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Tree of Qliphoth
"Tree of Qliphoth" is the third anthology by the Temple of Ascending Flame, exploring the dark side of the Qabalistic Tree as a map of Draconian Initiation. In essays, rituals and other expressions of personal research and experience, magicians and initiates of the Draconian Tradition discuss the realms of the Nightside, teachings and gnosis of its dark denizens, as well as practical methods developed both within the Temple and through their individual work. Material included in this book will give the reader a foretaste of these forces and a glimpse of what you can expect while embarking on the self-initiatory journey through the labyrinths of the Dark Tree. Compiled and edited by Asenath Mason, the book contains contributions from active magicians, students, and practitioners of the Left Hand Path: Rev Bill Duvendack, Edgar Kerval, Christiane Kliemannel, Pairika-Eva Borowska, M. King, Calia van de Reyn, Leonard Dewar, Mafra Lunanigra, N.A: O, S.TZE. Swan, and Zeis Araujo.
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Published February 12, 2016
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Asenath Mason
77 books129 followersAsenath Mason is the author of books like "The Book of Mephisto: A Modern Grimoire of the Faustian Tradition", "Necronomicon Gnosis - A Practical Introduction", "Sol Tenebrarum - The Occult Study of Melancholy", "The Grimoire of Tiamat", "Liber Thagirion" and more. Author of many essays on esoteric, religious and mythological subjects, with a particular focus on the Left Hand Path philosophy, Luciferian Spirituality and Draconian Tradition. Founder and coordinator of the Temple of Ascending Flame.
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January 11, 2025
Another Karlsson derivative LARP.
Ms Mason, like her pal Micky Ford has sought to build upon the falsehoods laid out in Thomas Karlssons “Qabalah Qliphoth and Goetic Magic” (Please see my review of the same)
The entire utterly false premise of this system and its derivatives is that the Qliphoth correspond in position to the Sephiroth and the upper chakras.
As it is a total derivative my review of Karlssons book serves the same purpose:
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The author presents yet another endgame for the “left-hand path”
A “have your cake and eat it too” scenario, whereby we can become “God of a new universe”, one with “The universal darkness”, or one with “God on the light-side” depending on our whim.
Don’t ask how though, as these “mysteries” are reserved for higher initiates, dontcha know.
I believe he is largely responsible for the modern proliferation of Kenneth Grants ridiculous invention that the Qliphoth correspond in placement to the Sephiroth and the upper chakras.
Background:
The late 19th Century heralded an “east meets west” moment in esotericism.
Driven largely by those such as Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical society colleagues, like Charles Leadbeater, who had spent time in India.
The Theosophists, along with some members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, and a few others, sought a reconciliation of the teachings of eastern esotericism with aspects of the western paradigm.
Mostly focusing on the Dharmic traditions, in particular Hinduism and Hindu Tantra.
This collision had created a conundrum for them; western esotericism was in contrast rooted in an utterly irreconcilable dualistic paradigm, and this was now being revealed.
Speaking logically, if the western paradigm was to survive then either a reconciliation, or a conflation, had to occur.
Particularly with respect to the polarised monotheistic concepts of God / Satan and Good / Evil.
There is in fact no correspondent concept in any Dharmic faith. There is One, supreme Good, and the polarity of Truth and ignorance, in the latter of which there is potential for evil. This is an extremely important distinction.
In Hinduism satan corresponds to the asuric (those who reject God) lord of the current time period or Yuga.
They found something of an “in road” on this front on the subject of The Tantric Left-Hand path of Vamacara and its practices that utilise sex.
Blavatsky et al conflated these practices with “sex magick”; practices designed to direct and use the energy from a sexual act for a specific purpose, and designated the left-hand path of Vamacara as “black magic” as a result.
Both the Right- and Left-hand Tantric paths are systems of spiritual practices that ultimately pursue the liberation of the seeker from the karmic cycle of rebirth.
An example that illustrates the difference between the two in the context of sex: A seeker walking the right-hand path renounces the world. When this seeker has successfully cultivated dispassion, transcended the trivia of lust, and cognitively realises every woman in Truth as the microcosmic Goddess, the sublimation of the sexual energy occurs.
Instead of gathering for release at the sacral, it is raised and transmuted into vitality and higher states of consciousness.
At this point, sex becomes a devotional act, and such a seeker could then if so inclined be used to supercharge the sublimation process. This is what the Left-Hand path does. A renunciate attitude is an absolute pre-requisite.
