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

the room.
The less the initiate knows about what will occur during the rite the
stronger the initiatory impact will be. However, the left-hand path sex
magician's unswerving concern for the principle of consent and exercise of
free will necessitates that the initiate understands and agrees in advance that
intense sexual activity will transpire.
A pre-appointed celebrant – perhaps the most aggressive and
forthright of the group – serves as the guardian of the gate. The initiate bids
entry and is challenged by the guardian, who roughly asks why the initiate
should be permitted entry into the sanctuary of the deity. If, after repeated
and intimidating challenge, the guardian eventually finds the answer
satisfactory; the initiate is brought to the opposing lines of celebrants and told
to force his or her way through the "birth canal".
As the initiate squeezes between the narrow way of ingress allowed
by each magician with great difficulty, he or she is sexually stimulated by
each of (or many of) the magicians on either side. This process of moving
through the lines should take long enough for the initiate to be in a very high
state of sexual excitement by the time he or she is allowed to exit at the other
side of the living pylon, effectively reborn through the vagina created by the
group.
Immediately before the initiate at the opening of the symbolic yoni,
the god/goddess is positioned, who brings the already agitated initiate to
orgasm through whatever form of sexual congress is mythologically
appropriate. This release of the sexual energy built up throughout the rite
marks the initiate's official entry into the company of the magicians, and the
level of group sexual energy created can now be released through uninhibited
orgiastic climax, which brings the rite of passage to its closure.
Any number of alterations are possible building on this basic outline.
For workings that call for sadomasochistic energy, a bound and fettered
initiate forcing his or her way through the line can be forced to endure a
variety of consensually agreed upon torments, including flagellation, burning,
cutting, verbal humiliation, the application of clamps, etc. before being
allowed to orgasm with the deity presiding over the rite. The more
unexpected the bodily shocks applied, the more significant the element of
initiatory surprise and fear can be.
It is also possible for an entire group to go through this initiatory
ordeal of rebirth. Each celebrant waits silently outside the door, seeking
admission to the temple. After orgasm with the deity, the newly initiated
magician forms part of the birth canal, helping the next initiate through the
same process they have just undergone. The only possible disadvantage in
this variation is that the last magicians going through the line will have much
417
more opportunity for reaching a sufficiently high level of excitement. Also, it
should be noted the designated magician serving as the god/goddess will
require a great deal of physical stamina to take on as many as twenty
"reborn" magicians! For strictly heteroerotoic groups, a male and female
magician can both invoke the god, initiating the magicians of the opposite
sex.
Psychological Hazards Of Orgiastic Theurgy
While incarnation of a deity during orgia can be a powerful theurgic
experience, it is important that care is taken that the new initiate does not
imagine that the actual human being who temporarily stands for the god or
goddess is in fact a super-human being worthy of worship when the rite is
completed. One of the main differences between the right-hand and left-hand
paths, as we have seen, is that the left hand path magician aims at selfdeification,
while the right-hand path initiate is content to merely worship the
divinity (bhakti). Although the sinister current initiate can certainly learn
something of the divinity through choosing to venerate the entity in a specific