Mani and other Mesopotamian gnostics performed a ‘Semen Eucharist’ http://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/41428923/VC_Semen_Eucharist_among_the_Manichaeans.docx?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1495810430&Signature=ged461CoEfRk1nIGcVu%2FRzdgQ3g%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DVC_2016_Human_Semen_Eucharist_Among_the.docx …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Weird, here is the cite http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700720-12301031/ …
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Tracking back to http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700720-12301032 … : this is startlingly similar to early tantra (see _The Kiss of the Yogini_ for relevant stuff)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Ya, there is definitely some kind of exchange going on between Mesopotamia and Mahayana
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So, I think I understand why early tantra was functional and compelling in its sociocultural milieu. No corresponding sense for Gnosticism.
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I read an article about Mesopotamia bringing forth both rafical sex negativity and this sexual antinomianism as reaction
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Well, Buddhism certainly had the radical sex negativityhttps://vividness.live/2013/11/22/renunciation-in-buddhism/#sex …
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Tantra was also responding to near-total institutional collapse of monastic Buddhism in the late 500s/600s.
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Maybe similar persecution of mainstream Jewish Christianity in Mesopotamia provided similar sociocultural conditions?
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I will try to piece together the timeline as I know it
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