All About Lilith:

[Founding Father J P ChrstVampyr]

( From the Lilith Library at: http://www.lilithgallery.com/library/lilith )

Lilith was once known as a Sumerian fertility/agricultural goddess, but over the years has been demonified by other religions into the modern myth of succubi.

Lilith (or Lilitu) has over 100 names and variations in myths ranging from Ancient Sumeria to Jewish Mysticism to tribal Malayasia to myths about the Third Millenium. She is the first wife of Adam (before Eve) according to the Jewish myth. She is a Sumerian fertility/agricultural goddess, and she is the Greek goddess of the dark moon. She is the mother of all succubi. She is perhaps the most identifiable incarnation of historical feminism and men's fear of feminist idealogy (Judeo-Christian men used female icons to increase feminine demonification, essentially by lying and spreading rumours).

The Origin of Lilith:
Lilith has many origins. In one version of the bin-Sira version of the Bible, Lilith is the first wife of Adam (before Eve) and was created at the same time that god created Adam. In Greek myth, she is the goddess of the dark moon (Artemis is the goddess of the full moon, and Hecate is the goddess of the crescent moon). In Mesopotamian legends, Lilith is a fertility/earth goddess who protects people's children and helps to harvest food.

In both Arabic and Jewish myths however, she is a succubus (plural: succubi). A demon-woman who hunts men, seduces them and drains their life with a kiss. Jewish mothers believed Lilith would come to take their children away and eat them. Its a bit like the German myth of Struwwelpeter. "Eat your food and stay clean or else Struwwelpeter will get you!"

Every religion known to mankind has some kind of "evil woman" myth. Quite a few of them bear a startling resemblance to Lilith. Lilith has many different names, such as Marilith or Lilitu, but all of them connect with the common theme: A demon woman, often with wings, who kills men and sometimes children: A succubus.

Of course, there is also legends about incubi (singular: incubus), but these should not be confused with succubi (which is the plural of succubus). The incubi are fallen angels in Judeo-Christianity who fell to earth because they had sex with mortal women. Since then incubi have stalked the earth, seducing women in their dreams and impregnating them. (I believe they are their children are Vampyres).

There are many different legends and sources from multiple religions that refer to Lilith, and none of them are complete. Only after looking at all of them (preferably in chronological order) does a person gain a better understanding of what Lilith was, and what her myth has become.

Sumerian/Akkadian:
# The Legend of Lilith
# The Gilgamesh Prologue

Some people believe that Lilith is also "ki-sikil-lil-la-ke", a female demon in the prologue to the Gilgamesh epic. This however is simply a linguistic connection because the word "lil" means "nocturnal" in Hebrew.

Kramer translates:

a dragon had built its nest at the foot of the tree
the Zu-bird was raising its young in the crown,
and the demon Lilith had built her house in the middle.
[...]
Then the Zu-bird flew into the mountains with its young,

while Lilith, petrified with fear, tore down her house
and fled into the wilderness

Wolkenstein translates the same passage:

a serpent who could not be charmed made its nest in the roots of the tree,
The Anzu bird set his young in the branches of the tree,
And the dark maid Lilith built her home in the trunk.

Moffat translates the same passage:

a wily serpent made its nest beneath the tree,
The Zu-bird raised its children in the tree branches,
and the nocturnal demon had made its home in the middle.
[...]
Then the Zu-bird flew into the hills with its children,

while the night-demon, fear-crazed, ripped down its home
and fled into the wilderness

It is Moffat's belief that "ki-sikil-lil-la-ke" is not a demon at all, but simply an owl. It is reasonable to assume that people had superstitious beliefs about owls and knew little about them at the time.

An owl, you will note, is also one of the creatures sacred to the fertility goddess.

Babylonian/Mesopotamian:
# Lilith Prophylactic Amulet

By 9th Century BC the Mesopotamian area had changed dramatically. Vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are known from Babylonian demonology. They are nocturnal demons, which hunt and kill newborn babies and pregnant women. Akkadian Lilitu forms a triad with Ardat Lili and Idlu Lili. "Lil" can also mean darkness or storm or wind. Thus these new myths sometimes call them storm/wind demons in addition to being demons of the night.

A Sumerian myth tells the story of how Adapa came to break the wings of the South Wind, associated with the summer sand-storms, after which she (the South Wind) vowed enmity to humankind. The south wind was known as Ninlil (Nin = Lady) the wife to Enlil (En = Lord, Lil = Wind), King of the Gods and Lord of the Wind. A separate myth describes how Enlil raped Ninlil, and as punishment he was sent to the underworld domain of Ereshkigal. Ninlil followed him to the underworld, vowing vengeance upon the male gender.

Note: Its important to note that Ninlil and Enlil originally lived in the skies. Thus when Enlil was banished to Ereshkigal, he was actually being banished to the surface of the Earth. Ninlil followed him where she later gave birth to children who would become the race known as man. Enlil and Ninlil are essentially the Babylonian origin of Adam and Lilith (or Adam and Eve) and their banishment is comparative to Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden of Eden.

In the transformation from Sumerian myth to Babylonian myth, it is believed that Ninlil became Lilitu (-*itu is the Babylonian feminine marker) (-*u is the Hebrew feminine marker), with her two wild handmaidens Ardat Lili and Idlu Lili (believed to be mariliths, six armed women with the lower body of a snake).

Judaic:
# The Lilith Myth, an Excerpt from "Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis"
# A book by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai (New York: Doubleday, 1964). Graves and Patai have collected traditional Hebrew myths that amplify (and sometimes radically alter) stories found in the Book of Genesis. Chapter 10 of their book deals with Lilith. Each section of the chapter excerpted here recounts a "story" collected from non-biblical sources, frequently the Talmud. A much more extensive discussion of Lilith is found in the The Hebrew Goddess, a book also by Rapael Patai (Wayne State University Press, 3rd edition, 1978).
# Origins in Kabbala
# Lilith in the Kabbala: Zohar
# Lilith in the Kabbala: Bacharach
# Kabbala: Lilith, Queen of the Demons
# Kabbala: Lilith the Seductress
# Lilith Incantation Bowls
# Lilith in the Talmud
# Exerpt from Isaac b.Jacob ha-Kohen's "Treatise on the Left Emanation"
# Déchiffrement d'une Amulette Juive du XXème Siècle (French/Francais)
# "Lilit, Malkah ha-Shadim"
# An essay by Jeffrey Smith.

Christian/The Biblical Lilith:

# The Bible/Alphabet of ben-Sira/Ben Sira
# Lilith in the Dead Sea Scrolls
# List of Appearances in the Bible: Isaiah

When the Almighty created the first, solitary man, He said: It is not good for man to be alone. And He fashioned for man a woman from the earth, like him (Adam), and called her Lilith. Soon, they began to quarrel with each other. She said to him: I will not lie underneath, and he said: I will not lie underneath but above, for you are meant to lie underneath and I to lie above. She said to him: We are both equal, because we are both created from the earth. But they did not listen to each other.

When Lilith saw this, she pronounced God's avowed name and flew into the air. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator and said: Lord of the World! The woman you have given me has gone away from me. Immediately, the Almighty sent three angels after her, to bring her back.

The Almighty said to the Angels: If she decides to return, it is good, but if not, then she must take it upon herself to ensure that a hundred of her children die each day. They went to her and found her in the middle of the Red Sea. And they told her the word of God. But she refused to return. They said to her: We must drown you in the sea. She said: Leave me! I was created for no other purpose than to harm children, eight days for boys and twenty for girls.

When they heard what she said, they pressed her even more. She said: I swear by the name of the living God that I, when I see you or your image on an amulet, will have no power over that particular child. And she took it upon herself to ensure that, every day, a hundred of her children died. That is why we say that, every day, a hundred of her demons die. That is why we write the names Senoi, Sansenoi and Semangloph on an amulet for small children. Andwhen Lilith sees it, she remembers her promise and the child is saved.

Notes: This version of the myth is one of many, most of which have small translation flaws. Often the bible has been translated from Hebrew to Latin to German and then finally to English.

According to accompanying legends, Lilith was cursed and turned into a succubus. God created Eve as an afterthought out of Adam's rib, in order to make her more submissive. Lilith's descendants and Eve's descendants mingled together and bred, and God decreed that Lilith is to kill all of her descendants, except for those protected by an amulet. This belief that Lilith will come to slay young children is still held in awe today in many cultures. As the mother of all other succubi, Lilith's daughters (succubi, or simply Liliths according to some tales) are also held to this and cannot harm any child protected by the amulet. This is Lilith's curse for being too dominating according to many tales, although it is also questioned as to whether the real reason is because she spoke God's avowed name and stole some of gods powers

Another legend says that Jehovah (god) and Lilith are actually god and goddess. Although usually the feminine half of god is known as Yahweh.

Suggestions also say that because Lilith never ate the forbidden fruit, like Adam and Eve did, Lilith is not tainted by original sin, and thus can never die. She is immortal like an angel. Angels can be destroyed however. As can demons. Begging the question of whether Lilith is invincible also.

Other Biblical and non-Biblical legends portray Lilith as being a terrible mother-goddess. Her clergy is described as being temple prostitutes according to some historians. This belief changed over time, with Lilith (or succubi in general) becoming the "divine whore" according to clergy men, described as being a tall beautiful, obsidian-skinned, bat-winged female with long red (some legends say black) hair and sharp blue eyes. This creature then seduces men and kills them. This is a perfect example of men describing ONLY the physical characteristics of women, and also their obvious fear of being powerless against a woman and controlled by them.