Otherwise, the seeker will simply get caught up in lust, and then, as the cumulative retention and sublimation of the sexual energy are imperative to both paths, the whole thing is knackered.
The Daoist’s would tell you the same on this subject. Far stricter if anything.
Lose the generative force, and nae diamond body for you pal, they’ll say.
The Left-Hand path to liberation is the path of the renunciate alchemist, creating greater levels of energy for sublimation with a greater level of risk.
Here is two example quotes corroborating this, one from the Yogi Satyananda Saraswati and another from the Aghora series on Left-Hand path Tantra quoting the Aghori Vimalananda.
So Blavatsky et al conflate left-hand tantra with sex magick, designate vamacara as “black magic”
They start saying all kinds of wildly stupid stuff, attempting to overlay their paradigm of Good / Evil onto the Right- and Left-Hand Tantric Paths
Now fortunately, there was a guy around at the time with a wee bit more credibility on the subject than any of these morons.
Sir John Woodroffe, pen name Arthur Avalon, spent twice as much time in India as Blavatsky, Leadbeater and Crowley combined.
In his book on The Kundalini Shakti; The Serpent Power, he says this of Vamacara:
“Vamacara is not black magic, the nearest Sanskrit equivalent for which is Abhicara. There may have been, as the Mahakala-Samhita says, some Kaulas who, like the Vaidikas, sought enjoyment in this and the next world, and not liberation. But to state baldly that Kaulas as a whole do not rouse Kundalini and lead her to the Sahasrara is incorrect. Purnanda-Swami, the author of the text here translated, was himself a Kaula and the whole object of the work is to secure liberation (Moksa)”
Contrast his words with those of Theosophist Purucker who stated that Vamacara leads to “personal obscuration and spiritual annihilation”.
Woodroffe confirms what we already knew: Left- and Right-Hand Tantric paths are both paths to liberation and Vamacara is not synonymous with black magic.
But unfortunately, it didn’t end here.
Crowley took a broader and even stupider approach. He did not confine his conflations to the Tantric left- and right-hand paths. He overtly conflated Hinduism with satanism on a broader basis.
An example that demonstrates his efforts from his book “the vision and the voice”
"... there is a legend of Eve and the Serpent, for Cain was the child of Eve and the Serpent, and not of Eve and Adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had Cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the Beast spoken of in the Apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation2.”
Words to which Crowley has added the following endnote:
"2.This is the "Third Eye", the "Eye of Shiva", the Pineal Gland, supposed by some anatomists to be a rudimentary eye."
Crowley conflates the third eye charka, the centre of awareness where self-realisation as microcosm of the macrocosm occurs, with the so-called “mark of the beast”, suggesting ridiculously that sacrificing living things to “your demon” will open the ajna chakra.
Based on efforts like this it is tempting to, as I once did, write Crowley off as a totally insignificant moron.
But unfortunately, we will eventually have to revisit him in more detail.
Despite Woodroffe’s trumps of credibility and authority on the subject, these conflating efforts did not end with the work of those above.
Crowley’s broad-brush approach was a source of inspiration for one of his well-known disciples.
Mr Kenneth Grant. Who produced a works called “Nightside of Eden”
Grant took a leaf out of Crowley’s book, laying the foundation for a whole new generation of conflations.
This book was not on the subject of Hindu Tantra, but discussed one with which it is intrinsically linked; the kabbalistic Sephiroth and the Qliphoth.
The Sephiroth and Qliphoth correspond completely to the upper and lower chakras of Tantric tradition.
Here are the correspondences in full, beginning with the Sephiroth and upper chakras which most may be familiar with:
Keter – Crown – Sahasrara Chakra (Top of head) - Unity
Chokmah and Binah – Wisdom and Understanding – Ajna Eye Chakra (Brow) – Divine Sight
Chesed, Daath and Gevurah – Love, Knowledge and Might – Vishuddha Chakra (Throat) – Divine Love
Tiferet – Beauty – Anahata Chakra (Heart) - Direct Cognition
Netzach and Hod – Eternity and Majesty – Manipura Plexus Chakra (Solar Plexus) - Willpower
Yesod – Foundation – Swadishthana Chakra (Lower abdomen) - Reason
Malkhut – Kingdom – Muladhara Chakra (Perineum) – Memory
Now the Qliphoth and the lower chakras:
Lilith – Night Monsters – Atala Chakra (Hips) – Fear, Lust
Gamaliel – The Obscene Ones – Vitala Chakra (Thighs) – Anger & Viciousness, Resentment
Gharab and Samael – The Corrosive Ones and The Deceitful Ones – Sutala Chakra (Knees) – Jealousy, Inadequacy
Tagimron – The Disputers – Talatala Chakra (Calves) – Deep Confusion, Instinctive Wilfulness (The Black Sun)
Gha Agsheblah, Belial and Golohab – The Smiting Ones, The Worthless Ones and The Flaming Ones – Rasatala Chakra (Ankles) – Selfishness, Animalistic Nature
Ghogiel and Satoriel – The Hindering Ones and The Concealing Ones – Mahatala Chakra (Feet) – Conscienceless, Inner Blindness
Thaumiel – The Contending Forces – Patala Chakra (Soles of the feet) – Hatred, Malice
Crowley only mentions the Qliphoth in passing, doesn’t ever really say anything specific about them.
