A comprehensive work on the metaphysical aspects of sexuality. Julius Evola sheds new light on the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love. This in-depth study explores the sexual rites of sacred traditions, and shows how religion, mysticism, folklore, and mythology all contain erotic forms in which the deep potentialities of human beings are recognized.
Author(s): Julius Evola
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 336
Tags: Sexuality; Mysticism; Yoga; Tantra; Alchemy
Introduction
Sex in the World Today
Chapter 1. Eros and Sexual Love
The Evolutionary Prejudice
Love and Sex
Eros and the Instinct for Reproduction
The Myth of the Genius of the Species
Eros and the Tendency toward Pleasure
Sensual Pleasure
The Magnetic Theory of Love
The Degrees of Sexual Development
Physical Sex and Inner Sex
Conditional Nature and Forms of Erotic Attraction
Chapter 2. The Metaphysics of Sex
The Myth of the Hermaphrodite
Eros and the Various Degrees of Intoxication with It
The Biological Treatment and Fall of Eros
Aphrodite Urania; Eros and Beauty
Lust and the Myth of Poros and Penia
Appendix; Homosexuality
Chapter 3. Phenomena of Transcendency in Profane Love
Sex and Human Values
“Everlasting Love,” Jealousy, and Sexual Pride
Phenomena of Transcendency in Puberty
Love, the Heart, Dreams, and Death
The Love-Pain-Death Complex
Sensual Pleasure and Suffering: The Masochist-Sadist Complex
Erotic Ecstasy and Mystic Ecstasy
The Experience of Coitus
The Metaphysics of Modesty
The Meaning of the Orgy
Appendix; Marquis de Sade and the “Way of the Left Hand
Rasputin and the Sect of the Khlysti
Chapter 4. Gods and Goddesses, Men and Women
Mythology, Ontology, and Psychology
The Metaphysical Dyad
Demeter Archetypes and Aphrodite Archetypes, the Virgin, and Ultimate Nakedness
Typical Differentiations of Manhood in Myth
Male and Female in Manifestation
On the Daemonic in the Feminine and the Symbolism of the Inverted Coitus
The Phallus and Menstruation
Male and Female Psychology
Woman as Mother and Woman as Lover
Pity, Sexuality, and Cruelty in Woman
The Fascination of Woman and Activity and Passivity in Sexual Love
The Ethics of the Sexes
Chapter 5. Sacred Ceremonies and Evocations
Wedlock as “Mystery ” in the World of Tradition
Christianity and Sexuality
Sacred Prostitution and Holy Marriages
Incubus and Succubus; Fetishism and Evocatory Processes
Evocation Processes in the Chivalrous Love of the Middle Ages
The Initiatory Experiences of the Worshippers of Love
Appendix; The Meaning of the Sabbat and the Black Mass
The Doctrine of the Hermaphrodite in Christian Mysticism
Chapter 6. Sex in the Realm of Initiations and Magic
Transmutations and the Commandment of Chastity
The Techniques of Endogenous Transmutation in Kundalini-Yoga and Taoism
Sex in the Kabbala and Eleusinian Mysteries
Tantric Sexual Practices
Tantric Sexual Practices and Their Dangers
Secret Sexual Practices in Chinese Taoism
Arab Sexual Practices and Hermetic Symbology
The Myriam and the “Fire Magic”
The “Light of Sex” and the “Law of Telema”
The Presuppositions of Operative Sexual Magic
Conclusion
Endnotes
