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

sorority may be considered to fulfill the function of shaktis within the
Naglowska branch of the sinister current. Naglowska herself was known by
her followers as "the Sophia of Montparnasse", in a reference to the Gnostic
feminine principle said to impart the gnosis. Her female acolytes were also
known as Sophiales, presented as the vanguard of a "new matriarchy".
In the imminent utopia Naglowska proposed, all 17 year old girls
would be consecrated as sex-magical Sophiales in special training institutes.
This consecration she thought necessary to balance the disturbed
equilibrium between male and female polarities, which she theorized was
the root cause of the world's ills. Thus, sex magic was seen to exercise not
only a personal initiatory transformation on the couples who practiced it,
but a much larger social effect. (Naglowska's hypothesis that unsatisfying
sex and imbalance of the genders created social catastrophe bears some
similarities with the psychologist Wilhelm Reich's ideas, although he would
certainly have rejected any mystical or Satanic overlay)
The world-changing force, according to Naglowska, was "feminine
power", which she believed would emanate from a new kind of spiritually
and sexually advanced woman, "la sagesse" – the wise woman. Far from the
usual lascivious cliché of what a Satanic woman might be, Naglowska
described her ideal female "initiatrix" as a "pure woman ... who does not
tolerate perverse vibrations." In this regard, Naglowska seems to he
influenced by her reading of the earlier writings of P. B Randolph, and their
insistence that sex magic should never be performed with a "harlot or low
woman."
Naglowska maintained that the Sophiales, among whose number we
must presume she included herself, embodied physical gateways to selfdeification
for their male partners. As in the traditional Vama Marga, the
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female is the deified priestess in the Naglowska cult. She sexually
communicates a potentially dangerous esoteric power to the male, a power
that cannot be confronted and sustained by anything less than a heroic
disposition. For Naglowska, the end liberation of this sexual operation was
not the deliberate obliteration of the self into nirvana that some Eastern lefthand
path adepts seek, On the contrary, the Naglowskan disciple was led
along the more radical way of the sinister current, the riding of the tiger of
sexual ecstasy to rebirth as a "kingly man", a god-like daemon. The profane
sexual act, which usually binds a couple more deeply to nature and
mortality, is here used to blast their psyches into a non-natural state of being.
Naglowska's Satanic sex-magical utopia was known as the Third
Term of the Trinity (TTT to her disciples), which was conceived in Aeonic
terms as a new world-age which would radically change the spiritual and
sexual nature of mankind, constituting an evolutionary transformation. The
High Priestess of this coming age taught her acolytes that the first two
"terms" had been Judaism, the age of the Father, and Christianity, the age of
the Son. In the impending Third Term, which she identified as the age of the
Mother, Naglowska wrote, "sex [with the wise women] will confer the
luminous knowledge of LUCIFER and SATAN regenerated." Naglowska
did not envision her Third Era of the Mother as a dark age of doom, but the
concept of a spiritual age ruled by the leftwards Shakti power of Woman and
the previously reviled powers of Satan/Lucifer can be seen as a Western
form of the Kali-Yuga.
Surely the most controversial ritual in de Naglowska's complicated
liturgy was the Trial of Hanging, in which male adepts were sexually
stimulated, then voluntarily hanged until they passed out in a state of
controlled semi-asphyxia. When the male sex magician hovered in psychic
limbo, in a state de Naglowska described as "above all delights," one of her
personally initiated female adherents would position herself on his asphyxiainduced
erection. The ligature around his throat would then be released, and