hello again Guido,

previous was a reference list. this is the content of 
my tracking of what you wish yourself to study, and i
hope to make your job far easier than it could've been.

Guido Woudenberg <[log in to unmask]>:
> Maybe 17th century Christian Cabalists didn't use the 
> qlippoth in their magic. 

I cannot imagine why they might have done 
such a thing. medical purposes? demonology?
delving the Asiatic world for buried treasure?
 
> However they probably wrote about them, as nineteenth 
> and twentieth century magicians do use the qlippoth. 

as such they seem to feature in exposition of the 
'Shebirah' or 'breaking vessels' cosmology of Luria,
particularly relating to the shells of the sephiroth. 

there appears to be a modern tendency to issue 
enhanced or enlarged sets of these shells (see below) 
quite without explanation in relation to this 
cosmological schema, at least practiced by Crowley 
and his specification of the 'shells of the 
Unmanifest', about which Skinner admirably comments 
in association with his tables which appear on 
pp. 154-5:

  "The attributions of Crowley's zero row representing
  the Unmanifest are the three Veils of Negative
  Existence, Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur, comment
  on which is beyond the scope of this book. ...

  "_*The Qliphoth*_
  "_Column K91-K94: Arch-Demons or Princes of the Qliphoth_
  "The standard list (Column K93) are the rulers of the 
  Orders of the Qliphoth (Column K97) whilst Column K92
  includes the wives and children of Samael as recorded
  in the *Zohar*. Column K94 is drawn from a French grimoire.
  "_Column K95-K99: Orders of the Qliphoth_
  "Crowley allocates three Orders of the Qliphoth to the 
  Unmanifest Ain Soph Aur. This cannot be metaphysically
  correct as the Qliphoth are the shells created by the
  unbalanced forces generated as each of the Sephiroth
  were created. As Ain Soph Aur is the state/potentiality
  before any Sephiroth were created, it follows that they
  cannot have Orders of the Qliphoth attributed to them.
  But for the sake of completeness however I list these 
  three Orders of the Qliphoth below:

   Qemetial - the Crowd of gods (more appropriate 
     as an obverse of Kether) obvresthrn
   Belia'al - Worthlessness (in reality found lower 
     down the Tree)
   A'athiel - Uncertainty (a stage generated by the
     need to attribute these Orders somewhere!).
     Traditionally these 3 were attributed to Kether,
     Chokmah and Binah respectively, not Ain Soph Aur.
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 Skinner, Stephen. "The Complete Magician's Tables...",
  Llewellyn, 2006; pp. 347, 357-358
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> I'm primarily interested in how the idea of the 
> qlippoth entered, or re-entered, nineteenth and 
> twentieth century magic. Like you said, 
> Dion Fortune 

derivative, Luria:von Rosenroth:Mathers::Fortune

> and the Dragon Rouge incorporate the 
> qlippoth in their teachings. 

derivative, Luria:von Rosenroth:Mathers:Crowley:Grant:Karlsson

> Through who did they get their information on 
> the qlippoth? I think that Rosenroth's 
> "Kabbala Denudata" and Mather's translation 
> played an important part. 

from what i can tell this was indeed their source
on Luria whom they would in part enshrine, and
yet only of some small portion in English. 
William Heidrick has more data at his 
website on this pertaining to *how much*:

  "English translations of a few selections from 
  Kabbala Denudata may be found on the internet 
  via Google and other search engines. Beware: 
  The S. L. Macgregor Mathers book, Kabbalah 
  Unveiled, is often represented as a translation 
  of the entire work; but it provides only a 
  portion of the latter part of Tom II: Pars Secunda, 
  Tracts 1 through 3, about 250 pages in all 
  (Zohar sections: Sepher de Zeniutha/Liber Mysterii, 
  Idra Rabba/Synodus Areae Magna and Idra Suta/Synodus 
  Minor). Mathers published a translation of the Latin, 
  but he excluded the Hebrew and Aramaic text which 
  occupies about half of each page. Thus Mathers' 
  Kabbalah Unveiled includes about five percent of 
  the total text of Kabbala Denudata. ... Perhaps 
  the most valuable part of Mathers' Kabbalah Unveiled 
  is the introduction, an abridgement of Christian D. 
  Ginsburg's The Kabbalah (1862, Longmans, Green & Co.; 
  more recently published in The Essenes, Their History 
  and Doctrines; The Kabbalah, Its Doctrines, Development 
  and Literature, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970)."
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Heidrick, William E. "Rosenroth's Kabbala Denudata, 
  scanned from the Latin", Web.
  http://www.billheidrick.com/Orpd/KRKD/index.htm
 	(accessed 6/28/10)
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the Creation cosmology associated to this presented
by Luria and reflected by Mathers off of von Rosenroth
(cf. Regardie, Israel. "The Golden Dawn", Llewellyn, 
1987, p. 82 (163; part of the Fifth Knowledge Lecture)
as "THE QLIPPOTH ON THE TREE OF LIFE" with their 
sephirotic orders) accounts for the generation of 
shells for the *sephiroth only*.

the Golden Dawn's material does not appear to have
increased over and above Mathers' version of this
text, and PLATE IV. "showing the relations of the 
Sephiroth with the Four Worlds, &c." displays 
Asiah, the world of action, as having 10
orders of demons, as well as 10 Arch-devils
(cf. Mathers, S.L. MacGregor. "The Kabbalah
Unveiled", Samuel Weiser, 1989; pp. 29-30, and
insert Table).

Crowley (Regardie, Israel. "777 and Other
Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley",
Samuel Weiser 1989, p. 58, Table I, 
Column VIII. "THE ORDERS OF THE QLIPHOTH")
lists those mentioned above by Skinner for "0", 
then provides orders for the following 
sephiroth/netivoth: 1-10, 15-20, 22, 24-26, 28-29
but neither he nor Skinner explain their origins. 

Crowley's "Liber 231" is oriented to the trumps
of the Tarot (0-22), identifying one to each path
or netivoth, and presuming to describe the 
spirits or genii of the netivoth, later called
"tunnels of Set" by Kenneth Grant in his 
"Nightside of Eden". Liber 231 does not 
mention the orders of the qliphoth, but Grant
does in association to them, as well as to 
disultory aspects (diseases, weapon, etc.) as
he found within 777, then apparently elaborated 
somewhat in his exploratory rites for the book.

Skinner's table on page 155 does not contain
reference associations for 11, 23, or 31 (also
skipped by Crowley in 777 but NOT in 231), and 
these are the 'Mother Letters' (Elemental):

11-ALEPH (AIR)
23-MEM (WATER)
and 
31-SHIN (FIRE).

this possibly figures into an expanded Creation
schema, whereby these netivoth are spot-points
out of which the sephirot (/(+)netivoth??) were
created, breaking the rest into 'tunnels' en
par with the 'shells' of the sephiroth, though
i am speculating and have never before seen a
coherent description of this Lurianic expansion.

I did not find Skinner's description of these 
variations or sequences, for example (which this 
page on the qliphoth appears to be uniquely
featuring). his page 155 chart is oddly shuffled 
so as to allow Astronomical and Zodiacal 
integrity of associations. 

Karlsson largely accepts Crowley's data, running 
parallel to, and acknowledging the existence of 
Grant, though he reconstructs the sigils for 
the spirits on his pages 160-161.

with that we arrive at modern internet listings,
Skinner having the greater coverage in text and
few following out any of this trail or detail.

nagasiva yronwode ([log in to unmask]), Director 
  YIPPIE*! -- http://www.yronwode.org/
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   and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology
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