Eroto-Comotose Lucidity:
The Candidate is made ready for the Ordeal by general athletic training, and by feasting. On the appointed day he is attended by one or more chosen and experienced attendants whose duty is (a) to exhaust him sexually by every known means (b) to rouse him sexually by every known means. Every device and artifice of the courtesan is to be employed, and every stimulant known to the physician. Nor should the attendants reck of danger, but hunt down ruthlessly their appointed prey.
Finally the Candidate will into a sleep of utter exhaustion, resembling coma, and it is now that delicacy and skill must be exquisite. Let him be roused from this sleep by stimulation of a definitely and exclusively sexual type. Yet if convenient, music wisely regulated will assist.
The attendants will watch with assiduity for signs of waking; and the moment these occur, all stimulation must cease instantly, and the Candidate be allowed to fall again into sleep; but no sooner has this happened than the former practice is resumed. This alteration is to continue indefinitely until the Candidate is in a state which is neither sleep nor waking, and in which his Spirit, set free by perfect exhaustion of the body, and yet prevented from entering the City of Sleep, communes with the Most High and the Most Holy Lord God of its being, maker of heaven and earth.
The Ordeal terminates by failure---the occurence of sleep invincible--- or by success, in which ultimate waking is followed by a final performance of the sexual act. The Initiate may then be allowed to sleep, or the practice may be renewed and persisted in until death ends all. The most favourable death is that occurring during the orgasm, and is called Mors Justi.
As it is written: Let me die the death of the Righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Eroto-Comotose Lucidity
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Erotocomatose Lucidity
Abbr. ECL
A state of consciousness achieved through complete physical and emotional exhaustion; brought about by inducing successive orgasms "by every known means" alternating with short periods of exhausted sleep.
A technique of ritual sexuality publicized by Aleister Crowley, although the term itself has been coined by Mrs. Ida Nelidoff, an initiate (9th degree) of the O.T.O.'s "Sovereign Sanctuary". Crowley used her formula, akin to what Austin Osman Spare called the 'death posture', in his secret enchiridion of the O.T.O., and also described it in De Arte Magica.
ECL, most likely adapted from Indo-Tibetan Tantra and Chinese Taoism, seems to have been practiced in the circles of the O.T.O. and affiliated secret societies (Argentum Astrum et al) as one of the techniques that are part of what is often called Sexual Magick.
The person about to be led into trance is brought to complete sexual exhaustion by the attentions & ministrations of "one or more chosen and experienced attendants". The alternation of these two states is continued" until the candidate is in a state which is neither sleep nor waking", and in which her or his spirit is "set free".
[all quotes from Crowley's De Arte Magica, An 10]
The lucidity (or transcendent awareness) reached this way is a state in which she or he is then able to experience separate realities. Perhaps this state of mind, independent from the techniques used to achieve it, can be compared to "the highest form of concentrated passionate energy" known in Sanskrit as maharaga.
It is very likely that some Tantric rituals, such as the Yogini Chakra (2 women and 1 man), the Tibetan Zap-lam practice (1 woman and 2 men), and the Pancha Chakra (5 women and 1 man) were designed for achieving this very type of lucidity.
Erotocomatose Lucidity
Abbr. ECL
A state of consciousness achieved through complete physical and emotional exhaustion; brought about by inducing successive orgasms "by every known means" alternating with short periods of exhausted sleep.
A technique of ritual sexuality publicized by Aleister Crowley, although the term itself has been coined by Mrs. Ida Nelidoff, an initiate (9th degree) of the O.T.O.'s "Sovereign Sanctuary". Crowley used her formula, akin to what Austin Osman Spare called the 'death posture', in his secret enchiridion of the O.T.O., and also described it in De Arte Magica.
ECL, most likely adapted from Indo-Tibetan Tantra and Chinese Taoism, seems to have been practiced in the circles of the O.T.O. and affiliated secret societies (Argentum Astrum et al) as one of the techniques that are part of what is often called Sexual Magick.
The person about to be led into trance is brought to complete sexual exhaustion by the attentions & ministrations of "one or more chosen and experienced attendants". The alternation of these two states is continued" until the candidate is in a state which is neither sleep nor waking", and in which her or his spirit is "set free".
[all quotes from Crowley's De Arte Magica, An 10]
The lucidity (or transcendent awareness) reached this way is a state in which she or he is then able to experience separate realities. Perhaps this state of mind, independent from the techniques used to achieve it, can be compared to "the highest form of concentrated passionate energy" known in Sanskrit as maharaga.
It is very likely that some Tantric rituals, such as the Yogini Chakra (2 women and 1 man), the Tibetan Zap-lam practice (1 woman and 2 men), and the Pancha Chakra (5 women and 1 man) were designed for achieving this very type of lucidity.
