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"... The dark path instead guides man into a second birth in which knowledge is attained, and he becomes like a god, just as the Serpent in the Garden of Eden promised. According to the Qabalistic views on evil, power and knowledge are the keywords that illustrate what the dark side has to offer." - Karlsson, Thomas. "Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic"

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"But, what reason exists for turning towards the dark side, according to the Qabalah? When analyzing the Qabalah's view on metaphysical evil, we find that it is not necessarily connected with the mundane brutality that we normally associate with evil. The Qabalistic, metaphysical evil is, at the same time, both a destructive force and a force of creation to which man must turn if he wants an individual existence. Man is separated from God in the Creation and from his mother at birth. Most religions offer to shepherd man back to utopian, original state. The dark path instead guides man into a second birth in which knowledge is attained, and he becomes like a god, just as the Serpent in the Garden of Eden promised. According to the Qabalistic views on evil, power and Knowledge are the keywords that illustrate what the dark side has to offer" - Karlsson, Thomas. "Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic