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

submitting to another's discipline while maintaining one's own absolute
autonomy as a spiritual being is a challenge the left-hand magician welcomes
as an instrument of initiation. Such paradoxical experiments with the extreme
dynamics of opposition are fuel to the fire of the creation of the divine self
that is the ultimate goal of the sinister way.
Like any mystery of any enduring value, the enigmatic power of the
submissive can only be apprehended by actually undergoing the experience.
Words in a hook can only dimly approximate the utterly personal selftransformative
process known to the awakened submissive.
The Dominatrix As Shakti
Algolagniac magic occurring between a strong female dominant and a
submissive of either sex often underscores the primary importance of the
Feminine Daemonic and the manifestation of the Dark Goddess to the lefthand
path. A magician who joyously suffers at the hands of a truly inspired
dominatrix can come to know the savage beauty and power of the Feminine
Daemonic in far more vital a manner than the operant of the traditional lefthanded
rite may accomplish. A domina who has developed a sufficiently
strong shadow, projecting a divine erotic image that transcends the merely
human personality, can serve as an unparalleled initiatrix.
It is the rare female dominant magician who truly excels at this most
difficult transformation, as few women are able to fully shed the societal
conditioning demanding that women be nurturing and selfless. Of course,
many dominatnxes are able to temporarily cultivate a passably formidable
image by wearing the symbolically appropriate clothing of S&M fantasy,
acquiring the necessary technical training for administering pain and
affecting a one-dimensional demeanor of arrogance. The female adept who
truly taps into the Feminine Daemonic goes far beyond such common
posturing; through an act akin to shape-shifting she can incarnate the eternal
form of Shakti from within, a spiritual function which has nothing to do with
conforming to the popular iconography of the man-eating bitch common to
the media.
The female dominant magician who has the strength to serve as a
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living vessel for the Feminine Daemonic is at once Priestess and Goddess in
the same body. The cruelties she metes out to her slaves take the form of
religious sacraments, and submitting to her is an initiatory ordeal that tries
the spirit as well as the flesh. The art of becoming such a magical dominant
cannot be taught, for it is something deeply connected to one's being.
Occasionally the woman who frees herself from the cultural programming of
mandatory female gentleness and kindness will discover that the Feminine
Daemonic has been lurking in her soul all along. More often than not it is a
state of being only sporadically attained, in the most intense moments of
erotic magic.
The female submissive who shivers with delight at the erotic
suffering inflicted by her ale dominant can certainly experience just as much
of a religious epiphany – an encounter with the brutal and pitiless male aspect
of divinity – but the power differential is quite different. The male sexual
dominant is in fact an exaggerated form of the masculine power that
dominates the world in general, as observed in the non-erotic power
structures of society.
The female dominant in touch with her Feminine Daemonic is a
somewhat more radical manifestation of erotic power, since she breaks with
the normative image of female as the submissive element of the male-female
erotic equation, presenting a challenging living manifestation of female erotic
energy that subverts the expected social roles.
It can be profoundly frightening for the submissive to witness the
wrath of this divine atavism take form in a human dominant, especially when
the submissive is in a helpless and utterly vulnerable position. However, this