I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net

e to slip into merely abstract considerations, turning away from the physical
world where left-hand path initiation is rooted.
In reading this, some will probably discover that they've grown lazy
in their thinking in some areas, describing one's self or one's magical
activities with words that don't actually serve personal magical objectives.
For example, many magicians choose to describe themselves as witches,
pagans, Satanists, Chaos magicians, magickians, white magicians, black
magicians, or any number of other popular terms that provide instant identity
on rather shaky grounds. Look into the actual meanings and implications of
these words anew according to the science of word definition rather than as
loosely defined by the various magical subcultures from which they spring.
You may find that such words don't correctly describe you at all, and
that they can actually form an impediment to the important task of selfanalysis
that underlies all magical work. On the other hand, you may find that
your chosen moniker is more correct than you previously knew. Use such
titles with a magician's conscious sense of the appropriate for you also
magically mold yourself by what you call yourself. Try to delete the use of as
much vague magical and occult jargon from your vocabulary as possible,
always aiming at a higher and more specific level of precision and accuracy.
Thus do the magi of the left-hand path begin their work of recreating
the world.
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At The Left Hand Of Christ
The Holy Whore And The Gnostic Magus
Let not your left hand know what your right hand does.
-Attributed to Jesus, Matthew 6.3
Isn't it a somewhat pedantic and priggish attitude to invoke all the forces but
Jesus? It makes him a sort of devil" and so liable to attract all the good
people.
Aleister Crowley, on the sex-magical invocation of Christ.
The Cross The West Bears
Anyone who attempts to follow the elusive trail of the left-hand path in the
West eventually smashes into one monumental roadblock on the way.
That obstacle is the deadly influence of organized Christianity's
enduring stranglehold on Western sexuality. To understand the peculiar
situation in which the Western sinister current sex magician has been forced
to operate, we must first come to terms with the distorted psychosexual
conditions that the past centuries of Christian dominance have engendered.
Without a doubt, Hindu and Buddhist puritanism and restrictions of
sexuality present their own unique challenges to the Eastern adept of the
left-hand path. But they simply can't compare for sheer ferocity with the
hatred of the body that informs the exoteric Christian worldview Any
attempt to integrate the left-hand path into the Western world must consider
the pernicious influence that the popular cult of crucifixion – even in its
currently waning manifestation – has brought to bear on the deepest levels of
erotic experience.
Some readers may find it perverse and paradoxical to begin the
quest for a Western left-hand path by dwelling on the negative impact of
institutional Christianity, a religion which originated in the East. After all,
thousands of years before the spread of the Christian epidemic, the magical
and the erotic were celebrated as integral aspects of highly advanced
Western cultures. It's all well and good to look back fondly to the spirit of
erotic liberty and joy that was known to the pre-Christian West of antiquity.
But the rich sex-magical tradition fostered in the founts of Western
civilization, ancient Greece and Rome – as well as the lesser known erotic