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"The Tao"  posted this bebelfish
translation of a French web page by Spartakus Freemann about
Paschal Beverly Randolph and his French translator Maria de
Naglowska.

The robot-translation is a hoot, but it can be followed;
however, it needs to be noted that Spartakus Freemann's
biographical material on Randolph contains errors that arose
because his source, Maria de Naglowska had repeated spurious
information generated by R. Swinburne Clymer, an American
who was republishing Randolph's works in the 1930s.

In particular, Randolph's mother was not "Madagascan" but
American and Randolph's first marriage was not to an "Indian
woman" -- Mary Jane Randolph was a Free Woman of Colour,
part African, part Native American (Indian). For a true
biography of Randolph, please see the book:

   "Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth Century Black 
    American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician"
    by John Patrick Deveney
    State University of New York Press, 1997
    ISBN 0-7914-3120-7 (paperbound)
    ISBN 0-7914-3119-3 (hardbound)
    
Other errors made by Spartakus Freemann are based in his
naive belief that the material that Maria de Naglowska added
to Randolph's writing when she published her supposed French
translation of his work was actually by Randolph, not by de
Naglowska. In particular, the description of 5 sexual
positions is de Naglowska's, not Randolph's. For a
comparison between the original Randolph texts and de
Naglowska's embellishments, please see the archived posts at

http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/occultism/magic/var200108randolphnaglowska.txt

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Subject: Sexual Magic

P.B. Randolph, the Fraternity of Eulis and Maria de
Naglowska

By Spartakus Freemann - June 2000 e.v.

With the dawn of a new era, it appears significant to make a
(Re -) discovery of the magic path introduced by Kellner,
Reuss and Crowley . Accordingly, we propose through these
some lines to recall the life and the work of two of the
principal initiators of the Sexual Magic.

The first, a man of XIXe century, Pascal Beverly Randolph,
will dare to write and publish works treating of sexuality
and especially of the sexual magic within a nation and one
century still too puritan. The second, Maria de Naglowska,
a woman of XXe century, will teach and initiate, using the
Gold Mass, the paddle of the Third Term, the paddle of the
reign of the Holy Spirit incarné by the Mother, after that
of the Father, represented by the Judaism and that of the
Son, represented by Christianity.

A man... a woman, the polarity is thus respected. Can their
work fertilize and open the Way of a released hierogamy of
any moralism Judeo-Christian, killer of life, and any
pornographism cathodic-liberal, killer of dream.

P.B. Randolph

Pascal Berverly Randolph was born on October 8, 1825 in New
York from a mongrel mother - origins free-Madagascan -,
Flora Beverly, and of a father doctor, Edmund Randolph. The
marriage will not last and Flora must raise her child alone.
With its death, it will be raised by a half-sister who will
neglect her education and will leave the child delivered to
itself.

Towards the 15 years age, it leaves the family residence to
engage in the navy. It thus traverses all the oceans in a
few years. It is formed there the character in contact with
sailors resulting from mediums and different nations.

With the 20 years age, Randolph is victim of an accident
which obliges it to leave the marine. He undertakes studies
of medicine then. At the same time, in the atmosphere of
spiritism incipient from the Fox sisters, Randolph starts to
be interested in magnetism of Mesmer and his implications as
for the animal polarity which will have an impact on its own
theories on the condensers of fluids and the volts.

In 1850, it Marie with an Indian of the name of Mary Jane
and at the same time, it is initiated within " Hermetic
Brotherhood of Luxor " (directed then by Peter Davidson). In
1855, it goes to Germany where it comes into contact with
Fraternity Rosae Crucis in which it will be initiated soon.
It seems that there is not any document known as for this
initiation. One can only conjecture as for the exact date
and with the ceremony in itself. However, according to
Clymer, one of the successors of Randolph, no one could not
reach with the Philosophical rank of Initiate within the
F.R.C. without to be received beforehand within a Dome and y
to be recognized Néophyte and placed under the control and
the instruction of a Master. Randolph would have become
Suprême Grand Master of Supreme the Large Dome in America in
1858.

Randolph will spend a few months to Paris in 1854 during
which it will meet Eliphas Levi, one of the largest
occultists of his time. He will study work of Saint-Germain
and Cagliostro. He discovers there the work written on
Ansaireth or Nusairis of Syria, these mysterious people
which is neither Jewish, neither Christian nor even Moslem.
They would be famous Yezidis, admirers of the Paon god.
According to Randolph himself, the head of Ansaireth, Narek
El Gebel, which arrived at the third Dome Rose Croix of
Paris with letters of introduction, grateful as Randolph the
required aptitudes, invited it to come to Syria to study
there with Ansaireth. A little later Randolph undertakes an
initiatory tour in Turkey, in Greece as well as in the
Middle East to look further into the secret teaching of
Ansaireth there.

