Teaser
Warning: This famous book claims to know the dark feminine, but it actually traps Lilith inside a rigid patriarchal lens.
Seeing the growing female anger in these new times makes itself known, so I’d better get to know Lilith some more. An energetic logical deduction – or so I thought. After all, it looks like we’re going to need her if she’s showing up all around us, ánd on all social media platforms. Such outbursts are never random, and at this moment in time, women are collectively starting to reject men.
I was intrigued to find that Jung’s former dentist, and close friend, Siegmund Hurwitz, wrote a book about her, but to my own surprise, these were my astonishing findings!
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1 STARS Impact – To be totally honest with you: the book irritated me. Not because of what it has, but because of what it lacks.
3 STARS Educational – I’m struggling to see where or how its content is applicable, but the author is one of the few who have translated original Aramaic and Hebrew texts. For that fact alone, he is entitled to be in this Light Library.
1 STARS Expectations – It delivered what the title says. It’s a study of Lilith. But it lacks matriarchal or cosmic eyes to see beyond, or so I found. The universal perspective wasn’t quite right, if even it was there at all.
1 STARS Read/Listen Ease – The opus dense language, without making a point, prohibits a reader from loving the content, which is rather extensive, historical, and academic in nature.
1 STARS Read/Listen Pleasure – Not that inspiring. I even had trouble finishing this book, but I longed to prove myself wrong, so I persevered. I did miss Lilith’s holy fire and couldn’t care for the author’s tearing down of peers, which Hurwitz often does. Almost randomly so.
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In this specific case, I consider the work a dissertation on patriarchal Zeitgeists, which now serves more as a catalyst instrument. Meaning: it has huge value for mapping Lilith, but I would personally change so much of the ascribed meaning. Nevertheless, catalytic books remind us collectively of how societies’ values change. This one is heavily influenced by the lens of the Abrahamic religions and their covert control mechanisms, which, of course, suits Lilith’s subject perfectly.
I invite you, nevertheless, to make up your own mind and use the free will ideology that lies at the basis of this blog as well as the Lilith archetype, for your own course of thought.
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Storytime
Look around you today, and you will agree with me that what we mostly see is that the collective landscape between the sexes has reached a boiling point. We are living through a massive, volatile rupture—a silent war where the old scripts are shattered, yet no one knows how to write the new ones. You see it playing out in the everyday arena of modern dating: the “Nice Guy“phenomenon, which has soured into something deeply unsettling. Men wear a mask of kindness and protection, but the very moment they face rejection—imagined or real—the mask slips. They instantly pivot to venomous verbal disdain, throwing out defensive snares like “I didn’t like you anyway”, “I was just testing you”, “You’re too arrogant anyway”, or they’ll just ghost the feminine hunger for deep connection. It is a defense mechanism as old as time: acting superior because, deep down, they feel profoundly inferior. When they cannot get what they want from women, they lash out with an anger that carries a strange, ironic flair which mirrors the chaotic, destructive way women sometimes express anger, but actually expresses their internal pain and deprivation of both sexes.
Not only is the nice guy a concern and irritation in dating, but it is also a dark, systemic societal crisis, because there is more. Years after the Me Too movement promised to heal the fractures between the sexes, we are met with a horrifying digital reality: a website detailing instructions on how to rape your wife, pulling in 62,000 views in a single month. The defensive phrase “not all men” holds absolutely zero value to the women who are actively living through this terror. It feels as though men are collectively in denial.
And the response from women across the globe? A mass migration toward the dark, unyielding energy of Lilith. We are witnessing a collective turning away from a distorted masculinity because, quite frankly, women feel they don’t have another choice until men begin educating their sons and brothers about natural respect. As Germaine Greer so devastatingly penned in The Female Eunuch, “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.” Is she right?
Women of all ages and backgrounds are declaring holy war on men. We reject you, they say. We are equal, they say. We prefer our pets and our peace, they say. And still, still men don’t listen. Still, their lightbulb doesn’t turn on.
