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<strong>The</strong>re are numerous interpretations of the "correct" method of male orgasm<br />

but from our perspective, none are indisputable.<br />

<strong>The</strong> underlying – and perhaps essential – left-hand path principle<br />

concerning semen is the notion of ejaculation as magical sacrifice. <strong>The</strong><br />

sinister adept's emission of semen is sacralised as a self-sacrifice of his own<br />

life-force into the altar of his shakti's vulva, an act known as dutiyaga. In<br />

traditional Hindu ceremony, the celebrant usually pours consecrated ghee<br />

butter or oil on the fire of the altar. <strong>The</strong> heretical left hand path replaces this<br />

approved sacrificial substance with semen, which most Hindus are so loath<br />

to emit. In the pre-Tantric Brihadaranakaya Upanishad, an understanding of<br />

ejaculation as a sacrificial release of energy into the matrix of shakti-power<br />

is made plain: "Her lower part is the sacrificial altar: her hairs the sacrificial<br />

grass, her skin the soma-press [here reference is made to soma, the<br />

illuminating sacred potion of the gods, often though to have been a now<br />

unknown psychedelic substance] <strong>The</strong> two lips of the yoni are the fire in the<br />

middle."<br />

Seen through the symbolic prism of the left-hand path, the friction of<br />

lingam and yoni are compared to the friction of the sticks that create the fire.<br />

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<strong>The</strong> mounting sexual pleasure<br />

of the couple expresses the<br />

rising flames of the fire. <strong>The</strong><br />

yoni is the altar itself, into<br />

which the sacrifice of sacred<br />

oil, or male ejaculate, is poured.<br />

<strong>The</strong> divinity to whom the<br />

sacrifice is made is the female<br />

partner, the incarnation of the<br />

Great Goddess. <strong>The</strong> power of<br />

the sexual sacrifice is thought to<br />

be much stronger when she is<br />

menstruating, as this is believed<br />

to release more of the feminine<br />

energy sacred to the left-hand<br />

path. <strong>The</strong>re can be no doubt that<br />

the tradition of sacrifice began<br />

with animal and human<br />

offerings to the gods. <strong>Left</strong>-hand<br />

path initiates consider the<br />

intensity of self-generated<br />

sexual energy freed at the<br />

moment of orgasm to be far<br />

superior to the force freed<br />

externally through the death of<br />

animals. Animal sacrifice is<br />

subsequently shunned by most<br />

Western left-hand path adepts.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Elixir<br />

Among the many paired<br />

opposites of sinister Tantra, the<br />

symbolism of white and red are<br />

as important as the earlier<br />

mentioned right and left, solar<br />

and lunar, Shakti and Shiva.<br />

White is the color of semen<br />

within which the masculine<br />

essence is conserved. Red is the<br />

fiery color of feminine shakti

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