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

sexuality and magic, it seems that the most effective workings of dominance
and submission occur between partners that have already created a strong
emotional bond. The dominant who has little understanding of the psychology
of his or her submissive will simply be performing a mechanical function
with none of the emotional depth required to make sex magic soar to the
heights it can ideally reach.
Autoerotic Experiments
Like all forms of sex magic, any number of possible human combinations are
possible with pain/lust workings. Many magicians have achieved extremely
powerful magical results through strictly individual workings that involve the
self-application of pain to their own bodies. For instance, the solo practitioner
might attain a high level of erotic excitement by simply affixing painful
clamps on his or her nipples or genitals. Bringing his or her self to orgasm at
the peak of agonized ecstasy, the solo magician concentrates on the
attainment of his or her magical desire at the sharpest moment of orgasmic
trance, just as with previously discussed autoerotic magic.
One submissive magician of our acquaintance who was also a
photographer set up his camera on a remote control shutter so that he could
photograph himself at the moment of greatest pain/pleasure, thus fixing the
precise second in which he transmitted his magical will into the sorcerous
time-freezing medium of film. The subsequently developed photograph was
then used as a talisman to focus the mind on the magical goal. There's
something about bringing together the heated organic processes of the flesh
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with the cold and anonymous functions of technology that serve magic well –
perhaps such weddings of skin and machine draw on the energy sparked by
any forced conjunction of polarities.
Many sexual submissives begin experimenting with their personal
threshold of pain through very elaborate masturbatory rituals involving pain,
actions limited in complexity only by the imagination of the individual
magician. Just as all left-hand path sex magic practice is probably best
instigated with masturbation, initial attempts at learning what forms of pain
are most stimulating very often begin alone with the magician manipulating
his or her own flesh.
Even if the magician is drawn to a dominant role in sex magic,
beginning one's experiments with autoerotic work can be useful, since it
allows the magician to experience both sides of the S&M equation. The
dominant who has endured some measure of the pain he or she will be
applying to the submissive will be a more adept technician of ecstatic agony
than the magician who knows only one level of this delicate interplay of
opposites.
At the opposite extreme, pain/lust is very often shaped into a
transcendent energy for self-transformation by the participation of many sex
magicians. The presence of several sex magicians in a rite of dominance and
submission can magnify the desired emotional humiliation of the
submissive(s) involved and step up the intensity of actual pain delivered,
along with other more subtle augmentations of the working.
SM, XY and XX
The observable differences between male and female sexuality also come to
bear on the choice of partner. The female submissive very often attains her
greatest pleasure from submitting to one particular master. While male
submissives are also sometimes linked to one specific dominant, men seem
more inclined to gain equal pleasure from submitting to anonymous
dominants. For this reason, many male submissive sex magicians have
enjoyed effective magical results through relations with professional
dominatrixes, which is always an option when no willing partner is available.
While there are always exceptions to such rules of thumb, it seems to
us that men's sometimes more indiscriminate sexuality allows them to revere