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

electrical shock. Indeed, a jolt of electricity is an appropriate metaphor for
this tangible transmission of power, as those who have undergone the flow
of the sinister kundalini current from one gender to another have often
testified.
Like electricity, the full manifestation of the Kundalini energy is
extremely difficult to control once aroused, a potentially dangerous
operation which permits the practitioner to confront reality as it really is – it
is the most dramatic of the physical mechanisms that allow the initiate a
state of awakening.
This potentially devastating experience is known to have caused
permanent psychic disruption in many who have attempted it. Fittingly, a
metaphoric comparison is made to the dangers involved in disturbing a
sleeping cobra from its slumber: Kundalini, it is said, "awakens from her
sleep as a serpent, struck by a stick, hisses and straightens itself'. What
normally descends is caused to ascend by the will of the initiate. Kundalini,
which means "She Who is Hidden" is the literal presence of the dormant
goddess within every human body. Through controlled breathing, or
pranayama, combined with the ritualized sex act, the feminine-lunar and
masculine-solar streams of energy are merged, resulting in an orgasmic flare
of radiance that illuminates understanding, and activates dormant energy.
Coiled at the seat of Shakti at the muladhara chakra, Kundalini rises
from there, passes through the chakras (or wheels) that line the spinal
column, to be united with Shiva at the Sahasara chakra, where the seat of
Shiva is located. At the crown chakra, the kundalini energy opens the ajna
chakra, or third eye, a subtle organ radiated from the area of the pineal gland
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in the physical body, allowing the initiate to see for the first time. The
feminine kundalini force, like maya itself, is said to hypnotize humans and
keep them in thrall to unreality when it lays asleep at the base of the spine,
only serving as an awakening power when it rises.
This spiritual coupling of Shakti and Shiva within the body through
Kundalini-Yoga mirrors the sexual coupling of male and female left-hand
path adepts. In the language of Western theurgy, Kundalini can be
understood as an act of invocation, conjuring the goddess within the
magician's own body. As with all yogic procedures, it is not uncommon for
magical powers, or siddhi, to develop during this process, particularly siddhi
related to the feminine principle, such as enhanced intuition and
clairvoyance. On an archetypal level of consciousness, the symbol of the
kundalini serpent is an enigmatic mixture of male and female imagery, a
hermaphroditic creature that simultaneously brings to mind the common
phallic associations of the erect snake secreting its life-producing venom,
and the feminine nature of the concealed goddess it is said to incarnate.
We can find telling echoes of the ancient Sanskrit word kundalini in
other Indo-European languages. The old Anglo-Saxon "cunt", and the
modern English "cunning" are only two of the most pertinent examples.
Another is the name and character of Kundry, a sinister sorceress in the Grail
saga of Parsifal. The wild Kundry, described as a "she-devil" and "hell-rose"
is said to have learned her black art in "far Araby" – a hint at the tale's
Persian origins. Her affinity with the malefic wizard Klingsor is clearly that
of initiatrix; she is Klingsor's dark kundlini-shakti, his anima externalized.
Through Kundry, Klingsor hopes to seduce the pure fool Parsifal and gain
control of the Graal, enduring symbol of the Feminine Daemonic. The
minnesinger Wolfram von Eschenbach embedded his tale with a wealth of
esoteric references; many of them suggestive of the cult of the Feminine
Daemonic hidden within the troubadour tradition.
Kundalini, understood as a hidden feminine power, is nearly identical
with the Germanic Goddess Holda, whose name can also be translated as
"She Who is Hidden". This heathen goddess survived well into the Christian