Cacodemonic Copulations

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Cacodemonic Copulations
Phil Hine
The subject of Incubi and Succubi and their visitations is rarely dealt with by modern
magical writers, although they have been used time and time again by various hacks of
the horror genre. Sex-Demons have been banished - either explained away as
hallucination or junked as a product of Christian mastubatory mythos. Any occultists this
side of the twentieth-century that do mention them, usually do so in the context of
warning against traffick with such entities, believing that the dangers of loss of vitality or
obsession is the inevitable result.
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One of the few modern magical writers who does look at incubi and succubi (or, succubi
and succuboys), is William Burroughs:
...an incubus or succubus can be harmless, or it can be destructive. Like any sexual
situation, the danger depends on how you handle it. All sex is potentially dangerous ....
Our sexual feelings make us vunerable. How many people have been ruined by a sexual
partner? Sex does provide a point of invasion and the succubi and incubi simply makes
us intensely aware of this.
- from, A Report from the Bunker (V. Bockris.)
In the novel,
The Place of Dead Roads,
protagonist Kim Carsons enjoys several
encounters with sex-demons:
He knew that the horror of these Demon Lovers was a gloomy Christian thing. In Japan
there are phantom lovers known as fox maidens, and the man who can get his hands on a
fox maiden is considered lucky. He felt sure that there were fox boys as well. Such
creatures could assume the form of either sex.
According to Burroughs, peoples attitudes towards these beings may change, but such
visitations are probably more frequent than most people suppose. He classes them as a
type of familiar (they certainly are!) and notes that, like animal or elemental familiars,
they are dependent on a relationship with a human host for their own development.
Similar ideas can be found in the Kaula school of Tantrika, where there are rites for
contacting such beings. The general approach is that you fuck them and they do you a
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favour in return. Burroughs speculates on the possibilities of increased frequency of
contact between humans and sex-demons:
Sex is physics. If anyone could push a button an receive an incubus or succubus, I believe
that most people would prefer a phantom partner than the all-too dreary real thing.
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From The Report from the Bunker.
So How do you Go About Aquiring a Demon Lover?
The Liminal Gnosis
Playing with such entities generally falls into the class of magical technique known as
Evocation, and a form of Gnosis which is often the most effective is the so-called Liminal
state, when one is half-asleep, half-awake. The body is completely relaxed, either from a
relaxation exercise, or physical exhaustion; yet the mind is clear, and you simply allow
images and sounds to arise before you. If you can learn to enter and prolong this state,
then it is very useful for scrying, dream control or virtual (astral) explorations.
Erotic Evocation
To prepare for the Evocation of a Demon Lover, seek to inflame yourself through all
possible modes of sensory stimulation - books, films, pornographic material, the diffusion
of perfumes that have erotic association, body massage, masturbation without orgasm -
any technique which serves to heighten your sexual arousal globally - that is, without
being directed to any particular individual (real or imaginary).
The Evocatory scenario is a progression of intense sessions which may begin as follows:
1. Lie naked on your bed - the room is in darkness, but for the glow of a single candle.
You have bathed and relaxed yourself. Seductive perfumes are diffused throughout the
room and you have prepared the space as though you are about to receive a lover. Slowly,
begin to caress yourself, intensely feeling each touch, each shiver of pleasure; imagining
that the touch comes from an invisible lover who hovers above you. Concentrate at first
on secondary erogenous zones when inflaming yourself, and stay as relaxed as possible.
Any significant dream-images that follow such a session should be recorded.
2. repeat this experience, gradually allowing yourself to become increasingly excited, and
slowly visualize the build-up of a shadowy form - fingers, lips, breast, thighs - parts of
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the lovers body which come into fleeting contact with your own. As you repeat the
experience, associations will form between sensory stimuli and it can be helpful if you
can create a special scent which, while having erotic associations, is unique for this
operation. You should also take care to note any particular body postures and gestures
(caresses) that you find yourself making - these can act as sensual asanas and mudras for
the operation.
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3. The final session of this sequence proceeds as above, but
slowly
allow yourself to
approach orgasm. If you are experienced enough, and in touch with your body enough to
allow yourself to hover on the brink of orgasm for as long as possible, then so much the
better. As you approach orgasm, begin to vocalise love-noises, letting these sounds
become glossolalia - until a distinct sound (it may or may not be an actual word) begins
to repeat itself through you. As you attain orgasm, project this sound into the shadow-
form above you, and see the shadow-form becoming distinct and clear. You may find that
details of the entity which have been hitherto indistinct, will become clear in the
illuminating flashes of orgasm. Sexual fluids released in this working can form the basis
of a material sigil, but this is optional.
