Difference between revisions of "Left-hand path"

Another distinguishing characteristic separating the two is based upon the aim of the practitioner. Right-handed path practitioners tend to work towards ascending their soul towards ultimate union (or reunion) with the divine source, returning to heaven, allegorically alluded to as restoration or climbing back up the ladder after the "great fall." In [[Lesser Key of Solomon|Solomon's lesser key]], they embrace the light and try to annihilate anything they regard as "dark" or "evil." On the other hand, left-handed path practitioners do not see this as the ultimate aim but a step towards their goal.

Left-handed path practitioners embrace the dark as well as the light in order to invoke the [[alchemy|alchemical]] formula ''solve et coagula'' ("dissolve and precipitate"), confronting the negative in order to transmute it into desirable qualities. Left-handed path practitioners descend towards union with the divine to obtain Godhood status, with [[Yahweh|God]]-like powers of their own, having reunited with the ultimate divine source-energy; then once there, taking one more step separating from that divinity, out of this creation into a new creation of their own making, with themselves as the sole divinity of the new universe, apart from the previous creation. The godhood self sought by Left Hand Path followers is represented by the Qlipha Thaumiel in the Tree of Knowledge.

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