In 1860, Randolph forms his own American Conseil of the
F.R.C. and sets out again soon for London in order to meet
Bulwer Lytton and Kenneth Mackenzie there.

On return to the United States, Randolph takes part in the
American Civil War which has just burst while being enrolled
in the rows of the Union and while raising a troop of black
soldiers, known under the name of " Fremont Legion ". At the
end of the hostilities, Randolph militates for the rights of
the blacks. The assassination of Lincoln disillusions him of
the policy and he then decides to be established
definitively as doctor in Boston. He opens there soon a new
Lodge of his own.

He starts to write his principal works: "Seership",
"Coils and the Master Passion ", "Eulis and the History of
Love" like his masterly "Magia Sexualis". In 1872, the
publication of this last book is worth to him to be stopped
for incentive with the free love but it is quickly released.
The large fire which devastates Boston completely destroyed
the office and the laboratory of Randolph, the original
boards of its books are lost. It is denounced by the
spiritualistic ones as being a libertine and his/her own
friends start to be diverted of him.

In May 1873, Randolph undergoes an accident which lets to
him foresee its nearest end. It is darkest at this time of
its life that it meets once again the love in the person of
a young feminist activist, Kate Corson. The marriage is soon
celebrated and, in 1874, is born a son, Osiris Budh, that
Randolph regards as a god since designed according to his
own magic principles. Randolph continues to publish his work
and to animate a circle of the Fraternity of Eulis.

July 29, 1875 Randolph dies in circumstances which remain
mysterious: Maria de Naglowska will claim that Blavatsky
would have delivered an occult war to him which caused its
death, according to others, it would be a suicide and
finally, for some, it would be deceased at the time of a
magic rite... It seems however that with its death, its
purely magic sexual gasoline teaching disappears, occulted,
perhaps, by its close relations. When Clymer contacts the
woman and the son of Randolph, those claim nothing to know
particular instructions and treating hardware of the sexual
doctrines. They insist only on the spiritual and moral
character of the work of Randolph by rejecting the sexual
magic side.

The Fraternity of Eulis

The Fraternity of Eulis will be founded about 1870 by
Randolph as a body of teaching complementary to that of
Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.

Perhaps the key of the comprehension of the Fraternity of
Eulis resides in the booklet published by Randolph in 1875,
"The Book of the Triplicate Order, Rosicrucia, Eulis,
Pythianae" in which he is written:

"We are triple organization, Rosicrucian initially because
we are the heirs to this Fraternity and their successors,
and like such, we cultivate all sciences of knowledge and to
this end, we are interested in all that is abtruse, unknown
and which corresponds to the major aspects of nature and to
the most subtle depths of the unsoundable human heart.

"We are Pythianae because we are of Pythagoriciens who
maintain the most intimate relations with the Foundation the
Universe - God of Nature and his Heart - and with the
spiritual and invisible world, just as the thirst for a
greater knowledge and the truest friendship with our
Brothers and the World.

"We are Eulis because we cultivate the most invaluable
treasures of the thought which was transmitted to us through
the ages; and we translate our Eastern name" Marek Gebel "
- Gate of the Light - by Eulis or the Gate of the Paddle,
name by which, for this period, the Third Temple, the Triple
Command, the Brotherhood and Fraternity will be henceforth
known. "

This text, which is designed for the use of the members of
Fraternity and the candidates to initiation, also draws up a
history of the Command.

The candidates are received by vote using black and white
balls. The Command is mixed and comprises 3 degrees:
Builder, Architect and Knight of the Temple for the men;
Builder, Matrone and Sister of the Temple for the women.
There is also a supreme organization: the Lodge of the
Pierre Angulaire of which the Council is composed Brothers
and Sisters: Hiérarques or Melchizedeks, Hiérophantes and
Senators.

With the death of Randolph in 1875, Freeman B Dowd takes the
head of the F.R.C. and the Fraternity of Eulis. In 1878,
Dowd form a Grand Lodge in Philadelphia and in 1907, at the
time of its retirement, the succession is ensured by Edward
Brown.

With the death of Brown in 1922, R.S. Clymer succeeds. Born
in 1878, Clymer will be received like Néophyte within the
F.R.C. and of the Fraternity of Eulis in 1897.

In 1906, it publishes its the first two works " The
Rosicrucians, Their Teachings " and " Philosophy of Fire ".

