Order of Napunsakas in the West

One of the occult orders I founded during the late 80s or early 90s (memory fails as to the exact year) was the Order of Napunsakas in the West. Strictly speaking, napunsakas, according to Alain Danielou and other Indologists, refers to intersexuals, persons who have both male and female genitalia. As a gullible adolescent, I was amazed that there might be any such creature, and having obtained most of my sexual education from classmates, I even got the garbled form of hermaphrodite as “morphodite.”

However, I did not use the term napunsaka in the traditional sanskirt sense: the prepositional “in the West” modifies the term to include all non-heterosexual beings, including the identification of a group I find most applicable to my own, bisexuality. In common parlance, “napunsakas in the West” might humorously be called “Western queers.” After all, I am only a generation later than Burroughs, who published an autobiographical “novel” called Queer.

That said, the sigil borrows from traditions in Judaic mysticism as well; hence, Asher-Anu-Hoa. The serpent may be seen as either the antinomian Gnostic version of the snake in the O.T. since our tradition was to include the Mysteries of the Ophites and the Cainites, who regarded J*H*V*H as the evil demiurgos – Ialdabaoth – and saw the Serpent of Geneses as the true God, known to most Gnostics as Abraxas or, as Crowley taught, Abrasax.