The Perfect Matrimony (INTRODUCTION)

I have written this book for the few; I say for the few, because most people neither accept it, not understand it, not want it.

When the first edition of the Perfect Matrimony appeared, it produced great enthusiasm among students of all schools, lodges, religions, orders, sects and esoteric societies. The result of this enthusiasm was the formation of the Gnostic Movement. This Movement began with a few understanding people, and grew into an international one.

Many students of occultism studied this book; few understood it. Many, enthusiastic with the enchanting theme of the Perfect Matrimony, joined the ranks of the Gnostic Movement. Those who have not left the Gnostic Movement can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Many swore loyalty before the altar of Gnosis, but in truth almost all violated their sworn oaths. Some appeared to be true apostles, which even made it seem a sacrilege to doubt them, but in the long term we had to realize with infinite pain, that they too were traitors. Often it was sufficient for some of these false brothers to read a book or to listen to a new lecturer just arrived in the city to withdraw from the Gnostic Movement.

In this battle for the New Age of Aquarius, which begins on 4th February, 1962, between 2 and 3 o’clock in the afternoon, we had to learn that the abyss is full of sincerely mistaken people and people with very good intentions.

The Perfect Matrimony and the Cosmic Christ are the synthesis of all religions, schools, orders, sects, lodges, yoga systems etc. It is truly unfortunate that so many who discovered the practical synthesis have left it, to fall into an intricate labyrinth of theories.

According to tradition, in the center of the labyrinth is found the synthesis, that is to say the Labarum of the Temple. The word labyrinth is etymologically derived from the word Labarum. The latter is a double-edged axe, a symbol of the masculine-feminine sexual force. The person who really finds the synthesis commits the greatest foolishness when he leaves the Center and returns to the complicated corridors of theories that form the labyrinth of the mind.

 

If we make a comparative study of religions, we shall discover phallicism at the base of all schools, religions and esoteric sects. Remember Peristera the nymph, the hand maiden of Venus, who was transformed by love into a dove. Remember the virtuous Venus. Remember the processions of the God Priapus in the august old Rome of the Caesars, when the priestesses of the Temple, full of ecstasy, majestically bore an enormous phallus of sacred wood. With just reason Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis says that religions have a sexual origin.

Contained within the Perfect Matrimony are the Mysteries of Fire. All fire cults are totally sexual. The vestals were true priestesses of love; with them the celibate priests reached Adepthood. It is unfortunate that the modern vestals (nuns) do not know the key of Sexual Magic. It is unfortunate that the priests of today have forgotten the secret key of sex. We feel profound pain to see so many yogis who ignore the supreme key of yoga, Sexual Magic, the supreme synthesis of all systems of yoga.

People are filled with horror when they hear about Sexual Magic, hut they are not filled with horror when they give themselves over to sexual deviation and carnal passion.

Here you have dear reader, the synthesis of all religions, schools and sects. Our doctrine is the Doctrine of the Synthesis.

In the profound night of the centuries there were powerful civilizations and grandiose mysteries. The priestesses of love were never absent from the temples. Those who became Masters of the White Lodge practiced Sexual Magic with them. The Master must be born inside us by means of Sexual Magic.

In the sunny land of Kern, in the ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs, whoever revealed the Great Arcanum (Sexual Magic) was condemned to death; his head was cut off, his heart was torn out and his ashes were hurled to the four winds.

In the land of the Aztecs, men and women, aspiring to be Adepts, practiced Sexual Magic for long periods of time, caressing each other, loving each other within the courtyards of the Temple. In these temple practices, whoever spilled the Glass of Hermes was beheaded for having profaned the temple.

All systems of intimate self-education have Sexual Magic as their ultimate practical synthesis. Every religion, every esoteric cult, has in synthesis Sexual Magic (the Arcanum A.Z.F.). In the Mysteries of Eleusis there was naked dancing, ineffable things. Sexual Magic was the fundamental basis of those mysteries. In those days nobody thought indecent things because they profoundly venerated sex. Initiates know that the Third Logos works within sex.

We have written this book with complete clarity; we have unveiled what was veiled. Now, whoever wants to realize himself in depth can do so. Here is the guide; here is the complete teaching. I have already been harassed, humiliated, calumniated and persecuted etc. for teaching the Path of the Perfect Matrimony. That does not matter anymore.