Magic:
# How to Summon a Succubus in 10 Easy Steps

Comparative:
# An Introduction to Lilith
# The Demonification of Lilith
# The Fear of Lilith
# Isis, Lilith, Gello: Three Ladies of Darkness
# By Alejandro Arturo González Terriza, a comparative analysis of three ancient goddesses.

Art/Music:
# The Lilith Gallery
# Lilith: Music, Poetry & Lyrics

Pop Culture:
# October 24th, Lilith's Day:
# Presumably the day that Lilith left Eden, or possibly a Sumerian Holy Day the celebrates the harvest (sort of like Thanksgiving). Whichever you prefer.

# Lilith Aromatherapy:
# Contains: Essential oils of ylang ylang, black pepper, bitter orange and rose geranium.
# To generate strength and confidence.

Bibliography:
# Lilith: the First Eve by Siegmund Hurwitz.
The book is divided into two secions: a historical overview of the figure of Lilith and a Jungian analysis of the archetype she represents. The historical half is excellent, but the psychological interpretation is marred by his anti-feminist stance and a typical Jungian essentialist approach to gender. (Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag, 1992.)
# The Book of Lilith by Barbara Black Kotluv, PhD.
Jungian feminist interpretation of the Lilith legends. Fun and interesting to read, but rather shaky at times in terms of scholarship, although it's useful as modern thealogy of Lilith *if* you agree with her interpretations. (York Beach: Nicolas-Hays: Dist. by S. Weiser, 1986.)
# The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai.
Excellent resource for not only Lilith but other Hebrew goddesses as well, such as Asherah, Astarte, and the Maitronit. An excellent first source for those wanting to research Lilith because it is scholarly but not dry. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990.)
# Lilith's Cave by Howard Schwartz.
Fascinating collection of translations and adaptations of various Jewish folk stories, mostly centering on Lilith and other related figures (such as the Queen of Sheba, another form of Lilith, and Ashmodai). (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990.)

External Links:
# Lilith, by Alan Humm
# The Lilith Shrine
# The Lilith Shrine (FRAMES)
# Collections of posts on Lilith from alt.mythology
# The Myth of Lilith
# The Invocation of Lilith
# Lilith Amulet
# Lilith Goddess
# Lilith Bibliography
# The Story of Lilith
# Looking for Lilith
# The Goddess with No Tradition
# BEAUTIFUL LILITH
# Lilitu: The Goddess in Training
# Lilith: A Romance
# Lilith: A Poem
# A Lilith Poem by Lilinah
# Lilith Magazine (A Jewish Feminist Magazine)


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© Rev. J P Vanir ChrstVampyr YIM: theUVUP
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[Founding Father J P ChrstVampyr]

My Additions as this is what I believe:


Lilith represents the darker elements. It is through them that we acknowledge Day versus the Night. Lilith is the night side, and humanity is the day side. Lilith, our queen, was one day awakened. It was through sexual union that she found that she could drain Adam of his sexual energy, and thus she found out her true nature. When she left Adam, she did so that she could harness this darkness that was a part of her all along. Lilith is one of the first Vampyres and thought she was created she evolved into something more (a goddess) through her constant mating with other gods; taking their energy and power. Not to mention being created at the beginning by a Vampyr, learning from him, and taking from her mate who we are told is made in his image. She learns of her power and learns she is not the submitting type as Yahweh as well as her mate would want to believe a woman should be (typical males). She is then admired for her lust and power by other men as well as demons which provided her with more of what she needed. Lucifer and Lilith are lovers and have a similar dislike for Yahweh for his HATE of his own kind as well as those who refuse to bow down before him.

© Rev. J P Vanir ChrstVampyr December 23, 2008

[Kher Heb Neferai]

(added from the Shrine of Lilith)

Book of Days-Times of Darkness

In the First Age, the gods were alone, adrift. And being lonely, they created All That Is.

And quickly, Lilyth grew weary of the pointless pursuits the gods of Light and left the Shining Throng to create Her own World of Night.

And the creation of Night was the dawn of the Second Age.
Intent on Her creation, She spawned a Race of beings that would feed on Darkness, revel in the Blood of Her nemeses- the Gods of Light and Laughter.

The High Priest of Her Childer was Caine. Marked as a condemned enemy of the light, Caine began a war that would take him to the Gates of Elysium itself.

The Dark Goddess Lilyth blessed Caine, offered him Her precious vitae of which the cosmos was made. Caine grew strong and powerful, his life enriched by the Blessings of Lilyth.

But Caine, in his arrogance, rejected all but the gift of longevity, spurning Her glorious gifts to his peril.
He rejected the power to transform into any beast, to become mist or smoke, he rejected the gift to bring ecstasy with his bite, so that his victims felt the pain of the bite and the loss of their humanity keenly. He rejected the chance to sit at the Dark Goddess's feet and be a part of a great clan. All this did he cast beneath his feet, choosing instead to make himself a god.
The Dark Mother was grieved that Her Chosen would behave thus and cast a curse upon him and all who would spawn from his bite. The Dark Mother mourned her lost and sank into torpor.

And so it is that the Dark Goddess sleeps.

[HPS. Rev. Ahram-Durga]

(added from the Shrine of Lilith)


lilith, Something that caught my eye. Thought you might like to read

1. http://lilith.abroadplanet.com/Demoness.php

2. this is where I got this one. Tell me what you think. And yes a lot
too read LOL

http://www.lilitu.com/lilith/khephprint.html

LILITH
by Khephera

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Table of Contents

1. The Historical Origin of Lilith
2. Male and Female He Created Them...
3. The Mythos: Lilith's Defiance
4. The Folk Interpretation
5. The Religious Interpretation
6. The Qabalistic Interpretation
7. The Modern Interpretation: Feminism
8. The Lilith of Today

For some time now I have been meaning to write a commentary on the
figure of Lilith: Queen of the Night, Mother of Demons, First Wife of
Adam, and one of my own Patron Goddesses. I have found that, without
exception, modern authors leave much to be desired on this subject.
Either they concentrate totally on Her historical aspect, or they
focus on Her modern interpretation. What is worse, the latter type of
author tends to attempt to convince us that the modern interpretation
IS the same as the historical facts about the Demoness/Goddess. Along
with this, the modern interpretations are normally completely at odds
with the historical facts. This document is meant to rectify all of
the above.

I do not feel that any God or Goddess can be divorced from Their
mythos. As I have stated elsewhere, a Mythology is the Soul of the
God(s) it depicts. For instance, you and I both know that the Gods did
not build the city of Babylon with Their own hands. Yet, if one were
to call upon Great Marduk, He would have full memory of constructing
the city. Likewise, we know that Adam and Eve did not exist as the
"first humans." Yet, Lilith has full memory of Eden, the Fall, and
every other event depicted in Genesis and the various Hebraic Legends.
It is thus that Lilith, though She is not the vile and disgusting
ArchDemon envisioned by the early Judaic Peoples, is nevertheless
affected by these conceptions of Her. Her Dark aspects, even the
nastiest ones, are a part of Her, regardless of modern attempts to
"liberate" Her. Lilith was not originally a benevolent Goddess who was
raped by the Patriarchy.

However, I move slightly ahead of myself here. Therefore, I will begin
at the beginning:

THE HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF LILITH
The first myth I wish to dispel is that Lilith was originally found in
the ancient land of Sumeria. Her roots do certainly extend that far,
but Lilith Herself is not to be found among that massive pantheon of
Gods and Demons.

In Sumerian, the word "Lil" means "Air." Enlil, for instance, was the
Lord (En) of Air (Lil). The oldest known term relating to Lilith would
be the Sumerian word "Lili" (plural "Lilitu"), which seems to imply
the same definition as our word "spirit." In many ancient cultures,
the same word for "air" or "breath" would also be used for "spirit."
The very word "spiritus" is one such example. The Hebrew "ruach" is
another. Therefore, the Lilitu were either a specific type of demon,
or were simply "spirits" in general.

Normally, Lilith is thought to have been a Sumerian Succubus. And, in
fact, there was such a creature in Sumer-Babylonia who surely had it's
part in the Hebrew conception of Lilith. This being was known as the
"Ardat Lili." "Ardatu" was a term that described a young woman of
marrying age. Thus, the Ardat Lili was a young female spirit—the
Succubus—the demoness credited with "night-hag syndrome." Most of us
have experienced this once or twice—where the victim awakens to find
that he is being restrained and paralyzed by an unseen force (this is
a "chemical malfunction" of the body). She is also said to cause
erotic dreams, thus robbing the male of semen and spiritual vitality.
Of course, there is also a male version of this—the incubus—but I will
not be addressing this creature here.

It is also interesting to note that the Sumerian word for "wantonness"
was "Lulu." The word for "luxuriousness" was "Lalu." Also, the very
word for "evil" was "Limnu." This has an obvious relation to the word
Lili (and Ardat Lili specifically); not just in the similarity of
pronunciation and spelling, but also in the very definition of the
words. Keep in mind that these ancient languages did not possess the
specific definition of our modern words. A single word would indicate
any one of a number of related concepts.

This does not exhaust the etymology of Lilith. However, the word-play
does not continue until the Hebrew Captivity in Babylon (600 BCE), and
I do not wish to jump ahead just yet. Still concerning Sumer, there
are two instances that are generally seen as proof of Lilith's
existence there.

One is a mythos in which a female demon takes residence within the
Goddess Inanna's sacred Tree of Life—thus effectively stunting the
Tree's growth and production. This demoness is supposed to be Lilith
Herself, whom the hero Gilgamesh finally forces out of the Tree and
into the desert. However, it turns out that there is no basis for
assuming this creature is Lilith, or even an Ardat Lili. It was Kramer
who translated, as "Lilith," the word "ki-sikil-lil-la-ke." Where the
word for air is obviously present, there is no indication of a
Lilith—anymore than the presence of the word "ki" (Earth) indicates
the Earth Goddess Ki. Perhaps Kramer was concentrating on the two
syllables "lil-la."

