Stephen Bleach - Kabbala for Satanists

There are many good and worthwhile books on the Tree of life and the Kabbala; thus I feel little need to go into the fine details and complexities that are part and parcel of this tradition. During the course of these lessons, I will give some fundamentals, from a more or less, LHP perspective that can be used in a practical way, both in the Ritual chamber and everyday life outside of it.


I will start with the basics of The Tree of Life, which will be the maximum and the minimum information required, making enough sense of the system to put it to use, more or less immediately… In the weeks to come I will give practices of an esoteric nature from a Satanic perspective. This will also aid the student in using the system without the necessity of using such things as Hebrew God names, and angelic names, if they do not want to. I will give a brief over view of the Sephira, as we go along, as its pertinent to the ideas I will be looking at a little later regarding the RHP the LHP and the Middle Way of balance. Interesting to note: The Hebrew God names are not referring to the God of the Israelites anyhow, however many Satanists have been rather put off by all things relating to Kabbala (and Ceremonial Magick in general) because of this perceived reliance upon a God that they are in fundamental opposition too… The fact is the Hebrew God names are no more religious than Einstein's theory of relativity. They are supposed to be descriptive of cosmic and creative forces that are beyond human ability to understand in their fullness, not a reference to a tribal desert god, Jewish or otherwise. When you look at the Glyph of the Tree of Life without any preconceived notions about its origins, one will easily be able to grasp the notion that the creative principle can just as well be called Satan as it can be EHIEH (I am that I am). Although we must of course place each name in its appropriate place, it will be seen that there is far more to this than meets the AIN. If we look at the pure doctrine of Kabbalistic thought, we find it is admitted that the forces that came before a "first principle" are something that is beyond our understanding to either label or conceive. But I am getting ahead of myself, I will start at the very beginning, I am assuming that by now, those that are following this have a pretty good grasp of basic Kabbalism and hermetic thought.