Qliphoth

[skunkape]

In my continuing quest to figure out what is "really" going on, I have begun digging into some more "occult" literature. I'm starting to pick up some interesting bits and pieces on what the Kabbalist's call 'Qliphoth.' There is a lot of useless literature online dealing with the subject. From what I understand, you won't get a Rabbi who actually knows what he's talking about to utter a word on the subject. It seems to be basically a 'demonic' realm that is the mirror-image of the Tree of Life. Here's how Kenneth Grant defined it in 'The Magickal Revival.'

(Hebe): The plural form of Qlipha, sometimes written Klippa, the Qliphoth is a name give to a world or plane of soulless entities, that as such, are not truly living, but merely lingering shells of once conscious persons. They are automata, such as those that haunt graveyards and se'ance rooms, and the magician is warned against trafficking with them in any way. Also of the Qliphoth are the more dangerous remnants of once highly organized elementals that drag out a twilight existence by vampirizing the living.

I see Alan T. Greenfield is going to be on next week. I believe he know a thing or two more about the occult than I do. I'd like to hear what he knows of this subject.

 

[Raevenskye]

that's interesting. Way back when I was playing with Ouija boards, my friends and I would almost always end up with "something" that wanted "a body"....this was a frequent request/demand/concern. Most of the time it was only an annoyance, but something we didn't really like to hear. We figured that spirits who were not very powerful came to the Ouija board. Wonder if these are the "shells" you talk about? They seemed to be almost like whining children in their communications.