i read about working with qlippoth by some 'spider web' technique, but i cant find it now, wasnt really anything specific or practical, but i have this (i hate making long posts, and really dislike copy/pasting, but i think this isreally interesting on this subject)
GLYPH OF THE SPIDER GODDESS
by Tenebrous
Arachne, the Spider Goddess, was a figure who held a position of key
importance in the Draconian cults of the ancient world. In the mayan
death-cults, she manifested as Ix-Chel, `the spider that catches the Dew
of Morning', and Ix-Tab, `Goddess of Ropes and Snares, patroness of those
who hang themselves.' Today, in her embodiment via the Voudoun Loa Anansi,
she is the supreme totem of the Obeah cults of African and West Indian
sorcery.
The glyph of the Spider Goddess represents that magickal power of the
priestess which enables her to open a gateway to another universe. `She is
the Guardian of the Pylon that admits to its mysteries, for she is the
kala, or coulour, that manifests the vibrations of time (KALI) as the
secretion' (Kenneth Grant, Outside the Circles of Time). The third eye of
Kali is vertical, symbolising the visionary and dream-inducing power of
the vagina in its `dark' or menstrual phase. It may also suggest a
connection between the Ajna and Muladhara chakras in the subtle body
(centred at the pineal gland and the genital regions respectively) and the
sephiroth of Chokmah and Yesod on the qabalistic Tree of Life.
The thread of the spider, which it uses to incapacitate and immolate its
prey, thus corresponds with the noose of Kali, and the cord used by her
devotees, the Thugs, to perform their ritual assasinations. In the
arachnid, the thread is produced from the region of the reproductive
organs - here again, the connection is indicated between sex and death
(Time). The female genitalia seen in its aspect of `vagina dentata.'
In his occult novel, Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber writes:
``...the exterior female genitalia were thought of as a spider.
the tendrilled blot of hair? The mouth that opened vertically
like a spider's jaws instead of horizontally like a human
face's lips... it involved the time to spin a web, the spiders
clock.''
Her web is is a diagram or yantra of the structure which permeates the
outer darkness, and delinates the cells of the Qlippoth on the other side
of the Tree; `not in the spaces we know, but between them'. Its spokes
are the kalas of the Priestess, irradiating space with their subtle
effluvia. This glyph (which can be sigilised as an eye placed vertically
within a downward pointing black triangle) therefore indicates a technique
whereby the influx of the magickal current of the Nu Aeon can be
facilitated (Number os the Goddess = 58 = KLChK = `licking up').
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This post has been edited by diana: Nov 26 2006, 09:09 PM