The Origins of the Klippot / Qliphoth & Sitra Achra in the Zohar - Kabbalah on the Problem of Evil 

Please forgive my confusion Dr. Sledge but what did you mean at 15:30 about the process being described in Zohar volume 2 and so on and so fourth? I have a pdf of the Zohar but can't seem to find the indicators for the place in the text that your talking about. Could you clear this up for me?

Fantastic narrative and perspective

@@Arginne non duality sees cause and effect as one, that is its subjects are one with causality, there's no separation. Thinking in terms of good and evil is creating separation, as one fails to see, there is no objective or subjective, there's only truth, and you can't take your dualistic opinions there otherwise you condemn yourself to kalpas of reincarnation.

@@amonynous9041 this debate is dual. If you press a spear into your ass it will hurt. Malignant to the natural state of the hole. Such is the application

Exactly

Have you come across the concepts of Perennial Philosophy and Exemplarism or the One and the Many?

@@pencilpauli9442 sure, in Taoism it's expressed as Tao the great mother or "The Mother of Ten Thousands Things". I have found that all religions try to express the same thing albeit using different symbology and parables. They are all clumsy attempts at expressing the ineffable. Something that's beyond all measure. That's why it's good to study multiple religions, they cover each others blindspots in a way, but still one should not expect to attain enlightenment by study. from my experience study comes after enlightenment. It's like a key to doors of perception that enables deeper understanding of symbolism, and enlightenment is a subject to providence of dharma, which guides one to study. It's a lifetime of dedication and renunciation.

@@xdraygul5169 true, I was trying to refer more to the whole "0=2" equation. Also, idk if it says a lot of us zoomers per se or if it's just an adaptation of part of Thelema's nature in the internet age, after all "there must ever be division in the word, for the colours are many, but the Truth is one"

definitely big in sabbatean thought as well

The golden dawn concept of the crossing of the abyss has never published.

Crowley and Victor Neuberg in the dessert did the Choronzon ritual of crossing the abyss.. Its in the Vision and the Voice a book of Crowley.. All very nasty stuff.. Ritual homosexuality and mass drug use amongst other weird stuff which sent Neuberg insane and Crowley already was insane.

That's unless your a theistic Satanist , then you believe the universe was created by 10 of 21 demons , what you call god is the demiurge and inherently evil and the other 11 demons will return everything to nothing and the freedom of chaos and the void from which everything comes....

I think Evil is just one pole of that thing we call Good. Kind of like the absolute temperature scale. You can't ever reach absolute zero on the Kelvin scale but there is also no absolute heat. That would be the creation of the universe. Things being cold means there are vibrating very slowly, what is it, electrons are not excited, and atoms are not moving much. They are kind of still. When something moves very quickly, it appears to be still also. The two ends meet at some point but there is no connection between the two ends, it's just their movement in their respective direction toward infinity is approaching the same state, i.e, Good and Evil seem to be moving toward the same state, which is ultimately Good.

Yeah, hearing people who are 'occult experts' saying "kleh-poth" or something hurts my soul.

The Zohar is known for hyper-literal exegesis, if it says there were otherwise un-created sea monsters they went with that.

@@TheEsotericaChannel Thanks. Are there uncreated sea monsters in Genesis? I thought there was just the reference in Job to the older myth. I will have to get around to actually reading Genesis rather than simply relying on secondary sources.

While Leviathan (I think?) wasn't given a cosmogonical role until Kabbalah, and has mythological origins in Lotan (Syro-Canaanite) rather than Tiamat (Mesopotamian), the Enuma Elish story was still written about as late as the 6th C. AD (for example, Damascius), and thus it is quite possible that the idea of chaoskampf-type monsters were "in the wheelhouse" for Jews of the Near East, and Leviathan happened to be the best scriptural character to fit that role. (It seems not entirely crazy to speculate that these communities inherited some cosmological ideas from Babylon as well as the demonology, and these possibly may have persisted in various oral/literary forms for a few centuries afterwards until they were consolidated within Kabbalah).

Smoked some dabs. Now I'm here listening to this! Oh man

​@@leebelanger8693 the best thing about listening to these types of videos while smoking is that its more easy to take it all with a pinch of salt and a laugh. The perfect climate for magick and mystery!

Thanks so much - really wanna chat soon after I beat this cold!

