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

one's current partner is unsuited or uninterested in taking the needed opposite
role required for such work. Considering the unpredictable variety of human
sexual desires and the wide range of fetishes and specialized erotic practice
that can be useful to the sex magician, any number of possible combinations
can be imagined that may fall outside of the boundaries of a well-suited sex
magical couple's repertoire.
To sum up, no matter what the self-imposed limits or possibilities of
your erotic situation, once one opens the Pandora's box of left-hand path
sexual magic, the need to be ready, willing and able to deal with the deepseated
metamorphoses that may occur to one's inner erotic identity and one's
external relations with those closest to you must be taken into account. The
whole emotional minefield of jealousy, envy, competitiveness between sex
partners, unexpected outbreaks of possessiveness, and many more primordial
anthropoid behavior patterns can easily be activated as side-effects of this art.
Many sex magicians have consciously used erotic sorcery to overcome these
emotional constraints that arise in the psyche. Others have been hopelessly
mired in them, losing sight of their magical goals altogether and destroying
long-term friendships and erotic alliances in the process.
There are a few pragmatic methods that have helped some long-term
partners to fortify the intensity of sinister current energy needed for their
workings.
Couples who customarily sleep in the same bed every night might try
sleeping apart from each other, in different rooms, for a few days prior to a
working, so that individual consciousness can be more acutely appreciated
during the rite. This is not only useful for the individual sex magician, it
allows one's partner to more clearly perceive you as a separate entity apart
from the sometimes blurred identity lines of coupledom. It can also strengthen
a sex-magical working performed by a regular couple to separate completely
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for a few days, reuniting at a preplanned time and place suitable to the
working's goal.
A deliberate and strictly observed period of abstinence has been
observed to bring energy to all sex magical operations, but can be of
particular service to couples who enjoy an active sex life with each other (it's
less useful for couples who only have sex with each other infrequently). The
interval of self-denial marks the sexual working as a more deliberate and
focused application of Eros than is experienced in ordinary sexuality. The
breaking of a prolonged sexual fast provides much added impetus to a
working, signaling the psyche to pay attention, because something important
is happening. As has already been explained, any symbolic action that
removes the working from ordinary experience clarifies the liminal function
of ritual to the magician's mind – when this crossing of a threshold is rooted
in the body, it is all the stronger. On a less esoteric level, abstinence can
greatly increase the level of sexual desire felt by both partners, with an
ensuing elevation of erotic energy that can be magically manipulated
Strangers
Some sex magicians insist on always informing their partners if they are
utilizing their sexual energy for magical purposes. Others perform sexual
magic with unknowing accomplices with no pangs of conscience. So long as
the actual sexual activity engaged in is with the full consent of your partner,
we do not consider it necessary to communicate the magical operations going
on in your own psyche. Each individual left-hand path magician must develop
his or her own code of conduct according to personal – rather than tribal –
morality.
In some cases, rather than carefully choosing a partner, the magician
performs his or her sorcerous action with a stranger. Some workings will
benefit from incorporating the entirely random element of what is known
colloquially as the "one-night stand". The energy unleashed by the unalloyed