One of the many secret aspects of Lilith within the 218 Current is Arachnidia Lilith, also known as Akkawbishia Lilith. This aspect is a zoomorphic manifestation of the Mother of All Demons and embodies many of the most feared attributes and powers that within the kliffotic cabbala are ascribed to Lilith and her Black Moon sphere of Gamaliel.
Arachnidia Lilith is an esoteric development of the six-armed aspect of Ama Lilith, that in many ways is one of the most elevated and powerful personifications of the goddess of the kliffot. Lilith is, in her zoomorphic manifestation as the spidergoddess, associated with the darkest and most unlawful mysteries of Gamaliel and governs the black magic connected to the highest forms of vampirism, the creating and sending of nightmares, the esoteric and soul strangling forms of ligature, the climbing of the hidden web that ties together and connects all the kliffotic spheres, the most advanced forms of shapeshifting and lycanthropy, the animation of the shells of the dead, the gaining of the Zachalilim Famulus and the esoteric techniques for the manipulation and control of the astral currents.
Arachnidia is according to tradition associated with nooses, advanced forms of cord and knot magic, the ensnaring of the shadows of the living, and murder through hanging and strangulation. Amongst the countless shadows that serve her, there is also a special group that consists of murder victims, murderers and suicides that have died by the strangler's cord or the hangman's noose. This spider aspect of Lilith is therefore called upon within certain dark rites that have as their aim to tie off and strangle the supply of life force to the enemy and thus, in a very slow and painful fashion, take his/her life, redirecting it towards the ever hungry and gaping jaws of the kliffot.
Naamah, who is the 'Younger Lilith' or the Mistress of Nahemoth, is according to tradition the goddess of weaving. It is therefore interesting to note that the 'Elder Lilith' once again elevates the attributes and powers of Naamah to a much more abstract and higher level, this time by assuming the form of Arachnidia/Akkawbishia Lilith, who in her spider form is the most perfectly skilled and masterful weaver of them all.
The spider has within many old traditions acted as the foremost totemic animal of both the moon and its goddess, and similar to many of these ancient traditions the spiders within the kliffotic cultus are held as the sacred animals of Arachnidia Lilith, and it is therefore strictly taboo to intentionally hurt or kill them. On those occasions when dead spiders are needed for some of the rites of Arachnidia Lilith, for example the evocation of her spider-demons, one must always ask for, and then through Her blessings, find an already dead spider to use within the ritual working.
When the moon is within its waning phase, and especially during the three nights before the Dark Moon, the pale lunar rays can, by the skillful magician, be tied to and used as a tool to channel and manifest the dark silken web of Arachnidia, which has the power to both bind and extract/draw power from the living and the dead alike. Because of the relevant symbolism involved, black silken threads are often used within many of the rites of Arachnidia Lilith and can in the hands of the initiated devotee, and by the grace of Lilith herself, be used both to create the magical nooses that are needed within certain dark workings, and to weave the entangled gates to Her astral web within the kliffot, that one can only enter by assuming the shape of her Arachnid Spawn (i.e. by becoming a 'Werespider').
Within the hidden parts of the sphere of Gamaliel that are under the dominion of the Arachnidia Lilith aspect, all the obscure paths, webs and threads are governed by the spider demons called the 'Zachalilim'. These arachnid Lilim (spawn of Lilith) are, according to the hidden lore of the dark cultus, created by the same 'fallen seed' that makes the most potent roots of the Mandragora grow within the dark earth... This special 'seed' is used by the fertile spidergoddess to inseminate her own eggs, which later give birth to her feared and mighty Zachalilim, who all carry within themselves portions of the limitless powers of their mother.
Similar to the spiders of the animal kingdom, Lilith and her spider Lilim also catch and trap their victims through the dark web that she is constantly weaving across all the kliffot on the Tree of Death. The prey caught within her threads of death is first wrapped (mummified) by her shadow web and later slowly emptied of all vital fluids, until only a dry husk is left. This hard and empty husk, which in this case is the shadow of the dead, is then re-animated by the Dark Mother, through the infusion of her kliffotic 'shadow matter' into its shell, and the shadow becomes thus a new addition of power that strengthens her vampiric legions.
The principal realm of Arachnidia Lilith is of course within the Black Luna/Gamaliel, but her webs and threads form hidden pathways between all spheres upon the Tree of Black Light/Tree of Death. She can therefore be understood as a dark beating heart that pumps life force, stolen from the worlds of the sephiroth, into all the black holes of the kliffot. These mysteries are therefore also related to a special and secret form of 'climbing the tree' through the use of the hidden threads of the web of the spidergoddess that become visible to the magician after he/she has first learnt to master the powers of the Zachalilim. It is only through the blessings of Arachnidia/Akkawbishia Lilith and the true initiation into her forbidden arachnid magic that the 'crossing of the abyss within the abyss' becomes possible, through the weaving of the black threads of Thoughtless Light that can bridge over the Throne of Choronzon.
The magician devoted to the forces of the Black Light should try to approach these mysteries after a strong and concrete contact has been established with the more visible aspects of the Faceless Goddess, for it is through the more known and approachable manifestations of the kliffotic goddess that the keys to the gates of her most hidden aspects can be gained.
Amongst the most potent manifested keys that within the 218 Current are presented to those who are wise, brave or just stupid enough to dare to approach the fearful essence of Akkawbishia Lilith and her Zachalilim, are her formula and her esoteric sigil.
The formula of Arachnidia is used during all contemplative, meditative, invocative, evocative and astral rites, and also for all other forms of spiritual practice that have as their aim to create a link between the magician and the spidergoddess of Sitra Ahra. The true meaning of the formula must be understood by the heart and not by the mind. It is therefore not meaningful to focus upon and obsess about its separate parts. The true devotee of Lilith is instead encouraged to view and understand the whole of the formula as one sonic sigil which has already been used by other adepts to open the locked gates to the forbidden revelations of Arachnidia Lilith and to her blessing, liberating and destroying powers.
The following is the mantra/formula of Arachnidia Lilith:
Arachnidia Lilith Shemamithilil Akkawbishia Zachalayla!
If the Arachnidia formula is the key to the Black Light of the spidergoddess, then her sigil can be described as the very gate to her nightmarish essence. The sigil of Arachnidia Lilith stands out in many ways when compared to the other sigils and symbols that are used within our tradition in order to establish contact with Ama Lilith, and it can, for those blessed with the gift of sight, paint a very revealing picture of the otherwise unfathomable power and spirit of Arachnidia Lilith.
The sigil is both a gate to the goddess and to her kingdom and acts as a focal point in many of the workings that are done in the name of Arachnidia, or are otherwise connected to the channeling of her powers. The sigil can be used in many different ways. For example, it can be painted with the lunar blood or other sacred 'ink' upon the surface of a mirror, on a consecrated parchment, on the wall of the temple, on a sheet of silken cloth or directly on the floor in order to work with it as a sanctified yantra.
Placed upon the altar dedicated to Arachnidia Lilith is a stele of clay or stone, inscribed with her esoteric sigil that has been colored with the appropriate sacrificial elixirs of life and death. To the right and left sides of this stele, black candles inscribed with her formula and anointed with lunar oils are positioned. In front of the sigil inscribed upon the stone a thurible of fire is set. Within the flames and heat of the fire the magician burns offerings of herbs and fragrant essences that give strength to the powers evoked through the gate within the sigil.
There are many other secret ways to work with the sigil of Arachnidia, but those techniques are revealed step by step as the magician through his/her hard work and dedication receives the forbidden gnosis directly from the power that it represents and is linked to.
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