Now that Youve Evoked me here, what are we going to do?
Having gone through the process of evoking a Demon Lover, what can you actually do
with them? The first point to consider is the states in which interaction with the entity
takes place. What little magical writing there is on the subject tends to concentrate on
Dream Magick, but it is also possible to continue using the Liminal Gnosis and, an often-
undervalued area of magick, Working with Mirrors. There is also the possibility of
Invocatory work with Demon Lovers.
Dream Yoga
Once you have evoked your demon lover, you can choose to interact with it through
dreams. One of the easiest techniques of Dream Control is to use a sigil. Since Im sure
most people are familiar with the basics of Sigil Magick, I will merely draw your
attention to the point that a sigil need not be either a glyph or mantra, but can also take
the form of a scent, or sequence of images. You can use earlier practice in the Liminal
Gnosis to launch a sigil to meet your Demon Lover in your dreams. You could even try
and key the appearance of the entity to the triggering of a Lucid Dream.
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Liminal Gnosis
If your earlier practice has been successful, you will already have some experience of the
Liminal Gnosis. Sexual Arousal is but one of the entry-routes into this state, and you
might try and find other routes. Interaction with the Demon-Lover can be made in this
state, and you might find here that you get dreams which follow-through the encounter.
Mirror-Magick
The Liminal Gnosis can be enhanced by the use of a mirror. The use of reflective
surfaces for interacting with entities has a long and venerable history, ranging from
shamanic practices among the Moari, Pawnee and Nkomis of Africa, to the explorations
of Dr. John Dee. Demon-Lovers may be summoned into a mirror, where they may be
cross-examined. A cautionary note here is that Dr. Dee made the claim that from time to
time, one of the spirits he contacted - a young girl called Midimi - would emerge from his
scrying crystal and cavort about his study This could have interesting possibilities when
working with a Demon Lover!
Whichever states you choose to explore, the next consideration is of course, what you are
going to do. Well, the very act of experimenting with this approach should in itself be
instructive, and at the very least, enjoyable. However, the following applications for
Demon Lover work include:
Enchantment
Here, you are basically forming a Pact with the entity - using it as you would use any
other kind of Sorcery Servitor - you fuck it and it carries out its assigned task (which is
not neccesarily confined to the sphere of sexuality). One technique is to seed the entity
with a sigil, which will gestate within the body of the entity, in a similar manner to a
wishing box.
Illumination
According to Austin Osman Spare, desires are spirits that wish to incarnate. You can
deploy a Demon Lover to assist you with the formulation of an Alphabet of Desire,
wherein each sacred letter can become a sex-demon in itself, to be used in acts of self-
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exploration and self-modification. Your Demon Lover can assist you in recognising,
binding, and integrating the hidden demons of your psyche which relate to sexuality and
other primal drives.
Divination
Divinatory applications include dream-oracles, or flash-gnoses which may extend into the
waking state. You may find, for example, that, following a request for a dream-oracle,
your demon lover only gives you half the key, as it were. The other half is waiting in the
waking world - some incident that sparks a moment of gnosis in which you realise the
link between thought/emotion and some physical object or situation. Oracles are rarely
straight-forwards.
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Invocation
Traditional magical theory (such as it is) tends to frown on invoking entities such as
Demon Lovers, as they are not considered to have enough of a developed persona to
make it worthwhile. However, long-term magical use of such an entity does tend to build
up the appearence of an independent persona, particularly if you make careful note of any
quirks, personality traits, or mannersims that the entity seems to be displaying. I see no
reason why, at some stage, you shouldnt try invocatory work with a Demon Lover. It
could be instructive, if only for shifting latent sexual selves into the directors chair of the
Ego.
A Word of Warning
The practice of intercourse with Demon Lovers is not without its dangers. The most
obvious of these is obsession. In its broadest sense, obsession is the term we apply to a
situation where the magician has relinquished will to an entity (usually of his own
creation). Obsessions with a sexual component are particularly difficult to deal with -
anyone who has had an obsessional crush on someone else will know what I mean. Sex,
like anything else, can become an addiction which erodes the will. Intercourse with
Demon Lovers is no exception, so self-discipline at all times, is important. Although a
Demon Lover can generate a great deal of fascination and erotic tension, this should only
be employed as a source of gnosis and magical work, and not allowed to get out of
control. It can be useful to only use the entity for specific projects, and then, at staggered
intervals. Intercourse with these entities
can
be exhausting. This is not so much due to
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