Now in nightside, Grant quotes A.E Waite, someone who obviously knew what they were talking about, on the subject of the Qliphoth:
“As there is the height of Kether in Kabbalism so too is there the abyss which is below Malkhut”
Note his use of the word “below”, in line with the correspondences above.
Grant then goes full blown Crowley ridiculous:
“It is my intention to show that the Height and the Depth, are identical beneath the image of the Beast”
Say what now?
Grant takes the Qliphoth / Lower chakras, flips and overlays them onto the Sephiroth / Upper chakras, and claims they are one and the same.
Now this is so stupid it would actually be funny, had what is a total and unmitigated LARP, not spawned an entire generation of new conflations and nonsense with this as it’s blueprint.
The next most significant sewage peddler to take up the gauntlet was none other than Mr Thomas Karlsson, founder of the occult order “Dragon Rouge”.
In his hilarious work “Qablah Qliphoth & Goetic Magic” Karlsson builds on Grants inversion and the earlier conflations of Crowley and the Theosophists, conflating both Left-Hand Path Tantra and at times Hinduism broadly, with satanism, as well as utilising Grants inversion and misplacement of the Qliphoth. He is the first to falsely correspond Lilith with Kundalini Shakti.
“And I might have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling dead sea scrolls!!” cries Karlsson as he is bundled away by the occult scooby doo police
Sorry Tom. Lilith is plural. Liliyyot. Demonesses. “Night Monsters”
The dead sea scrolls reveal Lilith is pluralised, rendering such conceptually antithetical to Shakti which is an uncountable noun.
As outlined above Lilith, first of the Qliphoth, corresponds to the first of the Tala chakras, the Atala chakra at the hips.
The bhagavata purana explains that the lower Atala chakra is ruled by Bala, the son of the asura Maya Danava. This is the abode of sexual entities in the form of lustful demonesses. Bala creates these demonesses when he yawns.
Lustful demonesses; Night Monsters / Liliyyot.
Karlsson later realised his error and made a ridiculous attempt to address this in a facebook post entitled "Black Dragon and the Talas" in 2019. Look it up if you fancy a laugh.
Here he hilariously attempts to explain away the absence of the Tala chakras in his system by stating that in his occult order "Dragon Rouge"
"We do not use specific Tala workings before the 5.0 level".
Riiiiiiiiight. That must be why you never mentioned them before.
Doesn't quite explain why that if as you also state in this post the patala chakra carries the keys to "self-deification" that you fail to mention this at all and further make this contradictory statement in your book:
"The goal of the Left Hand Path, according to the Qliphotic-
Alcheraical path, is to reach the outermost dark sphere. Thaumiel"
So according to this post the patala chakra carries the keys to self-deification but according to this book your goal is to reach Thaumiel which corresponds to the crown chakra.
Confused much?
I would have expected a more coherent pile of nonsense from somebody with a PHD in history of religion.
How disappointing.
Now to ask an important question: Just what exactly is going on here?
Is this really just one generation of hapless satanic idiots after another, unwittingly building on LARP after LARP, worth nothing more than a roll of the eye and a shake of the head?
Or is there in fact something a bit more, “sinister”, going on here?
The answer is yes, but unfortunately, I've run out of space.
Ms Mason, like her pal Micky Ford has sought to build upon the falsehoods laid out in Thomas Karlssons “Qabalah Qliphoth and Goetic Magic” (Please see my review of the same)
The entire utterly false premise of this system and its derivatives is that the Qliphoth correspond in position to the Sephiroth and the upper chakras.
