Este artigo propõe uma análise do papel da sexualidade nas práticas da Wicca, religião neopagã surgida na Inglaterra entre 1940 e 1950. Atualmente, a Wicca é um movimento mundial multifacetado, que ...segue inúmeras vertentes. Esta pesquisa investiga concepções e práticas ligadas à sexualidade presentes entre grupos que praticam a Wicca publicamente em diversas capitais do Brasil. Esses grupos estão organizados em tradições (grupos religiosos com viés iniciático) que comandam associações civis com fins de resguardar direitos e promover eventos públicos para divulgação e troca de conhecimento entre praticantes da religião. Os resultados do estudo mostram que a Wicca postula uma relação intrínseca entre sexualidade, espiritualidade e liberdade, sendo suas práticas herdeiras de movimentos intelectuais diversos, como o esoterismo, a contracultura e a filosofia oriental.
Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic—the ...use of sex as a source of magical power—emerged. This book, the first history of western sexual magic as a modern spiritual tradition, places these practices in the context of the larger discourse surrounding sexuality in American and European society over the last 150 years to discover how sexual magic was transformed from a terrifying medieval nightmare of heresy and social subversion into a modern ideal of personal empowerment and social liberation. Focusing on a series of key figures including American spiritualist Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Julius Evola, Gerald Gardner, and Anton LaVey, Hugh Urban traces the emergence of sexual magic out of older western esoteric traditions including Gnosticism and Kabbalah, which were progressively fused with recently-discovered eastern traditions such as Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. His study gives remarkable new insight into sexuality in the modern era, specifically on issues such as the politics of birth control, the classification of sexual “deviance,” debates over homosexuality and feminism, and the role of sexuality in our own new world of post-modern spirituality, consumer capitalism, and the Internet.
This chapter looks at the first known example of a truly sophisticated and well-documented system of sexual magic, the work of Paschal Beverly Randolph, providing a brief background on Randolph and ...considering his works in the context of nineteenth-century debates surrounding sex, women, and marriage. It suggests that Randolph was a reflection of the sexual attitudes of his time, and relates how his teachings were transmitted throughout England and Europe through a variety of esoteric orders, giving birth to a wide range of sexual magic in movements such as the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and their offshoots.
Sexual Chaos Urban, Hugh B
Magia Sexualis,
10/2006
Book Chapter
This chapter explores the proliferation of a whole new array of sexual magic at the turn of the third millennium, including cybersex and Chaos Magic. It explains that Chaos Magic uses sexual magic as ...one of many ways to shatter fixed ways of thinking, and to unleash the power of Chaos as radical freedom from all social, religious, or institutional structures, and that the rise of various forms of Chaos Magic occurred at roughly the same time as the birth of the intellectual movements of postmodernism and deconstruction. The chapter argues that the rise of Chaos Magic and various forms of cybermagic brought together many of the recurring themes which have appeared throughout the history of modern sexual magic.
The Yoga of Power Urban, Hugh B
Magia Sexualis,
10/2006
Book Chapter
This chapter explores the appropriation of both Tantra and sexual magic by the more extreme right-wing intellectuals of the twentieth century, specifically by Italian fascist Julius Evola. It looks ...closely Evola's early life and writings in the context of fascism and other movements in early-twentieth-century Europe and shows that Evola found in Tantra and magic the most powerful solution to the ills of modern Western civilization. The chapter suggests that, like Aleister Crowley, P. B. Randolph, and Theodor Reuss, Evola closely linked Tantra and a spiritual vision of sexuality to an ideal of liberation and freedom.
This chapter provides a brief overview of the background of sexual magic in the West, both in its imaginary forms and in its more concrete historical roots. It explains that since at least the time ...of the Gnostic heresies, there has been a recurring fear throughout Western history which links illicit sexuality with black magic and social subversion. The chapter discusses the more credible historical roots of modern sexual magic in ancient Greek love magic, the sexual symbolism of the Jewish Kabbalah and Renaissance magic, and the erotic mysticism of Emanuel Swedenborg, and also analyzes the relevant works of P. B. Randolph, Theodor Reuss, and Aleister Crowley.
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