C is for Chymical Marriage

C is for Chymical Marriage

Chymical Marriage or Chymical Heirogamy
The concept is from Christian Rosencreutz (see. The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz, 1495)
The Chymical Wedding is often described as the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians). It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the husband and the bride. The invitation to the royal wedding includes the Monas Hieroglyphica associated with John Dee.

"Much of the alchemical literature of Europe now appears to be a coded tradition of drug-and-sex programming.....This code is especially notable in The Chemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross (1615), which forms the visible link between traditional alchemy and modern Rosicrucianism. The mystical rose and cross from which the Rosicrurians take their name are, in fact, no more or less than the vagina and the penis, respectively...(For the curious, here is the rest of the traditional symbolism, as given by Louis T. Culling in his Manual of Sex Magich Cucurbit—the vagina; retort—the same, during copulation; eagle—the vagina, or the female mouth, depending on the context; lion—the penis; transmutation—the sexual "peak experience"; elixer of life—the semen; quintessence—the semen as transmuted by ritual and ecstasy.)" ----Sex and Drugs by Robert Anton Wilson p66

According to Frater U.D. the Chymical Marriage is the body of Western Sex Magic (even though, as U.D. states, there is only a vague, allegorical mention of sex mysticism in the work).

In his book, Secrets of Sex Magic, Frater U.D. offers 2 rituals of Chymical Marriage, one for couples and one solo or inner marriage.

photo by Narn

In both rituals, the Chymical Marriage is a distinct combining of the Solar and Lunar, Masculine and Feminine, Yin and Yang energies between the couple or in the body of the magician. This act is also seen in the Wiccan Great Rite, in face, U.D.'s couple ritual even resembles the Great Rite in the action of inserting the God's athame into the Goddess's chalice and combining the solar and lunar energies therein.