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

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are the more likely they will be efficacious in commumicating your will on
the daemonic levels of maya that allow magical will to become flesh.
During the height of sexual arousal and altered state of consciousness
the dominant can pierce the submissive, leaving a semi-permanent anchor in
the physical universe of the dominant's command, rooted in an intense
moment of fleshly pain and subservience. It can also be effective to have the
submissive tattooed or branded with a symbolic representation of the
dominant's will, so that the submissive returns to normative consciousness
hearing a coded signal of the adept's desire.
Responsibilities Of The Dominant
Despite the sometimes overpowering sexual and emotional passions
unleashed by such workings, it cannot be overemphasized that the dominant
is always the architect of the magical operation, and is therefore obliged to
maintain total mental control during the entire procedure. The submissive can
surrender utterly to ecstatic trance but the dominant bears the responsibility
for the submissive's safety throughout the entire working. One of the lessons
provided by the god-like power which submissives freely grant to their
masters is that power always comes with responsibility. Dominants who
abuse that responsibility by losing control of their emotions or passions
during a working cannot he said to have the necessary discipline demanded
for the left-hand path.
Likewise, submissives must always be wary of falling into the hands
of a dominant who does not demonstrate this kind of discipline in other areas
of their life. In short, a magician who shows no concern for their own life, or
exhibits self-destructive tendencies, is not to be trusted with the complete
control over your body and soul that lust/pain workings are often based on.
Before assuming the role of the dominant in magical workings the
magician must come to terms not only with his or her inner disposition but
the facts of one's actual existence. All too many dominants —whether in a
simply sexual or magical context – choose to assume this persona merely
because they have no actual power or authority in their everyday lives. The
image of the meek and put-upon "low man (or woman) on the totem pole"
who takes out his or her frustrated lack of power on a submissive is so well
known as to have become a well-worn cliché. Perhaps there is some
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therapeutic value in such play-acting for the average human being but such
self-delusive games are of no practical use to the magician. Left-hand path
magic is not a psychodrama.
Dominant sex magic must never be allowed to become a substitute
for a real life that you actually find intolerable, a simple form of escapist
entertainment distracting consciousness from the reality of one's personal
existence. In fact, this will backfire; the powerless weakling who wields a
whip to shore up sagging self-esteem and a perceived lack of respect will
gain nothing but a temporary evasion from reality through these means. No
genuine initiatory transformation of the self or of one's conditions will be
achieved, because all of the practitioner's energy will be eaten up by his or
her psychological needs, leaving nothing for the performance of magic.
However, very few individuals have the necessary self awareness to view
themselves objectively
enough to know if they fall into this category. Therefore, it's ultimately
dependent on the submissive to make a careful judgment as to who would be
a suitable dominant for their needs.
It may not seem fair to some but if a magician's sorcerous and
initiatory work is not built on a solid worldly foundation of some measure of
power in one's social environment, it is unlikely in the extreme that any
magical act will provide it for you. This is true of all forms of magic but the
potentially addictive and always intense nature of workings centered on