I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net
I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net
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attracted to enough of its members for successful results to incur. For this<br />
reason, many sex magicians have therefore participated in profane group sex<br />
activity, hoping to apply the energy raised for their own magical purposes,<br />
unbeknownst to his or her partners. While any circumstance can theoretically<br />
be bent to serve the will of a magician, the undisciplined nature of secular<br />
group sex cannot be expected to provide the same remarkable power and<br />
unique phenomena observable during the deliberately magical orgy. We<br />
strongly recommend that orgiastic work be developed organically within a<br />
circle of friends that can accept the non-doctrinaire spirit of experiment that<br />
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such operations call for. Two couples who have already independently<br />
achieved demonstrable results with sinister current sex magic have often<br />
formed a strong nucleus for building a larger group.<br />
But the likelihood of such groups surviving beyond the first few<br />
flurries of excitement generated by group sex-magical activity depends<br />
entirely on the personalities of the celebrants involved. It has been our<br />
experience that such groups work most effectively when they allow for the<br />
maximum amount of flexibility and change.<br />
In founding any magical society, there is a natural human tendency to<br />
over-organize. <strong>The</strong> nascent group may needlessly dissipate much energy<br />
devoting a great deal of attention to the design of the group's "official"<br />
symbols, the construction of artificial hierarchies, replete with titles, degrees,<br />
and ranks, the devising of complicated rules and regulations, and the general<br />
systematic codifying of the group's living experience into the stasis of<br />
dogma. All of this is guaranteed to be a waste of the initiate's valuable time.<br />
You need only consider the endless doctrinal and interpersonal bickering that<br />
characterize the various O.T.Os, Fraterniti Saturni and other Western<br />
magical schism groups to observe how not to organize a left-hand path<br />
society.<br />
We have often observed how easy it is for the magical vitality of lefthand<br />
path groups to be strangled by the heavy hand of conformity that is one<br />
of the inevitable results of any collaborative enterprise. In many ways, the<br />
radical individualism of the left-hand path is resistant to all attempts at<br />
systematization. It may be that the very idea of a left-hand path organization<br />
is a contradiction in terms. <strong>The</strong> dangerous, unpredictable force of Shakti,<br />
whether she is symbolized in the traditional Eastern Vama Marga form of<br />
Kali, or in the Western Babalon current, actually defies all human efforts at<br />
structuring. One way or the other, her chaotic energies will burn through any<br />
fetters constructed to hind her to predictable patterns. Many a magician has<br />
learned that trying to control the Shakti power within the form of a formal<br />
group is as futile an effort as attempting to catch a hurricane with a butterfly<br />
<strong>net</strong>.<br />
Any left-hand path group can eventually become deadened by social<br />
obligation and the surrender to routine once the original fire of inspiration<br />
that brought the group together subsides. This fire can be ignited afresh only<br />
if the celebrants cultivate a willingness to follow new directions, a strength of<br />
imagination, and a willingness to break with the desensitizing traditions that<br />
inevitably gather like dust over any group activity, even the orchestration of<br />
magical orgia.<br />
<strong>The</strong> burgeoning magical group dedicated to the study of sex magic<br />
will remain vibrant and open to transformation only to the degree that its<br />
members actively avoid this social disposition to creating itself according to<br />
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a rigid scheme. Once you have given a name to the group, for instance, you<br />
have magically bound yourself to being defined by that name and its<br />
associations forever more. Some of the most effective sex magic groups have<br />
operated under no official name, which allows for an atmosphere of freedom<br />
that encourages evolution instead of stagnation. If the group progresses