Meanings
- alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of Qliphoth.
In practice, the qlippot are as much gateways to the Other Side as specific marmas or sandhis.
2013, Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord, Nicolas-Hays, Inc., →ISBN, page 2643 more examples
And the rungs of the souls and the angels, what heaven and hell are all about. What the qlippot [shells] are and the sparks they contain which need to be freed to return to their holy sources.
1998, David Meltzer, editor, The Secret Garden, Station Hill Arts/Barrytown, →ISBN, page 167lovely, though I have found exceptions to the last who speculate that the kleppah or qlippot are underworld roots, extending into Malkuth or that Malkuth is made up of Her former glory's fragments, spotted, as it were, or interfused with shell fragments and nodes of qlippotic energy, intelligence, and influence.
2002 April 10, naga...yronwode.spamcom, “Ql'pp'th/Shells and Kabbalistic Evil (was Beg. Enoch)”, in alt.occult.kabbalah.golden-dawn (Usenet)recently someone told me that they thought that the qlippot orders/spirits/genii were somehow related to the goetic spirits.
2008 August 9, nocTifer, “Re: Goetic Evocation/Invocation... views?”, in alt.magick.tyagi (Usenet)
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qlippot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/qlippot
“qlippot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/qlippot. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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