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The Word Inferno

The word inferno comes from the Latin ‘infernus’ meaning ‘being underneath’, and many of the world’s religions, myths and traditions locate the last order of creation, hell, the inferno, the underworld, the abyss etc below the earth’s crust.  

Known to many of the World’s Cultures

The infernal worlds have been known by many past civilizations and cultures, for example the Greeks knew it as Tartarus, the Hindus as Patalla, the Romans as the Averno, the Tibetans as Avitchi, the Aztecs as Mixtlan, the Mayans as Xibalbá and the Hebrew Kabbalists as the Kliphoth.

Kliphoth

The Kliphoth is the Tritocosmos and is the shadow of the tree of life or perhaps better said an inversion of the tree of life. As shown in the diagram on the previous page the whole of creation can be organized into the tree of life and its inversion. As the tree of life has nine sephirah above Malkuth (physical world) its inversion or shadow has nine sephirah below Malkuth. Which are the famous nine Dantean circles, spheres, regions or infra-dimensions of the abyss.

Below is a diagram of the shadow or inversion of the tree of life showing the nine circles or spheres.

Conclusion

Kliphoth comes from the Hebrew Klipha meaning ‘shells’. In contrast to the sephirah of the tree of life, each sphere of the Kliphoth is an empty shell, because they are devoid of the divine attributes present in each sephirah of the tree of life. In fact each sphere of the Kliphoth contains attributes that are the antithesis of the divine attributes of the tree of life.

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