To the best of our knowledge, Paschal Beverly Randolph was born in
New York City of an American father and of a Franco-Madagascan
mother ; in 1850, he was initiated in the Hermetic Brotherhood of
Luxor ; in 1855, he went to Germany, where he fraternised with the
Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, in which he was also initiated ; the year
before, he spent a few months in Paris, where he met with Eliphas
Levi, studied Cagliostro's and Saint Germain's work, and became
acquainted with writings on the Nusayri ; according to Randolph
himself, the leader of the Nusayri invited him to stay in Syria to
study the secret teachings of this mysterious people. To go deeper
into them, he then travelled to Turkey, Greece and the Middle-East ;
was it during this 'initiatory trip' that, according to your sources,
he "met with Fakirs in Jerusalem"?
Back to the United States of America in 1860, he founded a branch of
the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, before travelling to London to meet
with Bulwer-Lytton. Back again to the U.S.A., where the War of
Secession had just broken out, he enlisted in the Union army and
raised a contingent of Negroes, known as the 'Fremont legion'. At the
end of the war, he campaigned for Negroes rights, before quitting
politics and starting to write his main works, among which the
famous 'Magia Sexualis', which was examined by Evola in the last
chapter of 'Metaphysics of Sex'. What is also interesting to note
with respect to his involvement in spiritualist movements is that his
third wife, Kate Corson, was a feminist militant
On the 29th of July 1875, Randolph died in mysterious circumstances :
Maria de Naglowska claimed that Blavatsky caused his death by having
put a spell on him ; according to others, he committed suicide ; to
others, finally, he died in a magic ritual. After his death, the
pregnant sexual aspect of his teaching was overshadowed, especially
by his relatives. When R.S. Clymer, a prominent member both of the
F.R.C. and of Eulis, an organisation founded in 1870 also by Randolph
as a complementary teaching organ of that of the F.R.C., made contact
with the wife and the son of Randolph, they maintained they didn't
know anything of this material, and insisted on the spiritual and
moral character of his work.
Since Randolph's third wife was a feminist militant, an obvious fact,
of which those who are interested in sexual magic often lose sight,
should be pointed out : even if a man is spiritually qualified to
practice sexual magic and he has studied seriously Tantrism, the
state of desexualisation of the vast majority of modern women,
whether they are feminists or not, militant feminists or not, not to
say all in 'art', science, business, and spiritualist circles, is so
advanced that corresponding rituals are bound to be ineffective.
Is this section on Evola in 'Hugh Urban Tantra : Sex, Secrecy,
Politics and Power in the Study of Religion' worthy enough for you to
post its most interesting excerpts? It's not an umpteenth caricatural
presentation of Evola's work, is it?
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, Savitar Devi
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> I don't know specifically what `groups' Evola was referring to,
however I would imagine that the prime example of Gnosticism being
associated with Typhon would be found in Kenneth Grant's Typhonian
Ordo Templi Orientis.
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> `Sex magick', if indeed there is any magical content at all,
originates with something known as `Affectional Alchemy' - this was
invented by negro (whose father was a Virginian slave imported from
Madagascar) named Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-75). Randolph,
claimed to have to have derived his knowledge from a group of fakirs
in the area of Jerusalem, which may have been a branch of the Muslim
order of Nusa'iri – a group persecuted by orthodox Islam because of
its alleged Gnostic sexual rituals. (Hugh Urban Tantra: Sex, Secrecy,
Politics and Power in the Study of Religion -Urban, incidentally,
also has a section on Evola in this book).
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> Randolph's teachings inspired Theodor Reuss (1855-1923) of the OTO,
which in turn lead us to Crowley, who though his Scarlet Woman (Leah
Hirsig) was introduced to Pierre Arnold Bernard of the American
Tantric Association…of course since this too involved gratuitous sex,
Crowley decided to combine Tantra (in the limited capacity that he
understood it) with Randolph's Gnostic sex magic, which was already
employed by the OTO.
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> So, the link is complete, a black man claiming to been initiated in
the vicinity of Jerusalem is the `genius' behind the genre of sex
magick…doe that really surprise anyone?
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> brightimperator <brightimperator@y...> wrote:In "Revolt Against the
Modern World", Evola refers to unnamed Gnostic
> authors theorizing the Hebrew God's descent from Typhon. Would
anyone
> know what specific Gnostic groups and texts Evola is referring to
> here?
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> Secondly, Gnostic sources would seem to be highly spiritually
> dubious. I have yet to come upon a Gnostic sect fully in accord
with
> the heroic Indo-European world-view. Evola himself, in "The Mystery
> of the Grail", acknowledges that Catharism, a virtual rebirth of
> ancient Gnosticism in the medieval Christian era, exhibits
> degenerated traits, possibly of Southern-Atlantic or pre-Aryan
Iberic
> origins, emphasizing a generally lunar, escapist, and feminine
> ideology. Thus, a Gnostic attack on the concept of Jehovah would
seem
> to represent a rebellion of the feminine principle against whatever
> of the patriarchal principle the Jehovah concept had retained. The
> ancient gnostics considered Jehovah in the same category as the
Indo-
> European Jupiter, i.e. as unjust, bloodthirsty, masculine warlord
> gods, to be transcended by a fatalistic, individualist, and
pacifist
> escapism, by means of the salvific help of the Mother Goddess in
the
> form of "Sophia".
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> Of course, defenders of Traditional society know in what context so-
> called Gnosticism has been promoted nowadays: in the name of
> ideological feminism, egalitarianism, bonobo-like libertinism and
> degenerate 'sex-magick'.
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