INDEX

All page numbers refer to the print edition of this title.

alchemist, 70, 71
alchemy, 56, 73, 127
American Indians, 22
Ananga Ranga, 13
Annotations Upon the Sacred
    Writings of the Hindus, 15
autoerotic techniques, 12

“back-off ” words, 74–75
Bataille, Georges, 31
Baudelaire, Charles, 73–74
bondage/binding, 3, 29–30, 92–93

candles, 100
caning, 85, 95–96, 103
Carnal Alchemy
    described, 122, 127
    essence of, 53, 115
    general theory of, 56–60
    overview, 115–17
    practice of, xvi, 130
chains, 111
chamber, 84–88, 106–14
Chymical Wedding of Christian
    Rosencreutz, The, 15
clamping, 99–100
collar, neck, 92–93
costume/clothing, 79–80, 81
Crafting the Art of Magic, 44–45
cross, 111–12
Crowley, Aleister, 6, 16, 36–40
cuffs, leather, 92–93

Deleuze, Gilles, 34, 35
Dervish Dangling, 42–43, 93
Divorced Woman, The, 34
dominants, 63, 64, 70–75, 78–79, 127

empathetic link, 63, 71–72, 73, 74, 75, 90–91, 119
Evola, Julius, 31

fisting, 99
flagellation, 22–27, 94–96, 102–3
Flowers, Stephen, 52–54
Fraternitas Saturni, 17
Frater U/D/, xvi, 102
Freud, Sigmund, 16
furniture for chamber, 110–14

Gardner, Gerald, 43–46
God/Goddess, 13–15, 59, 66, 67, 77
Gorer, Geoffrey, 32
Gregorius, Gregor A., 17

“Heauton Timoroumenos,” 73–74
horse, the, 111

initiation, 22, 127

Japanese tradition, 27–30
Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings, 31–32

Kamasutra, 13
Kellner, Karl, 16
Kelly, Aidan, 44–45
King, Francis, 14–15
Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von, 35
kundalini, 14

Lake Harris, Thomas, 51
Lavey, Anton Szandor, 46–50
lighting, for chamber, 108
Lords of the Left-Hand Path, 31
magic, 6–7, 8, 128. See also
    Sado-Magic
 Man Called Horse, A (film), 22
masks, 43, 77–78
Masochists/Masochism, 48, 62–63, 65, 71, 119, 128
Metaphysics of Sex, The, 31
Michelangelo, 49, 71
Mishima, Yukio, 96

Naglowska, Maria de, 42, 52
needles, 96–97, 100–101
New Flesh Palladium (NFP), 50–52
nipples, clamping, 99
North, Robert, 41–42, 50–52, 56

Offray de la Mettrie, Julien, 30–31
Oniroku Dan, 28, 29
operative personae, 77–81, 128
Order of Triskelion, xi–xii, xiii, xv, 52–54, 118–23
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), 16–17
orgasm, 10, 11–12, 19, 86–87

paddle, 94–95
pain
    autoerotic techniques, 12
    continuum/continuous, 91–92, 100
need for, 62, 65
quantum, 91–92, 94
safety issues, 102
thresholds, 63–64, 102–3
    transforming into pleasure, 56–57
“panic” snap hooks, 109
Paulhan, Jean, 42, 52
penetration, 98–99
personae, operative, 77–81, 128
piercings, 4, 96–98
pleasure, 23, 56–57, 102
psychological bondage, 93
psychological techniques, 103–4
Pygmalion, 49

rack, 110–11
Réage, Pauline. See Story of O
rings, finger, 108
ritual, 82–88
rope bondage, 29–30

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Ritter Von, 33–36
Sade, Marquis de, 30–32, 34–35
Sadeanism
    defined, 71, 119, 128
    of Oniroku Dan, 29
    orgasm in, 86–87 reevaluating/reviving, xi–xii, xiii
    Sadism versus, 34, 35
    as taboo, 115–16
    See also Sado-Magic
Sadism/Sadist, 34, 35, 48–50, 71
Sado-Magic, 22–54
    of Aleister Crowley, 36–40
    of Anton Szandor Lavey, 46–50
    defined, 128
    of Ernst Schertel, 40–41
    general theory of, 56–60
    of Gerald Gardner, 43–46
    history of, 22–23
    Japanese tradition, 27–30
    of Marquis de Sade, 30–32, 34–35
    of Robert North, 50–52
    of Sacher-Masoch, 33–36
    true development through, xv–xvi
    Western tradition, 23–27
    of William Seabrook, 41–43, 52
    See also Sadeanism
Sado-Shamanism, 52, 53, 56, 57, 128
safety issues
    “back-off ” words, 74–75
    empathic link and, 90–91
    overview, xvi, 3–4
    “panic” snap hooks, 109
    piercings, 4, 97
    psychological techniques, 103–4
    safe-word, 4, 74
Salomé, 51
Schertel, Ernst, 40–41
Seabrook, William, 41–43, 52, 93
Sebaldt von Werth, Max, 16
Seiyu, Ito, 28
Sellon, Edward, 15
sexual energy, 8–10, 18, 81, 86, 98
Sexuality, Magic and Perversion, 14–15
sexual magic, 6–20
    defined, 129
    four parts of, 18–20
    history of, 12–17
    overview, 8–12
Sexual Magic, 50
Shakti, 13–14
Steddinger, Inga, 44
Story of O (Réage)
    benefits of reading, 11
    inspiration for, 52
    inspiration for writing, 42, 51
    mythic appeal of, 131
    Order of Triskelion and, 120
    overview, 133
    piercings and brandings in, 97
    Sadean philosophy in, 118
    transformation in, 121
straps, leather, 95, 103
submissive, 3, 62–68, 80–81, 129
suspension, 3, 109

taboo/forbidden, 10–11, 115–16
tantrism, 10–15, 59, 77, 129
temperature, 100–104
transformation
    described, 56–57, 58
    isolation needed for, 107
    pain thresholds and, 63–64
    represented in Story of O, 121
    submissives’ process, 66–67
Triskelion Game, 104
Triskelion Process, 11, 53–54, 104

Universe
    defined, 129
    objective, 67, 72, 128
    subjective, 63, 66, 72–73, 129

Vedas, 25–26
Venus in Furs, 34, 133

Western tradition, 23–27
whipping post, 112–13
whips, 26, 95
Wicca, 43, 46
Wiccan Sex-Magic, 44
Wilde, Oscar, 51
Witchcraft, 42
working
    operative personae, 77–81
    ritual, 82–88
    techniques, 90–104
    See also specific techniques