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

independently described the vision of an intense blue lightning flash during
the deepest trance phase of the working. In subsequent group sex rituals, the
magicians meditated on this image of Marbas before commencing the rite as
a means of forming a sorcerous link between their psyches. This image
became the reservoir for the combined magical energy of the group, serving
as a power source to be tapped into when needed.
While such spontaneous creations of the egregore are not
uncommon, a group of orgiasts might also deliberately set out to artificially
devise a daemonic intelligence that unites the group, providing an initial
focus. Choosing a particular image of a pre-existing divinity is one option but
there is also something to be said for the creation of an entirely synthetic
entity in the imaginations of the magicians, a god-like act of creation quite
suitable to the self-deifying nature of the sinister current.
An egregore could be as abstract as an interlocking series of symbols
representing each member of the sex-magical group, or each celebrant could
draw a different feature of an imagined face, until a unique entity emerges
from the collective imagination of the magicians.
The image of the egregore, which can be constructed in the form of a
sculpture, a drawing, or collage can be charged with the combined sexual
fluids of the orgiasts, a proven method of providing a semblance of daemonic
life to any creation. Indeed, such beings have a peculiar way of taking on
422
lives of their own as the group's sex-magical work intensifies, which can be
an instructive lesson in how magic operates in the world. The egregore can
then be utilized by the group as a kind of elemental, a thought-form that can
he exhorted to accomplish the group's bidding in the daemonic realm.
Leaving aside such experiments with sorcery and the creation of
artificial mental beings, the most practical reason for working with the
egregore is that the creation of such an elemental in the minds of each
orgiast forms a dynamic centre for the magical action. With any group of
individuals endeavoring to accomplish a collective goal, there are always
difficulties involved in engineering a smooth transition between normative
group consciousness – typically diffuse and unfocused – and the selfimposed
limits of ritual time and space.
Creating Group Focus
Very often, there is a chaotic swirl of nervous tension and exuberant high
spirits before any magical orgy. As each participant arrives at the
designated. site of the working, a certain amount of small talk and trivial
chit-chat ensues, a wholly expected phenomenon that precedes almost all
group activity among humans. This disordered energy needs to be controlled
and directed to the aim of the orgy, rather than simply allowed to dissipate
of its own accord. Certainly, the success of the operation will not be well
served by allowing this mechanical social behavior, which is mostly the
result of conditioning, insecurity, and habit, to be permitted into the working
itself.
The magical orgy requires an altered state of consciousness to be
reached, allowing for true ekstasis to be achieved, a phase of operations in
which the will of the magicians communicate their desires in the daemonic
realm. That requires discipline. If the orgy commences with the mood of a
casual cocktail party, it's unlikely that the required shift in consciousness
will occur. There are several ways to break this distraction; each group will
find the most effective method through trial and experiment.
The host/guide of the orgy can expressly forbid any conversation in
advance of the working, so that each celebrant silently arrives and takes his
or her place in darkness without uttering a word. This can create an
emotional tension that lends itself to the creation of a suitable mood for
magic.
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