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

Western psyche truly representative of the original teachings of Christ?
Centuries of ecclesiastical fulmination against the demons of the flesh would
cause one to assume that nothing could be more contrary to Christianity than
left-hand path sex magic. And yet it has long been noted that organized
Christianity, for all of its outward mortification of the flesh, betrays a deep if
severely sublimated undercurrent of erotic mysticism. Think of St. Teresa of
Avila's orgasmic-ecstatic visions, in which she experienced the presence of
Jesus penetrating her "like a lance driven into the heart." The commonly used
Christian image of Christ as the bridegroom and the believer as the
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passionately expectant bride bears unmistakable sex-magical connotations.
During the delirious heyday of Church-sanctioned flagellation, St. Augustine
was obliged to warn the faithful not to whip themselves with too much
devotion, lest their agony take on ecstatic overtones. The sexual symbolism
of the Eucharist, with its ritual consumption of the flesh and blood of Christ
is obvious.
The branches of Christianity we know today in the West, it must be
stressed, represent only the victorious factions of a diverse religion that once
expressed itself in a dizzying variety of forms. Those other Christianities,
many of them inclusive of Eros and magic in their practices, were almost
thoroughly eradicated as "heresies" by the stronger Catholic Church and the
Eastern Orthodox Church. That violent purge is what has left us with the
resolutely anti-erotic brand of faith still operating today, a creed. shaped far
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more by the anti-sexual psychoses of such fiercely ascetic. Church fathers
as St. Paul and St. Jerome as anything implicitly stated in the Gospels.
Accompanying this relatively late-developing loathing of sexuality was a
rabid misogyny, a condemnation of woman as the author of original sin, the
diabolic temptress who led man astray in the garden of Eden. This hatred of
womankind is well represented by the snarl of Tertullian asserting that
woman is "a temple built on a sewer."
But any religion so dedicated to the demonization of Eros and the
Feminine Daemonic is doomed to create an unintended counter-reaction
within its ranks. The constant Christian preaching against physical sin only
makes the forbidden fruit of sexual pleasure seem all the more appetizing.
But these traces of sacred sexuality that still pop up in Christianity like the
Bishop's embarrassing erection at High Mass may actually be rooted in a
long-lost erotomagical tradition hidden within Christianity itself.
This tradition, referred to alternately as libertine Gnosticism,
hedonistic Gnosticism or Spermo-Gnosticism, has unquestionably been the
most significant influence on the development of a sinister current in
Western sex magic. The importance of a long-suppressed early Christian
sex-magical teaching may be surprising for those readers who might
imagine that the occidental left-hand path is best exemplified by the
confused cluster of half-understood ideas known as "Satanism." Central to
the forgotten practice of carnal initiation concealed beneath centuries of
Church-fostered abrogation of Eros are the ancient magical archetypes of
the Magus and the Whore.
Christ And Mary Magdalene
The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee. – Luke 1:35
To begin the process of dismantling the West's psychic chastity belt, let us
consider the distinct possibility that Jesus Christ, the Western world's
primary archetype of moral righteousness and sanctified celibacy, was in
fact the very model of a left-hand path sex magician. We began our survey
of the Eastern left-hand path with the Tantric parable of the Fucking
Buddha. No understanding of the Western left-hand path can be integrated
without encountering the copulating Christ.
Intrinsic to the left-hand path is the understanding that the adept