What is the essence of the power which animates the universe of eros and sex? The author presents us with an in-depth study of the possibilities of sexual energies on their highest level. He verifies that the erotic experience can lead to a displacement of the boundaries of the ego and the emergence of profound states of consciousness. He observes that a different rhythm is established in every intense experience of eros, which invests and transports, or suspends, the normal faculties of an individual and can open vistas onto a different world.

Modern researchers who try to investigate sexuality by studying others rather than themselves are in error; they cannot approach the depths of the metaphysics of sex. Furthermore, since psychoanalysis has emphasized the sub-personal primordialism of sex it is necessary to oppose it with a metaphysical perspective. Only the lost sacred science is able to provide the necessary references for investigating the potential dimensions of the experience of eros.

THE METAPHYSICS OF SEX is opposed to the established conventional viewpoint which has promoted the spiritual fall of modern man. But the world of eros did not begin today. Religion, mysticism, folklore and mythology point to the existence of erotic forms and sexual experiences in which the deeper possibilities of man are recognized. The author introduces a world of ritual invocations and initiatory experiences and traces their development through time. He reveals the sexual rites of sacred traditions: from the transmutations of Tantric and Taoist yoga, to the adulation of the female organ at Eleusis, to the erotic rituals described in the Kaballah and the secret and symbolic practices of Islam. Evola also discusses the myth of the androgyne, the Courts of Love of the Middle Ages; Sacred Prostitution and Holy Marriages, the Incubus and Succubus, mystical ecstasy, and the polarity between voluptuousness and suffering. He explains these practices and helps us to understand the vast, universal fresco that is the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Eros and Sexual Love

The Evolutionary Prejudice - Love and Sex - Eros and the Instinct for Reproduction - The Myth and Genius of the Species - Eros and the Tendencey 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

II. The Metaphysics of Sex

The Myth of the Hermaphrodite - Eros and the Various Degrees of Intoxication with It - The Biological Treatment and the Fall of Eros - Aphrodite Urania; Eros and Beauty - Lust and the Myth of Poros and Penia - Appendix - Homosexuality

III. 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

IV. Gods and Goddesses, Men and Women

Mythology, Ontology, and Psychology - The Metaphysical Dyad - Demeter Archetypes and Aphrodite Archetypes, the Virgin, and Ultimate Nakedness - Typical Differentations of Manhood in Myth - Man 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

V. 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 the Christian Mysticism

VI. 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
Notes
Index

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