The OTO and Sex Magic by Occult Whores – Non-Fiction

The Order Templi Orientis offers esoteric instruction through dramatic ritual, guidance in a system of illuminated ethics, and fellowship among aspirants to the Great Work of realizing the divine in the human. The O.T.O. is in possession of one supreme secret. The whole of its system [is] directed towards communicating to its members, by progressively plain hints, this all-important instruction.

Sex magick

“Even after affiliation, you would not meet anyone unless it were necessary for you to work in cooperation with them. I am afraid you have still got the idea that the Great Work is a tea-party. Contact with other students only means that you criticize their hats, and then their morals; and I am not going to encourage this. Your work is not anybody else’s; and undirected chatter is the worst poisonous element in a humane society.”  — Magick Without Tears

The degrees of the Hermit Triad are of a sexual nature. In the VIII° degree, the initiate is taught masturbation magical practices, in the IX° degree magical techniques related to vaginal intercourse, and in the XI° a form of sex magick involving anal intercourse. The basis of O.T.O.’s sex magic is Crowley’s theory of mixing of semen and female ejaculate released during the sex magic operation to produce an “elixir”, which is ingested or smeared on an object for magical purposes. According to Crowley, O.T.O. members should rarely come into contact with one another.