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

personal erotic taboo for awakening the magician to the fact that the full
spectrum of conditioned and programmed habits of thought can be broken at
will. Once having reached this state of wakefulness, the magician can
consciously discard those aspects of the self that hinder mastery in the world,
acquiring more useful habits in accordance with the greatly expanded
awareness of self-control.
Indeed, the magical breaking of sexual taboo will only be of very
limited value if it merely succeeds in widening your erotic capabilities. After
all, there are many individuals who have freed themselves on a sexual level
far beyond the imagination of most humans but who have never taken the allimportant
step of attaining that same degree of freedom in the other levels of
their self-created reality. In every other way, they might be chained to the
same compulsions to conform that typify the majority of pashu beings.
Although crossing sexual boundaries very often encourages the
seizing of greater autonomy in all areas of life, this is not guaranteed. It is
comparatively easy to free one's self of self-forged sexual shackles,
particularly under the tutelage of a master or mistress. However, once one
exits the erotic arena, the magician might be just as bound by societal
programming as any non-initiate. Making this quantum leap of self-liberation
is something that can only be realized through individual hard work; no
dominant guide can be expected to crack the whip over every facet of
initiation.
Here we are faced with one of the most bewildering enigmas of
dominant/submissive sex magic: the same submissive who willingly obeys
every command and whim of his or her dominant during a specific working,
is also adamantly refusing to obey the dictates of
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conventional society. This form of left-hand path initiation frees the initiate
from the constraints of the larger social matrix of the macrocosm by placing
him or her in bondage to another magician, which would seem to be a
contradiction in terms. It is remarkable that submitting of one's own will to
the sexual control of another magician can in fact serve to free the initiate
from being held in thrall by the hypnotic and individual-eradicating function
of society at large. Even submissives of the non-magical variety frequently
report that they have never felt so free as when they are serving their masters;
this paradoxical liberation has been seen to intensify greatly in
dominant/submissive erotic magic.
It is perhaps just as odd that the non-initiated human who gladly
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submits to the self-obliterating and relentless dominance of society, family,
employer, religion, politics, and mass media on a twenty-four hour basis is
likely to condemn the individual who occasionally submits to sexual
dominance. The significant difference between the two states of bondage, of
course, is that the domesticated human's slavery to society is largely due to
the unconscious and unthinking instinct of the pashu pack animal, while the
submissive magician willingly submits to sexual dominance as a heroic tool
of initiation. The freedom of the slave is a living koan of left-hand path sex
magic.
Controlling Chaos
Another of the mysteries of dominant/submissive magic is how perfectly such
work vitally embodies one of the underlying principles of magic itself.
No matter what form of sorcery or self-transformative undertaking
the magician engages in, he or she is essentially organizing the raw chaotic
data of maya into a cohesive pattern in accordance with one's will. The
magician may be forcefully aware of a desire to change some facet of reality,
and he or she may be able to articulate exactly how that desire can most
efficiently be brought into being. However, this understanding must be firmly
wedded to an act of organizing the necessary data into a form that serves to