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

films in your mind, peopled with a cast of your choice. During
this phase of your self-initiation, meaning is less important than accurate
visualization. Allow these internal scenarios to run wild, pushing the
boundary of your imagination to its furthest frontier. Success in this exercise
will have been reached when your visualizations are as vivid and as detailed
as your most memorable dreams. Indeed, magical visualization might he
thought of as a kind of dream, differing from ordinary dreams in that you are
fully awake and that you are deliberately orchestrating and controlling the
visual content you observe.
Do not be dissuaded if your initial attempts are rather flat, marked by
dim color, and a general murkiness in the fine points. Daily practice will
enhance your efforts tremendously As your visualization powers become
more refined, your first clumsy attempts will give way to much greater
clarity, vividness of color, detail, and depth of perspective. In creating an ever
more sophisticated and complex inner world composed. of visualizations, you
are developing something much more than a sharpening of imagery. You are
actually exercising the god-like ability to create an accurate mirror of the
world. This magical reflection of reality will soon he altered by your sexually
energized will, thus creating alterations in the world itself.
Autoerotic Evocation Of Sexual Elementals
We are astonished at the frequency with which modern magical manuals and
Orders teach that the invocation and evocation of deities is a simple little
thing, one of the most elementary of tasks, as effortlessly accomplished as
picking up the phone to order a pizza to be delivered.. The aspiring magician
is often led to imagine that theurgy consists of nothing more than obligingly
addressing a pre-written text to the divine or demonic intelligence in question.
Whether by lackluster delivery or with earnest Shakespearean bellows, the
recitation alone is often presumed to be powerful enough to bridge the
immense gap between the human and the divine realms. That the
invoker/evoker may know next to nothing about the God or Goddess being
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summoned, and has learned none of the objective body of lore needed to form
a sacerdotal link with the divinity seems to be of little concern.
"Dear Aphrodite/Set/Lucifer/Lakshmi/Tiamat/Whoever," the
magician may implore, "1 beseech you to appear and grace me with your
powers." Now why the hell would any self-respecting deity show up in a total
stranger's living room, just because He or She was invited? Don't gods and
demons have better things to do with their time than entertaining the
whimsical needs of curious humans? In contrast to this casual approach to
communication with the Gods, we believe that a genuine theurgic working is
one of the most difficult of magical undertakings. Theurgy necessitates a
great deal of disciplined education concerning the precise nature of the intelli-
-gence sought, and an intense preparatory period of opening up one's body
and consciousness to the deity's particular spiritual attributes. Ideally, setting
a solid groundwork for human communication with the divine may require
pilgrimage to the places in the world that were once shrines to the god/dess,
study of the language most associated with the deity, and other liminal
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experiences that attune the psyche of the magician to the theogonic energy.
The left-hand path adept ultimately invokes divine forces to dwell in
his or her own body during ritual sex as a phase that ultimately leads to the
adept's own self-deification. However, this is an experience best worked up
to in stages; to expect immediate results with sexual theurgy is to greatly
underestimate the gulf between human and divine states of consciousness.
However, the novice to the sinister current can begin the tricky business of
communicating with non-human spiritual intelligences with a far more
modest goal: the autoerotic summoning of sexual elementals. We have
described the Eastern form of this practice, which in Vajrayana Tantricism