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

attracted to enough of its members for successful results to incur. For this
reason, many sex magicians have therefore participated in profane group sex
activity, hoping to apply the energy raised for their own magical purposes,
unbeknownst to his or her partners. While any circumstance can theoretically
be bent to serve the will of a magician, the undisciplined nature of secular
group sex cannot be expected to provide the same remarkable power and
unique phenomena observable during the deliberately magical orgy. We
strongly recommend that orgiastic work be developed organically within a
circle of friends that can accept the non-doctrinaire spirit of experiment that
419
such operations call for. Two couples who have already independently
achieved demonstrable results with sinister current sex magic have often
formed a strong nucleus for building a larger group.
But the likelihood of such groups surviving beyond the first few
flurries of excitement generated by group sex-magical activity depends
entirely on the personalities of the celebrants involved. It has been our
experience that such groups work most effectively when they allow for the
maximum amount of flexibility and change.
In founding any magical society, there is a natural human tendency to
over-organize. The nascent group may needlessly dissipate much energy
devoting a great deal of attention to the design of the group's "official"
symbols, the construction of artificial hierarchies, replete with titles, degrees,
and ranks, the devising of complicated rules and regulations, and the general
systematic codifying of the group's living experience into the stasis of
dogma. All of this is guaranteed to be a waste of the initiate's valuable time.
You need only consider the endless doctrinal and interpersonal bickering that
characterize the various O.T.Os, Fraterniti Saturni and other Western
magical schism groups to observe how not to organize a left-hand path
society.
We have often observed how easy it is for the magical vitality of lefthand
path groups to be strangled by the heavy hand of conformity that is one
of the inevitable results of any collaborative enterprise. In many ways, the
radical individualism of the left-hand path is resistant to all attempts at
systematization. It may be that the very idea of a left-hand path organization
is a contradiction in terms. The dangerous, unpredictable force of Shakti,
whether she is symbolized in the traditional Eastern Vama Marga form of
Kali, or in the Western Babalon current, actually defies all human efforts at
structuring. One way or the other, her chaotic energies will burn through any
fetters constructed to hind her to predictable patterns. Many a magician has
learned that trying to control the Shakti power within the form of a formal
group is as futile an effort as attempting to catch a hurricane with a butterfly
net.
Any left-hand path group can eventually become deadened by social
obligation and the surrender to routine once the original fire of inspiration
that brought the group together subsides. This fire can be ignited afresh only
if the celebrants cultivate a willingness to follow new directions, a strength of
imagination, and a willingness to break with the desensitizing traditions that
inevitably gather like dust over any group activity, even the orchestration of
magical orgia.
The burgeoning magical group dedicated to the study of sex magic
will remain vibrant and open to transformation only to the degree that its
members actively avoid this social disposition to creating itself according to
420
a rigid scheme. Once you have given a name to the group, for instance, you
have magically bound yourself to being defined by that name and its
associations forever more. Some of the most effective sex magic groups have
operated under no official name, which allows for an atmosphere of freedom
that encourages evolution instead of stagnation. If the group progresses