"Left-Hand Path," "Right-Hand Path," And Definitions

[Nick_lastnamehere]

I want to thank everyone for their mindful responses to my question. Taking time to from your day to help me is very much appreciated.

@Lady_Eva

I think that conflating “LHP” with “baneful magick”/“only works with demons”/“must become harder, crueller or more selfish” is at best, misguided and at worse, playing into the morality traps that comprise most RHP-oriented thought.

In a way this has been my intuition all along. I have a new thought/question now. That seems to be true to me. Possibly slightly different.

I’ll do my reading first before I get too lazy and pester everyone to hell and back. Thank you!

[555]

Very illuminating, thank you

[Davyboi]

@Lady_Eva

For example, in the RHP, you MUST comply with specific moral, or at least behavioural, criteria laid down by an EXTERNAL moral authority, be it God, Parasiva/Parasakti, karma, traditional taboos, “the highest good of all” or whatever.

This model also holds that the human soul is (variously) fallen, incomplete, in dire need of evolution, or simply impure and wrongfully attached to the world of the flesh.

And that the adherent’s primary aspiration must be to comply with the guidelines given, in order to become saved, whole, pure, and detached from worldly concerns.

In the LHP, you have no moral or behavioural constraints, no outside “judge” awarding you a desired spiritual state (whether after death or beforehand) such as enlightenment, heaven, or Nirvana, and there’s no other state to aspire to except that which you desire for yourself, although for many of us who’ve bothered going this far, that will amount to becoming the primary creative force in our own spacetime perception (universe, reality, call it what you will).

With - let me repeat this before anyone says, “But dear silly Eva, we all create our own reality anyway” - no moral or behavioural strictures whatsoever.

None.

How these two things can be alike - how there can be a “middle path” that has a bit of both, honestly escapes me, since the whole idea of RHP is to evolve spiritually along a path determined by external laws and rules, whereas the whole idea of the LHP is to dispense with these.

I am walking the middle path. Both the dweller and the angel of presence. I’m more stumbling then walking! Lol.x

[Uncle-Al]

Great post which I highly and unreservedly recommend. And Stephen Flowers is one of my heroes. (Years ago, I had to send nasty emails to Stephen Flowers’; which his wife may have answered?; in order to get a substandard copy of Lords of the Left-Hand Path .)

I am a God incarnate, make no mistake. The fact that I’m operating in a human body in the physical world presents endless possibilities and obstacles which - as part of my Godhood - I try to overcome! And I’m unashamedly antinomian - can’t hide it! I ‘live as the beasts of the field’; because I’m here – now.

Lady Eva is damn right – the two paths don’t mix. Both paths are strong and dangerous. The western lhp isn’t about disappearing into in the divine – its about becoming divine: separate, individual, go-fuck-yourself divine!

Al.

[Davyboi]

I myself am dual! Not god, but animal! Dragged up from the pit itself… you might be a god incarnation, and good luck. Live the dream! Sit on your throne.
Unfortunately I haven’t got that privilege. Nor do I want that. You dismiss the middle path, why?