The Metaphysics of Sex
Inner Traditions, 1991 (Metafisica del sesso, 1958)
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“[Evola] uses the bow, hitting his target with consummate accuracy and illuminating in a few words a whole are of thought hitherto unrecognized by most of us.”
Gnosis
“…the most comprehensive book concerning the metaphysical aspects of sexuality.”
Critique
What is the true nature of erotic love, and what is the power that animates it? Julius Evola presents an in-depth study of the possibilities of sexual energies on their highest level. He shows how religion, mysticism, folklore, and mythology all contain erotic forms in which the deeper potentialities of human b eings are recognized. Focusing on the metaphysics of erotic experience, we are able to transcend the boundaries of the ego and enter expanded states of consciousness.
The author explores the sexual rites of sacred traditions, reintroducing a world fo ritual invocations and initiatory experiences, including the Tantric and Taoist transmutation of sexual desire, the adulation of the female organ of Eleusis, Kabbalistic practices of sexual magic, and Islamic techniques of self-dissolution in the divinity. Evola also provides a unique perspective on the Courts of Love of the Middle Ages, Sacred Prostitution, evocation and fetishism, and the relationship between erotic ecstasy and suffering.
Scholar, philosopher, and social thinker, Julius Evola is one of the leading exponents of the Hermetic tradition. IN this work, he sheds new light on the vast fresco that is the mystical and spiritual expression of sexual love.
Jan Olof Bengtsson 