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==The rite==
Crowley first described the rite in a tract titled ''Eroto-Comatose Lucidity.''<ref>Martin, ''Art, Messianism and Crime: A Study of Antinomianism in Modern Literature and Lives,'' 1986.</ref> The ritual as described by Crowley involves one "ritualist-seer" and several aides.<ref name="Kraig" /><ref name="Urban">Urban, ''Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism,'' 2006.</ref> [[Donald Michael Kraig]] advises that the more sexually experienced the aides are, the better the ritual works,<ref name="Kraig" /> and that the aides be members of the opposite sex.<ref name="Kraig" /> Religious scholar [[Hugh B. Urban]], however, concludes that, for Crowley, aides of the same gender as the ritualist (e.g., homosexual activity) was the highest stage of practice of this ritual.<ref name="Urban" />
In the first part of the ritual, the aides seek repeatedly both to arouse the ritualist sexually as well as to exhaust him.<ref name="Kraig" /><ref name="Urban" /> The ritualist is generally passive in this regard.<ref name="MartinHeresy" /> There is disagreement over whether sexual arousal is enough, or sexual orgasm must be eventually accomplished. Crowley and others argue that orgasm must be avoided.<ref name="Kraig" /><ref name="Frater" /><ref name="Carroll" /> Although later practitioners conclude that orgasm does not need to be avoided, that was how Crowley originally formulated the ritual.<ref name="Frater" /> Most practitioners agree with Crowley that every means of arousal may be used, such as physical stimulation, genital stimulation, psychological stimulation, devices (such as [[sex toys]]), or drugs (an [[entheogen]] like [[hashish]], [[marijuana]], or other [[aphrodisiac]]s).<ref name="Kraig" /><ref name="Urban" /> There should be enough aides so that if one aide tires another may take his or her place.<ref name="Kraig" /> Eventually, the ritualist will tend to sink into sleep due to exhaustion.<ref name="Kraig" />
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