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Vamachara. It means Left-Hand Path and is used to describe particular tantric practices that are considered heterodox. The term Dakshinachara, on the other hand, means Right-Hand Path, and is used to portray Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga sects which don’t engage in such heterodox practices.The Brahma Yamala, a Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga text, postulates that there are 3 currents of tradition. These are the Dakshina, Vama, and Madhyama tradition. All characterized, respectively, by the prevalence of each of the 3 gunas. These 3 gunas in Hindu and Tantra philosophy are Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. According to the Brahma Yamala text, Dakshina is portrayed as Sattvic and is pure. Vama is characterized by Rajas and is mixed. Madhyama is described as Tamasic and is considered impure. The Tantras – Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga – of each class abide by a specific line of spiritual practices.Vamachara of the Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga traditions is mainly associated with the Pancha-Makara or the “Five Ms”. This is also referred to as the pancha tattwa which, in literal terms are: Madya (wine), Mansa (meat), Matsya (fish), Mudra (cereal), and Maithuna (sexual intercourse).Vamachara traditions lay strict emphasis on ritual limits about the use of these literal forms. They warn against their unsanctioned use. Douglas Saabs provides a beautiful quotation from the Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga scholar Bhaskararaya who warns that any unsanctioned use of these items could give rise to disaster:“The form of Brahman is bliss. That is instituted in the body. The ceremonial materials that manifest the bliss are imbibed by the Yogis. Nonetheless if the materials if not ritually made use of and so considered impure are had then, since they actively impede the goals and purposes of human life, bind the person to sin. Subsequently, they are not capable of inducing a blissful state.”

Vamachara.

It means Left-Hand Path and is used to describe particular tantric practices that are considered heterodox. The term Dakshinachara, on the other hand, means Right-Hand Path, and is used to portray Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga sects which don’t engage in such heterodox practices.
The Brahma Yamala, a Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga text, postulates that there are 3 currents of tradition.
These are the Dakshina, Vama, and Madhyama tradition. All characterized, respectively, by the prevalence of each of the 3 gunas.
These 3 gunas in Hindu and Tantra philosophy are Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. According to the Brahma Yamala text, Dakshina is portrayed as Sattvic and is pure. Vama is characterized by Rajas and is mixed. Madhyama is described as Tamasic and is considered impure. The Tantras – Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga – of each class abide by a specific line of spiritual practices.

Vamachara of the Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga traditions is mainly associated with the Pancha-Makara or the “Five Ms”. This is also referred to as the pancha tattwa which, in literal terms are: Madya (wine), Mansa (meat), Matsya (fish), Mudra (cereal), and Maithuna (sexual intercourse).
Vamachara traditions lay strict emphasis on ritual limits about the use of these literal forms. They warn against their unsanctioned use. Douglas Saabs provides a beautiful quotation from the Hindu Tantra and Tantra Yoga scholar Bhaskararaya who warns that any unsanctioned use of these items could give rise to disaster:
“The form of Brahman is bliss. That is instituted in the body. The ceremonial materials that manifest the bliss are imbibed by the Yogis. Nonetheless if the materials if not ritually made use of and so considered impure are had then, since they actively impede the goals and purposes of human life, bind the person to sin. Subsequently, they are not capable of inducing a blissful state.”


Those who truly meditate on Thee, the Spouse of Hara, who art seated in the cremation-ground strewn with funeral pyres, corpses, skulls, and bones, and haunted by female jackals howling fearfully; who art very youthful, and art in full enjoyment upon Thy Spouse, are revered by all and in all places.
Hymn to Kali

A little to the left… by Dan Dread (Check out his great blog)

Autodiabolic Method is a left hand path praxis. But what is the left hand path anyway? Seldom has a term been so obfuscated and misused as this one. Many would Say ‘Satanism’, and by proxy those who practice it, and it’s variations are united under this banner of being Left Hand Path, and by this virtue we should ‘ stick together’ or show some sort of group solidarity. Most of these, if asked what the term actually means, will meet you with a blank stare, or worse yet, some obscure bullshit like “It’s a solitary path” or “It means being your own god” or some other arbitrary hubris. They will, laughably, claim that by virtue of “being ones own god” they can reset the definition of LHP to be whatever it is they care to do. They are their own gods after all! When cornered on effectively defining the LHP into meaninglessness(after all, if a word can mean anything it is effectively useless to describe anything specific), they will generally prattle off some platitude about it being a path of ‘self improvement’, as if THAT narrows it down any. Everyone ‘self improves’, on a regular basis, whether it be through simple exercise or reading something informative. Are we to believe everyone is LHP by this virtue? Again we are left with a term that is meaningless, other than to be an identity badge for those that need something to be part of, regardless if the shoe actually fits.

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(Source: autodiabolic.wordpress.com)



Christos Beest - The Sinister Tarot

Christos Beest - The Sinister Tarot


votumvestrinex: The depths of the seaA tunnel of knivesThere is a union hereWhile he directs the ChosenRage in the EyeOf the Goat –The golden triangleStands against a sky of fireMASTER - ATAZOTH   Manipulation - actions based on a knowledge of the Sinister Dialectic as revealed by practical experience: a rational, to some ‘cold’, observation beyond the stage of Adeptship/Individuation. Control of all the many and varied factors within a situation - in other words, the achievement of a stage in individual evolution that goes beyond the personal, and thus implies the ability to initiate Change on a large-scale, perhaps of a civilization.

votumvestrinex:

The depths of the sea
A tunnel of knives
There is a union here
While he directs the Chosen
Rage in the Eye
Of the Goat –
The golden triangle
Stands against a sky of fire

MASTER - ATAZOTH


  Manipulation - actions based on a knowledge of the Sinister Dialectic as revealed by practical experience: a rational, to some ‘cold’, observation beyond the stage of Adeptship/Individuation. Control of all the many and varied factors within a situation - in other words, the achievement of a stage in individual evolution that goes beyond the personal, and thus implies the ability to initiate Change on a large-scale, perhaps of a civilization.

(via angel-93)


Kali is the Black Destroyer as well as nurturing mother.  Often represented as a Black Demonic Goddess, Kali stands atop her husband, Shiva, holding in her hands blades dripping with blood, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. Kali is black because all that transpires returns to her, she is the Abyss in it’s feminine aspect. All time melts into this Goddess. Kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving mother, granting ecstasy to those who would invoke her in the rites of Tantra, through which the sexual combination of opposites set in motion the process of Creation. The union of Male and Female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. Thus through OZ being PAN can desire become flesh. It is through the divine Woman that the essence of Magick and Witchcraft is found. Those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones’ own feminine or Lunar side which must be invariably joined with the Male or Sun aspect.Michael W. Ford

Kali is the Black Destroyer as well as nurturing mother.  Often represented as a Black Demonic Goddess, Kali stands atop her husband, Shiva, holding in her hands blades dripping with blood, and upon her neck a necklace of human skulls. Kali is black because all that transpires returns to her, she is the Abyss in it’s feminine aspect. All time melts into this Goddess. Kali is also life giving, a nurturing and loving mother, granting ecstasy to those who would invoke her in the rites of Tantra, through which the sexual combination of opposites set in motion the process of Creation. The union of Male and Female with a magickal aim or focus presents an accessible window to the astral and dream plane. Thus through OZ being PAN can desire become flesh. It is through the divine Woman that the essence of Magick and Witchcraft is found. Those seeking beyond this path will often miss it altogether, due to the consistent denial of ones’ own feminine or Lunar side which must be invariably joined with the Male or Sun aspect.

Michael W. Ford




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