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

ite, his or her main goal is always directed at transformation of self, not
submission to a higher power.
The avatar who comes away from the orgiastic working convinced
that he or she has permanently become the god or goddess invoked is an all
too common phenomenon, which can lead to serious mental disturbance.
Indeed, the history of occultism is a veritable lunatic asylum filled with such
psychic casualties.
Similarly, the celebrant who has sexually venerated the incarnated
god or goddess during the working may have difficulty making the transition
back to mundane consciousness, which can lead to the harmful idealization of
the magician who serves as the deity even after the working has been
completed. Because of these possibilities, it's important that such workings
always end conclusively with a clear-cut ritual removal of the divine force
from the avatar, a process that brings all celebrants "back to earth".
One way to avoid the obvious potential for exploitation inherent in
such a rite is to allow all of the group's members to take turns serving as the
divinity in subsequent workings, rather than allowing one particular magician
to be accorded. special status. The possible danger of invoking divine
intelligences into one's own psyche and body during orgies is just as perilous
for the magician serving as avatar. The mixture of the magician's own altered
state of consciousness when erotically fused with the numinous awe that is
sometimes visible in his or her ritual sex partners can be as explosive for
unstable egos who perform this function as it can be for the sometimes
vulnerable psyches of the initiate encountering the incarnated deity.
One of the advantages of the group orgiastic setting, as opposed to
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such work between couples, is that the observation and participation of others
can set limits on the possible psychological hazards such practices
occasionally produce. While the initiate of the sinister current has much to
gain from experimenting with the sexual summoning of divine beings, and
observing the effect of such operations on one's own psyche, there is nothing
useful in the engendering of the all-wise guru/subservient student game
played by so many occultists, in imitation of Crowley and his kind. Group
sexual magic, like any psychologically potent magical activity can often be a
breeding ground for such nonsense. Narcissism and hero worship are frequent
side-effect of the sinister current's effect on the psyche. Vigilance against
such delusions must be always be customary psychological hygiene for the
left-hand path illuminated libertine.
The deliberately unequal power dynamic between submissive and
dominant sex magicians engaged in sadomasochistic interaction is a different
matter, since the submissive magician has agreed to submit to the dominant.
In such relations, there is no pretense of advanced guru and lowly student,
based on the supposed spiritual superiority of the guru figure: the sinister
current requires that all actions undertaken are always motivated by the free
will of the magician. The goal of self deification is the primary motivation.
Forming A Left-Hand Path Group
The intensity of even one such sex-magical orgy, (assuming it is successful)
can very often result in the decision to found a more cohesive magical group
to experiment more comprehensively with left-hand path magic. Considering
the vast diversity of human reaction to involvement with any group, it would
be presumptuous to offer anything more specific than a few rough guidelines
on this subject.
For any number of reasons, many sex magicians have simply not
been able to locate or form a sympathetic group of fellow magicians for the
purpose of orgiastic experiment. Many organized magical groups, even those
of an adventurous bent, draw the line at group sex workings or consider such
activity depraved or otherwise abhorrent. Of those magical groups that do
allow for orgiastic work, you may well find that you're simply not physically