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Safe Sex Magick
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By: William Hunter (Yellow Circle)
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Yes, on a fundamental level, I too blanch and shudder when
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considering Sex Magick prefaced by Safe. However taking our fill
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of love with who and when and how we will, under the stars or in
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our temples must in my view include the options of safe sex
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practices. My own view being that I am simply not sure enough of
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the path of my Will to Love to wish to take that risk. Terror,
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for me, is not an aphrodisiac.
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The model I am using for my understanding of sex magick is
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the alchemical triad of Major Arcana cards in the Crowley deck--
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the Lovers, Art, and Lust. According to my knowledge and
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experience, the very presence of safe sex in the practices of sex
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magick does not prevent the partners from acheiving results from
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the formulas expressed by The Lovers and Art, but will prevent
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utilization of the formula for Lust. In terms of a relationship,
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either one between two practicioners, or between one praticioner
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and a non praticioners, or between two non practitioners, the cards
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outline a complete successful operation, whether it be making a
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baby or the Philosophers Stone.
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The Lovers represents the beginnging of a relationship or
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operation ,a marriage of opposites. The stage of Solve in the
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formula solve et coagula, or analysis and synthesis. Here we
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seperate out various components of the materials to be worked with.
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Between any two practiconers, it is a stage of getting to know
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each other, in and out of bed. Looking at the alchemical processes
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of fermentation closely brings us to the realization that time is
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a necessacary dimension. The symbolism of cupids arrow being shot
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down at the Lovers is an apt metaphor for the state of the
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beginnings of a romance which is like being hit by a bolt from the
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blue. Each lover is at the effect of the glamour of the other it
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seems. The subjective experience of the state is often like being
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in the grips of an external force, a spell cast by the other
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partner. Sexual, verbal, and emotional intercourse are vigorous
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with the drive to assimilate each other. The need to assimilate
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is often most urgent here. Time spent in each others company in
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and out of bed, exchanging attitudes, ideas, and fluids leads quite
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simply to an increased awareness of the other. The relationship or
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working becomes more refined, operating in more dimensions. Which
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leads to the Art Atu.
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This card is an extension of The formula of the Lovers (solve,
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or analysis) into coagula (synthesis). The winged Egg entwined
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with a serpent which lies between the Lovers is here a crucible.
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Into this crucible, the partners, now a single figure with dual
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identities, pour thier essences. Cupids arrow which shot down at
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the Lovers, now shoots up out of the crucible and becomes a rainbow
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cloak. The honeymoon is over. Growing awareness of the realities
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of each other enables the partners to manipulate each others
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energies artfully, rather than with the more elemental urgency of
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the Lovers. The subjective experience here is less of being under
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each others spell, and more of crafting a single spell for both of
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the partners. The exchange of qualities needed for the equilibrium
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of both of partners is advanced enough for them to now be working
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towards the next cards formula.
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The ecstatic formula of Lust is itself a balance between the
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primitive urgency of the Lovers, and the polished craftsmanship of
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Art. Simply stated, our partners here have learned the rules of
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the spell they have created together, and now joyfully cast them
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aside as necessacary in the lust to create create create with no
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lust of result. Having combined with each other very conciously,
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they can trust thier wills enough to abandon all concous control
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of the operation.
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The very definition of safe sex precludes working the formula
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of Lust. Quite aside from the limits imposed on the process where
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there is no internal ingestion of the sexual fluids which are the
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physical vehicles of the formulas of all three cards, are the
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restraints imposed on the psyches of the partners. Of course,
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limited exchange is possible through contact on the skin. Limited
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is the key word here,now more than ever with hiv virus being
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detected in saliva, but with imagination, the limits need not be
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too constricting, especially since most relationships never even
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get past the Lovers stage.
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If you are seeking a long term working partner, perhaps with a
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view towards taking the condom off with should such be your wills,
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A relationship could be revitalized at that stage with the
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introduction of Lust. Any safe sex could be thought of as a part
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of the training. At the very least it forces us to focus on non
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genital sexuality. At best, we can react by becoming creatively
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kinky and mental about sex. And while the threat of A.I.D.S does
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tend to make relaxation less likley, so does it tend to eliminate
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a casual attitude towards sexual contact. Perhaps the only truly
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positive point to be made about the whole horrid mess is that while
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terror is by no means an aphrodisiac, certainly neither is boredom.
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Joy be to you in the attainment of your Will
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Interested in communicating? Write to: Orgone Committee P.O. Box
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614 Vanbrunt Station Brooklyn, NY 11215
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SEX IS PEACE
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TRUE WILL NOT SLAVERY
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CONCIOUSNESS IS STRENGTH
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