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Monastery of the Seven Rays
The Monastery of the Seven Rays,
IInd Year Course in Sexual Magic
Part 1. The Foundations of Sexual Magic
!esson 1, The "ntic "rigins of Sexual Magic.
#t the $eginning of everything, $efore thought can $e %ossi$le, $efore ex%erience
has either itself or anything else to entertain, $efore gods and &en actually exist,
and %rior to all %rocess, &otion, evolution, s%ace, ti&e, any &anifestation, and even
the divine selfconsciousness, T'(R( IS )(I*+. To $e, is first of all to $e %ossi$le, to
exist is to $e and to $e %ossi$le, and if that -hich can $e, ha%%ens to $e, or is, then
it &ust $e as it is, other-ise it -ould neither $e, nor $e %ossi$le. Fro& the ulti&ate
%oint of existence, existence, %ossi$ility, and necessity are "*(. The idea of
differentiation, -hich the &ind a%%lies in its .uest to understand is so&ething .uite
foreign to $eing in its ulti&ate %oint/state, There is only unity of $eing, there, $ut
later it -ill $e understood that -e can say there are others. To distinguish $et-een
%ossi$ility, existence, and necessity, sho-s us that at the ontical level, at the level
of the ulti&ate %oint/state, differences a0 &an&ade. Sexual differentiation is a
%rivately introduced %roduction of hu&an thought. Sexuality de%ends u%on a set of
categories of the &ind, -hich do not exist o$1ectively, and therefore li2e all else in
the &ind, &ust not $e thought of as %ertaining to the nature of things. )ut, $ecause
sexuality does derive fro& the &ental state of &an, it is &agical in as &uch as it can
$e reconstructed to give the hu&an &ind, the initiate/&ind direct ex%erience of the
true sexual differentiations -hich are to $e found in the universe, and yet -hich
cannot $e %erceived $y those outside of esoteric -isdo&. Yes, there is a sexual reality
so&e-here in the universe, $ut it is only for the &agician to sho- -here it is, for the
sexual reality of the co&&on%lace &ind is neither ulti&ately sexual nor &agical, $ut
existing at the level of a%%earance, can only $e thought of as sheer illusion,
so&ething functional in the $iological sense. Therefore, let us &a2e it .uite clear
that sexual $eing is different fro& the sexual a%%earances of the %hysical -orld, and
that sexual $eing is &agical and even ultra/&agical in its $eing.
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#t the $eginning of any consideration of $eing, -e &ust &a2e certain
distinctions, -hich are true in the o$1ective sense that they go $eyond &ere &ental
constructions. )y this -e &ean that -hat the &agical &ind of the &eta%hysician finds
out a$out $eing is true of $eing. Thus, -hile the &eta%hysics of the uninitiated are
often filled -ith confused and %er%lexing analyses, &agical &eta%hysics %resents a
fixed and a$solute science, -hich serves as the $asis of an e.ually fixed and exact
esotericis& in $oth theory and %ractice. I&&ediately, the &agician &ust &a2e a
distinction $et-een ideality and reality as -ell as $et-een essence and su$stance.
These four %rinci%les of ontology &ay $e su&&arised as
1. Ideality, that ty%e of $eing -hich is ruled $y the logical %rinci%les of
non/contradiction and sufficient/reason.
4. Reality, that ty%e of $eing -hich is ruled $y the logical %rinci%les of
excluded/&iddle and identity.
5. (ssence, that ty%e of $eing -hich is ruled $y the logical %rinci%les of
entail&ent and e.uivalence.
6. Su$stance, that ty%e of $eing -hich is ruled $y the logical %rinci%les of
inclusion and i&%lication.
#s can $e understood fro& -hat -e are indicating, a$ove, our a%%roach &ust $e
logical in order to ground the science of sexual &agic in an exact and authoritative
for& of rationalis&, the student -ill note that there is no a%%eal &ade to &ystical
or dog&atic authority in %resenting our teaching, rather our &ethod is to follo- the
art of analysis and to &a2e %recise distinctions in the ex%loration of definite
conce%ts,
)ecause $oth ideality and essence are ruled or constituted $y logical %rinci%les
fro& -hich all other %rinci%les can $e derived, they are exa&%les of for& in its &ost
%erfect sense. Thus, a &aster of transcendental logic can easily deduce fro& the
logical %rinci%le of non/contradiction, not only sufficient reason, $ut also the
reality %rinci%les of excluded/&iddle and identity. !i2e-ise the %rinci%le of
entail&ent contains -ithin itself, to $e o%ened $y &ethod of analysis, the %rinci%les
of e.uivalence, inclusion and i&%lication, )ecause ideality and essence are so
constituted as %erfect exa&%les of for&, -e &ay vie- the& as $eing &asculine
%rinci%les, in as &uch as for& is the essence of &asculine/$eing. )ut there is only
one level of %erfect &asculinity, and that is ideal essence, for ideal su$stance and
real essence sho- evidences of sexual &ixture. Conse.uently, the %urely &asculine
influence as -ell as the %urely fe&inine influence is severely li&ited $y logical
definition. The %urely fe&inine real& of real su$stance stands as a %ole a%art fro&
&asculinity, -ith the t-o -orlds $et-een the t-o en1oying $isexual %ro%erties, This
chart &ay ex%lain in this
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1. ideal essence entail&ent and non/contra/ &asculine for&al
diction
4, ideal su$stance inclusion and sufficient $isexual for&al
reason
5, real essence e.uivalence and excluded/ $isexual &aterial
&iddle
6, real su$stance i&%lication and identity fe&inine &aterial
It -ould see& therefore that the ontical -orld %resents a very good sexual %icture
of the -hole field of sexual &agic. Fro& this lesson, alone, it is %ossi$le to
derive the entire $ody of teaching concerning sexual &agic. I &ight add that there
are no- in the -orld t-o for&s of sexual &agical &ethod. "ne &ethod, our o-n, is
$ased on a &asculine analysis of categories and their %ro%erties and their
characteristics in &agical -or2. The other is strongly fe&inine and is concerned
&ore -ith direct ex%erience, %erha%s &ysticis&, and the &ini&u& of analysis. I
associate this fe&inine for& -ith the revival of -itchcraft in the (nglish language
countries. )et-een the t-o %oles you -ill find the other ty%es of teaching, such as
the inco&%lete yogas and occult syste&s, $ut our syste&, alone, is the a$solute
science of sexuality, -ithout e.ual as far as I a& a-are.
