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

sub-races. Other branches of the study are easily mastered, except Sapphism,
which is hard even to witness, as you have to be on very intimate terms with
one of the girls, and if both are real exclusive sapphists, you can't be, unless
you can work your Point of View as an artist or student of sex. I had an awful
blow last November when a girl asked me 'Have you ever been pricked with
needles in the dark?' and I had not. The red brand of shame sears my
forehead to this hour."
As is so often the case, Crowley was exaggerating to push the
boundaries of a student he considered to be in need of a shock, but the
underlying principle he defines is sound enough. Eros is the predominate
medium through which the sinister current adept seeks liberation. It only
follows that the wider his or her scope of experience is, and the more
methodically the initiate pursues the infinite permutations of sexuality, the
greater one's sex-magical repertoire will be. Each magician's journey to
discover the full spectrum of sexual expression at his or her disposal must
inevitably take vastly different forms, but a few general areas of pursuit can
be suggested.
You will have reached the desired objectivity in relation to sexuality
when you can consider any sexual act calmly and without undue emotion.
Whether or not you feel that you must personally experience each possible
sexual variation to attain this level of detachment is of course an entirely
personal decision. To varying degrees in different Western countries, sex is
placed in a strange niche that can hardly be compared to any other bodily
activity. For some, fucking can only be discussed in nervous whispers, for
others it arouses prurient giggles; both a sure sign of the incipient fear and
apprehension it commonly inspires. Demonized as a filthy, guilt-ridden
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degradation or placed on a pedestal as a holy act only to be performed under
the aegis of love or marriage; both perspectives reveal the essential
abnormality with which sex is still viewed by many All of these conditioned
responses must he mastered and transcended.
According to various regional codes, there are "appropriate" times
and places allowing even for the discussion of sex, let alone its actual
enjoyment. And although the mass media, as noted earlier, sells its wares
aggressively through sexual symbolism, this apparently open demonstration
of the erotic consistently conveys a signal that sex is anything but an ordinary
aspect of human existence. To approach the sleeping serpent of sex magic
with any degree of efficiency, the adept must first he able to regard sex as
clinically as any other entirely normal function of the human body. Perhaps
paradoxically, it is only then that the use of sex as a potentially sacred
instrument of consciousness transformation can take place.
The majority of men will not have a problem with the idea of fully
researching their sexual mechanisms and breaking the conditioned borders of
their erotic identities; the instinctive and natural biological imperative of the
male body to spread his seed wide already provides men with a desire fur
sexual experimentation. The female sex magician, however, must often
contend with the powerful instinct that encourages her to nest with one mate,
with whom sexuality is deeply connected with notions of monogamous love.
Although not every woman is bound by such innate biological restraints, the
vanquishing of these natural instincts is often a challenge requiring a
conscious act of opposite-doing to accomplish.
The left-hand path initiate must strive to deeply understand the
workings of his or her libido in a comprehensive manner that most humans
would prefer not to consider. To do this, the adept's sexual reactions,
capabilities, quirks and deficiencies must be tested, challenged and overcome
in as many situations as possible. What forms this process of ascertaining
sexual self-knowledge will take must vary according to the diversity of each
magician's personal erotic essence; outlining a standard program would be