Thagirion, the disputers, is the Qliphoth corresponding to the Sephirot Tipheret in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
Description
The Zomiel are described as great black giants that are always working against each other.
Nature
Tiphereth is the sephirah of harmony, and the balance of different forces, which in particular balances the giving powers of Chesed, Loving kindness, with the Restaining power of Geburah, Restaint. Implicit in the idea of balancing and synthesis is also the idea of stress and strain, and the swinging backwards and forth between the different forces. Chesed and Geburah often work against each other, and the pendulum must be allowed to swing between them. If the pendulum is forced to stay still, in the middle, due to an excess of Tiphereth, then undue stress and pain is felt, as these forces are not given room to breathe. Therefore Tiphereth, beauty, becomes Thagirion, the disputers.
Thagirion plays a role similar though inverse to that of Tiphereth in the Tree of Life, in stopping the different forces from falling apart from each other, and maintaining the shape of the tree, although in the case of Thagirion, it maintains and sustains the ugly and evil forces together.
Another important role of Tiphereth is that of Saviour, and in Christian kabbalah it is through Tiphareth, the Son, that the father is known. Thagirion could be said to be the negative aspect of this dogma, the harsher doctrines that condemn all who dare defy their particular brand of beauty to everlasting hell and fire.
"Tiphereth is the place of great beauty and rejoicing. The Thagirion build ugliness and groan about it. The cortex of the Thagirion is called Zomiel, 'The Revolt of God'."
To Thagirion, "the replacement of Tiphereth, the sphere of the vitalizing Sun, with a place holding Belphegor, the lord of dead bodies, is most striking."
Correspondence
- Belphegor: Lord of the Deadd
Source
Notes on the Demonic Orders (Adverse Sephiroth) in Magical Correspondences by Bill Heidrick.