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individual suddenly coming down with leprosy Similarly, if the healing is<br />
directed towards an individual suffering from cancer, this specific ailment<br />
should be taken into account rather than the healing of the entire body in<br />
general.<br />
Such fine-tuning is easily accomplished with one or two sex<br />
magicians but much harder to accomplish when several magicians are<br />
involved. This is only one of the reasons why orgies require far more<br />
preliminary discussion of goals desired than less populous workings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> orgy is also very useful for magical acts of inauguration, that is<br />
to say the orgiast's group release of willed erotic energy can be directed to the<br />
vitality and strength of any project in its beginning stages. A magical orgy<br />
held as an inaugural "house-warming" for magicians inhabiting a new<br />
dwelling, designed to instill the chosen location with certain pre-specified<br />
qualities is a very appropriate application of this particular technique of sex<br />
magic.<br />
Among some magicians working together on common goals it has<br />
also been useful to initiate the commencement of a mundane project with<br />
ritualized group sex operations pointed toward the successful<br />
accomplishment of the goal. <strong>The</strong> orgy not only builds up a group magical<br />
spirit – or egregore – that can be tapped into during the specific enterprise, it<br />
actually increases the camaraderie of the magicians before the non-magical<br />
undertaking begins.<br />
Collaborative artistic endeavors demanding a high degree of esprit de<br />
corps have been charged by orgies, including musicians preparing for a<br />
concert, and tightly knit crews preparing to make a film or stage a theatrical<br />
production. One hardly needs to be an artist to partake of the inaugural<br />
strengthening provided by the magical orgy; the opening of any enterprise,<br />
such as a new place of business, can also benefit from these methods.<br />
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<strong>The</strong>urgy And <strong>The</strong> Orgy<br />
Magicians of the left-hand path have also found group sex workings to be<br />
advantageous for theurgic workings, those operations aimed specifically at<br />
the invocation or evocation of divine or non-human intelligences. Particularly<br />
with groups of magicians who share a common theological belief system, the<br />
lines of communication with the deity can very forcefully be activated<br />
through the orgy. For those left-hand path sex magicians whose approach to<br />
initiation is essentially religious – that is to say, whose magic involves the<br />
communion and exaltation of deities as a means of deifying themselves – the<br />
orgy can be a very direct link to the entity one seeks communication with. If<br />
we recall that the word religion evolved from the Latin root religare (to bind<br />
again, to bind strongly) the physical and psychic binding of the orgy can be<br />
seen in a new light.<br />
We must leave aside for now the intriguing question of whether the<br />
god/goddess who "appears" to the orgiastically linked magicians is<br />
generated solely by the mutual imagery and shared subjective referents of<br />
those involved or is an actual manifestation of a being independent<br />
ritualistically proclaiming that the qualities of the divinity or demon are<br />
gradually appearing in the avatar. This process of psychic transformation<br />
can conclude with the incarnated divinity engaging in ritual copulation with<br />
one or many of the other magicians in a manner appropriate to the myth in<br />
question.<br />
For instance, if a female magician allows herself to he incarnated by<br />
Kali, she might choose a partner (or partners) to serve as her male consort,<br />
the eternally erect Shiva. True to the sexual symbolism of Kali, the magician<br />
would very energetically ride the erect phallus of "Shiva" from above, while<br />
her partner remained perfectly still, in keeping with the Indian concept of the<br />
active Feminine Daemonic, Shakti, and the immobile male force. A magician<br />
inhabited by the Mesopotamian-Hebraic succubus Lilith, very similarly,