As it is a total derivative my review of Karlssons book serves the same purpose:
---
The author presents yet another endgame for the “left-hand path”
A “have your cake and eat it too” scenario, whereby we can become “God of a new universe”, one with “The universal darkness”, or one with “God on the light-side” depending on our whim.
Don’t ask how though, as these “mysteries” are reserved for higher initiates, dontcha know.
I believe he is largely responsible for the modern proliferation of Kenneth Grants ridiculous invention that the Qliphoth correspond in placement to the Sephiroth and the upper chakras.
Background:
The late 19th Century heralded an “east meets west” moment in esotericism.
Driven largely by those such as Madame Blavatsky and her Theosophical society colleagues, like Charles Leadbeater, who had spent time in India.
The Theosophists, along with some members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, and a few others, sought a reconciliation of the teachings of eastern esotericism with aspects of the western paradigm.
Mostly focusing on the Dharmic traditions, in particular Hinduism and Hindu Tantra.
This collision had created a conundrum for them; western esotericism was in contrast rooted in an utterly irreconcilable dualistic paradigm, and this was now being revealed.
Speaking logically, if the western paradigm was to survive then either a reconciliation, or a conflation, had to occur.
Particularly with respect to the polarised monotheistic concepts of God / Satan and Good / Evil.
There is in fact no correspondent concept in any Dharmic faith. There is One, supreme Good, and the polarity of Truth and ignorance, in the latter of which there is potential for evil. This is an extremely important distinction.
In Hinduism satan corresponds to the asuric (those who reject God) lord of the current time period or Yuga.
They found something of an “in road” on this front on the subject of The Tantric Left-Hand path of Vamacara and its practices that utilise sex.
Blavatsky et al conflated these practices with “sex magick”; practices designed to direct and use the energy from a sexual act for a specific purpose, and designated the left-hand path of Vamacara as “black magic” as a result.
Both the Right- and Left-hand Tantric paths are systems of spiritual practices that ultimately pursue the liberation of the seeker from the karmic cycle of rebirth.
An example that illustrates the difference between the two in the context of sex: A seeker walking the right-hand path renounces the world. When this seeker has successfully cultivated dispassion, transcended the trivia of lust, and cognitively realises every woman in Truth as the microcosmic Goddess, the sublimation of the sexual energy occurs.
Instead of gathering for release at the sacral, it is raised and transmuted into vitality and higher states of consciousness.
At this point, sex becomes a devotional act, and such a seeker could then if so inclined be used to supercharge the sublimation process. This is what the Left-Hand path does. A renunciate attitude is an absolute pre-requisite.
Otherwise, the seeker will simply get caught up in lust, and then, as the cumulative retention and sublimation of the sexual energy are imperative to both paths, the whole thing is knackered.
The Daoist’s would tell you the same on this subject. Far stricter if anything.
Lose the generative force, and nae diamond body for you pal, they’ll say.
The Left-Hand path to liberation is the path of the renunciate alchemist, creating greater levels of energy for sublimation with a greater level of risk.
Here is two example quotes corroborating this, one from the Yogi Satyananda Saraswati and another from the Aghora series on Left-Hand path Tantra quoting the Aghori Vimalananda.
So Blavatsky et al conflate left-hand tantra with sex magick, designate vamacara as “black magic”
They start saying all kinds of wildly stupid stuff, attempting to overlay their paradigm of Good / Evil onto the Right- and Left-Hand Tantric Paths
Now fortunately, there was a guy around at the time with a wee bit more credibility on the subject than any of these morons.
Sir John Woodroffe, pen name Arthur Avalon, spent twice as much time in India as Blavatsky, Leadbeater and Crowley combined.
In his book on The Kundalini Shakti; The Serpent Power, he says this of Vamacara:
“Vamacara is not black magic, the nearest Sanskrit equivalent for which is Abhicara. There may have been, as the Mahakala-Samhita says, some Kaulas who, like the Vaidikas, sought enjoyment in this and the next world, and not liberation. But to state baldly that Kaulas as a whole do not rouse Kundalini and lead her to the Sahasrara is incorrect. Purnanda-Swami, the author of the text here translated, was himself a Kaula and the whole object of the work is to secure liberation (Moksa)”
Contrast his words with those of Theosophist Purucker who stated that Vamacara leads to “personal obscuration and spiritual annihilation”.
Woodroffe confirms what we already knew: Left- and Right-Hand Tantric paths are both paths to liberation and Vamacara is not synonymous with black magic.
But unfortunately, it didn’t end here.
Crowley took a broader and even stupider approach. He did not confine his conflations to the Tantric left- and right-hand paths. He overtly conflated Hinduism with satanism on a broader basis.