@@TheEsotericaChannel Absolutely! :D

This makes total sense to me, but I suspect most people diving into sitra achra stuff lives' aren't so bad, really

@@TheEsotericaChannel Hello. Just reading your comment. I think it makes sense to study both for the sake of maintaining Equilibrium. To be honest I think there are such simple methods for total self realisation. Tempting to study,but I sense they are Distactions. They cant lead you to truth. Best thing to do is See yourself KNOW YOURSELF. The above will simply hinder you. Intresting though😊👍

Kaaba'Lah is the Black House of God in Mecca built by Prophet Abaraham. We are to to believe there is only One God, the compassionate the merciful is the creator of the universe and the master of the Day of Judgement. To believe in Angels, Messengers/Messiah of God, and perform Pilgrimage, give charity and love you family.

While carcrash/horror movie may be an element for some, particularly those willing to accept info from the uninformed, explanations for evil originating from good a reasonable major question for any genuine seeker of knowledge/truth/personal improvement. Hoping "the truth is out there."

​@@janetsanders5356this all goes back way further and I suspect that when religions broke away from nature is when man started having problems...

Doing your best to sound like a knowledgeable dark occult mystic Conor but just sounding insane.

@@ponyboycurtis3795 If you have an interest in Qlippothic magick, I recommend Gilles De Laval’s works. Two books in particular, Fosforos (by a different author) and Sacerdotium Umbrae Mortis are helpful in understanding the Qlippoth. Study of Aghora and the Vama Marga are also beneficial. The interior principle I attempted to divulge here is that Totality is Unified, revealed in the Kabbalistic Equation 0=1. The illusion of a dipole, of individuality, of the ego, and the individuated soul must be produced via the illusion of opposition and separation from Totality. This is granted by the existence of the Qlippoth, allowing for positive virtue to be transmuted into negative forms, Being, Will, and Love transmuted into the illusion of Enmity and evil forces. One may declare a sense of dislike and negative polarization from something else in a gradient of individual experience. You may say “my name is this, I am this, I am not this, I hate or dislike this”, and may act contrary to your own inner virtues via the existence of ultimate Opposition. This devouring multitude formed by the Qlippoth also consumes the individual soul as the Spirit “returns” to the Supernals across the Abyss of Daath. Relinquishment of individual, unenlightened desire, collapse of self, confrontation with one’s Shadow, and acceptance of utter death in the moment of terminus allows for experience of the Supernal nature. No individuated soul may pass the test of Crossing the Abyss, the self must be relinquished to the Self. To know Daath is to experience Death, which ultimately does not foil Spirit, but reveals and frees it. The sacrifice of Odin upon the World Tree is a good mythological representation of this sacrifice. These powers of “evil” allow the One that manifests to manifest in a constantly reconfiguring series of manifestations across an infinite span, and ultimately foiling those manifestations so that they return to pure Being. All of these individuated manifestations are representations of the One, given the illusion of separation by the illusory dipole. In the concept of manifested time and space, the One is in a state of observation and experience of Itself. It creates its subjective and objective perspectives for the sake of its own nature, and through separation, allows for individual perspectives and the framing referent of subjective experience. An individual conscious being then, via “separation”, may have an understanding of time, movement of objects, space, distance, and change, in individuation, because it experiences separation from other things and Totality, and may recognize individual forms and identities. Egyptian creation myths also help in understanding this formation of manifested time and space. Atum creating the first other gods amidst the waters of Nun as he exists upon the Ben Ben, forms exterior perspectives from his own. Apep is formed the moment Being is formed in Atum upon the Ben Ben. Apep then is constantly trying to destroy the Gods, manifest reality, and bring all to Oneness in Nun, without any detail of individuation. Apep never thwarts Being, but is a constant mechanism of evil opposition that brings all back to that starting place. In the book and practice of Sacerdotium Umbrae Mortis, there is something known as the Undecagrammaton, the Devouring Command, the anti-Yahweh. This anti-Logos elucidates the function of the Qlippoth very well.

@@conorhale1269 many people that attempt at crossing the abyss though to Da"ath and the hidden knowledge therein do go insane do they not? I was only kidding about you being insane by the way, what I really meant is that the depth in which you spoke in your comment I think is way too far advanced for most to understand, thank you for the book recommendations as I"ll be honest the only few authors I know of who I have read their stuff on Qlip"othic majick and night side Qabbalah etc are Alistair Crowley in the Vision and The Voice, several books by Thomas Karlsson and one by EA Koetting so I'm sure you know much more than I do on the subject matter but most of what I have read comes with a huge warning about trying to work with the Qlipoth as they don't offer anything positive but only wish to harm us... Would the Undecagrammaton be the polar opposite and negative side to the Yahweh ~ Tetragrammaton?I think my learning of the Egyptian creation myths are different to yours as mine is that the Nine or the Ennead were spawned by the Four Ogdoad who were two female and two male and all the others like Osiris, Nepthys, ISIS, Set etc all came from them... A lot of the space time stuff reminds me a lot of the Gnostic ideas of the remote God and then the demiurge Yaldabaoth and his mother Sophia spawning him out of jealousy and separation etc. Very interesting.. I understand your point in evil being a kind of necessary balancing out kind of thing... Is Jesus Christ's sacrifice for humans not a good example like Odins? I have noticed lots of occultists who like the dark occult don't like the Christ for some reason.. Is he a threat to the dark side maybe?

