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

symbols for the lingam and the yoni. Ile speculated that the miraculous
spiritual benefit which the Grail knights receive from drinking the sacred
wine from the holy chalice veils the Gnostic practice of eating the sexual
fluids emitted by men and women during copulation as a means of gaining
divine consciousness. "Wagner," Reuss announced in his usual bravura style
"is not only the greatest hero, but also the greatest confessor and prophet of
the sexual religion of the future, which will be based on the obligatory ritual
consummation of the sexual act." Wagner, no doubt an enthusiastic
erotomane, may not have agreed with his admirer's assessment, but we have
already noted the long-standing connection of the Graal legend with an
esoteric tradition of sex-mysticism. Richard Wagner himself often used sex
to activate the shamanic ecstasies that led to his inspired compositions. Sex
magicians should take note of the magical role that the Feminine Daemonic
played in Wagner's tempestuous operas and in his turbulent love life. As
Julius Kapp wrote in his The Women In Wagner's Life: "The prime force of
creative art is Eros. A more convincing proof of this maxim than is afforded
by the life of Richard Wagner it would be hard to find in the cultural history
of the human race."
This ninth degree sexual rite, despite Reuss's claim that it was passed
on to the Order via Kellner from Eastern Adepts, reveals little apparent
Tantric influence except for the recommendation that the male celebrants
should ingest the alchemically mixed sexual fluids released at the conclusion
of the operation. But this act does not seem to derive directly from Yuma
Marga teaching concerning the drinking of the amrita. Instead, the Gnostic
practice of eating sperm as a way of incorporating the Body of Light, the
essence of Christ consciousness in semen, seems to have been Reuss' real
inspiration. The true secret of O.T.O. sexual initiation was Reuss's belief that
consuming a Holy Mass of semen was a key to mystical illumination. To his
credit, he seemed far more concerned with using sexual force for the Great
Work of transforming consciousness; the small-minded use of spermophagia
for money magic that Reuss's would-be successor Crowley was reduced to is
absent from the early O.T.O.
Reuss identified the power fueling his brand of sex magic as "the
practice of transmutation of reproductive energy." In the sense that such a
transmutation involves the deviation of a natural bodily force normally
expended in procreation into a non-natural psychic power creating a new
state of being, Reuss's concept coincides with sinister current erotic
metaphysics. During the ninth degree sexual act, the O.T.O. adept was
expected to exercise his force of will to lift the reproductive energies
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gathered in the genitals to the abdomen; the breathing and concentration
exercises learned in the first seven degrees allowed the transmutation to be
accomplished. Obviously, the method of raising sexual energy from the lower
to the higher areas of the body can be likened to Kundalini, and is much like
Chinese Taoist sexual alchemy Adopting his Masonic brother Carl Kellner's
somewhat faulty and incomplete understanding of yoga, Reuss based his sexmagical
theories on the development of the 10 Vayus (winds) in the body.
This rechannelling of reproductive power, Reuss maintained, was
not simply an excuse for "sexual excesses, but the strengthening of eternal
divine power on the earthly plane, for which sexually strong perfected
people, of masculine and feminine gender are needed." He also likened the
practice of IX° sex magic to the divine process of creation, exclaiming that
"this is white sexual magic!" Reuss ambitiously envisioned the O.T.O. as the
vanguard of a utopian society of sexually liberated beings, which he
described as "a community of Neo-Christians." Those who have attempted
to paint the early O.T.O. as an assembly of Satanic sex fiends are easily
refuted by Reuss's own description of his organization as a white magical
religion with strong, if unorthodox, Christian overtones.