The original concept of the Qliphoth is closely connected with ideas about the Tree of the Sefirot. It is held that each Sefira has its reflection — a qlippa. However, contrary to common belief, the Qliphoth are not “anti-Sefirot”.
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Myth
Anyone who, in one way or another, has had the experience of perceiving the Interworld has noticed that a strong wind constantly blows there. Since it is odd to attribute the properties of earthly weather to the Elements, the question arises: what is the nature of this wind and what explains its its strength and constancy.
Although the concept of “Hell” in the familiar Christian sense is foreign to magical thought, magic nonetheless organically includes the notion of grim Worlds of Retribution.
The Myth under consideration describes life as an essentially unified, yet differentiated Flow, made up of individual Waves.
The Slavs were in particularly close communication with the spirits of nature, which is why Slavic lower mythology preserved numerous descriptions of the character and peculiarities of various Stikhials.
Arguably it is difficult to find, in any mythology, a figure as contradictory both in its very nature and in the attitudes toward it as Loki — the Cunning Aesir of the North.
If the process of the Father entering the Mother, the Spirit entering Matter, is excessively accelerated, it leads to traumatic consequences, since the new, light-filled elements do not have time to integrate into the existing system.
The sole reality acknowledged was precisely the Most High, who, in proceeding to the creation of the World, was conceived in his creative aspect as Rod the All-Sustainer.
In addition to the Guide who helps the soul cross from life to death, this journey requires a figure who makes the process irreversible. It is precisely the Ferryman’s function of severing ties that renders him the bleakest character in the drama of disembodiment.
The Vertical Flow, comprising both descending and ascending currents of force, has several symbols; the best known among them is the image of the Chariot of the Most High — the Merkabah (Heb. מֶרְכָּבָה, “chariot”).
Just as air embodied the principle of horizontal mobility, so the Earth Element corresponds to horizontal inertia.
The fertilizing activity that fills and permeates the cosmos corresponds to the Element of Air.
The element of Water corresponds to the passive, feminine principle of fluidity, adaptability, and to the Descending movement of Power.