The second instance is the famous plaque which depicts a woman with
owl talons and wings, standing upon two lions, with two owls flanking
her on either side. It was the above (mis)translation by Kramer that
was used to interpret this figure as Lilith. Of course, as the
demoness of the Tree is not Lilith, then surely the woman in the
sculpture is not either.

There is also a note that I wish to add here. In the Torah, there is
said to be one reference to Lilith—Isaiah XXXIV:14. The verse speaks
of a Screech Owl, and this is said to indicate Lilith by way of the
above-mentioned plaque. This instance is even used to argue that
Lilith's Name is derived from the Hebrew term for "to screech."
However, nothing could be farther from the truth in either case. Such
relations are accepted Qabalistic practices, but they cannot be used
in a scholarly/historic sense.

MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM...
Genesis I: 27 reads: "And Elohim created Adam in His Image, in the
Image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Genesis II:18 and 22 read: "And Yahweh said, 'It is not good for Adam
to be alone. I will make a fitting helper for him.'...And Yahweh
fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man into a woman; and He
brought her to the man."

Today, we know that Genesis I and II are simply two separate Creation
stories. Genesis II derives from a Sumerian story, while Genesis I is
a later creation of the Hebrew Priesthood (created by the Deuteronomic
School around 700 BCE). However, to a people who were quite determined
to take the Scriptures as ultimate Truth, such a contradiction was not
welcome at all. It demanded an explanation that reconciled both stories.

Explanation number one is perhaps the best—Qabalistically speaking. As
we know, Adam was created to perfection. He was created in the perfect
image of "Elohim." Of course, God is not seen as being either male or
female, but as both at once. Even the Name Elohim is a feminine word
(Eloah—Goddess) with a masculine plural suffix. Thus, if God is male
and female, the mother and the father, then Adam (which translates as
"Mankind") must also have originally been male and female in one. To
be otherwise would have been to be unbalanced, and thus imperfect.

And thus was Adam's perfection, said to be even greater than the
Angels. In fact, in this view, Adam was not a human at all—but a
Cosmic Being known as Adam Kadmon. He was the Archetype upon which
humans would later be based.

Now, enters the passages from Genesis II. Just as the Unity of God was
divided in two (the separation of the Waters by the Firmament) to
create the Universe, so to was mankind created by the separation of
the Archetypal Man into "its" two halves—male and female. Thus, woman
was separated from man, and Adam Kadmon became an unbalanced
creature—a human. This imperfection finally led to the Fall, the
manifestation of the Human Race from Archetypal to the Actual. The
woman was called Eve, which literally translates as "Life." Mankind
was given Life, and the rest is history.

Explanation number two, though just as Qabalistically useful in its
own right, is nevertheless vastly more fun—especially mythologically
speaking. This is where Lilith enters the picture as the first wife of
Adam. The verse from Genesis I was thus explained as a veiled hint to
the entire Lilith affair. Genesis II:20 even helps back this up: "And
the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and
to all the wild beasts; but for Adam no fitting helper was found." The
animals of the Earth had been created for the strict purpose of being
helpers to Adam, and Lilith was among them. But, Lilith had failed,
and no other beast came even close (apparently Lilith was the only
animal enough like Adam to be a candidate at all). The next seen in
the Scripture is where Yahweh breaks down and decides to chance
separating Adam into his two halves of male and female.

Without worrying over specific developments, I will simply relate the
entire tale as it came to be after all. Following is the story of Lilith:

THE MYTHOS: LILITH'S DEFIANCE
Now Lilith was the first wife of Adam, well before the creation of
Eve. She had been created along with him to be his helper, as the
Torah states "Male and Female He created them."

However, Lilith was not so suited as a companion for Adam. There was
little on which they could agree In his attempt to mate with Lilith,
Adam demanded missionary position. However, Lilith refused. "We were
created equal, and thus we shall make love in equal positions."

Adam replied that he, being the Image of the Elohim, would not stoop
to such a level as to be equal to Lilith, who was simply one of the
many beasts of the field She was created as his helper, and that is
how she would remain.

Lilith, however, was far more than Adam had imagined. She went
straight away to Yahweh, and used her prowess of seduction upon Him.
Yahweh, known for his soft heart toward women, was finally lulled into
revealing His sacred Name unto her. Thereupon Lilith pronounced the
Divine Name, and flew away from the Garden and Adam forever.

She took residence within a cave upon the shores of the Red Sea, where
to this day she finds Her shelter Within. She accepted the demons of
the world as her lovers, and spawned many thousands of demon children
in only a short time. It is thus that the world became populated with
demons, and how Lilith came to be called the Mother of Demons—wife of
Asmodeus, the King of Demons. In this aspect, she was called the
Younger Lilith.

Adam, meanwhile, found that he regretted wishing Lilith away. He went
to Yahweh and stated his case for the return of Lilith. Yahweh agreed
that a creature of Eden should not so easily depart that realm, and
dispatched three Enforcer Angels to retrieve her.

These three, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangeloph, soon found Lilith
within her cave, and demanded her return unto Adam by order of Yahweh.
If she refused, they informed her, they would slay one hundred of her
demon children each day until she decided to return.

Lilith exclaimed that even this fate was better than returning to Eden
and submission to Adam. As the Enforcers carried out their threat,
Lilith also made a terrible proclamation. In return for the pain
delivered upon her, she would slay the children of Adam. She swore to
attack children, and even their mothers, during child-birth. She also
swore that all newborns were in danger of her wrath—baby girls for
twenty days after birth, and boys for eight. Not only this, but she
vowed also to attack men in their sleep. She would steal their semen
to give birth to more demon children, which would replace those slain
each day.

However, even Lilith was not without feeling. She also made one other
promise: wherever she saw displayed the names of the three Angels who
opposed her, no one in that place would be in danger from her actions.

THE FOLK INTERPRETATION
On this we need spend little time. The Folk interpretation of this
myth is the most literal, and sees the myth as an actual event. In
this, Lilith is an actual demoness who is blamed for such things as
mothers dying in child-birth, still-birth, crib-death, and erotic
dreams among men.

The succubus aspect of Lilith is perhaps the most complicated. As we
know, the Judaic life was very strict, full of Divine Laws and
hundreds of ways in which a man might break them. Even an impure
thought was greatly unwanted, let alone impure actions. With sexual
release being such a taboo, it is no surprise that erotic dreams were
very common—and even more so were they feared. This was no case of
seeing a woman and being aroused. This was committing the full act, in
detail, and enjoying it the entire time! Add to this that it is not
uncommon to dream of women you know, other men's wives among them.
This, then, even became a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Not
to mention that the result of these dreams was to be cursed as one who
has "spilled his seed." Yet, this was something that could never be
avoided—and was thus going to be a continuing source of guilt. The
relief for this guilt was to blame it on a succubus, Lilith, rather
than yourself.

And what of the demon children that Lilith spawned with your seed?
Why, upon your death, these spirits would hover around your household,
demanding their rightful inheritance from your estate. This translated
into much havoc being wreaked for the family, and may have been used
to explain the hardships associated with death. There were even steps
a family would take to ensure the illegitimate demon-children were
banished from the house upon the husband's death. Of course, Lilith
was not the only possible mother for these children. Jewish Folk Tales
are full of men being tricked into marriages with beautiful
demonesses, Lilith simply being the greatest among them.

It was thus that we have many examples of talismans against Lilith.
The bowls are the earliest examples of this. Even more recent are the
talismans which bear the images of the three Angels and the Hebrew
phrase: "Senoy, and Sansenoy, and Semangeloph! Adam and Eve! Out
Lilith!" These would be hung over wedding beds as well as delivery
tables and cribs. In many cases the inscription was painted upon or
over the door to the place. All of this done as per the agreement
Lilith made with the Enforcer Angels.

THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION
At this point I will include a Christian addition to the Lilith
Mythos. Though it may not figure into the Hebraic views of her, it
still relates. This addition concerns Lilith's involvement with the
Fall from Eden.

Perhaps the most famous version of this Christian Lilith is the
Sistine Chapel paintings by Michealangelo. In this She is shown as a
half-woman half-snake and is credited with being the very Serpent who
instigated the Fall from Eden itself. Apparently, Lilith was not
satisfied with her vows of revenge as they were, and decided to attack
Adam where he least expected it— through his new wife, Eve. Perhaps
even an amount of jealousy is involved here.

Of course, it was Satan who was said to have been the serpent in the
Christian viewpoint. And, indeed, Lilith is said to be the wife of
Satan (or, from the Hebrew angle, the wife of Samael). The Serpent was
a joint effort between these two to take revenge upon Adam and cause
them to Fall from grace. Lilith provided the body of the serpent,
while Samael was the voice. As the wife of Samael (rather than
Asmodeus), she is known as the Elder Lilith.

I have all ideas that this Serpent-Lilith was a result of the
Rabbinical view of Lilith—She who seduces men from the True Path of
God, thus causing them to fall from grace as Adam did.

Within the mythologies of King Solomon, we meet Lilith on a number of
occasions, usually known as the Queen of Sheba. Solomon had suspicions
that this queen was in fact Lilith, and thus devised a plan to know
for sure. After inviting her for a visit to his palace, he had the
floor altered so as to appear as a pool of ankle-deep water. When the
queen arrived, she lifted her skirts to walk through the pool, and
Solomon was able to just barely glimpse her overly-hairy legs.

