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

more intense levels of willed desire is thought to continually strengthen the
enduring, eternal element of the couple's spiritual bodies, ultimately creating
imperishable psychic beings that cannot be destroyed by the inevitable
deterioration that must befall all natural creatures. It must be clarified that
this psychic immortality is not sought for the physical body that is the
instrument of the operation. It is the subtle body within the physical shell
that is conjectured to be ever more fortified by the primal, creative shakti
energy activated through the sinister sexual rite.
Sexual Vampirism
As a digression, it is worth mentioning in passing the Chinese Taoist variant
of the left-hand path rite, initially limited to the Chinese Emperor and his
court. In Taoist sexual alchemy, attaining immortality is in fact the sole
purpose of the sexual exchange. The Emperor would endeavor to perform sex
without undergoing yang-diminishing ejaculation with as many of his harem
as possible in one evening, willfully absorbing the young female's yin energy
from their vaginas. Although the male was forbidden from ejaculating, the
operation was only considered successful if the female was brought to many
powerful orgasms in one session. The benefit of absorbing so much female
sexual power without losing any of one's own male energy was believed to
prolong physical life, unnaturally extend youthfulness, and create a reservoir
of limitless energy for the male adept that would extend beyond the existence
of the physical body to an after-death state.
In contrast to the Indian and Tibetan forms of the left-hand path, in
which the female sexual consort is at least theoretically revered as a living
goddess, the Chinese yin-tao was entirely centered on the male adept's goal
of immortality; the female was regarded simply as a sexual battery to be
drained and discarded. In fact, she was generally thought to be useless for
magical purposes after one such procedure – new additions to the harem for
this purpose were constantly sought. One instructional text, the Yu fang che-
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yao, advises us that the common man destroys himself by repeated sexual
congress with his one spouse, who supposedly depletes all of his yang
energy. Here we have as clear a historical example of sexual vampirism as
can be imagined; the conscious, one-sided depletion of one partner's youthful
sexual energy to maintain the other partner's immortality.
One need hardly be a sex magician or a Chinese Emperor to observe
this phenomenon manifest in daily life. We have all encountered couples in
which one partner grows ever stronger, while his or her partner visibly
weakens psychically and physically. Of course, psychological factors play a
part in such soul-draining exchanges. But once sex is experienced as the
magical energy conduit that it is, the sex-vampiric root of such interactions
becomes apparent. Such erotic predation need not take the form of a longlasting
partnership; many a mundane one-night stand has allowed for the
depletion of one partner's sexual energy for the benefit of the other.
Aleister Crowley, whose compulsive practice of sexual vampirism
reduced both of his wives to madness, and helped to destroy a good number
of his "Scarlet Women", once wrote of one of his female pupils: "A superb
natural vampire. But she doesn't know the principles. Her lover has Mortis
Rigor – and the most elementary good sense (one would have thought) and
even natural instinct would have told her to get a fresh victim when the last
has reached the state to which she has reduced the poor boy."
The Postures Of The Secret Rite
Returning to the Indian Tantric maithuna, through persistent recurrence of
the rite, the erotically interlocked male and female adept should be able to
fully rouse the dormant kundalini in their bodies, enabling a fully awakened
consciousness to emerge. Traditionally, sex with an adept of either gender
who has already experienced kundalini is believed to quicken the kundalini
of the other partner. The startling phenomenon of body-to-body transference