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as a self-created semi-divine consciousness, engineered through the wakeful<br />
orchestration of extreme erotic energy For the left-hand path dominant and<br />
submissive, the power play of such operations can be a decisive step in the<br />
quest for that elusive state of being Georges Bataille termed "sovereignty",<br />
akin to the heroic vira stage of traditional Tantric initiation, in which all<br />
fetters to one's former existence as a herd-animal are severed.<br />
For the submissive magician, the irony is that these hindering psychic<br />
chains are broken by willingly accepting the consensual bondage of ritual<br />
enslavement. <strong>The</strong> controlled tribulation exercised upon the dominant's flesh<br />
and mind by a skilled dominant is an intensification of the initiatory process<br />
itself, translated to the bodily realm. <strong>The</strong> cruel shocks to the somatic system<br />
endured and eventually welcomed by the sexually submissive magician can<br />
serve as a maya-mirror of one aspect of sinister current self-transformation.<br />
Every exquisite torment endured and overcome during a working of lust/pain<br />
echoes the manner in which the left-hand path initiate must joyfully confront<br />
the disturbing trauma of a fully awakened awareness of reality itself in this<br />
Kali Yuga age.<br />
In this subservient state, no manifestation of maya can be rejected or<br />
denied; every blow to the body is embraced, until the consciousness rises to a<br />
level where pain and pleasure, terror and exultation, orgasm and agony, are as<br />
indistinguishable as all other dualities. By subjecting the mortal meat which<br />
temporarily houses the psyche to systematic degradation, the false layers of<br />
personality developed through external conditioning can be destroyed.<br />
Illusory masks of social status crumble, allowing the initiate to reprogram<br />
internal identity at will. In yielding to the dominant's severity, the initiated<br />
submissive learns his or her own limits, and goes beyond them. Writhing in<br />
the crucible of this act of alchemical readjustment, the dross of the slave can<br />
remanifest as gold, emerging from the ordeal as master of his or her own soul.<br />
For the dominant magician, the advantage of such workings are more<br />
obviously apparent; the master or mistress is granted a semblance of divine<br />
power during ritual space/time. But even considering the harsh lessons<br />
concerning Self that the slave may he compelled to cope with, it is actually<br />
the master who faces the greatest challenge.<br />
Assuming full responsibility for another physical being who has<br />
consented to obey without question, the dominant's worthiness to he a god is<br />
put to the test. For the duration of the rite, within the liminal boundaries of the<br />
474<br />
master-slave connection, the dominant is the creator and ruler of a temporary<br />
universe for two. This allows the master/mistress a rare opportunity to study<br />
the subtle conditions of cause and effect that every magician must learn, as<br />
demonstrated in the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of his or her complete<br />
control of the slave.<br />
If discipline is lost, the dominant forfeits all right to godhood, just as<br />
the adept who cannot execute his or her will in terms that create appropriate<br />
change in maya has failed. <strong>The</strong> master who seeks to wield absolute authority<br />
over the submissive must exercise a balance between firm dominion and the<br />
playful touch of lila, a delicate equilibrium needed in all magical operations<br />
attempting to control the unruly chaos of raw existence. Within the conditions<br />
of the rite, the submissive can be equated with a work of art in progress, while<br />
the dominant is the artist, sculpting a living creation in the medium of pain<br />
and pleasure inflicted upon human flesh.<br />
For magicians whose erotic responses are already geared toward the<br />
pleasurable administration or endurance of pain, the addition of magical<br />
purpose to these cruel joys has proven to substantially boost the potency of<br />
magical operations. Many magicians who originally felt absolutely no affinity<br />
for the introduction of pain/lust into their work have benefited from at least a<br />
few limited experiments with these methods. As the most psychologically and<br />
physically dangerous of all sex magical techniques, the rites of dominant and.