At first the treason and calumny hurt a great deal, but now I have become like steel and the treason and calumny no longer hurts. I know only too well that humanity hates the truth and mortally hates the prophets, and so, it’s hardly normal that they hate me for writing this book.

There is only one thing we pursue, one goal, one objective: Christification.

It is necessary that each person Christifies himself. It is necessary to incarnate the Christ.

In this book we have lifted the veil of the Christic Mysteries. We have explained what the Christic principle is. We have invited all human beings to follow the Path of the Perfect Matrimony to attain Christification. We have explained that Christ is not an individual, but an impersonal cosmic universal principle that must be assimilated by each man through Sexual Magic. Naturally, all this scandalizes the fanatics, but the truth is the truth and we have to tell it, even when it costs us our lives.

The teachings of the Zend Avesta are similar to the doctrinal principles contained in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and contain the Christic principle. The Iliad of Homer, the Hebrew Bible, the Germanic Edda and the Sibylinc Books of the Romans contain the same Christic principle. This is enough to demonstrate that the Christ is prior to Jesus of Nazareth. Christ is not an individual. Christ is a cosmic principle that we must assimilate within our own physical, psychic, somatic and spiritual nature, through Sexual Magic.

Amongst the Persians Christ is Ormuz, Ahura Mazda, the terrible enemy of Ahriman (Satan), which we have within us.

Amongst the Hindus, Krishna is Christ, and the gospel of Krishna is very similar to that of Jesus of Nazareth.

Among the Egyptians, Christ is Osiris and everyone who incarnated him was in fact an Osirified

Amongst the Chinese it is Fu Hsi, the Cosmic Christ who composed the I-Ching (The Book of Laws) and named the Dragon Ministers.

Among the Greeks, Christ is called Zeus, Jupiter, the Father of the Gods.

Amongst the Aztecs it is Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican Christ.

In the Germanic Edda it is Balder, the Christ who was assassinated by Hoder, God of War, with an arrow of mistletoe etc.

Thus we can find the Cosmic Christ in thousands of ancient texts and old traditions that came millions of years before Jesus. All this invites us to accept that Christ is a Cosmic Principle contained in the substantial principles of all religions.

Really there is only one unique and cosmic religion. This religion assumes different forms according to the times and the needs of humanity. Therefore, religious conflicts are absurd because, at their base all religions are only modifications of the universal cosmic religion. From this point of view we affirm that this book is not against any religion, school or system of thought. The only purpose of this book is to give to humanity a Key, a sexual secret, a Key with which every living being may assimilate the Christic principle contained in the foundation of all the great religions of the world.

We recognize Jesus-Iesus-Zeus-Jupiter, the new Superman who totally assimilated the Christic principle, and as a result became a God-Man. We consider that we must imitate him. He was a complete man, a true man in the full sense of the word, and through Sexual Magic he attained the absolute assimilation of the Universal Cosmic Christic Principle. The few who understand should study the gospel of John, chapter 3, verses 1 to 21.

There the devotee of the Perfect Matrimony will find pure and legitimate Sexual Magic as taught by Jesus. Of course the teaching is given in code, but he who understands will understand it intuitively.

Modern humanity has committed the error of separating the Great Master Jesus from all his predecessors who, like him Christified themselves; this has damaged the present humanity. We need to understand better that all religions are only one Religion.

Mary the mother of Jesus is the same as Isis, Juno, Demeter, Ceres, Maia etc, the Cosmic Mother or Kundalini (Sexual Fire) of whom the Cosmic Christ is always born.

Mary Magdalene is the same as Salambo, Matres, lshtar, Astarte, Aphrodite and Venus, with whom we must practice Sexual Magic to awaken the Fire.

The Martyrs, Saints, Virgins, Angels and Cherubim, are the same Gods, Demi-Gods, Titans, Goddesses, Sylphs, Cyclops and Messengers of the Gods of the Pagan mythologies.

All the religious principles of Christianity are Pagan, and when the present religious forms disappear, their principles will be assimilated by the new religious forms of the future.

