What is your perspective on the Qlippoth? I'm aware that the Qlippoth that as we understand it is a relatively newer concept, they were just impure shells in Lurinaric Kabbalah dating back to the 15th centuries. I think the first mention of the Qlipoth as a seperate tree is from Kenneth Grant from nightsides of Eden, dating back to 1974, but I have found mentions from books from Dion Fortune of the Klipoth dating back to the 30's.
I work with both the Qlippoth and Hermetic Qabalah and I just view the Qlippoth as unbalanced energies of the regular tree. I do enjoy entity work, but I'm a little disappointed that there aren't a whole lot of correspondences to meditate on and the system feels like it isn't entirely fleshed out.
I know this is a late reply but I saw this because I've been looking at the Qlippoth and Sefirot lately and reflected on your question and some of the statements I've been seeing.
I do agree on a few points that you and others have made. The points I agree with, it not being as "fleshed out" as you put it, the Qlippoth being unbalanced energies, not having a lot of correspondences. I've thought about this and here's how I'm seeing it. Before I get into this, I'm not an expert at all, so just take everything I offer here with a grain of salt.
The Qlippoth, as you likely know is meant to reflect the shadow, false identities, imbalanced self beliefs/external beliefs etc. It also emphasizes individuation, destabilization of the false self, etc; All of these things are very personal/subjective and based very much on the person because each person is different, so too, will there shadow, ego, fears, false identities be. With the Qlippoth being a Left Hand path and focusing more on the individual, as stated before, that makes it far more subjective and personal to each person and their life experience which is to be expected as a path that is meant to be more focused on the individual; that subjectivity is less widely agreed upon because as expected, different people have different ego's, fears, beliefs, false identities, and as a result, that subjectivity is what gives the Qlippoth its less concrete, less "fleshed-out" path or style of working because each persons
individual path is going to be more
unique to
each individual person.
In contrast, The Sephirot is based on virtues like wisdom, understanding, beauty, strength, mercy; All of these things are for the most part widely human/archetypal qualities that most people could widely agree on as "Universal" as far as the human experience goes. That very much goes in line with how Right Hand Path structures function; Universality, surrender to Divine structure, union with God, alignment with "Cosmic Law" etc. As stated before, these values are more widely agreed upon, that's what gives them their "fleshed-outness" or their "concreteness"
To me, It makes sense that the qlippoth would feel or seem less fleshed out because it is, but to me, that is part of its nature because the path depends on you, the individual, where as the sefirot is more fleshed out because it is its nature as its dependent on a more agreed upon set of values because by its very design, it surrenders to a "higher order" or "cosmic law"
In the Qlippoth, You, in a sense, decide the cosmic law as it pertains to you, requiring you to do some inner work and soul searching.
In the Sefirot, the Cosmic Law has already been determined and the path laid out for you by a higher power, so it depends on the individual far less.