In 1911, it decides to be installed in Quakertown on the
site of Berverly Hall where it establishes the seat of the
Command. Clymer will enter soon in conflict with Lewis and
her A.M.O.R.C. (Ancient and Mystical Order of the
Rosicrucian brotherhood). With other initiates, it sets up
the F.U.D.O.S.F.I. (Universal Federation of the Commands,
Companies and Fraternities Initiatory) in order to fight
Lewis and the influence of the F.U.D.O.S.I. (Universal
Federation of the Commands and Initiatory Companies).

Magia Sexualis

In the lines which will follow, we will endeavour to
describe very briefly certain points of the magic doctrines
of Randolph.

Fluids and the Polarization of the sexes.

The Universe like all being alive for them, without any
exception, is governed by the principle of the contrary
forces which exert one on the other an absolute capacity of
attraction. Some name them positive force and negative force
and others rediscover in them the good and the bad one, the
emission and the reception, the life and death, the man and
the woman. Thus, the pole female attracts the male and one
can thus attract with oneself things wished by the creation
of his opposite model: to create the negative one to obtain
the reverse and thus the positive one!

The phallus of the positively polarized man and the ktéis of
the woman polarized negatively and the brain of the man are
polarized negatively and of magnetic essence whereas that of
the woman is positively and of electric essence.

Sexual magic operations.

According to the teachings of Randolph, the sexual magic
operations concluded according to rules', work towards 7
major ends: loading of the fluidic condensers and the
"Volts"; production of an influence and a magnetic fluid;
realization of a precise project; determination of the sex
of the child to be conceived; refinement of the directions;
rejuvenation of Vital Energy; provocation of superhuman
visions.

Randolph gives also certain principles which it is
significant to know for including/understanding well and
carrying out the magic exercises:

Sexual union considered as prayer. The man who lives with
his wife in subtle and perfect harmony and who practises in
couple a perfect sex act manages to obtain the realization
of certain wishes. But it is necessary that the request
clear and is formulated clearly by the two operative ones.
It is advisable to practise the sex act with a woman higher
at the moral level, one never should use of prostitute or an
ignorant virgin or minor of less than 18 years. It is
preferable always to achieve these acts with its partner. 

It is necessary that the male and female spasm occur at the
same time because it results a mental current then from it
being able to modify the astral one. The shared pleasure
then undergoes the law of the opposite polarization of the
couple: at the man, the sex is positive and the negative
head and at the woman, the sex is negative and the positive
head. The man thus physically fertilizes the woman and the
woman fertilizes the man spiritually. The union of the flesh
must be innocent and not to be a simple search for physical
pleasure.

The body must be healthy and respected hygiene as
a royal practice It is necessary to maintain the secrecy as
for the magic operations and to try to avoid the contacts
society men during the magic preparations of operations. One
must formulate his desires in advance and not forget to
formulate it at the time of the coitus. Before, during and
after the act of love, it is necessary to keep in mind a
clear image of what one wishes. 

It is necessary to eat simply and prefer natural food. To
take the air per week twice: to inspire deeply and keep the
air longest possible. Not to too often seek the contact with
its partner. To make love 1 with twice per week. Not to seek
the act if one is sick or in anger. To sleep well never not
to forget the axiom: the Love is bases it life. At the
moment when sperm enters the body of the woman is the most
fertile moment, of the greatest power and the greatest
emotion. If a man wishes something and that it keeps this
one with the spirit from the moment when he penetrates until
the moment when it is withdrawn from the woman, this wishes
will be raised with all the blows. All the forces and the
power of emanate on the female side of God.

Randolph advises 5 positions for the sexual acts of magic:
The man laid down on the woman face against face. The
purpose of this position is to correct the directions and
the capacities of the operative ones. Out of greyhound
bitch, the man holding the right bust to penetrate behind
the prostrate woman. This position is supposed to support
the projection of the influence towards outside on a person
chosen, a voult... The man and the woman sat face to face,
sexes encased, the busts inclined behind while being held by
the hands. This position reinforces the magic influences on
outside. The man and the woman sat face to face, the woman
crossing the legs around the kidneys of the man, both face
against face. This position allows the realization of wishes
commun run . Out of greyhound bitch, but the man bends down
on the back of the woman and presses his chin on his nape of
the neck. This position makes it possible to influence the
woman.

Fluidic condensers.

The Magic is a science, the only science which studies,
theoretically and practically, the greatest forces of
Nature, those which are hidden. It declares and proves that
the Universe is in its least subject parts with the
influence of certain fluids which are at the base of all the
physical and psychic phenomena. To be able to operate these
forces, it is advisable to concentrate them in a point given
for then redirecting them according to its will.