An example that demonstrates his efforts from his book “the vision and the voice”
"... there is a legend of Eve and the Serpent, for Cain was the child of Eve and the Serpent, and not of Eve and Adam; and therefore when he had slain his brother, who was the first murderer, having sacrificed living things to his demon, had Cain the mark upon his brow, which is the mark of the Beast spoken of in the Apocalypse, and is the sign of initiation2.”
Words to which Crowley has added the following endnote:
"2.This is the "Third Eye", the "Eye of Shiva", the Pineal Gland, supposed by some anatomists to be a rudimentary eye."
Crowley conflates the third eye charka, the centre of awareness where self-realisation as microcosm of the macrocosm occurs, with the so-called “mark of the beast”, suggesting ridiculously that sacrificing living things to “your demon” will open the ajna chakra.
Based on efforts like this it is tempting to, as I once did, write Crowley off as a totally insignificant moron.
But unfortunately, we will eventually have to revisit him in more detail.
Despite Woodroffe’s trumps of credibility and authority on the subject, these conflating efforts did not end with the work of those above.
Crowley’s broad-brush approach was a source of inspiration for one of his well-known disciples.
Mr Kenneth Grant. Who produced a works called “Nightside of Eden”
Grant took a leaf out of Crowley’s book, laying the foundation for a whole new generation of conflations.
This book was not on the subject of Hindu Tantra, but discussed one with which it is intrinsically linked; the kabbalistic Sephiroth and the Qliphoth.
The Sephiroth and Qliphoth correspond completely to the upper and lower chakras of Tantric tradition.
Here are the correspondences in full, beginning with the Sephiroth and upper chakras which most may be familiar with:
Keter – Crown – Sahasrara Chakra (Top of head) - Unity
Chokmah and Binah – Wisdom and Understanding – Ajna Eye Chakra (Brow) – Divine Sight
Chesed, Daath and Gevurah – Love, Knowledge and Might – Vishuddha Chakra (Throat) – Divine Love
Tiferet – Beauty – Anahata Chakra (Heart) - Direct Cognition
Netzach and Hod – Eternity and Majesty – Manipura Plexus Chakra (Solar Plexus) - Willpower
Yesod – Foundation – Swadishthana Chakra (Lower abdomen) - Reason
Malkhut – Kingdom – Muladhara Chakra (Perineum) – Memory
Now the Qliphoth and the lower chakras:
Lilith – Night Monsters – Atala Chakra (Hips) – Fear, Lust
Gamaliel – The Obscene Ones – Vitala Chakra (Thighs) – Anger & Viciousness, Resentment
Gharab and Samael – The Corrosive Ones and The Deceitful Ones – Sutala Chakra (Knees) – Jealousy, Inadequacy
Tagimron – The Disputers – Talatala Chakra (Calves) – Deep Confusion, Instinctive Wilfulness (The Black Sun)
Gha Agsheblah, Belial and Golohab – The Smiting Ones, The Worthless Ones and The Flaming Ones – Rasatala Chakra (Ankles) – Selfishness, Animalistic Nature
Ghogiel and Satoriel – The Hindering Ones and The Concealing Ones – Mahatala Chakra (Feet) – Conscienceless, Inner Blindness
Thaumiel – The Contending Forces – Patala Chakra (Soles of the feet) – Hatred, Malice
Crowley only mentions the Qliphoth in passing, doesn’t ever really say anything specific about them.
Now in nightside, Grant quotes A.E Waite, someone who obviously knew what they were talking about, on the subject of the Qliphoth:
“As there is the height of Kether in Kabbalism so too is there the abyss which is below Malkhut”
Note his use of the word “below”, in line with the correspondences above.
Grant then goes full blown Crowley ridiculous:
“It is my intention to show that the Height and the Depth, are identical beneath the image of the Beast”
Say what now?
Grant takes the Qliphoth / Lower chakras, flips and overlays them onto the Sephiroth / Upper chakras, and claims they are one and the same.
Now this is so stupid it would actually be funny, had what is a total and unmitigated LARP, not spawned an entire generation of new conflations and nonsense with this as it’s blueprint.
The next most significant sewage peddler to take up the gauntlet was none other than Mr Thomas Karlsson, founder of the occult order “Dragon Rouge”.
