I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net
I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net
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sub-races. Other branches of the study are easily mastered, except Sapphism,<br />
which is hard even to witness, as you have to be on very intimate terms with<br />
one of the girls, and if both are real exclusive sapphists, you can't be, unless<br />
you can work your Point of View as an artist or student of sex. I had an awful<br />
blow last November when a girl asked me 'Have you ever been pricked with<br />
needles in the dark?' and I had not. <strong>The</strong> red brand of shame sears my<br />
forehead to this hour."<br />
As is so often the case, Crowley was exaggerating to push the<br />
boundaries of a student he considered to be in need of a shock, but the<br />
underlying principle he defines is sound enough. Eros is the predominate<br />
medium through which the sinister current adept seeks liberation. It only<br />
follows that the wider his or her scope of experience is, and the more<br />
methodically the initiate pursues the infinite permutations of sexuality, the<br />
greater one's sex-magical repertoire will be. Each magician's journey to<br />
discover the full spectrum of sexual expression at his or her disposal must<br />
inevitably take vastly different forms, but a few general areas of pursuit can<br />
be suggested.<br />
You will have reached the desired objectivity in relation to sexuality<br />
when you can consider any sexual act calmly and without undue emotion.<br />
Whether or not you feel that you must personally experience each possible<br />
sexual variation to attain this level of detachment is of course an entirely<br />
personal decision. To varying degrees in different Western countries, sex is<br />
placed in a strange niche that can hardly be compared to any other bodily<br />
activity. For some, fucking can only be discussed in nervous whispers, for<br />
others it arouses prurient giggles; both a sure sign of the incipient fear and<br />
apprehension it commonly inspires. Demonized as a filthy, guilt-ridden<br />
352<br />
degradation or placed on a pedestal as a holy act only to be performed under<br />
the aegis of love or marriage; both perspectives reveal the essential<br />
abnormality with which sex is still viewed by many All of these conditioned<br />
responses must he mastered and transcended.<br />
According to various regional codes, there are "appropriate" times<br />
and places allowing even for the discussion of sex, let alone its actual<br />
enjoyment. And although the mass media, as noted earlier, sells its wares<br />
aggressively through sexual symbolism, this apparently open demonstration<br />
of the erotic consistently conveys a signal that sex is anything but an ordinary<br />
aspect of human existence. To approach the sleeping serpent of sex magic<br />
with any degree of efficiency, the adept must first he able to regard sex as<br />
clinically as any other entirely normal function of the human body. Perhaps<br />
paradoxically, it is only then that the use of sex as a potentially sacred<br />
instrument of consciousness transformation can take place.<br />
<strong>The</strong> majority of men will not have a problem with the idea of fully<br />
researching their sexual mechanisms and breaking the conditioned borders of<br />
their erotic identities; the instinctive and natural biological imperative of the<br />
male body to spread his seed wide already provides men with a desire fur<br />
sexual experimentation. <strong>The</strong> female sex magician, however, must often<br />
contend with the powerful instinct that encourages her to nest with one mate,<br />
with whom sexuality is deeply connected with notions of monogamous love.<br />
Although not every woman is bound by such innate biological restraints, the<br />
vanquishing of these natural instincts is often a challenge requiring a<br />
conscious act of opposite-doing to accomplish.<br />
<strong>The</strong> left-hand path initiate must strive to deeply understand the<br />
workings of his or her libido in a comprehensive manner that most humans<br />
would prefer not to consider. To do this, the adept's sexual reactions,<br />
capabilities, quirks and deficiencies must be tested, challenged and overcome<br />
in as many situations as possible. What forms this process of ascertaining<br />
sexual self-knowledge will take must vary according to the diversity of each<br />
magician's personal erotic essence; outlining a standard program would be