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

lust/pain are particularly subject to abuse in this regard.
The Sorcery Of Submission
Since the dominant magician wields the majority of the observable power in
the algolagniac working, it would at first seem that assuming the submissive
role would be of little value for the left-hand path magician, who is motivated
by an attainment of greater and greater levels of power over the world and the
self. How does the sexually submissive magician of the sinister current
reconcile this apparent contradiction?
Free will is one of the decisive factors. If the exchange between
dominant and submissive is entirely one-sided, consisting of the master
forcing the slave to succumb to practices he or she had not consciously
assented to, the submissive would indeed have forfeited all power. Such a
working would be little more than a rape, assuaging the desires of the
dominant while providing little expression for sorcery and initiation on the
submissive's part; at best, an act of sexual vampirism. Alternately, we have
known of dominants who were magically drained of energy by the demands
of their vampiric submissive.
In fact, there is a much more subtle exchange of power taking place
between the consensual submissive and the dominant than meets the eye.
The submissive magician, as we pointed out earlier, can play an
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equally god-like role in erotic magic as the dominant. By deliberately and
consciously relinquishing all manifest freedoms and everyday responsibilities
during the time of the working, the submissive is actually potentially
transforming into a being beyond the normative human experience, opening
the consciousness to powerful levels of self-transformation. If we examine the
flow of sexual energy in such a working carefully, we will see that the
dominant is actually contributing a great deal of exertion and energy to the
submissive just as much as the submissive is actively pleasing the dominant.
Ironically, by allowing another magician to take complete control of one's
body during a working, the submissive is liberating aspects of the psyche to
operate in a way that is normally impossible.
One of the most powerful means of shaping the submissive's
psychosexual core at the dominant's disposal is taking control of the actual
times during which the submissive is permitted to experience orgasm or any
kind of sexual activity. The exercises we provided in Chapter Nine
recommended that all left-hand path sex magicians occasionally undergo
enforced periods of complete sexual abstinence. If you recall the psychic and
physical discomfort you may have felt attempting to restrain your own erotic
energy, imagine the plight of the submissive sex magician who is obliged to
follow his or her dominant's orders to refrain from any sexual experience save
as it pleases the dominant.
The submissive, for example, may not even be allowed to masturbate
without the express permission of the dominant. Very effective controlled
release of sexual energy during workings can be realized in magical
operations making use of the frustrated sexual desires of a submissive
working under such restraints. It is often the case that the hedonic ecstasy felt
by the submissive magician who is only permitted infrequent orgasm at his or
her dominant's behest is of an almost unbearable intensity in comparison to
simply climaxing according to his or her own lust. Disciplined
experimentation with this technique can hone such carefully controlled
orgasmic power release to an increasingly fine art.
The act of magically controlled sexual submission is in fact a means
to access an altered state of consciousness, through which the submissive's
deepest core of being can be awakened. When the correct measure of pain is
applied to the submissive's body by an adroit dominant, this altered state of
consciousness is enhanced dramatically, creating extreme physiological
changes that a skilled submissive magician can direct towards any number of