This was the Rabbinical image of Lilith—a dark and beautiful
seductress from the waist up, yet hairy and ugly from the waist down.
In many cases, she is actually a male from the waste down. This, of
course, is the part of the body that would most be concealed from
view. Only one intimate with her would find out the horrible
truth—after it was too late.

Of course, this is a metaphor. Lilith represents that which appears
beautiful on the outside. She is sex, indulgence, and everything that
one desires to do which breaks the Laws of God. She is all of the
things in life which tempts and seduces the man off of the Path of
God, and into the ways of evil. Only after she has seduced the man,
and he is firmly within her grasp, does she reveal her true nature of
ugliness. In this, Lilith far predates the Christian concept of the
Pan-like Satan.

THE QABALISTIC INTERPRETATION
And here we find that the plot thickens. The Qabalists created yet
another chapter in the life of Lilith, which stems directly from the
above Religious ideas. As Lilith had come to represent those things
that God frowned upon, so too did she come to symbolize the ways of
the entire world at large. She was the ways of the Pagans, who did not
frown upon sex, indulgence, and fun, who lived around the Judaic
Peoples. She symbolized all those who would break the Torah, and she
was anyone who would attack the Israelites. Most of all, she was Babylon.

Before I continue, it is important to explain the principals involved.
Though these concepts developed well after the Second Temple had been
destroyed (in 70 AD), the Temple itself plays a large role in the
Mythos. Also involved are Adonai (The Lord), and His Bride the
Shekinah (Hebrew for "Presence").

This mythos is a development of earlier Pagan ideas, where the union
of the Male and Female aspects of the universe are seen as paramount
to the continued existence of all Creation. This was known as the
Sacred Marriage. In the middle Eastern cultures, a newly anointed King
was ritually married to the Goddess, and thus to the Kingdom itself.
Likewise, the Qabalists depicted Adonai as a King, and the Shekinah
was [the people of] Israel herself.

There was one single place where Adonai would join with the Shekinah,
one place holy enough to sustain the Divine Sex. That place was the
Temple of Solomon. Once in the year, the Couple had joined together
within it's walls, and the Divine Light of goodness shone throughout
the world.

However, the Temple had been destroyed, and its treasures carried into
foreign and Pagan lands. With it went the perfect union of Adonai and
His Kingdom. He withdrew from the world, refusing to meet the Shekinah
in an impure fashion. The Shekinah Herself was taken captive by the
foreign peoples and was there raped by them continuously. The Shekinah
is the physical plane, and therefore could not retreat from it. Her
rape was symbolic of mankind's rape of the world and the Israelite people.

And here, once again, enters Lilith. As before stated, Lilith
symbolized the very foreign people who held the Shekinah captive.
Lilith was their evil ways—and now those evil ways were in control.
How? Because Adonai could not be without a female partner. There could
be no God without—in some sense—Goddess. Thus, in an effort to sustain
a balance, Adonai took Lilith Herself as His consort. Being what She
was, Adonai felt no pity in uniting with Her in impurity. She was,
quite simply, His harlot.

Thus it was that one half of the Divine Force which sustained the
Universe was tainted—allowing the evil of mankind to be supreme and
unstoppable. Lilith was the Dark Shekinah—the polar opposite of that
Holy Goddess. She had made Her final jump from demoness to Goddess—the
Wife of God.

The Qabalist felt his duty was to strive to reunite the Shekinah with
Adonai, and thus cast Lilith away forever. The Sabbath was on example
of this. Because of the holiness of this day, Lilith had no power to
remain with Adonai, and was forced to retreat to the desert where She
screamed in pain until the day came to an end. It was during this time
that Adonai had the best chance of reuniting with the Shekinah—and the
Qabalist did all he could to help through purity and godly living.
This symbolism is even hinted at in the Christian Revelation, where
the Whore of Babylon is supplanted in power by the Bride, the wife of
the Lamb.

This was the final outcome of Lilith, and here you have Her mythos in
full: First wife of Adam, wife of Asmodeus, wife of Samael, the
Serpent of the Tree of Knowledge, and finally the wife of God. From
here, I will briefly explain the modern interpretation of Her, and you
will see why I disagree with most of it so strongly:

THE MODERN INTERPRETATION: FEMINISM
Today Lilith has been adopted by the Neo-Pagan community, most
specifically by those with a feminist angle. Their main focus is upon
Lilith's choice to fly from paradise, and even suffer the death of
hundreds of Her children, rather than live under submission to Adam.
She is female defiance and strength. Her resulting attack on men in
the night is the revenge of the woman on the men who have hurt her.

This, in and of itself, is great (and plays a large part in my own
interpretation). However, this is not all there is to it. This
interpretation totally ignores a large part of Her mythos—not the
least of which being Her attacks on mothers and babies. The groups
which put forth this view would also have us believe that Lilith was,
in fact, a Great Goddess within Sumeria. The "proof" of this is the
above mentioned plaque, and we have already seen how this is simply
not so. It is even said that Lilith was a maiden, in service to
Inanna, who stood without the Temples and invited men to enter and
partake of the Sacred Sex with the Priestesses. For this, not one
shred of archeological evidence has been offered of which I am aware.

Along with this, the myth in which Gilgamesh drives the demoness out
of the Tree of Life is said to be symbolic of the Patriarchal God
driving the Goddess away. This is, in my opinion, pure silliness.
Anyone who puts the smallest study into Sumeria will find that there
was hardly any feminine-bashing going on there. The exact same thing
can be said for the Babylonians who followed, and even the earliest
Hebrews themselves.

Unfortunately, there is a modern trend in which the "liberation" of
any evil feminine mythological character is attempted. According to
this view, there were no male Gods in the Ancient world to begin with.
And, there were absolutely no evil female characters in any mythology.
Once God-Worship had been invented by power-hungry war-mongers, that
is when all the myths were re-written to show how evil the Goddesses were.

Examples of this are the Babylonian Tiamat; who does seem to be a
version of the Sumerian Nammu; who indeed was a benevolent Mother
Goddess. Another example is the Egyptian Seth; who was also
primordially a benevolent Goddess (Seth literally translates as
"Lady"). These are convincing examples. However, I must also remind
the reader that there are also convincing examples of the existence of
Atlantis, and of Alien intervention in the creation of humans. Such
facts are taken from history, isolated, and held as proof of the
silliest concepts imaginable. In my opinion, it is comparable to
isolating Bible verses to prove correctness, and superiority, over others.

I want to make something clear here, however. I am not bashing
feminism here. I do not ignore the damage done to women over the
years—mostly thanks to the Deuteronomic School of the Hebrews, and the
Church of the Christians. I am not speaking against interpreting
Mythologies in new and different ways (as my own interpretation of the
Lilith Mythos will show). That is, after all, what Mythology is all
about. What I am speaking against here is shoddy scholarship. And,
more than this, the attempt to push off personal opinions,
half-truths, and even outright lies as actual history. I will
interpret Myth for the modern world, but I will A) acknowledge the
original interpretations, and B) make sure that my interpretation
takes the older ones into account. Again, I point out that a God and
its Mythology are inseparable. If I evoke Lilith, She is not just
going to conform to what I wish Her to be. Yes, She will be affected
by what I expect Her to be, and what my interpretation of Her is—but
this is simply a slight bending of the Current, not a redefinition of it.

And with this I move on to my final goal: an interpretation of Lilith
for the modern world. This is based not only on the scholarship above,
but also on my own experience of this seductive beauty. And now, let
us meet Lilith:

THE LILITH OF TODAY
Adam literally translates as "Mankind." He is all of us—male and
female, young and old. He is, basically, civilization. Adam is the
Image of the Divine; he, and all physical things, are the final result
of Divine Manifestation. On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, Adam is
Malkuth (Kingdom), the physical world. In Qabalistic psychology,
Malkuth refers to the conscious mind. Thus, Adam is our consciousness.
He is our egos, our waking selves. Adam is everything about us that
imposes "proper behavior" within society.

Lilith, created along with him, is the Shadow Self. She is our
subconscious, that part of us that is most animal like, defiant,
uncivilized, passionate, and basically natural. She is sex. She is
everything that our (screwed-up) society frowns upon; a society that
has been taught for thousands of years to suppress everything within
us that is most natural and enjoyable. She is just as described by the
Religious interpretation—she is Babylon.

Eve is also our subconscious. However, she is that small part of our
inner-selves that our conscious-selves have gotten full control over.
She has no free-will of her own—being wholly a part of Adam. She is
that part of ourselves that, as a civilized people, we will show to
others. Eve is what has been programmed into us as "acceptable." She
is the polar opposite of Lilith. She and Lilith together form the
whole of the inner self.

(Let me point out that this interpretation of Adam and Eve/Lilith as
the conscious and subconscious is a rather old one. The Lovers Card of
the Tarot uses this symbolism, with the addition of an Angel who
represents the Higher Self.)

Samael is the Archangel of Gevurah (Severity) upon the Tree of Life.
He is the embodiment of Divine Severity. He is the Prince of the
Seraphim—those Fiery Serpents who, at one point, Yahweh sent to punish
the Israelites (see the Exodus). Samael is hardship.

Lilith's demon spawn are our own personal demons. They are neurosis
and harmful criminal behavior. They are the imbalances in the mind
that can lead to our destruction.

And these are the characters of the Lilith Mythos. The above
interpretations of them must be held in mind at all times through the
following. If so, certain aspects of the Myth begin to make a certain
kind of modern sense.

