Death is orgasm is rebirth is death is orgasm.
— William S. Burroughs (The Ticket That Exploded)
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Sex, the explanation for everything, our master key.
— Michel Foucault
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I MODI
I Modi (The Ways), also known as The Sixteen Pleasures or under the Latin title De omnibus Veneris Schematibus, is a famous erotic book of the Italian Renaissance in which a series of sexual positions were explicitly depicted in engravings. While the original edition was apparently completely destroyed by the Catholic Church, fragments of a later edition survive. The original illustrations were probably copied by Agostino Caracci, whose version survives. The original edition was created by the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi, published by Raimondi in 1524, and led to his imprisonment by Pope Clement VII and the destruction of all copies of the illustrations. Despite the seeming loss of Raimondi’s originals today, it seems certain that at least one full set survived, since both the 1550 woodcuts and the so-called Caracci suite of prints agree in every compositional and stylistic respect with those fragments that have survived. The images nominally depicted famous pairings of lovers (e.g. Antony and Cleopatra) or husband-and-wife deities (e.g. Jupiter and Juno) from classical history and mythology engaged in sexual activity, and were entitled as such.
The 7 Hermetic Principles →
THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM (THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE (As above, so below; as below, so above.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION (Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY (Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature,but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM (Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT (Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER (Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.)
The 7 Hermetic Principles →
THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM (THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE (As above, so below; as below, so above.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION (Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY (Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature,but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM (Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT (Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.)
THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER (Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.)
