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

finger at the peak of his arousal. This not only magnifies the male's orgasm
via stimulation of his prostrate, but is also aimed at activation of the root
chakra. Through anal copulation, homosexual magicians can apply the same
principle.
Earlier, we have described how one approach to sex magic finds a
male and female couple generating their will in the world through a process
of sexual creation – combining their bipolar sexual energies to magically
"conceive" an ethereal daemonic thought-form – rather than a physical child
– to accomplish their bidding. The symbolism of using magically charged
semen to give birth through either visualized coupling with the Feminine
Daemonic in an autoerotic act, or actual congress with a female initiate may
be more immediately apparent to heterosexuals. However, male homosexual
partners have used this technique as well. The Feminine Daemonic is not a
biological phenomenon connected to one's genitalia, but rather a psychic
eidolon beyond the physical realm. Therefore, a male sex magician (whether
homosexual or heterosexual) can incarnate the Feminine Daemonic in such a
rite just as well as a biological female, if he so chooses.
The Middle Eastern idea of homosexual magical birth, with which
Crowley was so intrigued, can be traced back much further than the time of
the Crusades. The ancient Egyptian neter of wisdom, Thoth, the original
prototype of Hermes of Hermetic tradition, was conceived by the homosexual
union of the gods Horus and Set. As one ancient Egyptian text states: "I bring
you the beautiful green plants on which you have emitted your seed, which is
hidden there, which the effeminate one [Set] has swallowed. Your seed
belongs to him and he will conceive for you a son, who will come forth from
his forehead." According to one version of the myth, it is by consuming the
semen of Horns, placed by Isis on the lettuce, that Set becomes pregnant with
Thoth. Lettuce, more specifically endive, is traditionally one of the sacred
foods of Set; the fact that it was considered to be an aphrodisiac in Egypt tells
us something of this god's deep connection with Eros.
The homosexual elements in Set's persona play an important part in two of
the most well-known myths associated with him; the rape of his nephew, the
falcon-headed sky god Horns, and the contendings of Horus and Set, in
which Set's testicles are violently removed by the falcon god. Scholars have
wondered why Set, whose testicles are torn off, is nevertheless depicted as
the hypostasis of forceful virility, a personified essence of undiscriminating
all-devouring lust that can be viewed as a male counterpart to Babalon. Set
was also connected to Baba, the deity of the erect phallus, as a magical
invocation in the tomb of a man petitioning the gods for continued sexual
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pleasure after death indicates; "My phallus is Baba. I am Set." In identifying
himself with Set, the dead man becomes the spirit of eternal lust. An
important distinction; despite his strong association with sexual extremes, Set
is unique in that he does not fall into the fertility god category of many other
sexual gods or goddesses. He is not connected to the natural cycle of
procreation, but is instead a divinity embodying erotic power channeled into
such non-procreative expressions as abortion, miscarriage, sterility,
homosexuality – not exoteric physical birth but esoteric psychic creation.
Set's unruly sexuality has long made him a prominent deity in the
rites of modern Western left-hand path sex magicians. But it is the distinctly
homoerotic aspect of his mythos that has exerted a specific attraction to
homosexual sorcerers practicing the Black Arts, for whom mythology has
provided few sinister prototypes worthy of emulation. Magicians drawn to
working with the homosexual factors of the Setian god-form should of course
research this particular dimension of Setian energy for themselves before
integrating it into personally created ritual. However, a few points of
departure may prove helpful.
One of the many epithets by which Set was known in Egypt was