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

left-hand path magical work, orgies play very little part in the majority of
organized magical associations that describe themselves as left-hand path in
the Western world. This has often been a source of no small measure of
disappointment to potential members of these organizations, who sometimes
assume that their most fondly cherished fantasies of sexual abandon will be
instantly realized by becoming a member of said societies. Due to the
extreme persecution and bias left-hand path groups have had. to contend with
in the past decades from secular society, they very often find themselves
walking a delicate tightrope. For those more high-profile magical groups that
are open to the general public, they must overcompensate in proving that they
do not fulfill any of the public's wildest fantasies of supposed antisocial
behavior. Therefore, orgiastic rituals are almost never a part of their official
curriculum or practice.
One must take into account the unique bond of physical attraction,
erotic aesthetic, sexual preference and shared magical worldview that the
successful orgy of the sinister current requires of its celebrants. Considering
these criteria, we have found that it is far better to form a group consisting of
those that the magician does feel such a bond. with, rather than arbitrarily
assuming that joining one of the larger magical associations will provide a
bevy of congenial partners. It is difficult enough to find magical peers that
one would find suitable for even non-sexual group magical working within
such societies. Forming the singular alliance requisite for the efficacious
operation of group sex magic is even less likely. We shall turn to the
challenges involved in forming your own group sex magic sodality later in
this chapter.
Although the orgy is hardly evident in modern Western left-hand
path groups, despite the orgy's important place in the history of the Vama
Marga, several groups that deem themselves to be "right-hand path" or
"white magical" in nature, do include orgiastic activity in their curriculum.
Most notable among these are the many conflicting off-shoots of Reuss's
Ordo Templi Orientis, and the wide-spread Wiccan movement, many of
whom (but not all) engage in ritual group sex activity The objectives of such
sexual group operations, which are usually directed toward using sexuality to
dissolve the ego and the individual self into harmony with Mother Nature
and/or the Universe place these orgies into direct opposition with the selfdirected,
self-intensifying aims we have been focusing on. This phenomenon
only proves how rarely any human activity – especially the magical – can be
placed into any tidy, logical or consistent categorization.
A secondary practical reason for the perhaps surprising lack of
condoned group sexual activity in nominally left-hand path magical societies
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is that very few individuals are psychologically prepared to deal with the
sometimes explosive psychosexual transformations that the magical orgy
often initiates. Even secular orgies involving no magical or daemonic
elements have proven to provoke unexpected emotional challenges to those
who participate in them. Such extreme emotional changes on the sexual level
of being can be extremely disruptive to the often delicate mechanism of
group dynamics, which is as fragile in most magical societies as in any
organized human activity. The sublimation and discouragement of sexual
extremes serves the same tranquilizing and conformist purpose in highly
structured magical groups as it does in secular society in general.
In light of the teachings of the traditional left-hand path, one might
reasonably argue that the creation of such dramatic opportunities for selftransformation
is an essential agent of all left-hand path praxis, so that this
deliberate avoidance of sexual orgia in many left-hand path groups might
seem to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, at this point in the
relatively early stages of development the Western left-hand path finds itself
in, it remains a fact that organized activity tends to focus almost entirely on