For instance, Adam's insistence that he mate with Lilith in the
missionary position becomes the civilized mind's attempt to reign in
and suppress the animal within—to be superior to it. Lilith's flight
from Eden, and to the Cave, is the banishment of our natural animal
instincts to the dark recesses of our minds. Even when Adam wishes She
would come back, it is too late and the damage has been done.

What damage is this? Lilith spawned thousands of demon children. These
demons are born within the locked away and forgotten parts of our
minds. Even though we attempt, as the Angelic Enforcers, to hunt down
and slay as many of them as we can, the tide is too great to be
turned; we have suppressed that which can not be suppressed. Lilith,
in Her darkness, has grown the Owl Talons. By nature a beautiful
creature—as our natural selves are in fact beautiful—Lilith now has
the means and motive to rip us to tiny shreds. She attacks us while we
sleep; and with our semen—the facts of our very daily lives—she spawns
more and more demons. Before she is finished, she will slither her way
back into our minds—as the Serpent in the Garden. Our conscious selves
will not even see it coming; while we are occupied with our day to day
foolishness, Lilith will be sweet-talking Eve into taking the fatal
bite. She will attack us below the surface, in that part of ourselves
we have long-since thought conquered. One moment we suddenly find
ourselves with break-downs, outbursts, causing harm to others, and
social and personal ruin. We have experienced the Fall from Grace.

This also applies on a social level, not simply within the mind of the
individual. When viewing the myth from the wider angle, we see where
Samael comes into play. What happens when the things that are natural
and beautiful are suddenly labeled as wrong? They then begin to
attract the dregs of society. Once there were Goddess Temples, and
Priestesses adept at Sex Magick. Now, we have prostitution,
strip-clubs, and brothels which are seed-beds of abuse, harmful drugs,
and disease. The people who frequent these places are usually dirty
and immature people with little to no social value. Individuality and
Self expression is now gang activity, and social outcasts. Children
who display this individuality spend their time in the principal's
office or the in the corner. They are labeled as bad kids, and so bad
kids they believe they are.

This is where the Rabbinical view of Lilith comes into play. The
sleazy clubs, the gangs, the criminal behavior are all very seductive
on the outside. The glamorous people are the Rebels who break laws and
harm people. Bonnie and Clyde, Billy the Kid, Al Capone—these are our
heroes. Yet, if we allow Lilith to seduce us with Her beauty, she will
finally show us the ugliness that lies under her dressing. That is,
when she rips into us with her Talons. The gangster is shot in a
drive-by, and thus ends his glory. The prostitute has her throat cut,
or dies of an overdose. And the man who frequents the brothel dies of
AIDS, or perhaps as a lonely old man because a real relationship was
ever beyond him.

This is the Marriage of Lilith to Samael. He is Lilith's Talons. He is
the hairy male lower half of her body. These things which are so
beautiful and natural actually BECOME dirty and harmful. This, in
turn, fuels the view that these things are harmful in and of
themselves. Society literally eats itself from the inside out—and this
is the Marriage of Lilith to God. As in the Qabalistic interpretation,
the flow of Divinity has been tainted; Samael/Lilith is in control,
and what is good has twisted into evil. Lilith should be our ally, and
yet we are pitted in combat against her. If Adam can not be forced to
accept his Lilith, then Lilith will destroy him. But, those in control
in society maintain that control through the suppression of Lilith—our
defiance and freewill—and they would sooner see us destroyed than to
lose that control.

And here enters yet another character in the Mythos: Cain. It is
little known that Cain was born—not of Adam and Eve—but of Eve and the
Serpent during the Temptation. Thus, Cain is actually the child of the
interaction between Eve and Lilith/Samael. The clashing of the
acceptable and non-acceptable. In short, Cain—full of hate, jealousy,
and anger which finally explodes into murder—is the very corrupt
society thus far described. His brother Abel, who was born of Adam and
Eve, is the world that we wish could exist. Abel is a hope that will
forever be slain by Cain.

Thank the Gods that it is not really quite as bad as all of that.
There are respectable brothels and strip-clubs. There are those who
display self-expression in childhood who, somehow through all of the
abuse, still grow up to become respected artists of all kinds. There
are those who understand the sacredness of sex. In short, there are
those few who have refused to allow Samael to be wed to Lilith.
Instead, they have invited Lilith to return to the Garden—promising
Her that She can play mistress just as much as he plays master. They
have attempted to join Lilith and Eve together, and to return them
both to their rightful place within Adam. They strive to become Adam
Kadmon—that Supernal Man(kind) who is greater even than the Angels.

Of course, few, if any, of us have attained that success. However,
perhaps there is hope. Perhaps there will even return a day when a
couple could make love on the street and no one bat an eye. Perhaps a
day when a person could be individual and even a little rebellious
without turning to crime to do so. Of course, no Utopia will ever
exist in full. However, just as the Medieval Qabalist strove to unite
God and His Shekinah, so too should we strive to unite Eve and Lilith,
and both of them with Adam within ourselves. Only then will we have
the power to rebuild the inner Temple, and aid the Shekinah's return
to Adonai. Only then does Abel have a chance at survival.

This is my view of Lilith. She is the Mother of the Night, and all the
dark beauty that lies within it. Lilith is the Hidden Mysteries which
society would rather I not know. Lilith is my Mother, and I am one of
Her demons—who wishes to take part in the dismantling of Adam's
misguided way of thinking and acting. I am Adam, and I have rejected
my foolish concepts of superiority over Lilith.

Lilith has Her dark side, of course. If I let Her rule over me, then
She would drain my vitality as the Succubus that She is. She would
rule me to the point of being little more than a thoughtless animal,
useless to myself or anyone else. Instead, I accept Lilith in
equality. Just as the Wiccan God is to the Goddess, I am both Her son
and Her lover.

[TempleUVUP Administrator]

This should have been a discussion in the group all to itself..lol

Thank you for sharing it.

[TempleUVUP Administrator]

We should get started on a Rite for the 24th of October Rev...as important as it is...get with me when you get the time and we'll go over it. :D

[Kher Heb Neferai]

This is from a work of fiction loosely based on the belief of the Cainite Origins of the Vampire. (c) 2007 House Dragomir
Kher Heb Neferai said:

(added from the Shrine of Lilith)

Book of Days-Times of Darkness

In the First Age, the gods were alone, adrift. And being lonely, they created All That Is.

And quickly, Lilyth grew weary of the pointless pursuits the gods of Light and left the Shining Throng to create Her own World of Night.

And the creation of Night was the dawn of the Second Age.
Intent on Her creation, She spawned a Race of beings that would feed on Darkness, revel in the Blood of Her nemeses- the Gods of Light and Laughter.

The High Priest of Her Childer was Caine. Marked as a condemned enemy of the light, Caine began a war that would take him to the Gates of Elysium itself.

The Dark Goddess Lilyth blessed Caine, offered him Her precious vitae of which the cosmos was made. Caine grew strong and powerful, his life enriched by the Blessings of Lilyth.

But Caine, in his arrogance, rejected all but the gift of longevity, spurning Her glorious gifts to his peril.
He rejected the power to transform into any beast, to become mist or smoke, he rejected the gift to bring ecstasy with his bite, so that his victims felt the pain of the bite and the loss of their humanity keenly. He rejected the chance to sit at the Dark Goddess's feet and be a part of a great clan. All this did he cast beneath his feet, choosing instead to make himself a god.
The Dark Mother was grieved that Her Chosen would behave thus and cast a curse upon him and all who would spawn from his bite. The Dark Mother mourned her lost and sank into torpor.

And so it is that the Dark Goddess sleeps.

[Founding Father J P ChrstVampyr]

But if it a belief of someone who is to say it is pure fiction? I got this from the lilith library which is not fiction but based in mythology

[alan higgins]

Evidence for Lilith being a goddess rather than a demon is lacking. Deutero-Isaiah dates to the 6th century BC, and the presence of Jews in Babylon would coincide with the attested references to the Līlītu in Babylonian demonology.

Rev. Ahram-Durga said:

(added from the Shrine of Lilith)


lilith, Something that caught my eye. Thought you might like to read

1. http://lilith.abroadplanet.com/Demoness.php

2. this is where I got this one. Tell me what you think. And yes a lot
too read LOL

http://www.lilitu.com/lilith/khephprint.html

LILITH
by Khephera

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Table of Contents

1. The Historical Origin of Lilith
2. Male and Female He Created Them...
3. The Mythos: Lilith's Defiance
4. The Folk Interpretation
5. The Religious Interpretation
6. The Qabalistic Interpretation
7. The Modern Interpretation: Feminism
8. The Lilith of Today

For some time now I have been meaning to write a commentary on the
figure of Lilith: Queen of the Night, Mother of Demons, First Wife of
Adam, and one of my own Patron Goddesses. I have found that, without
exception, modern authors leave much to be desired on this subject.
Either they concentrate totally on Her historical aspect, or they
focus on Her modern interpretation. What is worse, the latter type of
author tends to attempt to convince us that the modern interpretation
IS the same as the historical facts about the Demoness/Goddess. Along
with this, the modern interpretations are normally completely at odds
with the historical facts. This document is meant to rectify all of
the above.

I do not feel that any God or Goddess can be divorced from Their
mythos. As I have stated elsewhere, a Mythology is the Soul of the
God(s) it depicts. For instance, you and I both know that the Gods did
not build the city of Babylon with Their own hands. Yet, if one were
to call upon Great Marduk, He would have full memory of constructing
the city. Likewise, we know that Adam and Eve did not exist as the
"first humans." Yet, Lilith has full memory of Eden, the Fall, and
every other event depicted in Genesis and the various Hebraic Legends.
It is thus that Lilith, though She is not the vile and disgusting
ArchDemon envisioned by the early Judaic Peoples, is nevertheless
affected by these conceptions of Her. Her Dark aspects, even the
nastiest ones, are a part of Her, regardless of modern attempts to
"liberate" Her. Lilith was not originally a benevolent Goddess who was
raped by the Patriarchy.

