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

`Offerimus tibi donum corpus Christi' 'We offer in sacrifice the body of
Christ!"'
Theodor Reuss, founder of the early twentieth century German
quasi-Masonic brotherhood known as O.T.O., or Ordo Templi Orientis, read
The Eucharist, and proclaimed that de Saint-Marcq had revealed in its pages
the pivotal mystery of the O.T.O. – the Gnostic ritual consumption of semen
as embodiment of the logos provided a medium between the adept and the
divine. From Reuss. this doctrine was passed on to Aleister Crowley, who
made the eating of his own sperm into an almost daily magical practice.
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Although their practice of a sexual eucharist may be the same, it should be
noted that there is a vast gulf between the Gnostic's initiatory goal of selfapotheosis
and Crowley's ineffectual sorcery which was invariably focused
on a futile attempt to magically materialize money.
Even in this brief sketch of early Christianity's left-hand path, we
encounter the same method of ritual spermophagia we have already
encountered among India's Vama Marga adepts, and will later come across
again as an essential element in the sex magic practiced in the later O.T.O.
tradition, to cite only a few examples. In The Eucharist, Clement de Saint-
Marcq states that this custom can be found in the ancient religions of Egypt,
China, Africa, and even declares the odd theory that the Gnostic sex rites
can be traced to Hindu teachings – which suggests that he may have been
dimly aware of left-hand path ideas slowly beginning to circulate in the
West at that time. The phenomena of such internally coherent systems of
erotic alchemy appearing in ancient Judea, medieval India, and modern
Europe make it increasingly evident that the sinister current is far more than
a local tradition – it is, in Jungian terms, a true archetype, a Platonic eidolon
eternally taking flesh with only the slightest variations throughout human
history.
Viewed in this light, the question of whether the magus Christ and
his companion Mary Magdalene were living human beings, mythic
constructs, or an admixture of the two, becomes practically irrelevant. For
the pragmatic left-hand path magician of today, more interested in his/her
own self-deification than in reverence for external beings, Christ and the
Magdalene are only one of the most intriguing instances of the sinister
current couple, yet another manifestation of Shiva and Shakti's play of
maya.
Simon Magus And Helene
To more fully understand, and thus integrate, the contrasexual forms which
the left-hand path reverberation of the relationship between Simon and
Helene.
From the cult that had formed around the figure of the magus Jesus,
Simon appears to have borrowed several key ideas. He just as ardently
claimed to be the Son of God. More specifically, Simon taught his own
version of a Holy Trinity; with himself as the father, Jesus as the Son and his
consort Helene as the Holy Spirit – this concept of Sophia as Holy Spirit was
a common one among the Gnostic sects. In contrast to the magus Christ's
selfless magical acts of healing and benevolence, as described in the
authorized Bible, records of Simon's thaumaturgy seem more distinctly
sinister. If he was admired for his miracles, they also seemed to inspire fear.
He was well known for his necromantic ability, the invocation of demons for
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self-seeking purposes, and the alchemical creation of an homunculus, an
artificial humanoid being. We are told that he had built statues of himself
and Helene, idols which he supposedly enjoined his many disciples to
worship.
Of course, we must remember that this rather diabolical picture of
Simon was used by the Church to present him as an egomaniacal charlatan