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

usually consists of the male adept's magical evocation of the Dakini as his
sexual consort. (The same basic technique can of course be used by female
initiates to create a male sex-magical elemental.)
In the West, these subtle-bodied sexual elementals have most
commonly been known as the succubi. European demonological tradition
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associates the female succubus with the Hebrew demoness Lilith, Adam's
disobedient first wife, whose long history can actually be traced to her
earliest incarnation as one of a fairly minor Sumerian family of desert
demons known as lilu (a male creature) and the females lilitu, and ardat-lili.
The 1610 Douay Bible calls Lilith a lamia, a word used by the ancient
Romans to describe a sexual vampiress. The word lamia is derived from the
Greek lamos "a gaping mouth," a reference to this entity's reputedly voracious
labia, which reputedly drinks semen from the erections of sleeping men who
dream of her. The position she traditionally favors, sitting astride the male,
can be compared to the shakti's position in the left-hand path rite. Women
have just as frequently reported intercourse in their dreams with the male of
the species, the incubus, a lascivious creature medieval demonology
considered to be only one of the many forms taken by the Devil. Incubo is
Latin for "nightmare", personified as a creature that literally weighs down on
a sleeping person, a commonly recorded sensation described throughout the
ages by those who have undergone a nocturnal rendezvous with these
elementals, who are just as likely to be terrifying as they are desirable.
At the turn of the last century, The Irish poet W. B. Yeats, an initiate
of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, famously described that
MacGregor Mathers, the Order's leader, was beset by women undergoing
incubus infestations. Yeats wrote that "one has called to ask his help against
phantoms who have the appearance of dead corpses, and try to get into bed
with her at night. He has driven her away with one furious sentence, 'Very
bad taste on both sides."'
Leaving aside the colorful legendry of Eastern dakini and Western
succubi and incubi, it is apparent that men and women in every culture
known to man have reported the realistic sensation of sexual congress with
such beings. These visitations usually occur as the percipient hovers in the
hypnagogic state between sleep and waking, but are not typically felt to be a
dream. Quite often these phantom visitors take the form of a much-desired
living person of the host's acquaintance. Encounters with such beings are
hardly limited to those who consider themselves to be magicians; in fact, the
uncanny sense of tangible reality that sex with these elemental creatures
provides has often been the turning point that has convinced ingrained
materialists to first explore esoteric study.
To experiment with the autoerotic evocation of sexual elementals,
you will utilize the abilities of orgasm prolongation and controlled
visualization with which you have already worked. At night, assume the
same vertical seated position as previously, physically arousing yourself for
as long as possible while visualizing with increased intensity the naked form
of a sexually desirable partner. The elemental may be patterned after the
appearance of a real person whom you find sexually appealing, or may be an
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entirely imaginary construct. One cautionary note; if visualizing a real
person, don't allow this rite to be transmuted into a simple lust ritual aimed at
casting a spell upon the visualized object of desire. It would defeat the
purpose of the exercise if the initiate is merely trying to send a signal to
another mortal – a far easier act of sorcery than the summoning of an
elemental being.
Going beyond the mere visualization of the elemental, attempt not
only to vividly see him/her, but to awaken all the other erotic senses. In
successive exercises, strive to hear the elemental's breathing, and its voice; to