However, I move slightly ahead of myself here. Therefore, I will begin
at the beginning:

THE HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF LILITH
The first myth I wish to dispel is that Lilith was originally found in
the ancient land of Sumeria. Her roots do certainly extend that far,
but Lilith Herself is not to be found among that massive pantheon of
Gods and Demons.

In Sumerian, the word "Lil" means "Air." Enlil, for instance, was the
Lord (En) of Air (Lil). The oldest known term relating to Lilith would
be the Sumerian word "Lili" (plural "Lilitu"), which seems to imply
the same definition as our word "spirit." In many ancient cultures,
the same word for "air" or "breath" would also be used for "spirit."
The very word "spiritus" is one such example. The Hebrew "ruach" is
another. Therefore, the Lilitu were either a specific type of demon,
or were simply "spirits" in general.

Normally, Lilith is thought to have been a Sumerian Succubus. And, in
fact, there was such a creature in Sumer-Babylonia who surely had it's
part in the Hebrew conception of Lilith. This being was known as the
"Ardat Lili." "Ardatu" was a term that described a young woman of
marrying age. Thus, the Ardat Lili was a young female spirit—the
Succubus—the demoness credited with "night-hag syndrome." Most of us
have experienced this once or twice—where the victim awakens to find
that he is being restrained and paralyzed by an unseen force (this is
a "chemical malfunction" of the body). She is also said to cause
erotic dreams, thus robbing the male of semen and spiritual vitality.
Of course, there is also a male version of this—the incubus—but I will
not be addressing this creature here.

It is also interesting to note that the Sumerian word for "wantonness"
was "Lulu." The word for "luxuriousness" was "Lalu." Also, the very
word for "evil" was "Limnu." This has an obvious relation to the word
Lili (and Ardat Lili specifically); not just in the similarity of
pronunciation and spelling, but also in the very definition of the
words. Keep in mind that these ancient languages did not possess the
specific definition of our modern words. A single word would indicate
any one of a number of related concepts.

This does not exhaust the etymology of Lilith. However, the word-play
does not continue until the Hebrew Captivity in Babylon (600 BCE), and
I do not wish to jump ahead just yet. Still concerning Sumer, there
are two instances that are generally seen as proof of Lilith's
existence there.

One is a mythos in which a female demon takes residence within the
Goddess Inanna's sacred Tree of Life—thus effectively stunting the
Tree's growth and production. This demoness is supposed to be Lilith
Herself, whom the hero Gilgamesh finally forces out of the Tree and
into the desert. However, it turns out that there is no basis for
assuming this creature is Lilith, or even an Ardat Lili. It was Kramer
who translated, as "Lilith," the word "ki-sikil-lil-la-ke." Where the
word for air is obviously present, there is no indication of a
Lilith—anymore than the presence of the word "ki" (Earth) indicates
the Earth Goddess Ki. Perhaps Kramer was concentrating on the two
syllables "lil-la."

The second instance is the famous plaque which depicts a woman with
owl talons and wings, standing upon two lions, with two owls flanking
her on either side. It was the above (mis)translation by Kramer that
was used to interpret this figure as Lilith. Of course, as the
demoness of the Tree is not Lilith, then surely the woman in the
sculpture is not either.

There is also a note that I wish to add here. In the Torah, there is
said to be one reference to Lilith—Isaiah XXXIV:14. The verse speaks
of a Screech Owl, and this is said to indicate Lilith by way of the
above-mentioned plaque. This instance is even used to argue that
Lilith's Name is derived from the Hebrew term for "to screech."
However, nothing could be farther from the truth in either case. Such
relations are accepted Qabalistic practices, but they cannot be used
in a scholarly/historic sense.

MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM...
Genesis I: 27 reads: "And Elohim created Adam in His Image, in the
Image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Genesis II:18 and 22 read: "And Yahweh said, 'It is not good for Adam
to be alone. I will make a fitting helper for him.'...And Yahweh
fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man into a woman; and He
brought her to the man."

Today, we know that Genesis I and II are simply two separate Creation
stories. Genesis II derives from a Sumerian story, while Genesis I is
a later creation of the Hebrew Priesthood (created by the Deuteronomic
School around 700 BCE). However, to a people who were quite determined
to take the Scriptures as ultimate Truth, such a contradiction was not
welcome at all. It demanded an explanation that reconciled both stories.

Explanation number one is perhaps the best—Qabalistically speaking. As
we know, Adam was created to perfection. He was created in the perfect
image of "Elohim." Of course, God is not seen as being either male or
female, but as both at once. Even the Name Elohim is a feminine word
(Eloah—Goddess) with a masculine plural suffix. Thus, if God is male
and female, the mother and the father, then Adam (which translates as
"Mankind") must also have originally been male and female in one. To
be otherwise would have been to be unbalanced, and thus imperfect.

And thus was Adam's perfection, said to be even greater than the
Angels. In fact, in this view, Adam was not a human at all—but a
Cosmic Being known as Adam Kadmon. He was the Archetype upon which
humans would later be based.

Now, enters the passages from Genesis II. Just as the Unity of God was
divided in two (the separation of the Waters by the Firmament) to
create the Universe, so to was mankind created by the separation of
the Archetypal Man into "its" two halves—male and female. Thus, woman
was separated from man, and Adam Kadmon became an unbalanced
creature—a human. This imperfection finally led to the Fall, the
manifestation of the Human Race from Archetypal to the Actual. The
woman was called Eve, which literally translates as "Life." Mankind
was given Life, and the rest is history.

Explanation number two, though just as Qabalistically useful in its
own right, is nevertheless vastly more fun—especially mythologically
speaking. This is where Lilith enters the picture as the first wife of
Adam. The verse from Genesis I was thus explained as a veiled hint to
the entire Lilith affair. Genesis II:20 even helps back this up: "And
the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and
to all the wild beasts; but for Adam no fitting helper was found." The
animals of the Earth had been created for the strict purpose of being
helpers to Adam, and Lilith was among them. But, Lilith had failed,
and no other beast came even close (apparently Lilith was the only
animal enough like Adam to be a candidate at all). The next seen in
the Scripture is where Yahweh breaks down and decides to chance
separating Adam into his two halves of male and female.

Without worrying over specific developments, I will simply relate the
entire tale as it came to be after all. Following is the story of Lilith:

THE MYTHOS: LILITH'S DEFIANCE
Now Lilith was the first wife of Adam, well before the creation of
Eve. She had been created along with him to be his helper, as the
Torah states "Male and Female He created them."

However, Lilith was not so suited as a companion for Adam. There was
little on which they could agree In his attempt to mate with Lilith,
Adam demanded missionary position. However, Lilith refused. "We were
created equal, and thus we shall make love in equal positions."

Adam replied that he, being the Image of the Elohim, would not stoop
to such a level as to be equal to Lilith, who was simply one of the
many beasts of the field She was created as his helper, and that is
how she would remain.

Lilith, however, was far more than Adam had imagined. She went
straight away to Yahweh, and used her prowess of seduction upon Him.
Yahweh, known for his soft heart toward women, was finally lulled into
revealing His sacred Name unto her. Thereupon Lilith pronounced the
Divine Name, and flew away from the Garden and Adam forever.

She took residence within a cave upon the shores of the Red Sea, where
to this day she finds Her shelter Within. She accepted the demons of
the world as her lovers, and spawned many thousands of demon children
in only a short time. It is thus that the world became populated with
demons, and how Lilith came to be called the Mother of Demons—wife of
Asmodeus, the King of Demons. In this aspect, she was called the
Younger Lilith.

Adam, meanwhile, found that he regretted wishing Lilith away. He went
to Yahweh and stated his case for the return of Lilith. Yahweh agreed
that a creature of Eden should not so easily depart that realm, and
dispatched three Enforcer Angels to retrieve her.

These three, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangeloph, soon found Lilith
within her cave, and demanded her return unto Adam by order of Yahweh.
If she refused, they informed her, they would slay one hundred of her
demon children each day until she decided to return.

Lilith exclaimed that even this fate was better than returning to Eden
and submission to Adam. As the Enforcers carried out their threat,
Lilith also made a terrible proclamation. In return for the pain
delivered upon her, she would slay the children of Adam. She swore to
attack children, and even their mothers, during child-birth. She also
swore that all newborns were in danger of her wrath—baby girls for
twenty days after birth, and boys for eight. Not only this, but she
vowed also to attack men in their sleep. She would steal their semen
to give birth to more demon children, which would replace those slain
each day.

However, even Lilith was not without feeling. She also made one other
promise: wherever she saw displayed the names of the three Angels who
opposed her, no one in that place would be in danger from her actions.

THE FOLK INTERPRETATION
On this we need spend little time. The Folk interpretation of this
myth is the most literal, and sees the myth as an actual event. In
this, Lilith is an actual demoness who is blamed for such things as
mothers dying in child-birth, still-birth, crib-death, and erotic
dreams among men.

The succubus aspect of Lilith is perhaps the most complicated. As we
know, the Judaic life was very strict, full of Divine Laws and
hundreds of ways in which a man might break them. Even an impure
thought was greatly unwanted, let alone impure actions. With sexual
release being such a taboo, it is no surprise that erotic dreams were
very common—and even more so were they feared. This was no case of
seeing a woman and being aroused. This was committing the full act, in
detail, and enjoying it the entire time! Add to this that it is not
uncommon to dream of women you know, other men's wives among them.
This, then, even became a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Not
to mention that the result of these dreams was to be cursed as one who
has "spilled his seed." Yet, this was something that could never be
avoided—and was thus going to be a continuing source of guilt. The
relief for this guilt was to blame it on a succubus, Lilith, rather
than yourself.

