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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Ya, there is definitely some kind of exchange going on between Mesopotamia and Mahayana
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Goodness! Someone alert the TERFs!pic.twitter.com/SOyIHqquap
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This seems to be the same metaphysical logic as justifies the same practice in early tantrapic.twitter.com/yFmuU9XIjg
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OK, I’m not the first to make this connection. http://www.ptmistlberger.com/a-brief-history-of-tantra-and-western-sex-magick.php …pic.twitter.com/FOfpVMP5WB
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
I don’t think the combination of the details of the practice with the metaphysical justification could arise coincidentally in two places.
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