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

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This same interrogatory technique is equally applicable if the
dominant seeks to communicate with the intelligence of a chosen divinity or
demonic being. Just as the submissive may be used as a means of contacting
a specific region of the dominant's inner self, the submissive's body can serve
as a vehicle for the entity invoked through pain. The infliction of erotically
charged pain as a means of invoking a divine consciousness in the sufferer
has a long precedent in pagan religious practice, and even survives in a
distorted form with the penitents and other Christian cults of flagellation of
the flesh.
The body of the submissive, brought to a high state of ecstasy
through pain, can also be used as a vehicle for necromancy, allowing the
dominant to communicate with the dead. Regardless of the particular entity
being sought, the release of endorphins in the brain through algolagniac
handling of the body seems to be the physiological foundation upon which all
such workings are based.
The Dominant As Deity
Naturally, it is also appropriate for dominant sex magicians to invoke a
specific divinity within themselves. Even in non-magical relations between
dominants and submissives, it has been noted that the submissive very often
submits to his or her master or mistress in an attitude bearing much similarity
to the religious devotion and veneration usually accorded to a deity. When
this pre-existing "worship" of the dominant is energized through magical
theurgic operations, one of the most powerful expressions of divine
invocation accessible to the magician can be realized.
To fully understand this phenomenon we must go beyond the outer
manifestations of such acts and explore what goes on in the psyche of the
dominant sex magician. The left-hand path magician seeks the selfdeification
of his or her consciousness in this lifetime. There are few
sensations that so keenly demonstrate this god-like transformation in the
flesh as the experience of witnessing the submissive willingly relinquish all
control to you.
Indeed, many non-magical dominants have also had their will and
sense of self strengthened by this ritualistic submission to their mastery,
finding it an extremely addictive sensation in many cases. The effect on the
awakened consciousness of the dominant magician, who directs this feeling
of divinity to sorcerous and/or initiatory objectives is all the mightier. During
the working, the submissive at your feet – who has agreed to obey your every
whim – represents Maya subject to your command.
When the dominant in this position opens his or her consciousness to
any of those gods or goddesses of darkness appropriate to the sinister current,
he or she is literally transformed. Once having attained this altered state of
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consciousness, the dominant/divinity uses the body of the submissive as a
means of changing the phenomenal world of manifestations. The whipping,
body modification, torture, humiliation, forced penetration or other modes of
pleasurable pain applied upon the submissive's flesh should have a profound
symbolic correspondence with the changes the dominant seeks to create in
the world. Necessarily, these correspondences and meanings need not make
the slightest bit of sense outside of the subjective world of the dominant, and
indeed the more personal these meanings are the more power they will
exercise.
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For instance, the dominant can order the submissive to obey certain
verbal or physical cues once the working is over that perpetuate the symbolic
power of the universe the dominant has commanded during the operation
itself. The more cryptic and concealed these instructions