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

carnal appetites under the guise of esoteric doctrine.
Behind these sanctimonious attitudes lays the horrific banality to
which Eros has been reduced in the modern Western world.
In this spirit, some of our readers might imagine that a guide to lefthand
path sex magic will provide the furtive cheap thrills of thinly veiled
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pornography. Literally speaking, that much maligned word pornography,
from the Greek porno (whore) and graphia (writing) simply means "to write
about whores". So for those of you who were fervently hoping that this book
would be pornographic, there is indeed enough writing about whores in these
pages to technically qualify. Of course, the whores we will be concerned with
are the conveyors of that long-lost ars amatoria of sacred prostitution. If
prostitution once served a noble and even sacred function, then why not a
sacred pornography? Such a form would be something far more subversive
and powerful than the formulaic repetition of conventions we usually
associate with the genre. The British author Angela Carter, whose cruel tales
were usually tinged with an unsettling and surreal sexuality, once suggested
the possibilities:
"The moral pornographer would be an artist who uses pornographic material
as a part of the acceptance of the logic of a world of absolute sexual license
for all the genders, and projects a model of the way such a world might work.
His business would be the total demystification of the flesh and the
subsequent revelation, through the infinite modulations of the sexual act... the
pornographer has it in his power to become a terrorist of the imagination, a
sexual guerilla whose purpose is to overturn our most basic notions of these
relations, to reinstate sexuality as a primary mode of being rather than a
specialized area of vacation from being and to show that the everyday
meetings in the marriage bed are parodies of their own pretensions."
In many ways, Carter's description of the taboo-overturning "sexual guerilla"
who totally demystifies the flesh makes for an excellent introduction to the
work of the left-hand path sex magician that this book illustrates. For the
magi of the left-hand path, sexuality is even more than "a primary mode of
being" – the altered state of extreme erotic ecstasy is a potentially divine
mode of being, the chaotic dance of two magnetically attracted opposite
energies that allows for the creation of a third power transcending the human.
The couple that unleashes this hidden, psychically remanifesting power of the
left-hand path within their orgasm-yoked organisms to its full intensity will
find it difficult to return to the pre-programmed existence they once led. The
man and woman who even once taste the freedom of the left-hand path, as
expressed through its self-deifying sexual rites, have exited the human game
as it is normally played.
If the left-hand path is dangerous – a point both its detractors and its
advocates have agreed upon – one of its primary hazards is the peril of
freedom in a world almost instinctively committed to crushing liberty in
whatever form it might appear. All autocracies have held sway by severely
curbing the full development of sexual power in their subjects. The left-hand
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path, a method of consciously activating levels of erotic energy almost
unknown in conventional sexual relations, must be viewed as a threat to any
hierarchy that seeks to bridle the development of man into god. The sexual
gnosis of the left-hand path has the potential to forge heroic, self-determined
individuals from the bleating meat of the human herd.
The eccentric (some would say insane) psychologist Wilhelm Reich's
researches into the untapped mysteries of the orgasm on human
consciousness partially accord with the ancient teachings of the left-hand
path. In his The Mass Psychology Of Fascism, Reich recognized the threat
that total erotic freedom would pose to any societal control mechanism. In
unconscious keeping with the left-hand path veneration of Shakti, the divine