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

aphrodisiac refers to the goddess Aphrodite, just as venereal is derived from
Venus. The magical origins of the word "fetish" are also fairly well known –
it derives from the Portuguese feitico, for sorcery or charm. Who can deny
that the powerful hold in which a sexual fetish enthralls the fetishist is
anything but a fascination, a glamour, entirely magical in nature? The lefthand
path, in all of its forms, consciously returns Eros to the formerly exalted
place it once held in human life, recognizing the dormant divinity of sex even
in practices recoiled from as sordid and shameful by the profane.
Underneath its sometimes contradictory examination of sex-magical
symbols and premises from various cultural and religious traditions, Demons
Of The Flesh postulates a universal biological phenomenon seemingly
hardwired into human consciousness and sexuality. As we shall see, the
Indian Tantric phrase left-hand path describes this psychosexual anomaly
with great precision. However, we also use the phrase "sinister current",
which indicates its non-indigenous, omnipresent existence, not only in a
specific cultural tradition, but as a force located in the body itself.
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We've now indicated how central a role sex plays to the left-hand
path, but presumably, you may be wondering where the "magic" referred to
in the sub-title of this book comes in. Just as the god-like power inherent in
sexual pleasure has been diminished to its currently debased state, so has the
once royal art of magic suffered a similar decline in the modern world. If
one does not immediately associate the word with show business trickery
and prestidigitation, then it conjures up the vulgar consumer occultist,
dressed up in the obligatory "magic" robe, credulously reciting doctrinaire
"magic" spells, usually hoping in vain to summon up the money he or she
lacks the skills to earn, or to attract a given object of desire without
acquiring the social graces to even strike up a conversation. In other words,
magic, at least in the Western world, has become an exotic plaything for
losers, the acting out of delusive wishful thinking to achieve transient goals
more efficiently realized through the mundane development of personal
competence.
Magic, from the left-hand path perspective outlined here, is far
removed from the crude commodity it has become in the modern occult
milieu. We are focused here on the Great Work, the sex-alchemical
transformation of human to demi-divinity, not the development of a few
parlous parlor tricks. In the Indian left-hand path, the greatest magicians are
the divya or the bodhisattva, who need not resort to anything resembling a
ritual to create radical transformation of maya, the substance of which mind
and matter are both composed. Magical powers, as understood in the West,
are sometimes a consequence of erotic initiation, but they are secondary to
the radical remanifestation of self to higher modes of being which is the
raison d'etre of the left-hand path. In the ancient Hellenic and Gnostic
traditions we will also consider as expressions of the sinister current, a divya
is known as a magus, a being whose magical power is based on the internal
cultivation of the self to daemonic levels of consciousness.
As this state of being is the goal of all sinister current sex magicians,
we do not provide the reader with presto-change-o spells, curses or scripted
rituals. We also don't furnish you with the names of demons guaranteed to
fulfill your every command nor sure-fire charms that will snare the targets of
your lust. If you're gullible enough to be searching for such instant panaceas,
our emphasis on the importance of self-directed magical work as an internal
process of self-deification will probably be extremely frustrating. This book
will make clear the perennial left-hand path methods that activate the eternal
course of development taken by the divya or the magus of the left-hand path,
but it deliberately refrains from leading the reader mechanically through a
checklist of external gimmickry. You won't find anything like: 1) Open
vagina. 2) Insert penis. 3) Say the magic word with conviction.