Cults of Sin: limitations of sexuality within the Western 
magical traditions by Visionath Chozzarain 333.


For my  friends Runar Karlsen and John Balance 
and all practitioners of the magico-experimental 
and monopolar acts of Love.

During the last six years I have been studying the 
teachings of societies and individuals within the 
Western esoteric and occult hemisphere that fused 
together various aspects of sexual lore from 
1850 and up until  WW II.  In fact, not 
much has changed in the world of the occult 
regarding sexual taboos .  For instance, most of 
the occult teachings of sexuality of the last 
hundred and fifty years view homosexuality as a 
perversion of Nature. 
Allow me to give a few examples of some rather 
peculiar notions presented by the socalled elite
of Western occultism in the past. Gareth Knight, 
an initiate and authority of the Golden Dawn-school 
in his book A practical guide to qabbalistic 
symbolism ( 1976) gives the following statement:

”Another common form of deviation is linked 
with the differentiation of the sexes. One 
sees men refusing to be men and women 
refusing to be women”. 
This is indeed  hate and prejudice camouflaged 
as scholarship .  Knight takes the whole issue 
a few step further when he continues: ” This 
does not refer to the more obvious forms of 
perversion such as homosexuality[…]”.   
It is somehow alarming that Knight is still 
seen as an authority within the occult world…  
Even Dion Fortune(not surprisingly of the same tradition)  
in her book ’Sane Occultism’ (1987) says: ” [….]  
an unnatural vice known as homosexuality […]. 
It is a very cruel form of vice, as the victims 
are usually boys and youths on the treshold of life.”

 I have been a practicing tantrik of the Adinatha 
tradition since I was 20, and I have used several 
sources for inspiration in order to create a 
system of sexual magick that worked for me as a 
personal, non-dogmatic tool. Sexuality is a very 
private sphere for most people, and when 
persorming sexual magick it may be wise to 
perhaps work either in solitude or with 
specific partners outside current established 
Orders or societies, since far too many of 
them – at least their individual members  
-are riddden by taboos, dogmas and prejudice 
that may hinder you on the Path of Liberation.

 In Hindu tantra, the  Kleshas are veils which 
keeps us from seing the truth about our own selfs, 
and a hinderance in the pathway of Sveccachara.  
In the case of your own sexuality, kleshas may 
be the debris of social conditioning that 
prevents you from gaining access to your 
own true nature.  In the efforts of your 
way to liberation, it is of great importance 
that these kleshas are crushed so that one 
may become free of all the limitations that 
everyone, everywhere ineviatbly  at some 
stage in their life are trapped within.  
In youth, crushings of the kleshas might 
for instance be to dare to accept the fact 
that you are attracted to and  love people 
of the  same sex as your own, despite the 
fact that everyone including your friends, 
your family and even the courts of the 
country in which you live would want to punish 
you if you even dared to feel the way you do.


My own religious orientation is the belief that 
everything which exists in nature contains a 
seed of the Divine, and thus anything may be 
charged with Divine energy  - both as symbols 
and and as vessels of the Gods. Therefore  
in my opinion only a limitation of our understanding 
of the various sentiments and interactions within 
nature can be termed perverse  -only a restriction 
of the multitude of options in spiritual growth 
can be understood as perverse.  Homosexuality 
is as natural as heterosexuality  -it is a simple 
fact of natural biodiversity  very much depending 
on structures of genes and of course also of 
habitat.  How can one talk of spiritual 
transformation through sexuality and union 
with God or the Godhead if one is actually 
working with dogmas of  perversion in terms 
of acts of love between men?  The absurd 
notion is that since homosexuals are not 
bi-polar and reproductive in terms of 
actual fructification of the female womb , 
they cannot partake in the Sacraments of 
the Mystico-magickal marriage of the Divine 
and our spirit? As if homosexuals were not part 
of but rather a misfortunate miscarriage of Nature itself? 
 
Within every single one of the Western doctrines 
of sexual magick that I have studied, regeneration 
is the alpha and omega of it all. Homosexuality 
is despised and frowned upon as if it were 
against nature itself. Not only has ontological 
evolution based on male-female intercourse been 
the axiomata and straight-jacket of Western 
sexual-magickal and mystical teachings -it has 
also been the blindfold against any other 
possibilty of evolutionary patterns. Within 
our framework of The theory of relativity 
and astro-physics,  this smells rather 
badly of sheer stupidity.  If we for 
instance accepts the theory that there are 
such things as a Universe B or ’n’ , and 
even a Meontological universe placed precisely 
inbetween these two, of what use is the formulas 
of orthodox reproduction?  Basically null and 
void, and incidentially null and void are the 
quantities of the equation of traversal. 
Qabbalistically, this theory would be placed
 in the transgression point via the sephira 
Daath, but also in the matrix of egress 
situated between Kether and the Circles of 
Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur.  