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Reality and su$stance have $een discussed a$ove and therefore let us ex%lore a
little &ore in detail their sexual identities. )oth are %rinci%les of the fe&inine,
and this is $ecause the %rinci%le of content is so strong in the& that it is only
-ith great difficulty that the &agician can structure the& in any for&. # ty%ical
exa&%le of this -ould $e the co&%arison $et-een the s2ill -ith -hich the occultist
can direct the fields of the &ental and higher -orlds, -hen co&%ared -ith the
difficulty he &ust face in dealing -ith the %hysical -orld, as -hen he tries to
control the -eather. The difficulty is not really due to any defect in his real or
su%%osed %o-ers. Rather it is %urely a &atter of the %hysical -orld, $eing a -orld
of real su$stances, for -hich reason the &asters of the Seven Rays as -ell as other
ade%ts of si&ilar line of -or2, %refer to -or2 entirely on the inner %lanes, so as
not to suffer the loss of occult vitality in trying to infuse for& into that -hich
resists al-ays the &asculine %rinci%le. That the %hysical -orld is so orderly no- is
due to the fact that certain over/-hel&ingly %o-erful for&s of consciousness have
$een added to its $eing, so that al&ost every %hysical ato&, and certainly every
%hysical roc2, etc., has so&e nature s%irit, deva, or entity su%ervising its
continual $ehaviour. This is in &ar2ed contrast to the &ental -orld, -here there is
a great &easure of self regulation.
:e &ight also note that the doctrine of the 9irgin Mother, the doctrine of
9irgin Matter, and various other vie-s -hich refer to the virginity of &atter
clearly derive fro& the resistence -hich &atter has to the &asculine %rinci%le of
for&. Thus, the ancient +ree2s -ere correct -hen they attri$uted to the eternal
-o&an the void of chaos, the irrationality of ulti&ate &atter, -hich is its
virginity, The virgin forests of (ngland -ere so called $ecause they -ere -ild,
unta&ed, and could easily cause one to $eco&e lost. 9irginity &ust $e thought of
then as a logical value, first of all, then after-ards it $eco&es a &oral value,
Yet, the ancient 'e$re-s -ho taught such a structured and strict sexual ethics, said
that only in &arriage -as a -o&an infor&ed, and only $y $earing &ale children -as
she redee&ed. This sort of vie-, ho-ever strange it &ight sound, goes $ac2 to the
very ancient vie- -hich held that &an and -o&an -ere directly lin2ed to the ontical
-orld, and thus re%resented this -orld in everyday life.
C. T'( "*TIC '()3"M#3.
In gnostic &eta%hysics there is the doctrine of the he$do&ads, -hich are grou%s
of seven %rinci%les held together and for&ing a %erfect &atrix or syste& of
invisi$le energy. In our series of lessons, -e treat of the he$do&ads follo-ing the
first %a%ers, so that this section -ill serve only to introduce the conce%t for our
consideration. If -e ta2e the four %rinci%les so far studied
1. Ideal essence
4. Ideal su$stance
5. Real essence
6, Real su$stance
-e find that -e can see three areas of connection i&%lied a; $et-een 1 and 4, $;
$et-een 4 and 5, and c; $et-een 5 and 6. If -e give nu&$ers to a,$e, and c, such as
<,= and >. -e arrive at seven %rinci%les, or the ontic he$do&ad. Together these
%rinci%les for& as -e understand a vast field, -hich serves as the foundation for
all ty%es of &agical and sexual o%eration, In fact it is i&%ossi$le to have a true
science of sexual existence a%art fro& this $ac2ground. The he$do&ad is a necessary
ste% in the develo%&ent of &agical fields of force, occult energies, and various
studies of &agnetis&, $ecause it is necessary to relate every level of analysis to
the next in series, and unless this is done there can result a loss of &agical
energy, -hich -ould &a2e any o%eration fail. The he$do&ad exists in four different
ty%es, or as a syste& of four different structures. These four, due to the -ay in
-hich the energies of the he$do&ad ter&inate, &ay $e said to $e either ontical,
cos&ic, ontological, or cos&ological, and relate to the $ac2ground &aterials used in
the four first lessons of this course 0Part I. the foundations of sexual &agic0. The
ele&ents of the he$do&ad are logical relations, the eight -hich are derived $y
assign&ent of the four $asic %rinci%les, entail&ent through i&%lication, to for&al
and &aterial &odes of truth. The eight relationshi%s are as follo-s, and serve to
ta2e the %lace of essences su$stances $oth ideal and real, as -ell as %rinci%les
such as non/contradiction through identity. They are
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1. for&al entail&ent
4. for&al inclusion
5. for&al e.uivalence
6. for&al i&%lication
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1. &aterial entail&ent
4. &aterial inclusion
5. &aterial e.uivalence
6. &aterial i&%lication
The technical analyses of these relationshi%s for& the su$1ect &atter of our
next %a%er.
Michael #.uarius and Racine
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