These operations of condensation can be carried out in 4
different ways: The operator can use his own energy He can
use external forces by induction He can bind the forces
external to an individual who was selected for this purpose
He can bind these forces to an object envisaged for this
purpose

The latter is known since millenia as the "load of the
volt". There are various types of materials which one can
use to condense the fluids: two liquids (paintings applied
to a talisman and liquids preserved in bottles) and a solid
(volts and statuettes).

Volts and statuettes

The use of the volts results from the observation of the
laws of correspondence, sympathy and polarization. The
voults are figurines which are prepared in a particular way,
with the assistance of the laws of correspondence and
sympathy, and which is charged with the psychic force with
an individual in order to obtain a positive or negative
result. It should be noticed that all these magic operations
are not to in no case matters with vices or vulgar
ritualized coucheries but well of a spiritual search. The
orgasme is sanctified and becomes magic. According to
Randolph: "... Beyond the union of the flesh, aim at the
union of the hearts "

Maria de Naglowska

This short rush of the animated life of Maria de Naglowska
is inspired by the work of Marc Pluquet "Sophiale". Maria de
Naglowska was born on August 15, 1883 in Saint-Petersburg.
She loses her parents very young: her father, a soldier of
high row, will be poisoned by a nihilist and her mother will
deceased in 1895. Orphan, she is dealt with by her aunt who
will place her in an institute for young aristocrats. She
will make brilliant studies there.

The events and the revolutionary ideas of 1905 do not leave
her indifferent and she starts to attend closed circles of
intellectuals who will open the gates of knowledge to her.
Maria falls in love with a young musician named Hopenko. The
Jewish origins and the trade of this one prohibit any
official union with the two lovers. They leave Russia to
settle in Berlin then in Switzerland where they marry. Maria
continues her university studies there while following the
courses simultaneously in several faculties. To make remain
the couple and make it possible to her husband to finish his
training of musician, it gives particular courses

It is at that time that are born their three children:
Alexandre, Marie and Andre. Hopenko allured by the ideas
Zionists decides to leave for Palestine by leaving behind
him his wife and her children. Maria then continues to teach
all while launching out in journalism and while belonging to
the conferences. But these activities and the publication of
a book are worth to her to be imprisoned for political
activities and espionage. She must then leave Geneva for
Bern then for Basle. Maria leaves soon Switzerland for Italy
where it settles in Rome. She recovers to teach and becomes
writer of the newspaper "Italy". She then makes come her
children from Switzerland but Alexandre leaves to join his
father in Palestine.

Soon the problems re-appear: Maria loses her employment and
must give again lesson at any price to survive. In Rome,
Marie attend a group of writer occultistes and she is in
contact with contact de this medium that it make the
knowledge of a philosopher Russian which him reveal the
tradition Boréennes the more secret.

Alexandre who succeeded in taking down a good station in
Alexandria in the Stud farms of the king, makes come Maria,
his sister and his brother. Maria is quickly invited there
to make organized conferences, between-others, by the
Théosophique Company. She becomes also writer for the
newspaper "Stock Exchange Alexandria".

In 1930, Maria returns to Rome, her friends find to him a
place in a publisher in Paris where Maria leaves to be
established. Unfortunately, she does not obtain the
authorization to work in France and must count on her André
son to survive. Maria is established then in Montparnasse
where she becomes acquainted with writers, artists and
poets. She makes soon publish a magic weekly magazine: "The
Arrow". She then establishes her districts with the Cupola
where meet the occultists of the time.

The direction offers each evening to her a soup St-Germain
and the many black coffees which she swallows with length of
days. Wednesday, it gives conferences to the studio Raspail
and every afternoon it goes to the church of Our-Lady Fields
to be collected there. In 1935, Maria organizes meetings to
present the preliminary rites of the Gold Mass to it:
Dedication of the Advent of the Third Term; The data
processing of the applicants to the rank of Sweeping of the
Court; The data processing of postulating under officiating
minor; Dedication of the alternate rates/rhythms of the life
and death; The celebration of the Third Birth

With the end 1935, she announces to Marc Pluquet that she
has just finished her mission and that she prepares her
departure now. She prophesies that the advent of the Third
Term could be done only in two or three generations when the
world is prepared by social and political upheavals. The
mission of those which have include its oeuvre be to
preserve its teaching so that it can reappear under a form
clear and comprehensible with some man and some woman which
be not obligatorily form with symbolism. 

At beginning of year 1936, Maria give -- one Saturday -- a
last conference with studio Raspail with end of which she
make her good-bye with her companion without leave of
successor appoint. She leaves at once to join her Marie
daughter in Switzerland. April 17, 1936 Maria de Naglowska,
Sophiale de Montparnasse, dies with her daughter with
Zurich.