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

lust of two complete strangers – a lust uncomplicated by the often dampening
presence of domesticity, familiarity or romantic endearment – can provide
powerful fuel for sex magic. The contemplation of Eros in its pure form can
be an initiatory event in its own right, allowing the initiate to access the
sacred and numinous power of sheer desire.
Such random encounters often allow the sorcerer to focus on his or
her magical goal without the hindrances that a psychological connection with
a known partner can sometimes breed. In a heterosexual context, the distinct
male and female polarities can be focused on free of attachment to any
specific biographic details. Under ideal circumstances, the relative anonymity
of the random erotic pairing permits the couple to temporarily become the
primordial man and woman, Shiva and Shakti, lingam and yoni as eternal
symbols separated from normative time and space. This deliberate anonymity
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and depersonalization of the sexual partner has also frequently been obtained
by engaging prostitutes for this purpose. Here, we see the same principle at
work that informed the nameless union of the ishtaritu and her visitor in the
rites of sacred whoredom referred to earlier.
The left-hand path erotic sorcerer can derive auxiliary power from
sex magic with strangers by using these encounters to engage in sex practices
not normally indulged in. The anonymity and transient nature of these
encounters might allow the magician to access aspects of his or her erotic
being never intimated with familiar partners. In the ritual space/time of a
rendezvous without a future, the magician can test the boundaries of the self,
temporarily taking on sexual personae quite unlike those assumed in
everyday life. At the opposite extreme from exploring your unfulfilled
fantasies, violating your personal sexual taboos with a stranger can be of
equal magical value. The expansion of sexual identity into previously
unexplored territory can blast an opening in one's fixed conception of self,
making all levels of the psyche plastic enough to be reshaped by the will
during the ecstatic peak of the working.
The Purely Sex-Magical Alliance
Some magicians find it useful to develop a working collaboration with
another magician that is limited exclusively to the practice of sexual magic,
thus channeling the mutual erotic energy raised to magical objectives alone.
These agreements allow the magicians involved to concentrate their time
together purely on carnal initiation without diffusing the powers of arousal
and orgasm in non-magical sex or romantic complications. One advantage of
such alliances is that the magicians can very easily enter ritual time-space
together, since they only meet for this one specialized purpose.
This kind of alliance encourages the creation of a magical atmosphere
unmuddied by small talk or other social niceties. Both parties are then freed
to explore the heights and depths of pure sex magic as it exists beyond the
ordinary conventions of human behavior, and return to their respective
separate lives when their workings are completed. The clarity and precision
of this form of sex magic has much to recommend it, since it is normally so
easy to trivialize the sacred character of sex magic.
The very sight of such an ally can be enough to signal the psyche to
open the inner gates to the Daemonic realm, a process which can be harder to
achieve under less precisely defined circumstances. In this regard, whenever
and wherever the two collaborators converge an instant sex-magical ritual
chamber is created, a mutual psychic zone reactivated and strengthened with
each encounter. An arrangement like this is often suitable for the magician
who is involved with another sexual partner or spouse who is simply not
interested in sex magic, or who does not make for an appropriate sex-magical
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partner. Those sex magicians who wish to investigate the possibilities of
sadomasochistic erotic magic may also prefer to do so within the context of