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

focused on the internal process; such rites should not be reduced to the empty
pageantry and posturing so prevalent in the recent commercialization of
fetish fashion.
The Chemistry Of Pain/Lust
Perhaps the most useful way to approach this subject is to pare the function
of sadomasochistic magic down to its most basic, physiological rudiments.
All workings of sexual sorcery require an alteration of the magician's
consciousness in which he or she can forcefully transmit the focused will at a
peak moment of psychic awakening, a summit of daemonic energy that
elevates the magician far above ordinary awareness. For the sex magician,
the psychically enhanced moment of orgasm, an organic and easily accessible
trance state open to every sexually functioning man and woman, provides the
gateway for transmission of the will into the worlds. Alternately, the altered
state of consciousness attained through ecstasy can be utilized for purely
mystical and initiatory purposes, abjuring the mechanical goals of sorcery
altogether.
The magician who adopts sadomasochistic techniques into his or her
repertoire opens up access to another easily attained trance state – the
application of pain to the body-mind-psyche complex. Intense pain, like
intense pleasure, allows for sharp, distinct, deliberately created consciousness
modification, which is exactly the kind of tool the magician requires to do his
or her work. When this extreme pain is wedded to an equally high level of
sexual arousal, the duality of pain/pleasure can be transcended. A new
dimension of ecstasy is opened, an aperture in the fissures of sensory reality
permitting the magician to alter the maya of world and self.
In the methods of sinister sex magic we have explored thus far, the
augmented genital or full-body orgasm is one of the principal mechanisms of
the flesh which the magician manipulates. While orgasm may certainly occur
during the ritualized application of pain, the intensity of the altered states
attainable through its infliction sometimes makes actual sexual climax
unnecessary. Unlike strictly pleasure-oriented sexual magic, lust/pain,
properly activated, can create an atmospheric force of erotic agitation for
both dominant and. submissive that can be sustained without orgasm but with
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equally dynamic effects.
The sinister current technician should learn as much as possible
about the scientific basis of the sexual alchemy he or she creates. Some
misty-minded occultists have objected to us that grounding magical work in
physiological reality ruins the romance of it all. Be that as it may, magicians
seeking to control the body for initiatory purposes are obliged to understand
something of its mechanical workings. This is especially relevant for magical
operations involving pain, one of the riskiest techniques available.
One of the main differences between the physiological reactions
caused by strictly pleasurable sensation and by the administration of pain is
that the latter manipulation of the body releases powerful endorphins, the
morphine-like peptides secreted by the brain as a natural pain- killer. The
surge of endorphins discharged during erotic torture allows the magician to
enter altered states of consciousness perfectly suited for magical
transformation.
When analyzed in this purposely clinical manner, it can be observed
that the magician who limits his sex-magical activity to activating extreme
pleasure alone while avoiding extreme pain is basically demonstrating
nothing more than a personal taste. Logically speaking, there is no
meaningful difference marking one strong sensation as more preferable or
appropriate for magical work than the other. The magically directed
cultivation of pain and pleasure are simply flip sides of the same coin, and
experience has shown that either polarity of feeling is of practical advantage
for the sex magician.