And what of the demon children that Lilith spawned with your seed?
Why, upon your death, these spirits would hover around your household,
demanding their rightful inheritance from your estate. This translated
into much havoc being wreaked for the family, and may have been used
to explain the hardships associated with death. There were even steps
a family would take to ensure the illegitimate demon-children were
banished from the house upon the husband's death. Of course, Lilith
was not the only possible mother for these children. Jewish Folk Tales
are full of men being tricked into marriages with beautiful
demonesses, Lilith simply being the greatest among them.

It was thus that we have many examples of talismans against Lilith.
The bowls are the earliest examples of this. Even more recent are the
talismans which bear the images of the three Angels and the Hebrew
phrase: "Senoy, and Sansenoy, and Semangeloph! Adam and Eve! Out
Lilith!" These would be hung over wedding beds as well as delivery
tables and cribs. In many cases the inscription was painted upon or
over the door to the place. All of this done as per the agreement
Lilith made with the Enforcer Angels.

THE RELIGIOUS INTERPRETATION
At this point I will include a Christian addition to the Lilith
Mythos. Though it may not figure into the Hebraic views of her, it
still relates. This addition concerns Lilith's involvement with the
Fall from Eden.

Perhaps the most famous version of this Christian Lilith is the
Sistine Chapel paintings by Michealangelo. In this She is shown as a
half-woman half-snake and is credited with being the very Serpent who
instigated the Fall from Eden itself. Apparently, Lilith was not
satisfied with her vows of revenge as they were, and decided to attack
Adam where he least expected it— through his new wife, Eve. Perhaps
even an amount of jealousy is involved here.

Of course, it was Satan who was said to have been the serpent in the
Christian viewpoint. And, indeed, Lilith is said to be the wife of
Satan (or, from the Hebrew angle, the wife of Samael). The Serpent was
a joint effort between these two to take revenge upon Adam and cause
them to Fall from grace. Lilith provided the body of the serpent,
while Samael was the voice. As the wife of Samael (rather than
Asmodeus), she is known as the Elder Lilith.

I have all ideas that this Serpent-Lilith was a result of the
Rabbinical view of Lilith—She who seduces men from the True Path of
God, thus causing them to fall from grace as Adam did.

Within the mythologies of King Solomon, we meet Lilith on a number of
occasions, usually known as the Queen of Sheba. Solomon had suspicions
that this queen was in fact Lilith, and thus devised a plan to know
for sure. After inviting her for a visit to his palace, he had the
floor altered so as to appear as a pool of ankle-deep water. When the
queen arrived, she lifted her skirts to walk through the pool, and
Solomon was able to just barely glimpse her overly-hairy legs.

This was the Rabbinical image of Lilith—a dark and beautiful
seductress from the waist up, yet hairy and ugly from the waist down.
In many cases, she is actually a male from the waste down. This, of
course, is the part of the body that would most be concealed from
view. Only one intimate with her would find out the horrible
truth—after it was too late.

Of course, this is a metaphor. Lilith represents that which appears
beautiful on the outside. She is sex, indulgence, and everything that
one desires to do which breaks the Laws of God. She is all of the
things in life which tempts and seduces the man off of the Path of
God, and into the ways of evil. Only after she has seduced the man,
and he is firmly within her grasp, does she reveal her true nature of
ugliness. In this, Lilith far predates the Christian concept of the
Pan-like Satan.

THE QABALISTIC INTERPRETATION
And here we find that the plot thickens. The Qabalists created yet
another chapter in the life of Lilith, which stems directly from the
above Religious ideas. As Lilith had come to represent those things
that God frowned upon, so too did she come to symbolize the ways of
the entire world at large. She was the ways of the Pagans, who did not
frown upon sex, indulgence, and fun, who lived around the Judaic
Peoples. She symbolized all those who would break the Torah, and she
was anyone who would attack the Israelites. Most of all, she was Babylon.

Before I continue, it is important to explain the principals involved.
Though these concepts developed well after the Second Temple had been
destroyed (in 70 AD), the Temple itself plays a large role in the
Mythos. Also involved are Adonai (The Lord), and His Bride the
Shekinah (Hebrew for "Presence").

This mythos is a development of earlier Pagan ideas, where the union
of the Male and Female aspects of the universe are seen as paramount
to the continued existence of all Creation. This was known as the
Sacred Marriage. In the middle Eastern cultures, a newly anointed King
was ritually married to the Goddess, and thus to the Kingdom itself.
Likewise, the Qabalists depicted Adonai as a King, and the Shekinah
was [the people of] Israel herself.

There was one single place where Adonai would join with the Shekinah,
one place holy enough to sustain the Divine Sex. That place was the
Temple of Solomon. Once in the year, the Couple had joined together
within it's walls, and the Divine Light of goodness shone throughout
the world.

However, the Temple had been destroyed, and its treasures carried into
foreign and Pagan lands. With it went the perfect union of Adonai and
His Kingdom. He withdrew from the world, refusing to meet the Shekinah
in an impure fashion. The Shekinah Herself was taken captive by the
foreign peoples and was there raped by them continuously. The Shekinah
is the physical plane, and therefore could not retreat from it. Her
rape was symbolic of mankind's rape of the world and the Israelite people.

And here, once again, enters Lilith. As before stated, Lilith
symbolized the very foreign people who held the Shekinah captive.
Lilith was their evil ways—and now those evil ways were in control.
How? Because Adonai could not be without a female partner. There could
be no God without—in some sense—Goddess. Thus, in an effort to sustain
a balance, Adonai took Lilith Herself as His consort. Being what She
was, Adonai felt no pity in uniting with Her in impurity. She was,
quite simply, His harlot.

Thus it was that one half of the Divine Force which sustained the
Universe was tainted—allowing the evil of mankind to be supreme and
unstoppable. Lilith was the Dark Shekinah—the polar opposite of that
Holy Goddess. She had made Her final jump from demoness to Goddess—the
Wife of God.

The Qabalist felt his duty was to strive to reunite the Shekinah with
Adonai, and thus cast Lilith away forever. The Sabbath was on example
of this. Because of the holiness of this day, Lilith had no power to
remain with Adonai, and was forced to retreat to the desert where She
screamed in pain until the day came to an end. It was during this time
that Adonai had the best chance of reuniting with the Shekinah—and the
Qabalist did all he could to help through purity and godly living.
This symbolism is even hinted at in the Christian Revelation, where
the Whore of Babylon is supplanted in power by the Bride, the wife of
the Lamb.

This was the final outcome of Lilith, and here you have Her mythos in
full: First wife of Adam, wife of Asmodeus, wife of Samael, the
Serpent of the Tree of Knowledge, and finally the wife of God. From
here, I will briefly explain the modern interpretation of Her, and you
will see why I disagree with most of it so strongly:

THE MODERN INTERPRETATION: FEMINISM
Today Lilith has been adopted by the Neo-Pagan community, most
specifically by those with a feminist angle. Their main focus is upon
Lilith's choice to fly from paradise, and even suffer the death of
hundreds of Her children, rather than live under submission to Adam.
She is female defiance and strength. Her resulting attack on men in
the night is the revenge of the woman on the men who have hurt her.

This, in and of itself, is great (and plays a large part in my own
interpretation). However, this is not all there is to it. This
interpretation totally ignores a large part of Her mythos—not the
least of which being Her attacks on mothers and babies. The groups
which put forth this view would also have us believe that Lilith was,
in fact, a Great Goddess within Sumeria. The "proof" of this is the
above mentioned plaque, and we have already seen how this is simply
not so. It is even said that Lilith was a maiden, in service to
Inanna, who stood without the Temples and invited men to enter and
partake of the Sacred Sex with the Priestesses. For this, not one
shred of archeological evidence has been offered of which I am aware.

Along with this, the myth in which Gilgamesh drives the demoness out
of the Tree of Life is said to be symbolic of the Patriarchal God
driving the Goddess away. This is, in my opinion, pure silliness.
Anyone who puts the smallest study into Sumeria will find that there
was hardly any feminine-bashing going on there. The exact same thing
can be said for the Babylonians who followed, and even the earliest
Hebrews themselves.

Unfortunately, there is a modern trend in which the "liberation" of
any evil feminine mythological character is attempted. According to
this view, there were no male Gods in the Ancient world to begin with.
And, there were absolutely no evil female characters in any mythology.
Once God-Worship had been invented by power-hungry war-mongers, that
is when all the myths were re-written to show how evil the Goddesses were.

Examples of this are the Babylonian Tiamat; who does seem to be a
version of the Sumerian Nammu; who indeed was a benevolent Mother
Goddess. Another example is the Egyptian Seth; who was also
primordially a benevolent Goddess (Seth literally translates as
"Lady"). These are convincing examples. However, I must also remind
the reader that there are also convincing examples of the existence of
Atlantis, and of Alien intervention in the creation of humans. Such
facts are taken from history, isolated, and held as proof of the
silliest concepts imaginable. In my opinion, it is comparable to
isolating Bible verses to prove correctness, and superiority, over others.

