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TIL Paschal Beverly Randolph, considered the first to introduce erotic alchemy to North America, promoted sex magic to improve health, love, women’s empowerment, and intelligent offspring. He referred God as both male and female and also believed bodies ran on electric currents, moved by magnetism.

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