@@ponyboycurtis3795 You’re quite right on the nature of the Eighfold Ogdoad, and there is an intense amount of variation in Egyptian creation myths. I think I remember them as the frog-headed four gods and goddesses of Primordial Nun. I list one of Atum as the first and Primordial deity here for its simplicity towards understanding Apep/Apophis and a certain quality of all-destruction towards unity. There are other versions listing Amun as the first deity giving rise to Apep as a consequence of manifest existence coming to be, and others with Amun-Ra as the solar deity and the hidden one were combined. The warnings against authentic Qlippothic magick are genuine and valuable, not just in the potential quality of going mad, but in other various detriments to one’s health or wellbeing. Moral health and character may degrade along with physical health. The Qlippoth are the falling bark from the Tree of Life, forms devouring, destroying, and wasting away. They hold no value without the Sephiroth. This is where, if you would approach experience of the Abyss and the Qlippoth, know that the nature of Spirit, the very center of your Being, ultimately prevails. It is a seat of transcendental virtue. In Christian Theurgy, this transcendental quality may be likened to the “Light that shines in the Darkness, and the Darkness has not overcome it” in Genesis. In Eastern concepts, it is the force behind the dance and stillness of Shiva and Shakti, the inner soul of Brahma, experienced in the Samadhi of the practitioner. This essence has no adequate words of description, and it underlies all things. In relinquishing one’s self to Self, you are trusting in that innermost recess of consciousness, of Being, and allowing oneself to be unmade. It’s a very narrow tightrope to walk, and the Qlippoth may assail the practitioner in cruel and strange ways. Loss of identity and of all you hold dear as an individual is a risk. After Crossing the Abyss, if you succeed while living, there is a long period of time spent in rebalancing, in coming back together. This period is difficult in itself. Humility, truth, will, and love reform the individual, balanced in mercy and severity. A freedom and sovereignty is understood, and a humility blossoms in recognizing the Divinity in all things. Everywhere you look is another expression of unified Totality, and the world takes on a living spirit to your eyes. Some call this Binah consciousness, with the wisdom of Chokmah, enlivened by the crown of Kether emanating from Ain Soph Aur, the incomprehensible Root in The Void. We all return to the stage of The Fool in the tarot at this point, and the endless path of the Sorcerer is writ anew. This period is likened to knowledge of one’s Holy Guardian Angel. And don’t worry on the insane comment, you’re okay, I take no offense. I enjoy discourse on the topic, and saw this as an opportunity towards a greater conversation. You didn’t disappoint. Another book recommendation would be Sefer Yeroch Ruachot, the Explicit Name of Satan Expounding the Mysteries of The Moon. Atman is Brahman, Thou Arte Lord. Good luck on your journey!

@@conorhale1269 wow I was just going to mention The Knowledge and Conversation with Your Holy Guardian Angel and that ritual which is of course more Gnostic in nature but very relatable also there are some Enochian rituals that deal with some similar things. Thank you for your comments.. I think one thing I have learned regarding the shadow work and the ego is that's its not about destroying our ego or getting rid of it.. Its about integrating it into unity and having a healthy balance of ego and spirit. What you said about the physical damage and mental damage and having to rebuild oneself is very much the same as warnings I have had yes.. Thank you sir

That's the other, other side dominated by the powers of Elliot Wolfson

already did!

'Nox, the night and key I will open your old mystery'

It's okay; the majority of my knowledge of the Sephirot comes from FFXIV's Sephirot having names and mechanics that take names from each node of the tree.

Eh first heard most of these terms in pathfinder and D&D, but horribly mispronounced of course

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So, you're saying that both the Qlipha and the Sephiroth are necessary for the evolution of man?

@@Cavirex it’s a lot to get into and it also depends on what philosophy you’re looking at. But as it’s pointed out even in this video both sides generally >need< to be acknowledged to some extent.

I guess Esoterica feels like $1.99 you donated from the bottom of your heart isn't worth validation (unless it's $5.00 or above..).

If he existed he was an Israelite, probably looked like any other levantine person.

He does and I do - thanks brother!

Thanks for the support!

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Great comment

First coming, second coming who cares - just fix this mess