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

the entire group, keeping the essential magical objective in mind. Depending
entirely on circumstance, the guide can offer an unobtrusive suggestion
designed to subtly intensify or minimize the intensity of the working or he or
she may be required to aggressively change the entire direction of the
operation if it seems to be losing its focus.
The guide should be selected well before the orgy begins, and it
should be mutually agreed that whatever suggestions are offered by him or
her should be followed without complaint for the greater purpose of the
working's success. The basic guidelines and purpose of the working should
be well understood by all participants long before the orgy commences;
nothing is more annoying or more certain to destroy the correct atmosphere
than petty dispute over details during the heat of the rite.
The motives and intent of any magician who cannot accept the
necessity of such discipline during magical operations must be suspect, so
discussion of the guide's exact purpose should be discussed among all
celebrants long before the rite commences. To avoid unnecessary distraction
from the magician's own sometimes fragile concentration and altered state of
consciousness, simple verbal or physical cues can be agreed upon in advance.
The celebrant who has the most experience with sexual magic will make for
the most efficient orgy guide, since only a great deal of skill at this art will
assure the proper sensitivity to the fine points of group sexual magic.
It has been observed that the best guides can provide a direction to
sex-magical workings without interceding in the action in any obvious or
tangible manner. The simple knowledge of the guide's presence can and
should be enough to oversee the working in the appropriate direction. This is
a question of the personal authority of the magician, the development of that
quality known as charisma, which we use here in its archaic magical sense
and not in its more contemporary meaning.
The more previous experience a given group of magicians has in
exploring the strong currents of the orgiastic working with each other, the less
obtrusive the guide's actions need to be. Sex magicians in particular become
highly receptive to nonverbal cues, and it is not at all uncommon for a strong
sense of telepathic communication to manifest as one of the subjective
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alterations of consciousness attainable by the celebrants of a magical orgy.
Whether such apparent telepathy is a quantifiable phenomenon
measurable by the apparatus of traditional scientific method is beside the
point. Far more important is the fact that this shift from ordinary mentation
has proven of practical value to reaching magical goals while engaged in the
orgiastic working. The guide very often makes use of this field of seemingly
interconnected consciousness to direct the course of the rite to its literal and
figurative climax.
The role of a guide in more explicitly sadomasochistic workings can,
of course, be far more direct, since the nature of such operations are often
founded on the following of clear-cut commands and orders. The same
essentially ritualistic aspects of dominance and submission, master and slave,
that so lend themselves to the control of sexual energy in general is also wellsuited
for the guidance of orgiastic rites.
The looser magical orgy, following its own course with no designated
leader, tends to reveal its own pattern and takes on a less deliberate, more
organic rhythm. Magicians who have developed a long-standing rapport with
each other through experimentation with more controlled group magical
sexuality can find such completely spontaneous workings quite effective.
However, it would be unrealistic to expect a roomful of magicians who have
never worked together before to automatically achieve the focus and
discipline needed for successful orgiastic magic.
The Trial Run
The first orgiastic experiment for any unfamiliar combination of sex