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

to information, you can afford to take an eclectic approach in accomplishing
the magician's task enumerated in the introduction: namely, to "integrate
complex symbolic systems, synthesize them with personal experience, and
create from this synthesis [your] own unique direction on the left-hand path".
These final three chapters are more specifically directed to begin
placing theory into practice, words into action, as we enter that place where
abstract explanation must finally be realized in the workings of the body.
This section provides the would-be adept with a number of exercises
and experiments that can, at the very least, open the gate that leads to the lefthand
path, while allowing for a treatment of several aspects of erotic
initiation only briefly touched on earlier. Among these is the initiatory
application of autoeroticism and same-sex eroticism, which may at first seem
contradictory to the sinister current, based as it is upon the transmission of
sexual energy between two consorts of the opposite sex. The succeeding
chapter sets forth a left-hand approach to the initiatory utilization of the orgy,
the aspect of sex magic that, to our experience, always seems to attract the
most foolish speculation and uninformed prurient interest. Finally, we
conclude with a guide to the maya-transforming incorporation of that nexus
of painful pleasures and ecstatic pain that is generally known as
"sadomasochism" – for some the furthest unexplored periphery of sinister
sex, for others an everyday aspect of their erotic interactions. These chapters
will concern themselves largely with the relatively clear-cut goals of sexual
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sorcery – and to a lesser extent theurgy – on the supposition that the higher
mode of left-hand path erotic mysticism must be discovered by each
individual adept on his or her own terms. Sexual sorcery, based as it is on the
realization of specific goals, is a discipline that will provide the initiate with
useful lessons in the nature of maya that can hardly be learned through any
other means. Sexual mysticism, a stage to which the successful sorcerer may
eventually proceed once sorcery's lessons are impressed upon the mind,
dispenses with goals altogether as a more comprehensive communication
with the daemon inhabiting your flesh is facilitated.
The recommendations for action we offer here are rooted entirely in
our own experiences teaching the methods of the sinister current to
contemporary Westerners, and are accordingly aimed at the unique
psychosexual and cultural conditions that hold sway in the modern world. In
our view, these peculiar circumstances cannot be sufficiently addressed by
attempts to import Eastern left-hand path methods to Western minds. It is not
our desire to transform Western initiates into Indians or Tibetans, as
sometimes seems to be the case in more traditional guru to chela relations.
This commonly observed practice makes as little sense to us as attempting to
introduce the traditional European style of magic, with its medieval robes
and bells, its candles and its swords, to initiates in Calcutta or Lhasa. As we
enter the 21st century, we find neither of these methods to be efficacious – as
noted earlier, our goal is a distillation and a synthesis of the most universally
applicable of what has come before, an alchemy that leads to a sinister
current truly suited for our times.
The suggestions that follow, it must be clarified, can only lead one to
take the very first steps on the left-hand path. In no way should your
explorations end with the reading of this book. The direction you should take
after choosing to follow these experiments, or rejecting them, according to
will, cannot possibly be predicted. However, we have noted one very general
consequence that tends to arise when a magician opens him/herself towards
accepting the energy of the sinister direction for the first time. You will know
that you have indeed begun to separate from the confining limits of the pashu
world and entered the heroic route to sinister liberation, the Svecchacari way
of doing as one wills as what one Tantra calls "a living Shiva on earth",
because an infinite number of choices will present themselves to you.