.
109- 10. For a discussion of the
more traditional forms of the "Five-M Rite"
(Sanskrit: pahcha-makara), see Walker,
Tantrism, pp.
65-66, Francis King, Tantra For Westerners
(New
York: Destiny, 1986), pp. 14-15, et passim, or for
another version of the ritual adopted for "Westerners," see
Omar Garrison, Tantra: The Yoga of Sex
(New
York: Julian Press, 1964), pp. 103-118.
(28)
Versions of this practice described by Gregorius
are given by Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
pp.
110-112 and by Gregorius, Sexual
Magie (=Magischer Brief No.
8),
pp. 91-96.
(29)
The chandara chakra (not one of the seven
"major" chakras), is located above and to the left of the
navel, see Andre van Lysebeth, Pranayama: The
Yoga of Breathing
(London: Unwin, 1979), p. 216.
(30)
See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische
Orden FS,
p.
112. Hemberger also makes reference to the
occult novel Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers in this
whole context. There is an English translation of this
work by Guy Endor (New York: John Day, 1929).
(31)
(London: Spearman, 1971), pp. 116-119.
(32)
This kind of working, also referred to as
creating a homunculus, is outlined in a section of
Aleister Crowley's "Secret Instruction of the Ninth
Degree" (O.T.O.) called "Of the Homunculus," printed by
King, The Secret Rituals of the O. T. O., pp. 231 - 239.
This is also outlined in Culling's A Manual of
Sex
Magick,
pp.
71-92.
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