Seeing this storm of gender dissatisfaction exploding all around me, I realized that I didn’t know enough about the deeper cosmic blueprints driving this rage. I was already intimately familiar with Lilith’s archetypal shadow projection through my past as a formal Wiccan priestess, and through modern-day astrology, which has always given me profound insight into our human nature and cosmic connections. Yet, I felt at a loss for her true, macro-collective meaning. I considered it a soul invitation. So, I decided to seek out a master – by which I mean an author who has devoted years to studying a specific subject, so I could immerse myself in Lilith’s energy for a few days and truly understand what her tale is trying to teach us in our particular circumstances right now.
That quest led me straight to Lilith – The First Eve by Siegmund Hurwitz. I listened along on Audible and followed the text on Kindle, waiting for the skies to open. Instead, I ran headfirst into a rigid, impenetrable wall of academic text.
I pushed through 260 pages of heavy Aramaic/Hebrew translations, getting more annoyed by the second because they buried her chaos under a tsunami of high-end words.
Hurwitz did the heavy lifting; he went back to the primary sources, dissecting the ancient Aramaic and Hebrew texts of research. He sets up a magnificent historical stage, parading a dense, archetypal saga of dark goddess lineages—from the Sumerian demons to Kali, Inanna, Ishtar, Freya, and the Kabbalistic Shekhinah. It is incredibly interesting from a historical perspective. But as I read, I realized there were absolutely no aha moments. It was worse than reading a university dissertation.
Hurwitz drowned the living goddess under a defensive tsunami of high-end, over-constructed academic words that carefully avoid offering a real, raw opinion. Why? Because he was looking through a heavily clouded, rigid, Judeo-Christian Jungian lens. To him and his mentor Carl Jung, Lilith isn’t a living cosmic law; she is just a static psychological shadow projection inside a man’s mind—a dangerous, chaotic malfunction of the anima that a man must analyze, contain, and manage into submission.
The tragic irony is that Hurwitz was on the right track, but because he feared the holy anger of the wild feminine so deeply, he failed to take his conclusions all the way. He wrote an entire book about a sovereign force while completely blind to her energetic cosmic translation.
Because the truth is, Jung and his disciples, although they have put their stamp on our current psychological model, are history. Our Lilith is alive. While she’s of all eras, this Jungian adept tried to put her in a neat psychological box, but she refuses to be tamed by dead theories. Religious scholar Kocku von Stuckrad formally challenged this rigid Jungian tradition for treating femininity as an inherently deficient or dangerous counterpart to the masculine.
A far more accurate assessment of our Lilith’s true nature comes from Jameela Jamil, who famously cut through the academic noise by stating: “If women were naturally submissive, they would’ve fucking submitted by now.” This raises the question: Is the Jungian model still relevant for translating energies that surpass societal containers? And is tracking and witnessing ourselves and our reactions to influences and intanglements not more worthy as keys to decipher what’s going on right now? And from these convoluted findings, reach for the integrative model so we can move on from this impediment?
To understand why this book feels so dead, we have to look at the mechanics of the energetic spectrum. We all carry this Lilith frequency inside of us, men and women alike. When a woman’s heart is prohibited from safely opening or receiving because the masculine directive around her has turned cold, dominating, or untrustworthy, her natural flowing energy gets driven away from the heart center—the Green Ray. It descends sharply down into the primal, survival centers of the Orange and Red Rays. Out of pure willpower, her unfulfilled heart’s desire projects a defensive shield to conceal her deep hurt.
This is where the fascinating psychological mirroring begins. When we fight the other sex from a place of deep wounding, we unconsciously swing the pendulum to the absolute opposite side of the spectrum and mirror the very traits we despise. The woman, retreating behind a hard armor of logic, cold distance, and calculated sharpness, begins to embody a distorted, weaponized Animus—she takes on the ruthless, unyielding patriarchal energy that wounded her in the first place, losing faith in the beauty of connection. Meanwhile, the man who refuses to grow up or face his emotional deficits experiences a collapse of his healthy masculine backbone. Terrified of the emotional chaos a true heart-opening will bring to his doorstep, he lets his anima become distorted. He plays the pleasing good boy until he is rejected. Then his repressed feminine energy snaps into a passive-aggressive tantrum—hurting women with indirect, venomous barbs because he is too weak to hold his own vulnerability. The loneliness perpetuates, and both sexes stay trapped in an exhausting cycle of anti-energy and power dynamics.
