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

appropriate to the working is played, can be observed until the guide senses
that ritual space and time has been entered. For those groups with some yoga
experience, a group breathing or meditation exercise can be a simple but
effective break with mundane consciousness before the orgy. Such
relaxation exercises create an entirely different atmosphere than the
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aforementioned silence – each working will reveal different requirements
and no formula should be rigidly maintained.
A collective reading of an appropriate magical, religious, or even
sexually exciting erotic text, with each participant reading a designated
section aloud, can serve to focus the attention on the intended purpose. If an
erotic text is chosen, it's important to have a fairly accurate idea of the
sexual aesthetics of the group – what one celebrant finds tantalizing is often
ridiculous to another.
Effective means of disrupting the normally choppy and erratic flow
of group energy and harnessing it to sex-magical ends can often appear quite
spontaneously. For instance, any shared adventure or ordeal requiring a
focusing of attention can be a powerful prelude to orgiastic magic.
One ideal example required a group of magicians to climb over
arduous mountain terrain before reaching an isolated cave and body of water
where the rite was to be celebrated. This physically demanding journey into
unknown territory proved to be a very effective means of opening a ritual
space for erotic magic, separating the group's consciousness from mundane
matters long before the actual orgy began. The wild, primeval landscape at
twilight was an ideal setting for the working, and the fact that it was held at
sunset – the border between day and the mystery of night – was eminently
suitable for the border-crossing that sinister current magic always involves.
Any destination reached through difficulty can become a perfect temple for
the performance of magic.
The Orgy Guide
When one thinks of the word orgy, there is a certain implication of an
anarchic free-for-all, an undirected release of sexuality with no particular aim
but intensification of pleasure. This same free flow of erotic energy – so
enjoyable in a profane sexual orgy – is exactly what left-hand path magicians
seek to willfully manipulate and direct toward magical objectives in an
orgiastic working. The magical orgy of the sinister current, far from being a
haphazard and indiscriminate unleashing of orgasmic force, is actually a
highly controlled exercise requiring the same focus of concentration and will
demanded by any left-hand path operation. To assure that the specific
sorcerous or initiatory purpose of the orgiastic working is not cast aside in the
diversion of ecstasy, it is sometimes advisable to choose one of the celebrants
as a guide for the working.
In the traditional left-hand path rite of the chakra puja, the group
energies are ritually conducted by the chakresvara, who radiates control from
the center of the circle. While we do not recommend that Western adepts
today should attempt to emulate the literal form of the Tantric orgies in every
respect, the circular formation of the copulating couples in the chakra rite
continues to provide a psychologically powerful symbolic structure to
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orgiastic workings.
The guide (or guides, depending on how many celebrants are
involved in the orgy) can be an active participant in the sexual magic or he or
she might act as a fairly uninvolved observer. In both cases, the guide works
to control the collective direction of sexual excitement. It's sometimes very
difficult for the celebrants of a magical orgy to be aware of the larger picture
of the complex exchange and build-up of erotic energy they are so intimately
involved in. With each celebrant swept up in the sometimes overwhelming
surge of sexual force an orgy can activate, a guide can serve as the eyes of