M and her two dogs stayed over this weekend, which is always glorious. However a late Saturday night meant we were not up early enough for the puppy. Bored and locked inside the house she naturally vented by way of her jaws. Previously she has gnawed a little on the bindings of The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic and The Magical Tarot of the Golden Dawn (original ‘home made’ spiral binding). This weekend it was the turn of Francis X King’s rarity, Sexuality, Magic and Perversion and this time the binding wasn’t enough 
This was one of the first books I acquired after discovering the ‘occult’ as a teenager, and certainly the first on the interface of magic and sex.
I responded to a classified ad by a Wiccan who was disposing of her collection. Not yet having a driving license a friend drove me across town, informing me half way he was tripping on LSD. So my first meeting of a self declared ‘Witch’ was tinged with concern about getting home in one piece. Her collection though was fabulous with many (then) out of print titles like The Golden Dawn and I purchased the lot.
Sexuality, Magic and Perversion was heavy stuff for a repressed and nerdy teenager. Its combination of sensationalism (the first chapter is entitled ‘A Dildo for a Witch’) and scholarly research was unique for its time. However, despite all this, it did reinforce my already developing instinct of the sacred and sacramental nature of sexuality. So, it is a sad end for such a book. I am not even sure if it is in print anymore, though I think I did see a scanned version on the web years back. Any clues would be very much appreciated
"We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured." ~
“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism” ~
How does my spiritual practice and daily life serve the earth?
How does my spiritual practice and daily life affect the poorest third of humanity?
How will my spiritual practice and daily life affect the generations to come in the future?
"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity."
“For most of us, however, we only think seriously of food or sex or money when it becomes a problem, which is to say when we feel we are not getting our share. When we find ourselves in that situation then I regret to say that meditational visualisations are really not the best way to remedy the lack. … We are here in a physical condition in a physical world and while in that state we have to abide by the laws appropriate to it.”
"The biblical texts have been strained out through a Greek/Latin mindset, which is very surface and static. I sometimes think it would have actually have been better if Western culture had based so called "Western religion" on Greek philosophy, rather than middle-eastern, because then at least you'd have all one thing. It would be eternally consistent. But what we have now is sort of half of each. And you're left with a basically schizophrenic tradition." 
