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

irreverence, not pious sanctification. In fact, in the process of transforming
yourself from human to divine consciousness through erotic initiation, a
healthy irreverence directed at your own pretensions is mandatory.
The world is filled with people who have devoured a thousand
magical books and yet have never performed a single genuine act of magic.
So prevalent is this phenomenon that the syndrome has even earned itself a
name: the armchair magician. It is certainly not our intention to breed
through this book something even worse – the bedside sex magician.
Assuming that you are reading this as an introductory overview of left-hand
path sex magic, and not simply as a perverse amusement, the principles
outlined herein should be enacted in your own flesh, through action in the
real world, as opposed to cerebral abstraction.
Of course, there have been other books that have attempted to
communicate something of the mysteries of sex magic. However, from our
point of view, the majority of these earlier volumes have missed the mark.
We would like to think that our aim will be more precise. For the most part,
previously available sex magic texts have softened the piercing power
available to the erotic magician into an ooey, gooey froth of insipid
romanticism. Most recent offerings have been geared towards the weak,
sniveling sensibilities of the so-called New Age movement. Such fainthearted
guides have proffered an utterly defanged and domesticated sexual
magic to their readers. This volume will sit uneasily on the shelf with those
gentler, less direct works. If your understanding of sex magic has been
gleaned only from that unsound body of work, we hope that this book serves
as a purging antidote to previous misconceptions.
Not the least of the misconceptions we have targeted is the entirely
incoherent and historically invalid understanding of the exact nature of the
left-hand path that has prevailed for the past century or so in the Western
world. One of the challenges in writing this book was to properly define a
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subject which so many already think they understand, but in fact do not – at
least, not by any objective standard we can identify In attempting to set the
record straight on what the left-hand path is, we are only beginning the
greater task of establishing a congruous working model of the sinister
current in the West. Built, as it must be, upon the ruins of the confusion of
the past, that working model may well take another fifty to a hundred years
to truly take hold.
Although we ourselves are practicing left-hand path sex magicians,
this book is in no sense designed as a medium of conversion or as a
recruitment device. As we will make clear, the left-hand path is, for all of its
anti-authoritarian elements, very much an elitist form of initiation. By this,
we do not mean that left-hand path adepts necessarily consider themselves to
be superior to the uninitiated – only that the sinister current is not for all, and
can never be a path for the millions. Reading this book may well clarify for
you that you would be ill-suited for this school of initiation.
Sexuality is the expression in the material world of the metaphysical
concept of polarity – the yin and yang, Shiva and Shakti, the rose and the
cross, the union and transcendence of opposites. Demons Of The Flesh is the
very thing it describes, in that it can be understood as a sex magic working
in its own right. As a brain-child created by the polarized erotic energies of
male and female sexuality generated by its authors, this book illustrates how
the combined sexual force of two magicians can create a daemonic third
entity. By shaping the collaborative words and perspectives of two
magicians into a cohesive whole, we have aimed to bring into being a
magical elemental that takes on a certain life of its own, independent of its
creators. Whenever two magicians work together, the creation of such an
elemental force is the result; William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin referred
to this phenomenon as "the third mind". Just as left-hand path erotic magic