Non Physical Beings and Entities

Throughout history, humans have dealt with nonphysical beings and entities. These discorporate beings have enraged us, tantalized us, seduced us, sometimes even killed us. But the harm they do is generally through our own lack of understanding.

In both Western and Eastern traditions, the succubus is found. She is a demon taking the form of a sexually-enticing woman to seduce men in their dreams; often, men practicing sexual abstinence through personal choice or enforced restrictions experience her. She’s as well known in Muslim and Jewish folklore as in all Western traditions.

She is said to collect the semen of the men she seduces, then deliver them up to her male counterpart the incubus (or to simply transform herself into the incubus) to impregnate innocent women similarly seduced by the incubus. This excuse was widely used to explain unwanted pregnancies!

But the figure of the succubus goes beyond this; a carving of her often denoted a brothel. For this reason, and the negative connotations of all those unwanted pregnancies, the succubus became known as an evil figure related to sexual evil, negative sex, and the victimization of humans by the discorporate servants of the Devil. In the Middle East, the succubus is even more deeply feared as the possessor of a razor-sharp vagina; she has intercourse with men, takes what she wants, and leaves them wounded and sometimes dying; often she is said to eat those she seduces.

In the East, the nonphysical beings were understood somewhat better. A common being is the fox wife, the incarnate ghost of an unhappy or restless female spirit, who seduced men into having children with her.

Now, the fox wife is a little different. She is not inherently evil, at least not to her mate or children, whereas the succubus and incubus is. In fact, the fox wife is often given the attributes of a muse. When her husband marries her, she gives him children (a physical incarnation of the rich mental wealth one may receive from a muse) and physical wealth or success. Only when her husband exposes her for what she is does she desert him, at which point all the wonderful things she has brought to him disappear.

This is very interesting. It implies that, unlike the Western vision of the succubus, that the fox wife is understood to be a helpful, but misunderstood and feared, spirit. This is understandable. Few of us truly understand the world that exists beyond our own minds. It is difficult to accept the gifts of a truly fertile soul, a productive relationship with the godhead that lies beyond all of us, as something we have the right to, not something that is going to be snatched away from us at any moment.

For this reason, we need to reach out to the discorporate spirits that visit us in our dreams, and that visit some of us in a more physical form. Instead of fearing the nightmare, the waking vision, the angels that guide us and demons that frighten us, we need to embrace them as the valid conduits of magick they truly are.

Sex with these discorporate beings can bring us a freedom that we could not attain on our own. It is a gift, not a curse or an excuse that our self-inflicted misfortunes should be blamed on, that these spirits who surround us are willing to give of themselves to guide us to enlightenment. Embrace it – and them – and you may have an experience beyond your wildest dreams.