Gamaliel (Qliphoth)

Gamaliel is the Qliphoth associated with the Sephirah Yesod on the kabbalistic Tree of Life. It translates as 'The Obscene Ones', and the demons associated with it are described as corrupting, loathesome bull-men, linked together.

The Qliphoth are the unbalanced force of a particular Sephirah. Yesod is the Sephirah that collects all the energy from the Sephiroth above it, stores these archetypal ideas in the unconscious, and expresses them in their correct time. It is associated with the sexual organs, and unconscious sexual desire. It can be seen that without the correct expression of the images stored in Yesod, either through physical expression in Malkuth, or by transcending them in Tiphereth, an unhealthy sexual repression exists. It is believe that priests who choose to become celibate end up molesting children do this because they did not know how to correctly channel and balance the energy in Yesod. The unconscious imagery in Yesod therefore becomes more and more perverse, eventually becoming Gamaliel, the obscene.