Let us take a look at Eastern tantra in 
regards to Divine Union between 
God ( The Absolute/Brahman),  gods and man. 
Within Tantra, the teachings of the Maithuna 
and the Samhita  (that is, the Divine Union 
between Man, the Gods and Brahman) employs 
the acts of thought, respiration and seminal 
emission as the tools and motions of the 
practioners, and thus the link between the 
yogins,  the Gods and ultimately the 
Absolute ( God) is established.  It is of minor 
or no importance whether the practioners are 
male -female, male- male or female-female. 
Though the mandalas, yantras and mantras 
the Gods descends. The mandala or yantra 
is the Glyph constructed as Sacred Space 
outside of Time.  The Gods descend into 
the insignias through the center of the symbol.
  They fill the Cosmic Space, and are then reabsorbed 
into the practiotioners ( Yogins).  Samsara is 
shatterd through the Time- Space –reversal, and 
hence the practitioners are transformed into 
the Absolute.
 
This is the ascension into Godhood/Godhead 
much in the same manner  as in the goal of 
the Dhikr of the Sufi’s, expressed in the outcry 
of mansur Al Hallaj : ”Ana el haq”, which may 
be transleted as I am one with God. This is the  
pathway of every kind of religious mysticism  
and the goal of every genuine esoteric system.  
Given that the formulas are correct, the mantras 
in touch with the Heart of the Mysteries and the 
visualization of the image of the Gods of the 
Operations is functional, the link is established, 
and the  absorbtion into the Mysteries manifests. 



In my solitary tantric work I have experienced 
the Divine Union and traversal of our 
Space-Time-conception through activation of the 
Fire Snake at the Svadhistana  chakra through 
Vishuddha and ending in the opening of the 
Ajna Chakra  with feminine Gods.  The Gods 
penetrate the Veil, and communications and travels 
are the blissful results: in the pattern of 
Yesod- Daath- The Pyramid.  The same effect may 
be produced by a stimulation of the anus or 
Muladhara chakra, and if we employ the mythological
 play of for instance Seth and Horus as the framework 
for our experiments, we may come pretty close to 
an ideal homosexual operation ( Crowley and Neuburg 
used the Roman gods Jupiter and Mercury in 
their ”Paris-Working”; gods from other pantheons 
may fit just as well).

If production of Elixirs is the desired 
goal, it in no way has to be a mixture 
of masculine-feminine bodily fluids  -it 
might just as well be male secretas only 
( including  the Excretas  -a practice actually used in 
tantric alchemy, and far too little employed in the 
West becuse of the dogmatic notion that some parts 
of our bodies or our bodily fluids are unclean 
and abominable  -which of course is rubbish).

The writings and the teachings of The Hermetic 
Brotherhood of Light/Luxor/ Eulis 
( of which the Caliphate O.T.O. believes 
itself to have originated from)  teaches 
that sexuality is the basic, dynamic principle 
of Nature, and that everything emnates from 
copulation. So far, so good.  Then the 
axiomata developes into  the theory about 
man being the positive pole, and women being 
the negative pole, hence it actually regards 
 this bi-polarity of copulation as a 
prerequisite for the performance of Union 
with the Absolute, production of the Elixir 
of Life and the homonoculi- operation. 
In Liber Agape and Rex de Arte Magica, 
which deals with the supreme secret of 
the O.T.O. as contained within 
the IX’ degree, Crowley actually adopts 
Theodor Reuss’s, Klein and Hartmann’s term 
”perversion” about operations which does not 
use the Yoni or the feminine vessel as 
receptoir of the Elixir. Why in Heaven 
(and very much the bringing down of the 
Heavens to Earth  is the issue here) did 
he have to adopt this limited view?  
Crowley might have been a revolutionary 
in many aspects of liberations of dogmas and 
confinement, but why in the name of his 
creation of the XI*-ritual of the OTO 
and for all that his private experiments 
into the core of sexual magick is worth 
did he adopt this Freudian-Victorian notion?  
I think the time has come for us to employ 
different tools  - a mixture of new and 
old instruments that will create systems 
of sexual sorcery more in touch with our Age.  
New Lore will be written, new experiments 
will be carried out.  Only through 
flexibilty and a desire for change will 
we grow.  The past and present  of the 
Aeon cannot be frozen and preserved in 
the manner of a museum’s piece. 
May all experience Liberation  -may the Light 
shine in us all.

Iba Oshun Ashe!