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be intolerable for some.
Of course, this disorientation might also he exactly the initiatory
shock required. Deciding when and if you or another magician is likely to
benefit from the intense energies unleashed in the magical orgy must be an
entirely subjective decision, with very few reliable guidelines. One might
presume that magicians who've already experimented with a great diversity
of sexual experience in their profane lives are better candidates than less
sexually adventurous types. However, sometimes wholly unpredictable
individual quirks often arise in the complex chemistry of the orgiastic rite
that play havoc with expectations and likelihoods. This element of the
random adds much of the electrifying power to group sex magic in general.
The magical orgy is very likely to erase sexual borders that transcend
the individual's normative social context, sometimes radically expanding his
or her notion of self. For the practiced magician, whose consciousness can
deliberately be made fluid without losing the sense of personal identity, this
can be a great spur to willed transformation and remanifestation. For the
beginning magician, whose psyche is usually a fairly fragile and rigid
construct, and who is only first experimenting with the potential for selfprogramming
and deconditioning, the magical orgy is usually not the best
introduction to sex magic. As always, there can be no hard and fast rule
applied that suits all individuals in all situations but experience indicates that
a preliminary experimentation with sexual magic conducted between a
couple should be explored in depth before bringing other partners into one's
work.
Another practical reason for applying caution in such cases is that the
powers of concentration need to he well-developed to effect desired magical
change in any sexual operation. The added distractions of the orgy can be
such a strain on one's incipient will-power and focus that magical objectives
can easily be abandoned altogether. There's certainly nothing wrong with
enjoying a secular orgy for it's own sake as a celebration of eroticism in
general. However, if magical or initiatory aims are your principal motivation,
the more skill you acquire at attaining a high level of will, focus, and altered
state of consciousness in sexual situations before trying out the orgy as
magical tool, the more likely it is that your magical goals will be executed
efficiently.
Considering how much effort it takes to build an adequate magical
rapport even between two sex magicians that share a tested emotional bond,
the creation of such a psychic link between the celebrants of a magical orgy
is even more challenging. In a certain sense, one of the basic principles
guiding all group magical work applies just as well to the orgy. Namely, the
more magicians that one involves in any working, the more diffuse becomes
the focus of the action. An orgy involving only three or four magicians is
obviously going to be far more precise and controllable than group sex
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workings performed by a larger gathering.
With the magical orgy, as with all human experiences, one must
realistically factor in the law of the lowest common denominator: the weakest
link in a crowd seems to bring down the quality of the experience
considerably. Just as a lecture given to an audience composed of a few
experts in any specialized field is going to differ substantially from a lecture
directed at a much larger, less informed assembly, so it is with the orgy. Like
the theoretical lecture, any effective act of magic – even the most non-verbal
orgy – involves the accessing and synthesizing of communicated
information. It isn't that a magical orgy can only function if performed by a
group of exclusively experienced magicians but there can be no denying that
the presence of novices will radically alter the outcome.
This does not mean that those just learning the Black Art should