How does Kabbalah explain the origins of Evil? Famous for the Sefirot, Kabbalah also introduced the notion of the Shattering of the Vessels, the demonic Klippot (husks/shells) and the nightmare reality of the Sitra Achra (the Other Side) to explain the origins, nature and destiny of Evil. But how did these ideas develop? In this weeks’ episode – a special collaboration with @drangelapuca I’ll be tracing the development of how early Kabbalah understood evil: as part of the Divine Perfection, Evil thoughts of the Divine that become demons, Primordial worlds created and destroyed in the process of Creation, or a Divine Catharsis by which the coming-to-be of both God, the Sefirot and the Cosmos require a shedding of Primaeval Evil. Join me Friday as Dr. Puca explores contemporary Qliphothic Magic and I turn to the mysterious origins of Evil in the early Kabbalah.
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Recommended Readings –
Scholem – On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah – On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah
Idel – Primeval Evil in Kabbalah: Totality, Perfection, Perfectibility – https://amzn.to/3TDhtQp
Tishby – The Doctrine of Evil and the ‘Shell’ in Lurianic Kabbalah
