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