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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another; again, the better the dominant knows the submissive the more<br />
precisely aimed this kind of work will be.<br />
<strong>Of</strong> course, all of the above examples are frequently part of many nonmagical<br />
dominant/submissive relationships. <strong>The</strong> primary difference in a<br />
magical context is that the energy unleashed by the breaking of the selfimposed<br />
sexual taboo is directed toward sorcerous or initiatory change rather<br />
than simply erotic arousal alone. <strong>The</strong> submissive, having survived whatever<br />
ordeal has been stipulated by the dominant, will realize that the forbidden is<br />
an entirely subjective phenomenon. If one's core sexual disposition can be so<br />
easily altered, it becomes apparent to the magician that other social<br />
restrictions and habits of conditioning are also subject to total transmutation.<br />
Active embrace of the left-hand path teaches that the self and the<br />
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world is infinitely more fluid and changeable than our conditioning would<br />
have us believe, placing the magician in control of his or her construction of<br />
reality Experimenting with one's seemingly permanent sexual boundaries<br />
under the stern guidance of the dominant provides a controlled license to<br />
break these erotic limits. While there is nothing stopping any sex magician<br />
from deliberately breaking his or her erotic taboos outside of the constraints<br />
of the dominant/submissive bond, the unique characteristics of this power<br />
exchange can sometimes be a much stronger impetus to such initiatory<br />
breakthroughs than one's individual efforts may achieve. However, once the<br />
habit of breaking one's own taboos as a deprogramming method is acquired<br />
through algolagniac work, the magician should be able to continue this<br />
practice without the encouragement of a dominant partner.<br />
Again, outward appearances are deceiving. Although the external<br />
observer witnessing such rites would understandably imagine that the<br />
submissive is being cruelly coerced into loathsome activities by the dominant,<br />
the submissive has freely consented to follow the discipline of the dominant.<br />
Despite the appearance of restraint, the dominant is serving as the initiator or<br />
initiatrix, freeing the slave to confront hidden aspects of the self that actually<br />
enlarge the submissive's scope of power in the world.<br />
Just as the submissive can sometimes represent the dominant's higher<br />
self, in these cases the dominant serves as an external representation of the<br />
submissive's higher self, compelling the submissive to perform physical rites<br />
of self-transformation with the submissive's tacit assent. This hidden<br />
symbiotic aspect of the dominant/submissive bond – which can only be<br />
experienced from within the bond itself – is one of the secret sources of<br />
power that inform such workings.<br />
it must be said that when results are attained in taboo-breaking sexual<br />
magic, there inevitably comes a point when most magicians will simply have<br />
exhausted the number of untested erotic taboos that constrict them. It would<br />
be fairly pointless to continually repeat the breaking of taboos once their<br />
power of the forbidden has been deflated through familiarity Many a<br />
submissive discovers that after breaking a certain taboo, it becomes enjoyable<br />
to willfully return to the experience of breaking the former taboo for strictly<br />
pleasurable purposes alone. That, of course, is the prerogative of the<br />
magician, however, for the purposes of taboo breaking, this would no longer<br />
qualify. At this point, the originally taboo sexual method can be adopted into<br />
the initiate's sex-magical repertoire or not, according to taste.<br />
Once the lesson of the extreme fluidity of the erotic identity is<br />
learned through such exercises, the magician should apply this expanded<br />
sense of self to pushing forward in untested waters in every area of existence,<br />
not only the sexual sphere. <strong>The</strong> intense emotive force that can be evoked<br />
through breaking a sexual taboo in the context of a dominant/submissive<br />
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working should ideally mark only the beginning of the magician's work of<br />
radical self-change. <strong>The</strong>re is no more potent method than the disruption of