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

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Rome, the chronicler Livy wrote disapprovingly to the senators of the capitol
of the Empire: "You know well, senators, that the Bacchanalia, which have
long been widespread in Italy, are now flourishing in Rome: you know this
not only by hearsay but by the noises and shrieks which resound through the
city at night."
When the ecstatic and fundamentally antisocial nature of the Bacchanalian
orgy was deemed to have gone too far, over seven thousand bacchantes were
prosecuted, resulting in mass executions. The festival was banned outright in
186 B.C., not because of any perception of erotic immorality but because the
mysteries were considered to he a threat to the state's ability to control its
citizenry or draft young men involved in the cult into the Roman army Even
in the relatively more permissive sexual atmosphere of antiquity, erotic rites
could be seen as fundamentally threatening to the established order, a fact
which still pertains to the general distrust and suspicion in which the sex
magician is held today.
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Basic Principles Of Group Sex Magic
We turn from these considerations of the ancient orgy and its potential
application to the modem magician's work to the core magical principles at
the root of all orgiastic rites. Julius Evola, in his The Metaphysics Of Sex,
sums up the underlying magical foundation of the orgy admirably He wrote:
"The most immediate and obvious purpose of orgiastic promiscuity is the
neutralization and exclusion of anything concerning the 'social individual' ...
Whether they are orgies of primitive and outlandish peoples or kindred
festivals of Western antiquity, the common denominator is the temporary
removal of all prohibitions, all differences of social status, and all bonds that
normally hinder the manifestation of eros in its elementary form. In principle,
the practice of promiscuity excludes not only the conditional qualities of the
social individual but even qualities of the deeper layer of the individual as a
personality. It tends, therefore, to bring out an almost total freedom."
The left-hand path orgy draws some of its initiatory effect from deliberately
bringing the chaotic power of chance into magical play. One effective
method to disrupt established social structures within the group is to borrow
a procedure from the traditional Tantric Choli Marga rite. The celebrants can
select their consorts using any system of chance to assure that the orgiastic
energy created is generated through the union of randomly coupled sexual
partners rather than pre-established affinity. The random pairing of men and
women in the Choli Marga was partially designed to break the taboo of
caste, and sometimes incest. In the contemporary left-hand path orgy, the
same depersonalization of sexuality is cultivated, permitting the initiate to
experience the eternal essence of male and female sexual powers in their
purest state. Once removed from the familiar specifics of name, biographical
details, and known identity, the adept can more easily approach his or her
consort as a divine being.
For the magician, a taste of the absolute liberty accessible through
the sex-magical orgy can potentially reveal and transform previously
undiscovered strata of the psyche, opening his or her eyes to possibilities of
self-creation and self-identity that other forms of sexual congress may
obscure. However, from the frankly elitist standpoint of the sinister current, it
is understood that allowing the ordinary and uninitiated person to experience
"total freedom" – an experience of profoundly disorienting and destabilizing
potential – can sometimes he akin to handing an infant a loaded revolver. If
the sexual magic of the left-hand path can he profoundly disturbing and
unexpectedly life-transforming for even the experienced and prepared
practitioner with only one sexual partner, the added complications that the
magical orgy can bring to hear on the unguarded consciousness might well