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Working with
the Qliphoth can be difficult for a practical minded magician. The challenge is
that the Nightside of the Tree of Life generally represents the negative side
of reality, not dark or evil elements in any positive sense but rather the
realms of non-being. As such their main positive manifestation in our daily
world is in terms of a dissolution, disruption and destruction that resists all
control and channeling. They don’t represent, then, a positive power of
destruction that can be used or channeled. Any such use or channeling is as
likely to destroy the will and work of the magician as the intended target.
While walking the Tunnels of Set offers a treasure of mystical insight their
practical promise is exceptionally difficult to work out. It is a bit like
trying to use an acid that immediately devours any container we might
temporarily use to hold it or any path we might attempt to guide it down in
order to achieve some end. The energy entailed precisely resists any form the
magician might give it. The tunnel of Raflifu and its connection with the Nightside
Qliphoth corresponding to Yesod offer, I feel, a break in this difficulty and I
would like to say something of how this is so.
