The Tree of Death

The Tree of Death — Twelve Interviews with the Lords of the Shell is an esoteric, symbolic and literary series grounded in the tradition of Hermetic Qabalah and in the Golden Dawn's vision of the Qliphoth as adverse Sephiroth.

Each volume presents a profound interview with a dark intelligence associated with the Tree of Death: Samael, Satan, Moloch, Lucifuge, Beelzebub, Astaroth, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Baal, Adramalech, Lilith and Naamah.

The purpose of the series is not devotion, pact or cult, but spiritual and philosophical inquiry. Each “demon” is treated as an archetypal figure that reveals, by the negative way, the distortions of the human soul: power without compassion, desire without a center, intelligence without truth, beauty without spirit, matter without light, and will severed from the Source.

Across the twelve books, the reader undertakes a symbolic descent through the adverse regions of the Tree of Life, facing questions about fear, pride, sacrifice, domination, lust, deceit, spiritual vanity, astral fascination and inner exile.

Written in the tone of an initiatic interview, the collection unites occultism, symbolic psychology, literary demonology and spiritual reflection. Each book is structured as a verbal confrontation with a force of the shadow, seeking to understand not only evil as opposition, but the light imprisoned within the shell.

A work for readers interested in Hermetic Qabalah, Qliphoth, the Tree of Life, the Tree of Death, Western occultism, initiatic symbolism and dark esoteric literature.