So, how do we break the mold and actually step out of this pitfall? How do we stop this endless, destructive fight?
We have to stop running from her chaos and learn to view our inner Lilith as a profound aid—a helper. Lilith is not a demon; she is your psychological fire alarm, AI would say. She only shows her terrifying face when there is a massive imbalance in our lives. She doesn’t scream to destroy you; she screams because a hard boundary has been violated, our heart has been closed, or we are living a lie to maintain a toxic status quo.
In real, everyday life, integrating Lilith requires the radical courage of honesty from both sides:
For women, it means listening to that hot, urgent surge of anger in your throat the exact moment it happens. It means unapologetic claiming our wild sexual nature, but not as Hurwitz translates this so often in this book, as a distortion that mimics masculine nature. Thoroughly: when men wouldn’t judge the female sexuality so often as dangerous, they would have a chance to enjoy our intimate storms of ecstasy. Instead, we’re dealing all over the globe with a purity and virginity image of female sexuality that even women themselves have adopted and accepted. God only knows why, because if men would think less of the dicks of men and the number of men that a woman has known, we could celebrate and invite them more. It seems an overly obsessive insecurity that men have enforced upon females. Sometimes this even hints at a hidden homosexuality that the porn industry has installed in the empty minds of the male vessel. I mean, every man who looks at porn is infected with this phenomenon. And with the tantric industry, things are no better. Men fear and love to watch women have sex with other men. Do we even realize enough what this does to the brain’s training pathways? At least the BDSM community has recognized this and given it the perfect term: cockholding. (nakijken Tini)
Furthermore, it urges us to take a hard look at the condemnation of adult female sexuality, in favor of the glorification of young virginity and its pedophilia connotation.
Only when males take on these subjects can we, let’s be fair, ask women to take down their inner Lilith.
But at this moment, feeling Lilith’s rise means refusing to stay quiet just to keep a fake, pleasing peace. Before this pressure builds any further into a toxic storm of resentment that lashes out later, we must sit with Lilith. Ask her: What truth am I refusing to speak right now? Where did I let someone cross my line? Use her raw fire to draw a clean, unapologetic boundary in the sand with absolute self-love and zero apologies to the common patriarchy we all uphold together.
Lilith asks for new times, a new era, another realm to move into. She’s bidding our integration on all fronts. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be this visible. Energetic logic, no?!
For men, it means building the spiritual muscle to sit in the burning fire of rejection without turning their pain into a weapon of control. The next time a woman says “no,” and that ugly, venomous urge rises to pull her down or claim you were “just testing her,” stop. Breathe into that terrifying weakness. Lilith is showing you exactly where you are acting like a wounded control freak instead of a sovereign man. Acknowledge the sting, hold your own emotional deficit, and refuse to lash out. Stop being a mam’s boy. Give the example and become a fierce feminist!
For women, it means: when you’re not received by your big heart that longs, needs to feel everything, and craves giving love, don’t you go into taking mode! Resist modeling your fellow men’s behavior, because it will cost you your soul. Be wild, be seen, bling as much as you like, and do not shy away from your big emotions. You are the creating and procreating being who passes down even the mitochondrial lines. Stop playing small, because you are not that. Refuse the pick-me game, and start choosing consciously, so you can trust yourself.
When both sexes stop fearing the wildness of creation energy, the weapons drop. We stop using manipulation, we stop demanding submission, and we finally allow Lilith’s raw, abundant power to climb back up the spectrum to meet an open, fearless heart. Only then do we break the cycle of loneliness, which has taken on epidemic form. Only then do we clear the path for the true Hieros Gamos – the ultimate, carnal, lush celebration of life where we are both fiercely, wildly free, and deeply, safely connected.
