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

magical goals.
From this point of view, the dominant magician serves as a
technician, creating a trance state of measureless strength in the flesh and
psyche of his or her submissive. The slave may be bound and gagged, forced
to suffer every carefully designed cruelty that the master or mistress can
dream up. But in a manner that belies all outward appearances, the
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subservient magician is in fact experiencing a profound state of freedom.
This process of total liberation through bondage is the confounding secret of
submissive magic.
The intense psychic and carnal turbulence engendered in algolagniac
workings can, for instance, allow the submissive magician the freedom to
turn off the avowedly rational aspects of mental activity for a controlled
period so that more mysterious depths of the mind can be explored. The
discipline required by strict obedience of the dominant, combined with the
simultaneous effect of pain on the nervous system, permits the submissive
magician to rend the veils of distraction and extraneous thought that
customarily obscure the deeper strata of being. The harsh physical constraints
to which the submissive consents serves to sharply focus the mind on the
magician's inner work.
Understood from this viewpoint, it can be seen that the algolagniac
rite is particularly well-suited to the individual-oriented direction of left-hand
path sex magic. The dominant and submissive independently undergo very
distinct magical experiences that preserve the sanctity of each individual
consciousness. At the same time, these separate but equal magical shifts of
consciousness are intensified and strengthened by the interplay of the erotic
energy flowing between the magicians. When we comprehend what's actually
transpiring in each magician's mind – rather than concentrating on the more
immediately apparent visible inequality of power the two roles would
indicate – it becomes evident that both the dominant and the submissive are
reaping what they need from the working.
Strictly pleasurable erotic action based on the charged connection
between the differing qualities of male and female provides a useful jolt of
conflict that can be directed to magical purpose. The polarities inherent in the
magical work between dominant and submissive magicians works on much
the same principle, drawing force from the coming together of opposite
polarities. Just as it would be impossible to determine whether it's the male or
female sex magician who derives more power from his or her erotic
intermingling, so is it equally impossible to make such a judgment in the case
of the dominant or submissive.
Although the submissive willingly allows the dominant to shape the
initiatory ordeal he or she has committed to during the working, the essential
element of self-control is never surrendered, even in the throes of algolagniac
ecstasy. This is one of the most important determining factors that separates
the submissive of the sinister current from the average masochist.
The traditional sexual masochist very often wishes to obliterate the
independent self
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altogether, motivated by complicated emotions of shame, guilt and selfloathing
that can even verge on the suicidal. Submissive magicians of the
left-hand path may allow themselves to be just as cruelly debased as the
ordinary masochist but such debasement is entered into in fully conscious
awareness of the magical benefits that such submission can give rise to.
Even in chains, suffering the torments of the damned visited upon
the body by the dominant magician, the submissive magician continues to
exalt the supremacy of his or her will, strengthening it as a semi-divine
independent agent in the universe. Indeed, the philosophical contradiction of