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sorority may be considered to fulfill the function of shaktis within the<br />
Naglowska branch of the sinister current. Naglowska herself was known by<br />
her followers as "the Sophia of Montparnasse", in a reference to the Gnostic<br />
feminine principle said to impart the gnosis. Her female acolytes were also<br />
known as Sophiales, presented as the vanguard of a "new matriarchy".<br />
In the imminent utopia Naglowska proposed, all 17 year old girls<br />
would be consecrated as sex-magical Sophiales in special training institutes.<br />
This consecration she thought necessary to balance the disturbed<br />
equilibrium between male and female polarities, which she theorized was<br />
the root cause of the world's ills. Thus, sex magic was seen to exercise not<br />
only a personal initiatory transformation on the couples who practiced it,<br />
but a much larger social effect. (Naglowska's hypothesis that unsatisfying<br />
sex and imbalance of the genders created social catastrophe bears some<br />
similarities with the psychologist Wilhelm Reich's ideas, although he would<br />
certainly have rejected any mystical or Satanic overlay)<br />
<strong>The</strong> world-changing force, according to Naglowska, was "feminine<br />
power", which she believed would emanate from a new kind of spiritually<br />
and sexually advanced woman, "la sagesse" – the wise woman. Far from the<br />
usual lascivious cliché of what a Satanic woman might be, Naglowska<br />
described her ideal female "initiatrix" as a "pure woman ... who does not<br />
tolerate perverse vibrations." In this regard, Naglowska seems to he<br />
influenced by her reading of the earlier writings of P. B Randolph, and their<br />
insistence that sex magic should never be performed with a "harlot or low<br />
woman."<br />
Naglowska maintained that the Sophiales, among whose number we<br />
must presume she included herself, embodied physical gateways to selfdeification<br />
for their male partners. As in the traditional Vama Marga, the<br />
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female is the deified priestess in the Naglowska cult. She sexually<br />
communicates a potentially dangerous esoteric power to the male, a power<br />
that cannot be confronted and sustained by anything less than a heroic<br />
disposition. For Naglowska, the end liberation of this sexual operation was<br />
not the deliberate obliteration of the self into nirvana that some Eastern lefthand<br />
path adepts seek, On the contrary, the Naglowskan disciple was led<br />
along the more radical way of the sinister current, the riding of the tiger of<br />
sexual ecstasy to rebirth as a "kingly man", a god-like daemon. <strong>The</strong> profane<br />
sexual act, which usually binds a couple more deeply to nature and<br />
mortality, is here used to blast their psyches into a non-natural state of being.<br />
Naglowska's Satanic sex-magical utopia was known as the Third<br />
Term of the Trinity (TTT to her disciples), which was conceived in Aeonic<br />
terms as a new world-age which would radically change the spiritual and<br />
sexual nature of mankind, constituting an evolutionary transformation. <strong>The</strong><br />
High Priestess of this coming age taught her acolytes that the first two<br />
"terms" had been Judaism, the age of the Father, and Christianity, the age of<br />
the Son. In the impending Third Term, which she identified as the age of the<br />
Mother, Naglowska wrote, "sex [with the wise women] will confer the<br />
luminous knowledge of LUCIFER and SATAN regenerated." Naglowska<br />
did not envision her Third Era of the Mother as a dark age of doom, but the<br />
concept of a spiritual age ruled by the leftwards Shakti power of Woman and<br />
the previously reviled powers of Satan/Lucifer can be seen as a Western<br />
form of the Kali-Yuga.<br />
Surely the most controversial ritual in de Naglowska's complicated<br />
liturgy was the Trial of Hanging, in which male adepts were sexually<br />
stimulated, then voluntarily hanged until they passed out in a state of<br />
controlled semi-asphyxia. When the male sex magician hovered in psychic<br />
limbo, in a state de Naglowska described as "above all delights," one of her<br />
personally initiated female adherents would position herself on his asphyxiainduced<br />
erection. <strong>The</strong> ligature around his throat would then be released, and