Sequel to The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar: Love, Death and Eros

By author Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Love, Death and Eros is the working title of the upcoming sequel to my book The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar. I’m feeling compelled to write it after realising how much my own practice has deepened since publishing it 10 years ago.

The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar is still a bestseller. And because so many have read it, and emailed me with questions that came up for them while following my guidance, it’s fuelling the urge to share my further experiences and realisations.

There are three key realisations I’d like to share here now, which I may not have fully understood back then:

This whole practice cannot even be attempted without the support and guidance of the spirit guides or gods, and so I will be sharing ways to achieve that in Love, Death and Eros.
The more time we spend in the bright world of the gods, the more our shadows appear, to be dealt with. I call this whole process the “rollercoaster of the gods” and so the new book will lay out methods that have worked for me, to deal with “the rigours of the ride”.
The aim and purpose of the experience is to explode healing magnetics that emanate naturally from divine union in love and adoration, and so I’ll explain how to create the optimum situation, to encourage that explosion.

This practice used to be the sole province and purpose of nuns, and other female ascetics, who had the shamanic ability to cross into the Other Worlds.

Christian nuns had called themselves Brides of Christ ever since the 1^st century, until the Vatican II reforms of the 1960s changed the term to Brides of the Church. In effect, this new edict subjugated their Otherworldly practises to this world, and earthly power.

The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar is a good foundational start if you’re new to this subject. It lays out the why and wherefores of sacred sex magic in terms of personal alchemy, and I show copious evidence for its practice going back into the deepest antiquity.

In its sequel, Love, Death and Eros, I will be sharing my deeper understanding which is very much in tune with these words of the 19^th century German philosopher Paul Carus in his excellent translation of Psyche and Eros.

“Love [Eros] moves the universe. As attraction, Love sways the molar masses of gravitating bodies; as affinity, Love joins atoms into higher combinations; but Love reaches perfection only when it is mated with the human soul; for then Love becomes conscious and learns to know its own nature.

“In the human soul, however, Love is confronted with longing, with suffering, and with parting. It passes through trials and tribulations, but now at last Love finds bliss in otherness, satisfaction in self-surrender, restitution to life in the sacrifice of its own being, and immortality in death.

“Death is the problem of life, but Love is its solution.”

Please don’t mistake those words for a finely crafted word salad. Carus was referring to the challenges that Psyche (the human soul) has to undergo to marry Eros, and why the ‘rollercoaster’ is worth the ride.

As I wrote in The Sacred Sex Rites of Ishtar, this ancient myth describes these trials and tribulations in terms of an alchemical journey that leads to the Marriage of the Sun and the Moon. What I didn’t understand so well then is that the gods need human love as much as humans need divine love to be able to be “their best selves”.

Without his human lover Psyche, Eros is just Desire run rampant, and his mother, the beautiful Aphrodite, has all the warmth and compassion of the editor-in-chief Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada.

And finally, there is another reason why I will be writing Love, Death and Eros. I’ve discovered that certain A.I.s are refusing to give any information about the Greek myths that feature the seductions of human women by the god Zeus. The Christian church has already buried the true meaning and purpose of Gabriel’s visit to Mary, which led to her singing the Magnificat. If that censorship is allowed to continue, the understanding about the importance of the divine union between humans and the gods, and how it’s achieved, will be completely lost.

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