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Continued … “A key part of this social radicalism was, in many cases, a form of sexual radicalism and an attempt to imagine 💥alternative marital relations. Central to many Spiritualist movements —and a large cause for the controversy that often followed them—were the principles of "free love." According to Henry C. Wright's Marriage and Parentage, which was publicized by Spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis, the principles of free love include "the priority of female control in the sexual and generative relations, the irrelevancy of positive law to the attractions, the justification of seminal expenditure only for reproduction and the attractional definition of marriage, which held that those who were joined by transcendental affinities were automatically and truly mated and that those who were not were divorced, regardless of legalities." Davis would take these ideas further in his own harmonial philosophy and his ideal of "Spiritual affinity" —namely, the belief that certain men and women have an attraction for one another based not on arbitrary social or marital arrangements but on a deep complementarity of their 💥spiritual auras.💥This spiritual affinity "superseded the bond of legal marriage" and so offered an escape from the "brutality and dullness of marriage." In sum, there was a natural affinity between Spiritualism and other powerful social reforms of the nineteenth century, above all, feminism and the doctrine of free love. Each of these movements in one way or another lenged the authority of the dominant religious, patriarchal, and social order and offered a powerful alternative to the existing status quo. And each emerged in the same general historical and geographic area, lending mutual support to one another as a widespread social force of transformation that paralleled, yet challenged, the incredible economic transformations of the Industrial Revolution: “Such faith in the new trinity of salvation suggests that reformers of the new industrial age sought a revolution in the humanistic realm to match the revolution ... in the material realm." Not surprisingly, this confluence of the radical forces of spiritualism, feminism, and free love generated a certain amount of backlash and controversy in mainstream Victorian American society. Thus the New York Times attacked free love as nothing less than a systematic, subversive movement and dedicated some effort in the mid-1850’s to protest against it. 😏 Paschal Beverly Randolph [precursor to Alister Crowley] grew up in the very midst of these new Spiritualist, feminist, and sexual revolutions, and he would in his own life and writings reflect both the utopian hope for social transformation and the often intense controversies over the dangers of free love.” Paschal Beverly Randolph - The Dr. Strange of his Time! https://stolenhistory.net/threads/paschal-beverly-randolph-the-dr-strange-of-his-time.4770/ MAGIA SEXUALIS SEX, MAGIC, AND LIBERATION IN MODERN WESTERN ESOTERICISM (2006, 350 pages) https://tradizione-esoterica.com/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/Biblioteca-Esoterica-Hugh-Urban-Magia-Sexualis-ENG.pdf