There. I’ve said it.
And this – all I have mentioned here above – is exactly what I missed in the psychological profile Siegmund Hurwitz sketches for us.
As far as I know, there is NOTHING wrong with wildfire passion, for it is the zest of life itself.
This book made the Living Library of Spiri-Grails, but only as a catalyst. It has value, just not that one I was looking for. I bid the historian among you to put on fiery matriarchal lenses when diving into the pages; otherwise, knowledge without wisdom will hit you stiff.
About
Oh, you want the juicy Zurich salon drama? Pull up a chair, we’re diving into the Zeitgeist of yesteryear, the Judeo-Christian-Logos-mindset. In that era, to be taken seriously by the scientific patriarchy, they had to hide behind intense academic intellectualism, in which they substituted mental parsing—etymology, grammar, historical timelines—for the living, energetic translation—a tsunami of high-end words used to mask a lack of genuine opinion.
Honoring Lilith is calling this out!
When you look closely at Siegmund Hurwitz and his wife, Leni, you find yourself right in the middle of a highly intellectual, mentally incestuous, and fiercely protective 1950s Swiss psychological soap opera.
Siegmund wasn’t just drilling Carl Jung’s teeth; he and his wife, Leni Hurwitz, were a literal power couple inside Jung’s inner sanctum. While Siegmund was advising Jung on Jewish mysticism, Leni was busy working as one of the original editors of Jung’s Collected Works.
Imagine the dinner parties! The Hurwitzes were so deeply embedded in Jung’s life that they couldn’t separate their clinical work from their social lives. Leni was literally curating and polishing the master’s voice, while Siegmund was examining the master’s molars and translating ancient texts for him. They were cheerleaders for the brand.
The Ultimate Throuple of Teachers
Siegmund didn’t just have one teacher; his training was a complex web managed by the three formidable pillars of the Zurich school: Carl Jung, Toni Wolff, and Marie-Louise von Franz.
As gossip goes, Toni Wolff was famously Jung’s long-time mistress and official second wife, while Marie-Louise von Franz was his brilliant, fiercely loyal, and fiercely protective younger disciple. Hurwitz was analyzed and trained by both women. He was entirely surrounded by the very specific, highly intense feminine energy swirling around Jung, and his response was to emulate their academic swirl.
While Hurwitz was a total Jung fanboy, he did have one major moment of high-society drama. There was a time when the elitist Analytical Psychology Club of Zurich implemented a strict, controversial quota system to limit the number of Jewish members. Rightfully so, furious at the blatant discrimination, Siegmund flatly refused to join the club. The drama got so heated that Jung himself had to step in and insist that the club abolish the quota entirely just to keep the peace in his inner circle.
Concerning his midlife career hustle: Hurwitz spent decades living a double life that must have been exhausting for his family. He ran a full-time dental practice in Zurich, but instead of relaxing in the evenings, he spent his nights conducting intensive psychological analysis sessions and translating dense Aramaic texts. He didn’t actually retire from dentistry to write full-time until he was much older. His obsession with Lilith took him 30 long years to complete—meaning his wife and family lived with this fixation on the dangerous dark feminine archetype for three decades!
Siegmund and Leni Hurwitz did not have any children, which only deepens the question of this vacuum. This legendary man, with his strange life, put all his parental energy into Carl Jung’s legacy, answering the Lilith call, his strangler of babies, while he and his pristine wife Leni lived a quiet lifestyle in the Zurich intellectual jetset, spending their nights editing text and categorizing the features of the terrifying devouring mother.
I honestly don’t know what to make of that without sounding unkind.
But maybe you can, and tell me what I missed and overlooked.
