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Lilith is also associated with the reason for which is
insatiable hunger - the for life (the devouring of children) and for
sexual Her vampiric nature also owes much to the connection
to the female monthly cycle - she is the goddess of the "red moon", the
menstrual blood and energy contained within. Sometimes she is called the '
of the dark side of the moon, a land inhabited
vampiric entities. Vampirism is the union of life and death, Eros and
Thanatos - sexual energy, the life and Thanatos -
force of The hunger for blood is
with the phases the moon, while of
the of energy, life's potential, which is into
the Other Side. In the Qlipothic this is the formula of Gamaliel
qIipha, whose demonic is Lilith herself. To a practitioner
through astral labyrinths, Lilith reveals as a half-woman half-
c;:prnPTlt (with the lower part of body). She seduces the adept
and him path of fantasies and in order to
help him release the serpent's power, the Kundalini inherent in
sexuality. Gamaliel is the first astral sphere, the of dark
visions, fantasies, desires, urges, and instincts. All of them are brought to
the consciousness on this level. Gamaliel is the womb of Lilith from
which the adept drinks the blood of the moon and falls into a trance in
which he drifts visionary dreams. In this sense Lilith resembles
the Scarlet with whom she is often identified. Lilith's
womb is the of Babalon, Unholy Grail filled with the goddess'
lunar blood: the elixir through which the of life and death is
The adept intoxicates himself tasting death.
encounter with Lilith is often a strong erotic the taste of bitter-
sweet elixir of contained within her blood.
However, the Gamaliel qlipha, ruled Lilith, is not to be mistaken with
the first on the Tree of named "Lilith", though in fact
have much in common. It is the first qlipha (the counterpart of the Malkuth
CPT,t"I11"" on the Tree of Life), also called "the womb of Lilith" or "the cave of
Lilith", for it is the entrance to the Other (SUra Ahra) of the Qabalistic
Tree. In literature and mythologies we often encounter a of a
in the earth which later appears to be a to Hell. The
........ ('>"", ... which Dante in Divine Comedy walks to find the hellish
is one of of this In Tantrism the equivalent this
spiritual level is the Muladhara chakra, where the Kundalini lies
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