This is encompassed in Laria’s description of the Kabbalah the orderly creation process was interrupted by disaster. The teachings of Isaac Luria give a radically different description of the Qlippoth. The sense of the Qlippoth being a natural part of existence reaches its zenith in the Zoharic comment that everything is a “shell” or “husk” when seen from a higher level of existence, and the kernel in the shell when seen from a lower one. In other metaphorical writings the Qlippoth are described as the dying bark on the Tree of Life, similar to actual decaying bark, or the dregs of wine, excrement.įrequently Kabbalistic writings suggest that evil is simply the manifestation of the Sephirah Geburah (Severity) taken too far and separated from its proper balancing power of Chesed. Prior to the writings of Isaac Luria, the Qlippoth were sometimes described in Neoplatonism terms as the last link in the chain of emanation, the furthest thing from God that still possessed enough divine power to maintain existence.
It was a realm of unbalanced force that was destroyed during the early stages of the creation of the cosmos. As with Kabbalah, Qlippoth has several English spellings, a common one is Kelippoth.Īccording to Kabbalistic texts, the Qlippoth originated as ruling powers in a universe that existed prior to the current one. The Qlippoth are the subject of a vast but uncertain demonological lore, which originated from Jewish sources but also was barrowed or came from other sources, and parts expounded upon by later occultist theorists. Qlippoth, Hebrew, “shells, husks,” is a term in the Kabbalah tradition means “Lords of Unbalanced Powers” referring to demonic entities from a former universe who survived in the present one.
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