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

was the copulation-free product of immaculate conception, frequently
described him as the bastard son of a whore who had. been impregnated by a
soldier in the Roman Army occupying Judea. Of course, this story of
Christ's origins may well have been an alternate myth that was excised by
the puritanical editors of the authorized Bible we know today. There is an
undeniable mythic resonance in the idea of a powerful magus being born
from the union of a warrior (extreme male energy) and a whore (extreme
female energy) – the age-old conjunction of the opposing Mars and Venus,
by whatever names. On a more prosaic level, the whores and soldiers of
occupied countries have been procreating out of wedlock since time
immemorial, so it's conceivable that this legend of Christ's parentage is
nothing more than a mundane biographical fact. At any rate, the symbol of
the holy whore had played a significant role in Middle Eastern magical
culture long before Christ's time, as we shall see, which does much to
explain why having a harlot for a mother and as a companion would serve as
impressive "credentials" for any would-be magician of the era.
In regards to the later authorized myth of the Virgin Mary, it must be
remembered that the word "virgin" in antiquity did not necessarily specify, as
it does by contemporary standards, that the woman in question had never
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experienced sexual intercourse. A virgin was simply an unmarried woman, a
definition which resolves the seeming contradiction between the conflicting
legends of Christ's mother as whore and the more widely accepted later
picture of Mother Mary. One of the many goddesses who are called virgin,
but who are at the same time sexually promiscuous, include Ishtar, portrayed
simultaneously as girlish maiden and Whore of Babylon, patroness of harlots.
Finally, utterly isolated from the conventions and norms of his
culture, the magician Jesus was condemned to he executed as a common
criminal, although he had attained a state of initiation allowing his
imperishable psyche to survive physical death. It is unlikely that the
crucifixion/death of the magus and his miraculous resurrection are to be
interpreted as historical events in time. More likely, the narrative is a
symbolic metaphor for a magician's willed initiatory "death" and
transformation from one state of being to another. An interesting artistic
tradition persists that depicts Christ laughing during his ordeal on the cross,
the threshold between mortal life and godhood. Like many transgressive
magical deities of ancient times, Christ has also occasionally been depicted in
his final agony with an erection, a sign of magical potency.
Contemporary accounts of Jesus describe him as one of many
wonder-workers and magicians operating at the time, and he was commonly
believed to have learned the magical art in Egypt, where he was said to have
commanded "the names of an angel of power", alternately described by Bidez
and Cumont in their Les mages hellénisés (The Hellenic Mages) as "demons
of a higher order." Christ's journey to Egypt, the land of magic, was taken as
evidence of the sinister, occult source of his powers by his Rabbinical and
Roman enemies. According to Morton Smith's Jesus The Magician, Christ's
opponents also claimed that magical symbols were tattooed on his body in
Egypt, a typically left-hand path breaking of taboo, in this case the Judaic
restriction on marking the body.
Clearly, Christ does not perform his magical deeds by commanding
external entities to do his bidding, or by performing convoluted rituals. He
has fully activated a magical current within him, thus becoming a daimon in
his own right. This internal power, known as dynamis in the Greek magical
tradition, is similar to the self-sufficient energy stream of kundalini-shakti the
left-hand path magician awakens in his/her body at the highest level of divya
initiation. That the organized religion later built around the figure of this
mysterious magician is so often adverse to magic of any kind is one of
history's most absurd ironies.