I want to make something clear here, however. I am not bashing
feminism here. I do not ignore the damage done to women over the
years—mostly thanks to the Deuteronomic School of the Hebrews, and the
Church of the Christians. I am not speaking against interpreting
Mythologies in new and different ways (as my own interpretation of the
Lilith Mythos will show). That is, after all, what Mythology is all
about. What I am speaking against here is shoddy scholarship. And,
more than this, the attempt to push off personal opinions,
half-truths, and even outright lies as actual history. I will
interpret Myth for the modern world, but I will A) acknowledge the
original interpretations, and B) make sure that my interpretation
takes the older ones into account. Again, I point out that a God and
its Mythology are inseparable. If I evoke Lilith, She is not just
going to conform to what I wish Her to be. Yes, She will be affected
by what I expect Her to be, and what my interpretation of Her is—but
this is simply a slight bending of the Current, not a redefinition of it.

And with this I move on to my final goal: an interpretation of Lilith
for the modern world. This is based not only on the scholarship above,
but also on my own experience of this seductive beauty. And now, let
us meet Lilith:

THE LILITH OF TODAY
Adam literally translates as "Mankind." He is all of us—male and
female, young and old. He is, basically, civilization. Adam is the
Image of the Divine; he, and all physical things, are the final result
of Divine Manifestation. On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, Adam is
Malkuth (Kingdom), the physical world. In Qabalistic psychology,
Malkuth refers to the conscious mind. Thus, Adam is our consciousness.
He is our egos, our waking selves. Adam is everything about us that
imposes "proper behavior" within society.

Lilith, created along with him, is the Shadow Self. She is our
subconscious, that part of us that is most animal like, defiant,
uncivilized, passionate, and basically natural. She is sex. She is
everything that our (screwed-up) society frowns upon; a society that
has been taught for thousands of years to suppress everything within
us that is most natural and enjoyable. She is just as described by the
Religious interpretation—she is Babylon.

Eve is also our subconscious. However, she is that small part of our
inner-selves that our conscious-selves have gotten full control over.
She has no free-will of her own—being wholly a part of Adam. She is
that part of ourselves that, as a civilized people, we will show to
others. Eve is what has been programmed into us as "acceptable." She
is the polar opposite of Lilith. She and Lilith together form the
whole of the inner self.

(Let me point out that this interpretation of Adam and Eve/Lilith as
the conscious and subconscious is a rather old one. The Lovers Card of
the Tarot uses this symbolism, with the addition of an Angel who
represents the Higher Self.)

Samael is the Archangel of Gevurah (Severity) upon the Tree of Life.
He is the embodiment of Divine Severity. He is the Prince of the
Seraphim—those Fiery Serpents who, at one point, Yahweh sent to punish
the Israelites (see the Exodus). Samael is hardship.

Lilith's demon spawn are our own personal demons. They are neurosis
and harmful criminal behavior. They are the imbalances in the mind
that can lead to our destruction.

And these are the characters of the Lilith Mythos. The above
interpretations of them must be held in mind at all times through the
following. If so, certain aspects of the Myth begin to make a certain
kind of modern sense.

For instance, Adam's insistence that he mate with Lilith in the
missionary position becomes the civilized mind's attempt to reign in
and suppress the animal within—to be superior to it. Lilith's flight
from Eden, and to the Cave, is the banishment of our natural animal
instincts to the dark recesses of our minds. Even when Adam wishes She
would come back, it is too late and the damage has been done.

What damage is this? Lilith spawned thousands of demon children. These
demons are born within the locked away and forgotten parts of our
minds. Even though we attempt, as the Angelic Enforcers, to hunt down
and slay as many of them as we can, the tide is too great to be
turned; we have suppressed that which can not be suppressed. Lilith,
in Her darkness, has grown the Owl Talons. By nature a beautiful
creature—as our natural selves are in fact beautiful—Lilith now has
the means and motive to rip us to tiny shreds. She attacks us while we
sleep; and with our semen—the facts of our very daily lives—she spawns
more and more demons. Before she is finished, she will slither her way
back into our minds—as the Serpent in the Garden. Our conscious selves
will not even see it coming; while we are occupied with our day to day
foolishness, Lilith will be sweet-talking Eve into taking the fatal
bite. She will attack us below the surface, in that part of ourselves
we have long-since thought conquered. One moment we suddenly find
ourselves with break-downs, outbursts, causing harm to others, and
social and personal ruin. We have experienced the Fall from Grace.

This also applies on a social level, not simply within the mind of the
individual. When viewing the myth from the wider angle, we see where
Samael comes into play. What happens when the things that are natural
and beautiful are suddenly labeled as wrong? They then begin to
attract the dregs of society. Once there were Goddess Temples, and
Priestesses adept at Sex Magick. Now, we have prostitution,
strip-clubs, and brothels which are seed-beds of abuse, harmful drugs,
and disease. The people who frequent these places are usually dirty
and immature people with little to no social value. Individuality and
Self expression is now gang activity, and social outcasts. Children
who display this individuality spend their time in the principal's
office or the in the corner. They are labeled as bad kids, and so bad
kids they believe they are.

This is where the Rabbinical view of Lilith comes into play. The
sleazy clubs, the gangs, the criminal behavior are all very seductive
on the outside. The glamorous people are the Rebels who break laws and
harm people. Bonnie and Clyde, Billy the Kid, Al Capone—these are our
heroes. Yet, if we allow Lilith to seduce us with Her beauty, she will
finally show us the ugliness that lies under her dressing. That is,
when she rips into us with her Talons. The gangster is shot in a
drive-by, and thus ends his glory. The prostitute has her throat cut,
or dies of an overdose. And the man who frequents the brothel dies of
AIDS, or perhaps as a lonely old man because a real relationship was
ever beyond him.

This is the Marriage of Lilith to Samael. He is Lilith's Talons. He is
the hairy male lower half of her body. These things which are so
beautiful and natural actually BECOME dirty and harmful. This, in
turn, fuels the view that these things are harmful in and of
themselves. Society literally eats itself from the inside out—and this
is the Marriage of Lilith to God. As in the Qabalistic interpretation,
the flow of Divinity has been tainted; Samael/Lilith is in control,
and what is good has twisted into evil. Lilith should be our ally, and
yet we are pitted in combat against her. If Adam can not be forced to
accept his Lilith, then Lilith will destroy him. But, those in control
in society maintain that control through the suppression of Lilith—our
defiance and freewill—and they would sooner see us destroyed than to
lose that control.

And here enters yet another character in the Mythos: Cain. It is
little known that Cain was born—not of Adam and Eve—but of Eve and the
Serpent during the Temptation. Thus, Cain is actually the child of the
interaction between Eve and Lilith/Samael. The clashing of the
acceptable and non-acceptable. In short, Cain—full of hate, jealousy,
and anger which finally explodes into murder—is the very corrupt
society thus far described. His brother Abel, who was born of Adam and
Eve, is the world that we wish could exist. Abel is a hope that will
forever be slain by Cain.

Thank the Gods that it is not really quite as bad as all of that.
There are respectable brothels and strip-clubs. There are those who
display self-expression in childhood who, somehow through all of the
abuse, still grow up to become respected artists of all kinds. There
are those who understand the sacredness of sex. In short, there are
those few who have refused to allow Samael to be wed to Lilith.
Instead, they have invited Lilith to return to the Garden—promising
Her that She can play mistress just as much as he plays master. They
have attempted to join Lilith and Eve together, and to return them
both to their rightful place within Adam. They strive to become Adam
Kadmon—that Supernal Man(kind) who is greater even than the Angels.

Of course, few, if any, of us have attained that success. However,
perhaps there is hope. Perhaps there will even return a day when a
couple could make love on the street and no one bat an eye. Perhaps a
day when a person could be individual and even a little rebellious
without turning to crime to do so. Of course, no Utopia will ever
exist in full. However, just as the Medieval Qabalist strove to unite
God and His Shekinah, so too should we strive to unite Eve and Lilith,
and both of them with Adam within ourselves. Only then will we have
the power to rebuild the inner Temple, and aid the Shekinah's return
to Adonai. Only then does Abel have a chance at survival.

This is my view of Lilith. She is the Mother of the Night, and all the
dark beauty that lies within it. Lilith is the Hidden Mysteries which
society would rather I not know. Lilith is my Mother, and I am one of
Her demons—who wishes to take part in the dismantling of Adam's
misguided way of thinking and acting. I am Adam, and I have rejected
my foolish concepts of superiority over Lilith.

Lilith has Her dark side, of course. If I let Her rule over me, then
She would drain my vitality as the Succubus that She is. She would
rule me to the point of being little more than a thoughtless animal,
useless to myself or anyone else. Instead, I accept Lilith in
equality. Just as the Wiccan God is to the Goddess, I am both Her son
and Her lover.

[Founding Father J P ChrstVampyr]

I do not believe there is a difference between demon, angel, god, goddesses really. It is just certain religions and people trying to belittle someone and take away there power.

[ARCHANGEL AURORA]

I READ ALL THE STORIES OF LILITH , ALL OF THEM ARE SO TRUE, DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY PEOPLE THINK OF HER SO ONE SIDED AND NOT A COMPLETE PERSON? WHY SHE IS JUST A EVIL DEMON, NOT A FAIRY OR A ANGEL, OR SOMEONE WHO LOVES PEOPLE. NO ONE IS SO ONE SIDED, AND ITS VERY FUNNY TO ME. ITS LIKE SAYING I AM JUST WHITE, WHEN I AM DARK AND I AM ROSE GOLD..LAUGHS

ARCHANGEL GABRIELLA

[Founding Father J P ChrstVampyr]

She has been type caste as evil by a society that see's things in only one light. They don't even see shades of grey; its all just black and white. I DO NOT believe in absolute good or evil and I know why Lucifer and Lilith are given a bad light when they are NOT bad at all just fucked over...

[Queen PR]

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