We need to comprehend what Immaculate Conception is, we need to know that only with the Perfect Matrimony can Christ be born in the heart of man. It is urgent to awaken the Fire of Kundalini, or Fire of the Holy Spirit, to incarnate the Christ. Whoever awakens Kundalini transforms himself like Ganymede into the Eagle of the Spirit, to rise to Olympus and serve as cup-bearer to the ineffable Gods.

It is unfortunate that the Catholic priests have destroyed so many documents and so many valuable treasures of antiquity. Fortunately they were not able to destroy them all.

During the age of the Renaissance some marvelous books were discovered by valiant priests. Thus, despite the persecutions of the clergy Dante Alighieri, Bocca Go, Petrarch, Erasmus etc., were able to translate works as famous as the Illiad and the Odyssey of Homer, true books of occult science and Sexual Magic. They also translated the Aeneid of Virgil, the ogony, the Works and Days of Hesiod, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and other writings of Lucretius, Horace, Tibullus, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Apulius, Cicero etc.

It is all pure Gnosticism. It is really lamentable that some ignorant people abandon Gnosis to follow systems and methods that ignore Sexual Magic and the Perfect Matrimony.

We have investigated all the great Gnostic treasures, we have scrutinized the basis of all the archaic religions, and we have found the supreme key of Sexual Magic at the base of all cults. Now we deliver this treasure, this Key to suffering humanity. Many will read this book but few will comprehend it.

This book is solely a book of Sexual Magic. Those who are accustomed to read thousands of books out of pure intellectual curiosity, will in fact, miss the opportunity to study this work in depth. This book should not be read quickly. Whoever thinks like this is mistaken. It is necessary to study it profoundly and to comprehend it totally, not only with the intellect but in all levels of the mind. The intellect is only a small fraction of the mind. The intellect is not the whole mind. He who understands this book only with the intellect has not understood it. Only with internal meditation is it possible to understand it in all levels of the mind.

It is urgent to practice Sexual Magic to attain Christification. In this book the reader will discover the supreme Key of intimate self-realization. We are not against any Religion, School, and Sect, Order or Lodge because we know that all religious forms are manifestations of the Great Cosmic Universal Infinite Religion, latent in every atom of the Cosmos.

We simply teach the synthesis of all Religions, Schools, Orders, Lodges and beliefs. Our doctrine is the Doctrine of the Synthesis.

Sexual Magic is practiced in esoteric Christianity; Sexual Magic is practiced in Zen Buddhism. Sexual Magic is practiced amongst the initiated yogis. Sexual Magic is practiced amongst the Mohammedan Sufis. Sexual Magic was practiced in the Initiatic Colleges of Troy, Egypt, Rome, Carthage, and Eleusis. Sexual Magic was practiced by the mysterious Maya, Aztec, Inca, Druids etc.

Sexual Magic and the Cosmic Christ are the synthesis of all religions, schools and sects. We teach the Doctrine of the Synthesis. This doctrine could never be contrary to the diverse religious forms. Our teachings are found within all religions, schools and beliefs. If the reader makes a serious study of the religions of the world, he will discover the phallus and uterus as the synthesis of all Mysteries. There has never been any religion or school of mysteries where the Cosmic Christ and the mysteries of sex were absent.

The Doctrine of the Synthesis can harm no one, because it is the synthesis of all.

We invite the devotees of all cults, schools and beliefs to make a comparative study of religions.

We invite the students of all the diverse systems of intimate self-education to study the sexual esotericism of all the secret Mystery Schools. We invite all yogis to study Sexual Yoga and the White Tantrism of India, without which no yogi is able to attain absolute liberation.

Sexual Magic and Christ are the synthesis of all esoteric study, what ever is its name, religious form, or educational system.

The attacks, of which we have been victims, the persecutions, anathemas, excommunications etc., are due to ignorance and lack of study. The synthesis enriches every religious form or esoteric system. The synthesis can harm no one. This is the Doctrine of the Synthesis. We deeply love all religious forms; we know that they are the loving manifestation of the Great Cosmic Universal Religion.

The supreme religious synthesis is found in the Perfect Matrimony. God is Love and Wisdom. In Christ and in sex is the ultimate synthesis of all Lodges, Orders, Schools, Sects, systems and methods of intimate self- realization, in the East as in the West; in the North as in the South.

Inverential Peace.

SAMAEL AUN WEOR