/satanic/ - The Hole in the Wall

I think the 'left'/'right' hand path dichotomy is a primarily arbitrary one, which further relies upon historical methods of discourse control. Helena Blavatsky echoes the sentiment of the dominating tendency to criticize its great other which, in her time, was the rejection of tradition and engagement within social behaviors discerned as unpopular and backwards. Hence, how once she left Tibet, she referred to tendencies to break apart from domination as "left", or as a Vamachara, a heterodox practice of expression. In other words, she broadly tossed a title onto all practices which deviated from orthodoxy in some way or another, and typically attributed anecdotal hysteria towards the same practitioners.

Personally, the pathways are really just dualist methods of perceiving magic and ritual. I think of them as tools, mere toys within your own path, to be utilized by the magician as it decides in its seeking of self-empowerment.