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

as a self-created semi-divine consciousness, engineered through the wakeful
orchestration of extreme erotic energy For the left-hand path dominant and
submissive, the power play of such operations can be a decisive step in the
quest for that elusive state of being Georges Bataille termed "sovereignty",
akin to the heroic vira stage of traditional Tantric initiation, in which all
fetters to one's former existence as a herd-animal are severed.
For the submissive magician, the irony is that these hindering psychic
chains are broken by willingly accepting the consensual bondage of ritual
enslavement. The controlled tribulation exercised upon the dominant's flesh
and mind by a skilled dominant is an intensification of the initiatory process
itself, translated to the bodily realm. The cruel shocks to the somatic system
endured and eventually welcomed by the sexually submissive magician can
serve as a maya-mirror of one aspect of sinister current self-transformation.
Every exquisite torment endured and overcome during a working of lust/pain
echoes the manner in which the left-hand path initiate must joyfully confront
the disturbing trauma of a fully awakened awareness of reality itself in this
Kali Yuga age.
In this subservient state, no manifestation of maya can be rejected or
denied; every blow to the body is embraced, until the consciousness rises to a
level where pain and pleasure, terror and exultation, orgasm and agony, are as
indistinguishable as all other dualities. By subjecting the mortal meat which
temporarily houses the psyche to systematic degradation, the false layers of
personality developed through external conditioning can be destroyed.
Illusory masks of social status crumble, allowing the initiate to reprogram
internal identity at will. In yielding to the dominant's severity, the initiated
submissive learns his or her own limits, and goes beyond them. Writhing in
the crucible of this act of alchemical readjustment, the dross of the slave can
remanifest as gold, emerging from the ordeal as master of his or her own soul.
For the dominant magician, the advantage of such workings are more
obviously apparent; the master or mistress is granted a semblance of divine
power during ritual space/time. But even considering the harsh lessons
concerning Self that the slave may he compelled to cope with, it is actually
the master who faces the greatest challenge.
Assuming full responsibility for another physical being who has
consented to obey without question, the dominant's worthiness to he a god is
put to the test. For the duration of the rite, within the liminal boundaries of the
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master-slave connection, the dominant is the creator and ruler of a temporary
universe for two. This allows the master/mistress a rare opportunity to study
the subtle conditions of cause and effect that every magician must learn, as
demonstrated in the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of his or her complete
control of the slave.
If discipline is lost, the dominant forfeits all right to godhood, just as
the adept who cannot execute his or her will in terms that create appropriate
change in maya has failed. The master who seeks to wield absolute authority
over the submissive must exercise a balance between firm dominion and the
playful touch of lila, a delicate equilibrium needed in all magical operations
attempting to control the unruly chaos of raw existence. Within the conditions
of the rite, the submissive can be equated with a work of art in progress, while
the dominant is the artist, sculpting a living creation in the medium of pain
and pleasure inflicted upon human flesh.
For magicians whose erotic responses are already geared toward the
pleasurable administration or endurance of pain, the addition of magical
purpose to these cruel joys has proven to substantially boost the potency of
magical operations. Many magicians who originally felt absolutely no affinity
for the introduction of pain/lust into their work have benefited from at least a
few limited experiments with these methods. As the most psychologically and
physically dangerous of all sex magical techniques, the rites of dominant and.