Source Materials from Various Traditions

Here are excerpts from various texts relating to controlled intercourse. They have interesting insights about the potential that lies in reuniting male and female for a higher end. More excerpts can be found in the articles in the left-hand menu.

Outline of Source Materials

Taoist

• Taoist excerpts

• Complete text of Hua Hu Ching: Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu

  See these sections in particular.

Neo-Taoist

• Excerpts from the book Taoist Secrets of Love by Mantak Chia

Gnostic

Ancient Gnostic Gospels

• Excerpts from The Gospel of Philip
• Excerpts from The Gospel of the Egyptians
• Excerpts from The Exegesis on the Soul
• Excerpts from The Gospel of Thomas

"Sexuality and the Sacred in Gnostic Literature" (Dissertation by Mary Sharpe, Cambridge University)

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Poem about the Divine Sophia (a name, meaning "Wisdom," for the feminine aspect of God used by the early Christian Gnostics and others) by Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

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Chart comparing ACIM, Gnostic gospels, and conventional Christianity

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Letter to Gnostic Scholars

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Neo-Gnostic

The Gnosis Archive

• Gnostic essay about Sophia's role in creation

Samael Aun Weor

• Excerpts from the book The Perfect Matrimony by Samael Aun Weor

• Visit the Gnostic Studies website run by Samael Aun Weor's grandaughter and her husband. Or this other Gnostic site based on Samael Aun Weor's teachings.

• Link to order information about Gnostic video, "SEX: The Secret Gate to Eden".

  (Review available here.)

  Clips from video available here on YOU Tube:
  Clip 1
  Clip 2

Tantric (Hindu)

• Excerpts from The Siva Samhita
• Excerpts from Orgasm and the Pursuit of Bliss
• Excerpts from AGHORA: At the Left Hand of God
• Excerpts from talk on "Transmuting Sexual Energy"
• Excerpts from Advanced Yoga Practices "Women and Orgasm"
• TANTRA: The Secret Power of Sex

Tantric (Buddhist)

• Excerpts from ancient Tibetan text Sky Dancer
• Excerpts from "What Is Tantra, Anyway? (Ask the Lama Surya Das)"
• Excerpt from Being Peace
• 14th Mindfulness Training
• The Metta Sutta by Buddha

Jewish

• Excerpts from Chassidic text, Chabad
• Excerpts from Kabballah text, Zohar

Islamic

• Excerpt from "The Qur'an"
• Excerpt from "Bezels of Wisdom", collection of Sufi wisdom by Ibn al-`Arabi,
• Excerpt from "The Cradle of Erotica" by Edwardes and Masters
• Excerpt from "Disciplining the Soul: Breaking the Two Desires", collection of spiritual techniques by Al-Ghazali
• Excerpt from "The Perfumed Garden"
• Essay by Hazrat Inayat Khan (Sufi)

Native American

• White Buffalo Calf Woman Myth
• Fire Breath breathing practice for circulating and purifying sexual energy
• Merging Meditation for promoting feelings of oneness with another

Karezza

• Excerpts from Karezza: Ethics of Marriage by Alice Bunker Stockham, MD
• Excerpts from The Karezza Method by J. William Lloyd, MD
• Excerpts from Love Sex and Nutrition by Bernard Jensen, MD
• Review and Excerpts from 'Better Than Orgasm' by Stanley Bass

John Humphrey Noyes

• Male Continence (entire pamphlet)
• Review and Excerpts from 'Better Than Orgasm' by Stanley Bass (who calls his approach "Karezza," but actually promotes Male Continence, in which women are not discouraged from orgasming)

Rudof von Urban, M.D.

• Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness (excerpts)

Napoleon Hill

• The Mystery of Sex: Transmutation (Chapter 11 of 'Think and Grow Rich')

Barry Long

• Excerpts from "Making Love"

David Deida

• Excerpts from "Intimate Communion"

Shakespeare

• Sonnet 129 by Shakespeare

Euripides

• 'Iphegenia at Aulus' by Euripides

Blake

• 'The Clod and the Pebble' by William Blake

Victor Hugo

• Poem "Man & Woman" by Victor Hugo

Metaphysical

• Spirit Blog - YOU are the source, too! Do you engage in "inner listening?" Visit this page and see what your inner guidance has to say about various metaphysical topics.
• Edgar Cayce readings (Also see this article on Cayce and sacred sex.)
• Excerpt from The Tree Of Life: An Expose Of Physical Regenesis by George W. Carey
• A Course in Miracles
• Chart comparing ACIM, Gnostic gospels, and conventional Christianity

• A Compilation on Sex A.A. Bailey
• Chapter 40 - Marriages in Heaven, from Heaven and its Wonders
  and Hell Emanuel Swedenborg
• Inner Studies: A Course of Twelve Lessons T.O Z. Hanish
• Thinking and Destiny H.W. Percival

More Metaphysical Sources

• Born to Heal R. Montgomery
• The Mystical Qabalah D. Fortune