Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Introduction: Things We Do Not Talk About
Sexuality and Sexual Symbolism in Hermetic and Gnostic Thought and Practice (Second-Fourth Centuries)
Conceiving Spirits: The Mystery of Valentinian Sex
Sexual Intercourse Between Humans and Demons in the Islamic Tradition
Murmuring Secrets: Eroticism and Esotericism in Medieval Kabbalah
Ta'anug: Erotic Delights from Kabbalah to Hasidism
Complications of Eros: The Song of Songs in John of Morigny's Liber fl orum celestis Doctrine
Under the Mantle of Love: The Mystical Eroticisms of Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno
Revealing Analogies: The Descriptive and Deceptive Roles of Sexuality and Gender in Latin Alchemy
Probing Women and Penetrating Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
Sensuous Relation with Sophia in Christian Theosophy
Deadly Dates: Bodies and Sex in Spiritualist Heave
Sexual Mysticisms in Nineteenth Century America: John Humphrey Noyes, Thomas Lake Harris, and Alice Bunker Stockham
Paschal Beverly Randolph and Sexual Magic
The Knight of Spermatophagy: Penetrating the Mysteries of Georges Le Clément de Saint-Marcq
The Yoga of Sex: Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in the Ordo Templi Orientis
The Theory and Practice of Sexual Magic, Exemplified by Four Magical Groups in the Early Twentieth Century
The Roar of Awakening: The Eros of Esalen and the Western Transmission of Tantra
List of Contributors
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects