This is a good question and one that needs to be OBSERVED.

Here I will refer to the concordance: JMG points out that “the energies of magic are also the energies of sexuality” https://www.ecosophia.net/blogs-and-essays/the-magic-monday-faq/

The genteel approach of Paul Foster Case was to state that this or that referred to a phallic symbol BLAH BLAH BLAH and to the energy of procreation and to leave the whole rigamarole with a doily on top, us knowing that as we stared at the magician’s wand, the flowing robes of the High Priestess, the seated maternity of the Empress, the damsel of Strength taming the savage lion with the roses of love, that we are dealing with a sublimated form of sexuality and that the entire point of occult development is to properly prune, train, and use this force in works wherein consciousness directs its power to our own chosen ends and not just those of an overabundant Nature.

THE OLD BOY was quite overt in STYLE, and that egregore has its own form of STRENGTH and healing.

Let us consult Liber Resh vel Legis, verse 56: Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him, bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.

A cursory glance at the Crowley-annotated Lesser Key of Solomon will disclose the abundance of ad hoc drawings of the phallus in various attitudes in the imagery of the Solomonic spirits. Thus THE OLD BOY and his club are so influential in the underworld of this text that they must be FRIENDED.

I was at a Zoom meeting of Seattle Horizon Lodge of the O.T.O. the other day, at a service called Lectio Divina, and the leader made a point about the reading being of a Class A text, one that cannot be altered one jot or one tittle, and was treated to a ROUSING paragraph of erotic imagery that the magic(k) of Thelema used as a mild inebriant to enable the buzz of Eros to power in transformative meditation.

Let me overtly state that I am not a member of the O.T.O. and I certainly do not speak for its leadership or theology. I am merely a well-wishing onlooker who works in a grimoire extensively supported by their group though perhaps not as physicalized WHIPPETS,

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, this does not mean that all ceremonial magicians get baked and roll around on the floor except with their own mates! Anthropological research I have read indicates that some do work their way through the entire ritual group, a task I have not accepted.

The Gnostic Mass is performed for the public at least once a month at your local lodge, and if you visit — which I highly recommend, for the DAMIENS love to go to Church and make lots of friends all over the place in different sects — the first thing you will see is the beauty of a nude female ascend the dais, and a symbolic enactment of coition with the implement of the magic(k) spear.

Of course this harks back to the medieval practice of the Black Mass which rumor had it concluded with a group affirmation of the elegance of the flesh, though we will never know what actually happened on a case-by-case basis. A lot of stuff was done under the table by regular Catholic priests for the crops, which is why eucharistic magic(k) works so well.

CALLS COMING IN: ancient magic brings in all kinds of crazy stuff that we have to honor in psychodrama. And, from what we understand, a lot of the group’s energy of Wicca is bound into Egyptian imagery, so it is fun to read about SOLOMON in Norse energy.

The onlookers of the contemporary Gnostic Mass are fully clothed and seated in polite PROVENDER, while Angels are coming to visit the earth, as appropriately described in The Song of Solomon.

And what student of the classics, where we sometimes hang our hats, cannot recall, with a smile, the exuberant bawd of the Faun?