Sexuality, Magic and Perversion

“The primitive fertility religions survived in the civilisations of the ancient and classical world. Thus the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Bacchus of the Romans and the Hermes of the Greeks were all phallic gods; similarly there were sexual elements in the Mysteries of Isis and there is some reason to suppose that the Mysteries of Eleusis may have involved (a) a veneration of the male and female sexual organs, and (b) a ritual copulation between priest and priestess….”

Francis King

15 x 21 cm, 304 pgs