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could arouse disgust in even the most depraved persons among us. Sexual inter-
course that has to be practiced most successfully with your own daughter, mother,
etc., is a teaching that does not make room for what mankind has concluded about
normal human behaviour. There are enough evidence that Abhinavagupta kept such
relationships with his sister after she had become a young widow. However, the
old "knowers" argued that the sensuality implied usually by the sexual act can
be easier removed in this manner, giving way to pure gnosis and mystic ecstasy,
and nenceforth, to freedom.
But which kind of soteriological goal is achieved
through necrophiliac practices with the cody of a dead woman for instance, which
is said to be revitalized due to the practitioner's semen? Human sperm is believed
to be the only thing as energetical and powerful as blood. The first is assimilated
to male consciousness in its waking state and the latter to the female state of
mind which is characterized
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according to the tantric view by subconscious
activity. Life means especially waking state, while death is like sleep, an
immersion into one's own subconscious. Therefore, when a young and beautiful
woman dies, the tantrika will take (sometimes buy) and keep the corpse for
several days, at times warming it with hot bricks. Periorming sexual intercourse
with the dead body, he restores life to the woman through his semen and incanta-
tions (i.e. he confers the waking state upon the corpse,, using her for necromantic
purposes. Before destroying the corpse, ne will cut off its need and mount it
32 apat raved with magical symbols which is permanently retained by the
necromancer, who, from time to time, would pronounce a conjuration and force it
to answer some questions.
A somewhat similar technique may be performed on
any corpse drawing a magic circle around it and placing on its right side a vessel
containing the five makaras (N.E. mudra is
represented here through a coin) which
are offered
to the body's spirit. The chief practitioner touches the corpse some
times with a wand
made from the thighbone of a dead man, or with his
sacrificial life and commanus it:
"In the name of Kalika