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

traveler doesn't know which end is up.
Finally, there's the map drafted by those who declare themselves not
only as tour guides, but proudly lay claim to this left-turning way in its
entirety, hailing it as the very best place to be. However, should the unwary
wayfarer consult such maps for even the simplest directions, it immediately
becomes apparent that there's been some confusion. This mix-up, it seems, is
due to a simple but enduring misappropriation of nomenclature. The area on
these maps marked so conspicuously as "the left-hand path" turns out, on
closer inspection, to be a different path altogether.
Demons Of The Flesh, designed in part as a corrective to the false
leads and detours described above, charts this hitherto misinterpreted path
from a very different perspective. On our map, we clearly show you the
complete road plan in all of its three-dimensional topography and
complexity, starting from its remote ancient Eastern point of origination. We
have also broken beneath the visible surface of this causeway to reveal the
hidden archeological layers of the sinister current as it has coursed through
time. Accompanying you through this voyage, we provide practical
suggestions for navigating the leftward road in a contemporary Western
world that provides no reliable compass.
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But enough metaphors about maps and paths. Let's face it, you
picked this book up to read about sex.
And there's certainly plenty of sex to be found in these pages,
chronicling an infinite diversity of erotic experience. From the alchemy of
menstrual blood and semen to the ritual worship of the vagina. Sex with
promiscuous monks and sacred whores, from Tibet to Babylon. Necrophiliac
sex in cremation grounds. Coprophiliac sex in Sicily. Incestuous sex in India.
Vampiric sex in China. The orgasm as sacrifice. The orgasm prolonged. Sex
with Goddesses. Psychic transexualism. Sex with disembodied beings.
Sexual slavery. Sexual mastery. Sexual trance. Ancient Egyptian anal sex
between Set and his nephew Horus. Oral sex. Autoerotic sex. Group sex.
Telepathic sex. All kinds of sex sects. Tantric sex. Gnostic sex. Satanic sex.
Sex with young virgins. Sex with the elderly. Sex with the wives of other
men. Even sex with Jesus.
However, the multi-bodied panorama of polymorphous delight that
seeps from this book is not presented merely to stimulate the jaded or titillate
ennuyé voluptuaries with novel deviations they have yet to try out. It's
important to establish that there is a significant difference between the
profound pleasure of sexuality enjoyed for its own sake as a physiological
and aesthetic experience, and sexuality utilized for authentic magical or
initiatory purposes – the nucleus of the left-hand path. Taken out of their
proper context, the outwardly salacious tidbits pressed between these pages
can – and probably will – be misinterpreted if this distinction is not taken into
account.
At the same time, it must be pointed out that the whole topic of
sexual magic has been hedged about with a tremendous amount of hypocrisy,
emanating both from practicing sex magicians and those merely observing
their activities. For instance, many a curiosity-seeker has casually poked
around the most superficial level of erotic magic, hoping to learn a few sex
tips to spice up a lackluster love life. For the most part, this misguided
playing at sex magic is merely a waste of time, generating little in the way of
physical excitement, and absolutely nothing in the way of magic. But some
self-righteous sex magicians have taken the school-marmish position that this
fairly common phenomenon is "immoral" or "spiritually harmful", or even
that sex magic must be performed without a scintilla of lust or emotion to be
legitimate. Conversely, the non-magician may snicker at the whole idea of
erotic magic, dismissing it as some sort of dirty joke, refusing to accept that
sex magicians are doing anything more profound than satiating their ordinary