In this short text we want to explain one aspect of our Current's teachings about the Kliffot that will differ from other traditions. This aspect is about the name that we use for the highest triad and the first 'Hell' of the Kliffot, which consists of Satariel, Ghagiel and Thaumiel.
Usually, and outside our current, this triad was and is called 'Sheol', which can be translated as 'the Pit', 'the grave' or 'under the earth'. The reason why others have used this name is because they have wanted to point out that the highest aspects of the Kliffot really were the lowest form of spiritual descent. They connected the Kliffot to gross and empty matter and wanted to place their demiurgic 'god' as the highest point of spiritual 'light'.
We, on the other hand, do not see things in this false light of the hylicoi. For us the Kliffot are the Black Light Manifested and that which opposes the cosmic creation. For us the descent into the 'Abyss'/Daath is through Gnosis and, therefore, a true spiritual form of ascent and transcendence. Because of this we choose not to call the highest spheres by the name that denotes them as the lowest. However, that is only the exoteric reason why we reject the use of the name Sheol and instead use Tehom.
The esoteric reason is that Tehom, which means 'great deep of the primordial waters (of Chaos)', 'The Deep' and 'Abyss', is a word derived from the Babylonian name of the Dragon, Tiamat. The plural of Tehom is Tehomoth (depths), which shows the roots of this word even more clearly. It is a name that is esoterically connected to Chaos and to the pre-Judaic concepts of the Primal Acausal Force.
One may ask why we do not call the three forms above and beyond Thaumiel this name instead, as Tohu, Bohu and Chasek would better fit the concept of the Triad of Chaos. Well, they are in an esoteric sense the Unmanifested Triad of Chaos, or in some contexts even seen as a downwards pointing triangle of Black Light. This is actually the reason why we call their three manifested aspects on the Tree of Death/Daath 'Tehom'.
Thaumiel, Ghagiel and Satariel are aspects of Tohu (Formless/Chaos), Bohu (Emptiness) and Chasek (Darkness).
Tohu (Formless Chaos) is manifested within Thaumiel, which has the number Two (2=1+1=11= Chaos) and is governed by the Two Crowned Heads/The Two-Headed Dragon/The Twins of God/Thaumitan. Satan and Molok here are the Gods of Chaos and of the essence of the Twofold Flame of Tohu, and are therefore the most transcendent aspects of the Dark Gods.
Bohu (Emptiness) is manifested within Ghagiel, which stands for the absence of the demiurgic Logos and therefore connected to silence and emptiness. Here Beelzebuth acts as the Hinderer of God, or as the One Who Silences the Word of God ('god' here refers to the Demiurge YHVH) and stands for the absence of the cosmic causal law and will to form and create.
Chasek (Darkness) is manifested within Satariel, which stands for that which is outside the false light of Sephirotic existence and is therefore hidden within the Outer Darkness. Here Lucifuge Rofocale (He Who Shuns the Light) banishes the illusions established by the false 'light' of the creator and instead establishes the purifying darkness illuminated by the Black Light. Satariel becomes in this way the kliffa of Hidden Darkness, which is the point of entry to the seven lower kliffot of the Outer Tree of Daath.
Because of all these associations between the Three Veils of Anti-Existence/Three Dark Veils Before Satan and the kliffotic triad of Satariel, Ghagiel and Thaumiel, we who follow the 218 Current have chosen to name the first Hell 'Tehom', instead of 'Sheol', in order to better express and grasp its transcendent and chaotic essence and underline its connections to the Tehomotic Triad of Black Light.
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