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

partner is referred to in one FS rite, is accorded a rather ambiguous role in
the lodge.
Gregorius basically accepted the left-hand path metaphysical
physiology of the subtle body, with its seven chakras, and its malepositive/
female-negative polarities. Female Saturnian initiates, of which
there were relatively few at first, were taught that they were the incarnation
of lunar energy, an idea that can be found both in Tantra and alchemy. To
this traditional understanding of the esoteric aspect of femininity was added
the Saturnian lesson that women were also the fleshly embodiment of
Lucifer on earth. In keeping with hermetic and Tantric tradition, Gregorius
claimed that men were solar in essence. The marriage of Sol and Luna in
Saturnian sexual workings was not only focused on the initiatory
development of the specific magicians involved. Like de Naglowska,
Gregorius hoped that FS erotic-magical unions would harmonize the
fundamental disturbance between the sexes that created inter-gender civil
war in the profane world. Sexual magic, as Gregorius explained it, was
based on the male chela discovering his anima, his "sister soul", who had
taken the form of a female sex-magical partner, the Saturnian form of a
Scarlet Woman. This process also enjoined the female chela to seek her
"brother soul", the Jungian animus.
Probably the best known aspect of FS sex magic was the consultation
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of the stars as a determinant for appropriate sexual positions and
juxtaposition of erotic energies. Just to provide one example, a dominant
lunar influence on a given day would recommend that a lesbian working of
sex magic – the wedding of two lunar forces – would be the most effective.
The rigid, formulaic nature of such astrologically dictated sex acts seems to
us to be the least useful of the Saturnian sex magic teachings, but this
practice is still prevalent, especially in Germany.
The most direct influence of the Indian left-hand path tradition on the
Fraternitas Saturni is the performance of the "Rite of the Five Ms", which
despite its name actually bears little resemblance to the secret rite of the
Panchatattva we have outlined in Chapter Three. From what can be gleaned
from Hemberger's previously cited work, this rite was to be celebrated by one
copulating couple, in a black-clad chamber hung with inverted pentagrams, a
curious mixture of Eastern Tantra and Western Satanism unique to the FS
aesthetic. The couple is charged to awaken the chakras through meditation,
and to consume the traditional four taboo elemental elements of wine, meat,
fish, and grain, sealed by the fifth etheric element of maithuna (sexual
union.) The sexual position prescribed is essentially the Viparit-Karani, the
female lowering her yoni upon the seated male's lingam. But the objective of
the working is not the transcendent duality-surpassing state of consciousness
sought by the Tantric of the left-hand path. Instead, the combined sexual
energies are directed externally to the sorcerous creation of an elemental,
theoretically brought to life by the post-coital trickling of semen and amrita
from the woman's vagina on to a parchment inscribed with sigils symbolic of
the daemon in question.
This erotically engendered parenting of demons, actualized from
within the bodies of the magicians, is almost always the purpose of
Fraternitas Saturni sexual magic. The intense fascination Gregorius held for
this theme is suggested by the name he bestowed upon his daughter, Alraune,
born in 1914. She was christened after the title character of Hanns Heinz
Ewers's popular 1911 occult novel Alraune, the tale of a homuculus-like
femme fatale created through an alchemist's sinister experiments with semen
and a mandrake root.
Another FS rite of magical procreation, also designed for one couple
to perform, calls for the male's activation of an entranced naked female's
chakras, proceeded by coitus that "feeds" a charged talisman encoded with