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

another; again, the better the dominant knows the submissive the more
precisely aimed this kind of work will be.
Of course, all of the above examples are frequently part of many nonmagical
dominant/submissive relationships. The primary difference in a
magical context is that the energy unleashed by the breaking of the selfimposed
sexual taboo is directed toward sorcerous or initiatory change rather
than simply erotic arousal alone. The submissive, having survived whatever
ordeal has been stipulated by the dominant, will realize that the forbidden is
an entirely subjective phenomenon. If one's core sexual disposition can be so
easily altered, it becomes apparent to the magician that other social
restrictions and habits of conditioning are also subject to total transmutation.
Active embrace of the left-hand path teaches that the self and the
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world is infinitely more fluid and changeable than our conditioning would
have us believe, placing the magician in control of his or her construction of
reality Experimenting with one's seemingly permanent sexual boundaries
under the stern guidance of the dominant provides a controlled license to
break these erotic limits. While there is nothing stopping any sex magician
from deliberately breaking his or her erotic taboos outside of the constraints
of the dominant/submissive bond, the unique characteristics of this power
exchange can sometimes be a much stronger impetus to such initiatory
breakthroughs than one's individual efforts may achieve. However, once the
habit of breaking one's own taboos as a deprogramming method is acquired
through algolagniac work, the magician should be able to continue this
practice without the encouragement of a dominant partner.
Again, outward appearances are deceiving. Although the external
observer witnessing such rites would understandably imagine that the
submissive is being cruelly coerced into loathsome activities by the dominant,
the submissive has freely consented to follow the discipline of the dominant.
Despite the appearance of restraint, the dominant is serving as the initiator or
initiatrix, freeing the slave to confront hidden aspects of the self that actually
enlarge the submissive's scope of power in the world.
Just as the submissive can sometimes represent the dominant's higher
self, in these cases the dominant serves as an external representation of the
submissive's higher self, compelling the submissive to perform physical rites
of self-transformation with the submissive's tacit assent. This hidden
symbiotic aspect of the dominant/submissive bond – which can only be
experienced from within the bond itself – is one of the secret sources of
power that inform such workings.
it must be said that when results are attained in taboo-breaking sexual
magic, there inevitably comes a point when most magicians will simply have
exhausted the number of untested erotic taboos that constrict them. It would
be fairly pointless to continually repeat the breaking of taboos once their
power of the forbidden has been deflated through familiarity Many a
submissive discovers that after breaking a certain taboo, it becomes enjoyable
to willfully return to the experience of breaking the former taboo for strictly
pleasurable purposes alone. That, of course, is the prerogative of the
magician, however, for the purposes of taboo breaking, this would no longer
qualify. At this point, the originally taboo sexual method can be adopted into
the initiate's sex-magical repertoire or not, according to taste.
Once the lesson of the extreme fluidity of the erotic identity is
learned through such exercises, the magician should apply this expanded
sense of self to pushing forward in untested waters in every area of existence,
not only the sexual sphere. The intense emotive force that can be evoked
through breaking a sexual taboo in the context of a dominant/submissive
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working should ideally mark only the beginning of the magician's work of
radical self-change. There is no more potent method than the disruption of