Buckle up I’m about to ride the timeline of Western Sex Magick. Don’t worry, I’ll keep it fast, and mostly factually accurate according to my sources Modern Sex Magick by Donald Michael Kraig.
Evidence suggests early Hebrews practiced sex-based fertility rites 70 CE: Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. Mystical knowledge (including Kabbalah & sex magick) begins to disseminate
1118 CE: Knights Templar founded. Accused of heresy and magick, possibly learned sex magick from Sufis, who were influenced by Tantric India.
1312: The Templars are suppressed; survivors carry secret knowledge underground.
Hasidim (1700s): Orthodox Jewish mystics focused on meditative Kabbalah there were like were like, “No more sexy rituals, suppressing older techniques. bodies + ecstasy = divine contact.
Paschal Beverly Randolph (1815–1875):Enter the Black occult daddy himself. Created new sex magick systems and founded the Eulis Brotherhood. Crowley copied his homework later, but make it racist and chaotic.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772): Explored spiritual sexuality through trances and automatic writing.
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815): Developed animal magnetism—trance states through sexual energy, laying groundwork for hypnotic and energetic healing traditions.
William Blake (1757–1827): Poet, artist, and Freemason; merged Swedenborgian, Druidic, and Kabbalistic ideas into visionary art with sexual undercurrents.
Golden Dawn (1888): Founded in London. Secret rituals hinted at sex magick. Members included Moina & MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947): Overtly practiced and popularized sex magick through the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and Thelemic doctrine.(He’s like: “All of this? Mine now. Add sex. Add drugs. Add a goat.”
He took Randolph’s notes, put a British accent on them, and boom)
Austin Osman Spare: Developed automatic drawing and sigil-based sex magick; which became the foundation for Chaos Magick.
Surrealist artists (1920s–30s) like Salvador Dalí and André Breton used sexual and dream states to channel unconscious energies, echoing occult sex-magickal principles.
Gerald Gardner & Wicca: Introduced the Great Rite, a symbolic (sometimes literal) sex magick rite within Neopaganism.
this history ignores the wider reality of sex magic namely it didnt state in the west (taoist, vajrayana, shinto, kemetic, ifa and orisha, to name a few), and this also implies sex magic remained unchanged over the last 2000 years it did not. any way now You carry the bones of a people who prayed with their hips. Sex magick is old. You’re the latest in a long, sweaty line of sluts keeping the flame alive.