Margaret Sanger, Daughter of Sorcery

“I argue that sexuality studies has underestimated the importance that magia sexualis—a term I borrow from the title of the nineteenth-century sexual magician Paschal Beverly Randolph’s most famous book to denote magic, occultism, sorcery, super-naturalism, and witchcraft in the most capacious senses—has played in the construction of modern sexuality and sexual subjectivity. This absence of consideration of magia sexualis in sexuality studies is all the more surprising inasmuch as many commentators have noted the interarticulation of sexual anomalies and the supernatural.”

—Benjamin Kahn

The Greek word for sorcery or witchcraft throughout the Bible is pharmakea. This is also the term used in ancient literature for abortifacient. There is, then, a direct Scriptural connection between sorcery and abortion. Considering the occultic backdrop of Baal and Molech worship and their sacrificial elements, the parallels made between abortion and child sacrifice should not be surprising. What I do find surprising is that there seems to be no awareness that Planned Parenthood is an occultic organization, and its founder Margaret Sanger, was the proxy of a sex-magic sorcerer.