4. 22 parzufim of Edom Belial (Crowley’s Qliphoth Sui Generis) Adam Belial, the demonic ruler given by Waite (cf. the Holy Kabbalah, 257) over averse Chokma, is, rightly, Edom Belial. The Hebrew name Adam derives from the elder form adamma, meaning “red clay earth” (cf. Gardner), which is, in Hebrew, expressed simply as Edom, or “red.” Thus, before the creation of Adam, the first man, that from which he would be formed by the hand of God was merely “worthless red clay earth.” So it is said, “ashes to ashes and dust to dust,” from the earth we are fashioned, and, in the end, to it shall we return. So it is also said, “in the image of God created He him.” Here we see that the proportions of man are relative to those in the heavens. This is to say that, the anthropomorphication of the ten luminous emanations is the archetype of a man. Thus, this ideal man has come to be known to qabalists as the Adam Kadmon. The study of the image of this ideal archetype is known as the parzufim. Here we see that the Kadmon was the image of God in which Adam was created. This is why the generations of Adam are listed “from the beginning.” Not because, scientifically speaking, Adam was the first homo sapien. Because, rather, God favoured Adam above all others, and so it was of his lineage that God’s chosen and elect were sired, and, thus, from whose stock would come the Messiah. So, until the coming of His day, our atonement and the final judgment of all mankind, man will be drawn down by the sicknesses and ageing of his flesh, to return to the earth from whence he came, the gaping maw of the grave. May we be liberated! references: The breaking of the vessels marks a dramatic turning-point in the relation of the Adam Kadmon and all that develops beneath him. All the subsequent processes of creation come about to restore this primal fault. These parzufim (literally, “faces” or “physiognomies”) now take the place of the Sefirot as the principle manifestations of Adam Kadmon. The five principle parzufim of Arikh Anpin (literally, “the long-faced one,” i.e. “the indulgent one” or “forbearing one,” a phrase borrowed from the Zohar, where it appears as an Aramaic translation of the biblical erekh-appayin, “long-suffering”), Abba (“father”), Imma (“mother”), Ze’eir Anpin (literally, “the short-faced one,” i.e. “the impatient” or “unindulgent one”), and Nukkba de-Ze’eir (“the female of Ze’eir”) constitute the final figure of the Adam Kadmon as it evolves in the first stages of tikkun, which is quite different from the figure of Adam Kadmon that existed before the breaking of the vessels. -Scholem, 140-2
a. Amprodias: fluxes The disease typical of the eleventh path is the ‘flux,’ which in magical terms is expressed as unbalanced or ‘untimely’ discharges of lunar energy. -Grant III, 158 Flux: 4. any excessive or unnatural discharge of fluid body matter, esp. from the bowels. -Webster’s New World Dictionary
b. Baratchial: ataxia