In his hilarious work “Qablah Qliphoth & Goetic Magic” Karlsson builds on Grants inversion and the earlier conflations of Crowley and the Theosophists, conflating both Left-Hand Path Tantra and at times Hinduism broadly, with satanism, as well as utilising Grants inversion and misplacement of the Qliphoth. He is the first to falsely correspond Lilith with Kundalini Shakti.
“And I might have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling dead sea scrolls!!” cries Karlsson as he is bundled away by the occult scooby doo police
Sorry Tom. Lilith is plural. Liliyyot. Demonesses. “Night Monsters”
The dead sea scrolls reveal Lilith is pluralised, rendering such conceptually antithetical to Shakti which is an uncountable noun.
As outlined above Lilith, first of the Qliphoth, corresponds to the first of the Tala chakras, the Atala chakra at the hips.
The bhagavata purana explains that the lower Atala chakra is ruled by Bala, the son of the asura Maya Danava. This is the abode of sexual entities in the form of lustful demonesses. Bala creates these demonesses when he yawns.
Lustful demonesses; Night Monsters / Liliyyot.
Karlsson later realised his error and made a ridiculous attempt to address this in a facebook post entitled "Black Dragon and the Talas" in 2019. Look it up if you fancy a laugh.
Here he hilariously attempts to explain away the absence of the Tala chakras in his system by stating that in his occult order "Dragon Rouge"
"We do not use specific Tala workings before the 5.0 level".
Riiiiiiiiight. That must be why you never mentioned them before.
Doesn't quite explain why that if as you also state in this post the patala chakra carries the keys to "self-deification" that you fail to mention this at all and further make this contradictory statement in your book:
"The goal of the Left Hand Path, according to the Qliphotic-
Alcheraical path, is to reach the outermost dark sphere. Thaumiel"
So according to this post the patala chakra carries the keys to self-deification but according to this book your goal is to reach Thaumiel which corresponds to the crown chakra.
Confused much?
I would have expected a more coherent pile of nonsense from somebody with a PHD in history of religion.
How disappointing.
Now to ask an important question: Just what exactly is going on here?
Is this really just one generation of hapless satanic idiots after another, unwittingly building on LARP after LARP, worth nothing more than a roll of the eye and a shake of the head?
Or is there in fact something a bit more, “sinister”, going on here?
The answer is yes, but unfortunately, I've run out of space.
April 20, 2016
Interesting, but it does not give a lot of background. It is a book for people who want to drive right in and start with Qlipoth and shadow workings, but not for someone who just learn about Qlipoth.
October 6, 2024
Definitely one to read more than once
Amazing work. The compiled artists included in this book are knowledgeable and welcoming. This is a great book for beginners and I have a feeling it will continue to be a book I open again and again. Great visualize writing that really takes you step by step through the gates and beyond. You can almost feel the ground under your feet as the writers describe the world of the night side. I definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to know more about qliphothic tradition and contemporary practice. Seems to be all the big players within the scene are presenting a section. It's a who's who of left hand and draconian practictioners. Great read. Compelling writing with amazing knowledge. Absolutely fantastic work.
Amazing work. The compiled artists included in this book are knowledgeable and welcoming. This is a great book for beginners and I have a feeling it will continue to be a book I open again and again. Great visualize writing that really takes you step by step through the gates and beyond. You can almost feel the ground under your feet as the writers describe the world of the night side. I definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants to know more about qliphothic tradition and contemporary practice. Seems to be all the big players within the scene are presenting a section. It's a who's who of left hand and draconian practictioners. Great read. Compelling writing with amazing knowledge. Absolutely fantastic work.
October 18, 2018
Excellent book full of philosophy and meditations to further one's exploration of the Qliphoth. If you're interested in the dark aspects of chaos in your unconscious or maybe the collective unconscious or universe itself, check this book out. Not really an informational book per se, more of a workbook; however, it's chock full of information.
September 12, 2017
Wonderful book full of essays & practical rituals for the Qliphothic. You get to know different Qliphas, their corresponding demons, and there's invocations / evocations dedicated to the different aspects. Packed also with useful meditations, this is a book that is a must to a LHP practitioner!
January 19, 2020
She shed some light on the Darkness.
Asenath Mason has made a tremendous contribution to modern understanding of a very old form of magick/mysticism, as a result I find myself becoming a fan of her work. Thank you for another great book.
Asenath Mason has made a tremendous contribution to modern understanding of a very old form of magick/mysticism, as a result I find myself becoming a fan of her work. Thank you for another great book.
October 5, 2021
great piece of work
December 26, 2024
Asnath is an accomplished writer and sorcerer
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