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1 STARS Impact – This work didn’t change how I think, feel, or act; if anything, it urged me further towards my original feeling about this Lilith archetypal energy. Being that patriarchal indoctrinated men are scared of renewal and of chaotic energy. And maybe, they should be. I was also slightly surprised to sense how oppressed sexual comprehension feels as this was running throughout the 262 pages. To be totally honest with you, Luv’s, it made me feel a bit down, so I can’t rate it high on Light energy. After all, this is why I created this Spiri-Grail series, for their innate uplifting and activation of remembrance in our bodies.
3 STARS Educational – If there are any traditional academics among my seeker audience, I’m sure they would appreciate the time and effort put into this legacy writing, as it is a legendary piece when viewed from an academic and classical psychological perspective. Hurwitz went from the Zohar to Saturn for his research. If only he had had another lens to see through (matriarchical?), maybe I would have been able to put a higher rating here. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t know what to do with all of his findings, for I thought we had already evolved from the days of just anima and animus. My 3-star rating stands tall because he drew from the original Aramaic and Hebrew texts – who else can do that? But again, the same remark: his lens is off course, so I take his exact clarifications of the connotations with more than a teaspoon of salt.
1 STARS Expectations – Gosh, maybe it’s me. Maybe it’s my own cosmic mystical lens that needs wiping. But what I didn’t expect from an energy cloud as rich as Lilith was that she was reduced to mere melancholic fear and sexual fascination. Because, as a reviewer, where do I have to put down the real value of this work, if we can’t do anything with it in our reality? Next time I review a goddess of this caliber, I’ll make sure that the book entails more than a summary of connections. Although that is definitely on me: the title was a give-away in this case.
1 STARS Read/Listen Ease – Reading this book requires dedication and an extremely curious mind. It’s a good thing that the author starts with the historical and religious content and afterward sections off the psychological content, because if it were the other way around, I would have given up on reading. Also, because it is so dense and distilled from so many sources, one could say it’s structured as well as can be. Nevertheless, it comes in as chaotic.
1 STARS Read/Listen Pleasure – This wasn’t a pleasurable read. It was interesting, though. The same line men use when engaging with a female date they don’t particularly like but don’t want to insult, when she asks if they want to meet up again. I had to stretch myself and do some energy work afterward. Something pleasant and more lively. The tone of the content – a virtual voice – matched, ironically, the actual content of this listen/read.
Bring It Home
(Some prose)
I’ve seen Litlith. These days, all around.
I know her. Intimately.
Lilith is holy anger. Lilith is sensual, lusty innocence. Lilith is worthiness and brightness that wants to be seen. She’s the woman who neither performs nor bows down. She symbolizes equality, and if you don’t give it, she’ll take it in her own souverieng right of archetypal existence. She’s the Crone and the Lolita, and she will kill what she loves if it’s not good for the greater good, even in and of herself.
I’ve been Lilith.
No surrender, she screams. Why should she? There’s no need to surrender in worthiness – think about it.
Lilith is as old as the night, and dense as the salt on the skin of your lover, right as he (or she) came. She is the energy right before the release, right before the change, the intensity of the male focus in and of a woman, and the unhealed woman, the girly or the sqeamish mother in a man’s energy.
I think we need Lilith to crossover to the new times, for she guides the disdain. Whenever we see her, popping up in ourselves, in our sisters and brothers, we know: a holy war is announcing its coming, and after that, there will be rest. And after rest, there will be the season of integration. After the integration – yes – the new era can put its head above ground.
That time is now.
You feel it too. Women don’t reach for drama this time. No pain release as in MeToo. This time, they present men with the reckoning of accountability.
After reading this book, I know it was wasted on me. I feel I know Lilith better than the author. But you can prove me wrong if I’m too bold now. I’m fine with saying ‘sorry’ and making it right. You see, I’m here to learn and know few women who are not accountable for their actions and statements.
I wish I could salute you, Siegmund Hurwitz. You used 260 pages of heavy academic words just to map our Girls’ trail.
So, instead, I thank you for this extensive reference work.
You made it ever so clear why we need to build a matriarchal, horizontal-structured society.
This is my decree.
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