attaining KCHGA before exploring the Qlippoth
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Can anyone explain in more detail the grounds behind the standard advice that one must first attain to KCHGA before exploring the Qlippoth?
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I don't think the 'rule' you quoted is either correct or standard. In A.'.A.'., for example, there is exploration of Q'lippoth at least in the 1=10 final exam. That's only one example.
But you would be correct that there is much more intense work than this "visitation," and that the most intense work is usually recommended for after 5=6. Notice that the traditional Abramelin operation, after the K&C is obtained, instructs in work with the HIerarchies of Evil and their numerous spirits; and in this there is analog.
The simple point is: It generally is not recommended to dive into the depths until one is solidly anchored to the heights.
Also, there is very deep work that some adepts undertake in healing the Q'lippoth - releasing the insert energies of their empty shells back into free force for the ecology of the universe - and this, traditionally, is work of the Major Adept, 6=5. (Personally, I'm convinced that the third part of the traditional Abramelin work is, in fact, actually a curriculum of 6=5.)
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If I understand your reference to “visitation” correctly, the Neophyte attracts to himself the Qlippoth of Yesod due to changes in his aura. But that seems different from deliberately invoking the Qlippoth.
That’s very interesting what you say about “healing” the Qlippoth.
My understanding of why one should first attain to KCHGA is because we need to be anchored in True Will when exploring the depths. Or whatever we do. Otherwise it becomes pointless and risky experimentation – not unlike teenagers who take a lot of LSD and decide to invoke demons for the “fun of it”.
Now if we should be guided by True Will in whatever we do, is it ok to invoke and work with the Qlippoth if the intent follows the orientation of our True Will?
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@he atlas itch said
"If I understand your reference to “visitation” correctly, the Neophyte attracts to himself the Qlippoth of Yesod due to changes in his aura. But that seems different from deliberately invoking the Qlippoth."
On every surviving exam to pass from Neophyte 1=10 to Zelator 2=9 in A.'.A.'., whether from Crowley or one of his direct successors, there was always a task at the end: Make an astral exploration of the Q'lippoth of your Sun-sign, obtain a vision, and report on it.
"That’s very interesting what you say about “healing” the Qlippoth."
Q'lippoth are shells... husks... residue. Things that should have died and become defunct, but where the form continues (like an outgrown opinion). One can take these forms, grok them deeply, and reduce their rigidity back to the root consicousness energy from which it is solidified, freeing the energy. - One does this routinely in one's pesonal psyche - with old, outgrown patterns - in good psychotherapy and other approaches; but it's different when one tries to take on those major psychic corpses that fill the lowest levels of the collective psyche. The first (personal) part just requires some basic psychological health. The second (collective) part requires a bit more.
"My understanding of why one should first attain to KCHGA is because we need to be anchored in True Will when exploring the depths. Or whatever we do. Otherwise it becomes pointless and risky experimentation – not unlike teenagers who take a lot of LSD and decide to invoke demons for the “fun of it”. "
That's another way of saying what I said (except that you don't need the K&C to be anchored in True Will - that step can happen long before).
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Thanks for that clarification - I was confusing the Neophyte's task with the vampire ordeal.
[EDIT: I had another lengthy question but deleted it as I noticed that you already answered it in the first post - thanks for the thoughtful response]