Most of us know that semen has the remarkable ability to help start babies. But this is only one of the powers attributed to the mysterious substance. One idea is that semen has a “magnetic” effect those who retain their semen i.e. refrain from sexual activity, are able to draw both men and women to themselves. It has often been assumed that semen has mystical or religious powers. Thus a subsect of the Gnostics mixed the fluid with the sacramental draught in their religious ceremonies. And in the so-called Black Mass, semen has served as holy water. Aleister Crowley reckoned that art, literature and philosophy were all the outcome of sexual power, and that the whole of human psychology was a radiating miasma from the seminal stream: he is reported as saying that “Mind is a disease of semen.”