Qliphothic Invocations

Qliphothic Invocations

By Tommy Eriksson 

The invocation that follow are not intended as isolated ritual, but as steps in a successive condensation of the dark dimensions of consciousness. Each sphere within the Qliphothic tree represents not only a cosmic principle, but a layer within the magician’s own inner depth — a zone where shadow, power, desire, will, and emptiness take on increasingly concentrated forms. To work with these forces does not mean to flee the world, but to penetrate the structures that shape the experience of it. The light within the human being is often fragmented, distracted, and bound to external forms. Qliphothic work turns the movement inward and downward — toward that which is hidden, denied, or feared. In this darkness there is not only chaos, but also latent power, hidden insight, and a more primordial form of presence.

Each invocation functions as an opening into a specific zone of this inner landscape. There the magician encounters aspects of themselves that otherwise seem foreign: anger that can become strength, desire that can become creative force, emptiness that can become freedom from illusion. The demonic figures should not primarily be understood as external beings, but as archetypes and currents of force that mirror and activate corresponding potentials within the psyche and the soul. It is important to allow this work to occur gradually. To move too quickly between the spheres can lead to confusion, emotional imbalance, or a sense of inner fragmentation. Each level needs time to settle, to be integrated, and to be understood through experience rather than through intellect. 

The darkness that is awakened must be allowed to settle, to speak in dreams, emotions, insights, and altered perspectives before the next gate is opened. Therefore see these invocations as a journey rather than a collection of techniques. Between each step there is a silent phase in which the work continues beneath the surface. It is in these intervals that the real transformation takes place — when the subconscious processes the encounter with the forces that have been called forth.

The Qliphothic tree is a path of deepening. The further downward or inward one moves, the more stripped the experience of the self becomes. Masks fall, self-images crack, and the will is purified of illusions. What remains is not darkness as the opposite of light, but a state where both are experienced as expressions of a deeper totality beyond simple oppositions.

Work therefore with patience, honesty, and self-observation. Let each invocation become a dialogue with the unknown within you. When the darkness condenses into clarity rather than heaviness, when silence feels more alive than empty, then you have begun to sense the inner structure that these texts are intended to open.

Nehemoth — The Dark Gate

Within the Qliphothic tradition, Lilith is often seen as the first crack in the structure of creation — the point where the formless presses against matter. She is not only the “demon of the night,” but the very threshold between worlds. Therefore she is experienced as coldness, emptiness, infinity — but also as absolute freedom.

Naamah (נַ עֲ מָ ה) means in Hebrew “the pleasant one,” “the sweet one,” and her name is related to the word for song and beautiful sound. In Kabbalistic and Zoharic texts she is one of the four demonic queens, associated with seduction, music, sensuality, and dreams. Where Lilith is the silence of the abyss, Naamah is its whisper. Together they form the gate and the allure to step through it.

Ritual Arrangement

• A transparent bowl or a glass with water

• Three drops of your own blood

• The sigil of the Qlipha Nehemoth beneath the bowl or drawn on black paper in a glass frame so that the glass creates a depth

• Dim light, preferably with a faint sound in the background (tone, singing, monotonous noise) Observe the water until it feels like a surface rather than a depth. When it begins to become difficult to determine where the sigil begins and where the water ends, or you feel the presence of Naamah, you pronounce the invocation.

Invocation to Naamah

First whisper, then speak more clearly.

"Naamah, you who are the tone of sweetness in the darkness,

You whose voice moves through dream and desire, You who open the mind with the key of song —

Let your presence descend through the veils of the night. Nehemoth, you first crack in the shell of creation, You boundary where form dissolves into infinity,

You who stand between world and abyss —Let the gate open in the depths of consciousness. Through water that reflects the unseen,

Through tone that awakens the sleeping, Through desire that drives the soul forward,

I call you — not as a slave, but as a wanderer at the threshold. Naamah, sing within me.

Lilith, open the path behind the veil."

Let the wisdom of the night speak without words. Then sit in silence and allow impressions to come as feeling, image, bodily sensation, or inner sound.