1) Gooch and Carroll both belong to a peculiarly British school of thought that insists that everything in the nonphysical world must have been put there by human beings. I consider that view to be as mistaken as it is misguided. The universe is more complex, interesting, and richly populated than that! Sexual tulpas certainly exist, but so do spirits that were not created by human beings -- and some of them feed on the sexual energies of human beings.
2) Here Carroll is quite correct -- I suspect he read Lodovico Sinistrari's book on the subject. Incubi and succubi don't have sex on the material plane; they stimulate the human nervous system using astral images and etheric energies, so their victims typically have erotic dreams of fever-dream intensity resulting in orgasm and followed by a sick, exhausted feeling and (very often) various illnesses. Clairvoyants who have witnessed them note that whatever feverish dreams they stimulate in their victims, they themselves appear to have male genitalia, though succubi can have some female characteristics otherwise.
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branchandroot
Re: Incubi and succubi
Date: 2022-07-25 06:07 pm (UTC)2) Here Carroll is quite correct -- I suspect he read Lodovico Sinistrari's book on the subject. Incubi and succubi don't have sex on the material plane; they stimulate the human nervous system using astral images and etheric energies, so their victims typically have erotic dreams of fever-dream intensity resulting in orgasm and followed by a sick, exhausted feeling and (very often) various illnesses. Clairvoyants who have witnessed them note that whatever feverish dreams they stimulate in their victims, they themselves appear to have male genitalia, though succubi can have some female characteristics otherwise.