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                              LIBER CDLI (451)

                                  Class B

                      (The 15th Chapter of Liber CDXIV)


                                     XV

                         Of Eroto-comatose Lucidity

  The Candidate is made ready for the Ordeal by general athletic training,
and by feasting. On the appointed day he is attended by one or more chosen
and  experienced attendants whose duty is (a) to exhaust him  sexually  by
every  known  means (b) to rouse him sexually by every known means.  Every
device  and  artifice  of  the courtesan is  to  be  employed,  and  every 
stimulant  known  to  the physician.  Nor should the  attendants  reck  of 
danger, but hunt down ruthlessly their appointed prey.
  Finally the Candidate will into a sleep of utter exhaustion,  resembling
coma, and it is now that delicacy and skill must be exquisite.  Let him be
roused  from  this sleep by stimulation of a  definitely  and  exclusively 
sexual type. Yet if convenient, music wisely regulated will assist.
  The  attendants will watch with assiduity for signs of waking;  and  the
moment  these  occur,  all  stimulation  must  cease  instantly,  and  the 
Candidate  be  allowed to fall again into sleep;  but no sooner  has  this
happened  than  the  former practice is resumed.  This  alteration  is  to  
continue indefinitely until the Candidate is in a state which  is  neither
sleep nor waking, and in which his Spirit,  set free by perfect exhaustion
of the body,  and yet prevented from entering the City of Sleep,  communes
with  the  Most High and the Most Holy Lord God of  its  being,  maker  of 
heaven and earth.
  The  Ordeal terminates by failure---the occurence of sleep invincible---
or by success, in which ultimate waking is followed by a final performance
of  the  sexual act.  The Initiate may then be allowed to  sleep,  or  the
practice  may be renewed and persisted in until death ends all.  The  most
favourable  death is that occurring during the orgasm,  and is called Mors
Justi.
  As it is written: Let me die the death of the Righteous, and let my last
end be like his!