Qlippoth
Hebrew , "Shells" or even "Excrement." In the these are demons of unbalanced force, which are thought to live in an infernal region below Malkuth. There are said to be ten Qlippoth, each being an antithesis of one of the Sephira of the .
The Orders of the Qlippoth
Most of these attributions are obvious, others are not. The Twins of of God replace a unity with a warring duality. The Hinderers block the free expression of the God's will.
Quite why the spirits are referred to as the Shemhanphorash is not quite clear to me -- some people have asserted that the Goetic demons are the Qlippothic remenants of the 72 Angels of the Shemhamphorash, but this seems questionable.
Millions of tiny cops swarm everywhere, like the qlippoth, larval hungry ghosts--they fill the screen, as in Keaton's famous two-reeler, overwhelming the foreground, an Antarctic where nothing moves but hordes of sinister blue penguins.
 See also: World, Ritual, Degree, Fall, Light
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