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Liber Cdli (451)


Class B

(The 15th Chapter of Liber Cdxiv)

Xv

Of Eroto-comatose Lucidity

The Candidate is made ready for the Ordeal by general athletic training, and
by feasting. On the appointed day he is attended by one or more chosen and experienced
attendants whose duty is (a) to exhaust him sexually by every known means (b)
to rouse him sexually by every known means. Every device and artifice of the
courtesan is to be employed, and every stimulant known to the physician. Nor
should the attendants reck of danger, but hunt down ruthlessly their appointed
prey.

Finally the Candidate will into a sleep of utter exhaustion, resembling coma,
and it is now that delicacy and skill must be exquisite. Let him be roused from
this sleep by stimulation of a definitely and exclusively sexual type. Yet if
convenient, music wisely regulated will assist.

The attendants will watch with assiduity for signs of waking; and the moment
these occur, all stimulation must cease instantly, and the Candidate be allowed
to fall again into sleep; but no sooner has this happened than the former practice
is resumed. This alteration is to continue indefinitely until the Candidate
is in a state which is neither sleep nor waking, and in which his Spirit, set
free by perfect exhaustion of the body, and yet prevented from entering the
City of Sleep, communes with the Most High and the Most Holy Lord God of its
being, maker of heaven and earth.

The Ordeal terminates by failure the occurence of sleep invincible
or
by success, in which ultimate waking is followed by a final performance of the
sexual act. The Initiate may then be allowed to sleep, or the practice may be
renewed and persisted in until death ends all. The most favourable death is
that occurring during the orgasm, and is called Mors Justi.

As it is written: Let me die the death of the Righteous, and let my last end
be like his!
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