Hello forum,
I’m just writing to introduce myself.
My name is Jess, I’m from Australia.
I’ve been practicing for a little while now and always looking for new ways to expand.
Most recently I have been working the qliphoth - which has been a really intense catalyst. Anyone with experience, I would definitely love to hear about it!
I love all things demons and want to learn as much as I can
I like to paint some of my experiences, I’ll attach one below
Hey, Jess, welcome to the forum. That painting is extraordinary. Is there spell work in it? Outstanding work. Glad you’re here.
Welcome. How long is “a little while?”
Do you have any experience with magical systems outside of the Qlippoth?
Welcome Jess. Enjoy the BALG experience. We may not have cookies on this side of the dark side, but we hope you enjoy your stay.
Thanks so much 
About a year ago I was feeling this really intense energy and decided to paint it. Looking back I have a feeling it was painted in a partial possession. The energy was so big it dwarfed my house. A few months after painting this I found some information online when I was looking at the goddess kali. It said that in her darkest aspect she was depicted with her ribs on the outside. So I think it might have been that. Sorry, long answer 
but yeah I guess it is infused with magic in a way. I’ll post a few more paintings here
Haha well I think I’ve been inadvertently practicing forever but I’ve been exposed to a few different things. I was attuned to reiki when I was little, I’ve worked with chakras, herbs and meditation - I’ve had minimal experience working in the astral (mostly it was unintentional). Ah Ive had experience with divination including tarot, runes and pendulums - I’d like to learn bones. I’ve done entheogenic ceremonies and vision journeys and have worked with shamans here in Australia who specialise in womb work and connection with land. More recently I’ve been working with black magic. Officially I’ve done some invocations and evocations (one of Lilith and the other of Cthulhu). I’m working the dark tree at the moment because I want to lay the foundation for mark Alan Smith’s primal craft and queen of hell pathworkings.
Haha thank you 
that’s okay, I’ve got some cookies in the cupboard
Ah. In that event you are truly welcome indeed. 
Enjoy BALG. Lots of info to be had for the studious magician.
@Izonia77 You know, I’m an artist and painter myself, and I must say your paintings are, if you’ll pardon my french, FUCKING AMAZING!
You wanted to know about some of our experiences with the Qlippoth… well let me see I’ve got a couple. Well, a LOT more then a couple, but that’s just a figure of speech.
I remember the first time I worked with Naamah and the Lilith qlipha. I actually fell asleep during the ritual because I was experimenting with sleep deprivation to amplify visions, and hadn’t slept in about 70 hours. I was specifically working with Thomas Karlson’s qlippothic invocations, followed by a meditation chanting Naamah’s enn (this is where I drifted off). Any how I woke up, or at least I think I did, to the strongest erotic charge I have ever felt ( It was pretty fucking amazing!) and I looked around To see this … RED/MAGENTA mist covering my whole temple… like actual physical mist. I was far too tired to even think about continuing my ritual, so I stumbled to my bedroom and flopped on my bed still in ritual regalia. I have had many such spirit manifestations, but as it made me under perform in my ritual, that was the last time I Used sleep deprivation as a visionary aid.
Working through Daath was the only time something has tried to possess me against my will. I quickly realized what was happening though, and was able to cast the entity out.
Welcome Izonia77. loving the art work
Thank you for that! Its great and really exciting to share my stuff somewhere someone will get what I’m putting down! Is there somewhere I could see your art? I really love seeing what other people are doing, its so inspirational.
Thank you for sharing your experiences! So far what I’ve read and been reading about the qliphoth and from other magicians experiences - it is deeply personal and entirely relative.
I read Karlsson too! as well as Ixaxaar Sitra Achra. They’ve been really helpful in understanding the general baseline of each sphere. I’ve been using V.K Jehannum’s rites and sometimes Asenath Mason’s books (but I don’t feel as confident with my astral yet). So far I’ve had very good results which really seeded some significant personal changes around boundaries, giving/receiving and my own aversions to certain feelings, thoughts, behaviors and beliefs. I was able to do some significant detachment of my own ideas and beliefs around good/bad, right wrong and this was so fucking liberating. I think I understand self-determination a little better now.
I really like what you said about Naamah and the red mist! When I worked through Nahemoth after doing the rite it was like I was sitting in my bedroom, but also sitting in a giant cavern that smelt of dank and blood. This is the same experience I’ve had working with dark earth energies. But the whole cave was a deep red, with a mist - really spectacular. I get why there’s womb references in the literature.
haha sleep deprivation is surreal but also brain grinding; not something I’ve done on purrpose haha but its been done for thousands of years for a reason - probably haha
You know, I’ve heard some mixed things about Daath. From what I can tell from the sitra achra, daath is similar to void - the fullness of nothingness and the space that sits at the beginning and the end of all things. But I’ve heard other practitioners talking about getting lost haha and this spooks me. It’s good you knew how to handle that, and I will definitely be keeping this in mind.
Thanks again! I really loved hearing your experiences, and for the opportunity to bounce of someone else’s experience is always valuable to me
Thank you!
I have but one small observance. The void and the Abyss are most certainly NOT the same thing. The void Is the “zero” point, the wellspring of all creation. It is the solace we seek within meditation. and the emptiness we fill with our Imago to create magick. It is the home of the ultimate observer, the seer of all things, and the infinite point of consciousness within each each individual thing. It is very often referred to as “the womb of Lilith”. It is the astral plane.
The Abyss on the other hand, is the hungry maw at the end of eternity. The END of all things. The Abyss devours and purifies. It reduces the false illusions of reality and self to their existential core. Many believe it to be the source of all entropy… and therefor death. The Abyss is what destroys all things in order to reveal the truth of the ultimate observer. whereas the void IS the ultimate observer.
yes, the abyss is a terrifying place! I almost lost my sanity… and my life working though Daath. It took me about 6-7 years to get through the trials of that sphere. It changed me. And I’m stronger for it. I also no longer fear it, because by working through it, you have to learn to become one with it… or you wont come out AT ALL. However I would not trade that period of my life for anything. because as my patron Asmodeus says:
“in order to see one’s own light, they must jump headlong into the darkness, and never again look back to the light”
Great! I think that’s what I’m getting my wires crossed. Meditation is exactly what I’m thinking of when I think of void.
Hearing what you’re talking about makes me think I’ve had a similar experience. I had a really intense hallucinogenic experience a long time ago. All I remember is flying upwards and upwards and then nothing. Afterwards, I felt I become super aware of everything that had built me, everything I was and how this created my life - how little control I actually had (who am I really?). It was deeply purifying, but deeply terrifying for a little hippy who didn’t know up from down. I think I died that day. It was the most fucking intense experience of my life. Something that took a long time to rebuild after. Definitely testing of sanity 100% but also solidifying.
I don’t want to subtract from your experience, if its different then I did not abyss at all haha
I think a recognition of strength and gratitude for tough learning really solidifies something so deeply powerful.
Asmodeus is 100% correct, thanks for sharing that. Recognition of your own light, that’s powerful. It’s amazing how light get’s outsourced, for sure.
Hi Jess, welcome to the forum. You’re very talented, those are beautiful paintings. 
Thank you I appreciate that
WOW! your artwork is absolutely astonishing! I would love to be able to create art as beautiful as that! You have a very strong presence @Izonia77 !! Welcome to the balg community and may you find that which you seek!
Peace and love to you!
Thanks for that Zel! It’s a rewarding hobby, that’s for sure. This is a great forum, I’m looking forward to learning all the things
