num_pages: 318
description: In an uncharacteristically glowing book review Aleister Crowley wrote that Ida Craddock possessed "...initiated knowledge of extraordinary depth. She seems to have had access to certain most concealed sanctuaries.... She has put down statements in plain English which are positively staggering."It was high praise, but there can be little doubt that Craddock was a deserving resipient. Her long-term interest in the occult and open-minded approach to sexual matters led her to develop a fascinating and original perspective on the relationship between sex and spirituality. Craddock explored this subject in a number of works, notably 
  Heavenly Bridegrooms
—the posthumously-published book that was so favorably commented upon by Aleister Crowley—and also in two manuscripts, Lunar and Sex Worship and Sex Worship (Continued). These were commissioned by Ida Craddock's patron, the Spiritualist W.T. Stead, as studies of sexuality in religion and mythology, viewed through the prism of her own experiences and beliefs.This Teitan Press edition is the first ever publication of Lunar and Sex Worship and Sex Worship (Continued). It comprises the complete text of both works, edited and introduced by Vere Chappell, and expert on the life and work of Ida Craddock and the author of 
  Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock
.
language: English
title: Lunar and Sex Worship
publisher: Teitan Press