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

power. When mingled through
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the sexual rite, a conjunction of opposites is realized. On a less abstract level,
the color red literally represents the feminine energy of the shakti's menstrual
blood. The ritualized coming together of these red and white fluids during
sinister sex recalls the importance of red and white to Western alchemy.
Left-hand path Tantrikas place great emphasis on the vaginal
secretions of the female, ingesting them as the pure distillation of feminine
energy in rites venerating the shakti's vulva. This fluid, called amrita, or "elixir
of immortality" is sometimes believed to be vitalized with magical properties
transformative of human consciousness, an agent quickening the process of
Kundalini, the awakening of the Feminine Daemonic in the male. The female
amrita consumed in left-hand path sexual rites is considered most powerful in
shakti at the time of menstruation, a fact which has sometimes been compared
to the elusive "ruby elixir" referred to in Western alchemical texts as a
medicine for the soul. Erotic statuary in India's celebrated Khajuraho Temple
depicts scenes of ritual cunnilingus that indicate a strong left-hand path
influence. In the Chinese sex-magical tradition, the orgasmic flow of the
female partner's Bartholin's gland fluid was also thought to be a substance rich
with yin, the feminine life-force potable in a physical libation granting
immortality.
In both the Taoist and Tantric traditions, great emphasis is placed on
the necessity of absorbing the sexual secretion only from consorts
demonstrating obvious physical health and vitality. Illness is said to nullify or
even poison the effects of the amrita upon the adept.
Even within the sometimes austere constrictions of the Islamic world,
home to an ancient magical heritage, decidedly left-hand path sex-magical
traditions continue to be practiced by Muslim magicians. Often these involve
the use of sexual secretions and menstrual blood as sorcerous agents, as in the
societally disreputable but fairly common utilization of sihr sufli, which has
sometimes been described as a form of Arabic black magic. Such rites require
that the sorcerer performs a prolonged act of copulation with a female – as is so
often the case in the Tantric Vama Marga, the sorcerer's consort must not be
married to him. It is also considered preferable if the woman is menstruating, a
condition every bit as much of a taboo within Islam as it is in Hindu culture.
At the completion of the act, the mingled semen, feminine secretions, and
blood are carefully permeated into an absorbent piece of fabric. The erotically
charged fabric is then ritually burnt, whilst the sorcerer calls upon one of the
djinn – the demons of Arabic sorcery – to act in his stead in the daemonic
realm. This rite, which draws on the veiled, repressed power of the Feminine
Daemonic surging beneath the outwardly male-oriented surface of Arab life,
is of course considered a defilement by orthodox Islam. As with all left-hand
path procedures, it is the taboo-breaking nature of the activity that endows
this kind of sexual sorcery with its force.
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Again, in light of the great importance bestowed on male and
female sexual fluids in some Tantric Vama Marga rites, we must state that
the modern sinister current practitioner in the West should not feel at all
compelled to faithfully accept these traditional teachings as valid for
yourself. Any such automatic adoption of ancient praxis, lacking personal
investigation and integration, would be no better than the blind superstition
found in any faith-based religion, or in the worst depths of occult quackery.
The techniques of the left-hand path should never be taken on faith but
tested in a spirit of practical experiment.
If through further training and experiment, you find that semen
retention/reabsorbtion or consumption of female sexual elixir are useful to
your spiritual goals, feel free to apply them to your initiation. However,
don't assume that these practices are essential to left-hand path magic simply