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

a reference, perhaps, to the reportedly uncanny luck which his inner daemon
or genius brought to him. When Johann Goethe composed his epic Faust: A
Tragedy, the definitive version of the Faust legend, he drew on deep research
into the Gnostic heresies. In Goethe's Faust, the magician learns that the most
powerful force in the cosmos – mightier than his blood-pact with
Mephistopheles – is das Ewigweibliche, the Eternal Feminine.
Just as the original faustus, Simon Magus, encountered the Feminine
power in the body of his consort Helene, the Tyrean whore, the fictional
Doctor Faust finds this magical essence embodied in the beautiful Helen of
Troy, summoned from the netherworld through the Devil's necromancy. It's
hard to imagine that Goethe's depiction of a demon-conjuring sorcerer named
Faustus and a supernatural feminine being named Helen is not a deliberate
recurrence of Simon Magus and Helene, incarnation of the Divine Sophia.
From first century Rome to eighteenth century Germany, the timeless
paragons of the left-hand path adept and his shakti are clearly discernible.
The Sacred Prostitute In Antiquity
We have established that the semi-mythical figures of Simon and Christ are
manifestations of the Graeco-Egyptian tradition of the magus. Viewed in
their proper historical context, they can no longer be considered the unique
phenomena orthodox Christianity presents them as. They are simply two
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particularly well-remembered magicians of their time, a period in which selfdeified
magi operated in all sectors of society. Similarly, their Feminine
Daemonic consorts, the prostitutes Helene and Mary Magdalene, are but
enduring expressions of the sex-magical role which the sacred courtesan, or
hierodule, has played from the very beginnings of recorded magical activity
in the earliest known civilizations.
Conditioned to associate the word "sacred" with purity, chastity, and
celestial modes of being, and the word "prostitute" with promiscuity, lust,
and carnality, the modern mind can only experience a jarring dissonance
when these seemingly irreconcilable concepts are brought together in the
form of the holy whore. The Semitic word for prostitute, k'deshah, is derived
from the word for "sacred", the Mesopotamian temple prostitutes were
known by the similar epithet of quadishtu. Despite her dominant place in the
spiritual life of all pre-Christian cultures, the sacred prostitute is today an
utterly banished power. Like all forces rejected by the mainstream of current
pashu opinion, the left-hand path adept can find a great reservoir of untapped
magical energy by contemplating and then integrating this rejected form of
Shakti into his or her initiation.
Of particular usefulness to sinister current initiates is the way in
which the holy whore bridges the long sundered gap between spirituality and
sexuality in her very body. She is a living yantra expressing the uniquely
left-hand path interplay of the physical organism – the Temple of the Nine
Gates – with the non-physical divine essence that can be caused to dwell
within that shrine of flesh. The male who made a pilgrimage to any of the
temples of sacred prostitution – institutions that played a pivotal role in the
spiritual life of antiquity – was not simply seeking the relief of mundane
orgasm readily available from a profane whore. He understood that his
partner's body was mysteriously transformed during the rite into the literal
incarnation of the goddess whose temple she served.
Often trained since her youth in the practice of formal esoteric
dance, the sacred prostitute elevated the ars amatoria of seduction into a
religious art. An important key to the success of such magical operations of
self-deification was the deliberately impersonal nature of these unions. The
anonymous priestess recognized the stranger who came to her as the
embodiment of the goddess's divine consort, often referring to him by the
name of the god. As a priestess, it was her sacerdotal task to form a physical
link between the divine mode of being and the mortal world; her partner