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The Cup of Hermes: A Beginner's Guide to Sexual Alchemy

Connor D. Sullivan, author of The God of Reflections and The Apocalypse of Hidden Amuraka, turns here to the Western alchemical current's most guarded branch, sexual alchemy, written for beginners. The book opens with definitions: alchemy as the royal art attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, its Chinese and Indian parallels, and the cup itself, the crescent that fills as the seed is preserved. The chapters move through sexual symbolism in masonic emblems, the adoration of the phallus and yoni, and the art of transmutation, then establish the central law of the book, Sacred Energetic eXchange, before introducing sexual magick proper: the raising of the caduceus, the hieros gamos or alchemical wedding, and the feminine mysteries of menstrual blood and the grail. The second half is deliberately dark: trauma-based mind control and the weaponization of sexuality, the inversion of the rites, the moon child and the homunculus, and a necessary closing on defense against the dark arts, so the beginner knows both what the temple and its counterfeit look like. The stated aim is the creation of the diamond body.

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