Glimpses of the Left..

1�IHhl Hand views as "negative." In Qabalistic terms, the Right Hand
l"llh adept chooses the way upwards and "climbs" to the highest level of
I hI' Tree of Life The Left Hand Path adept chooses also the of
In this sense, the Hand Path adept
only with one side of the Tree, while the Left Hand Path
pmditioner works with both of them. When the Left Hand Path adept
l'I'nrhes the Simultaneously Thaumiel the twin
I l lipha which represents the highest level of alchemical transmutation
(�odhood). The Hand Path is therefore the way of balance between the
opposite of existence - and stasis and
nt'ative and energies - because are complimentary and
nmnot exist each other. Only the harmony and between
tlwse opposites can be the source of wisdom and power. Light represents
hirth, creation, order. denotes death,
rl'tum to the heart of chaos. Together, these forces are the source of every
form for kind two opposing factors.
Nl.'gation of one of them is the of life itself:
"The magician aims to become a center of creation and destruction a living
manifestation of Chaos force within the realm of duality, a complete microcosm, a
Hod."4
For this reason, one of the main symbols of Left Path is
I )ragon symbolizing of all or a Serpent, Ouroboros
who bites his own tail. Ouroboros contains both and masculine
to and
He is the supreme emblem of the
condition of the universe: mixture of bright and
tlSpectS. He is the destruction but also the creative potential. It is the state
which in very before the elements were
differentiated and Ouroboros the famous Hermetic
principle "as above, so below." This rule refers to the relationship between
man the surrounding world. Accordingly to the which contains
many different principles, man is not a harmonious but rather a
mixture of elements. Some of them tend to the
of the ego.s Many other magical and
• Peter J. Carroll: Liber Null & Psychonaul
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