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- Servitor Creation - A Contemporary Approach
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- by Fra.: Negentrophy
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- Having used the following methods to great success, I must still
- emphazise my approach as being a mere guideline with plenty of room
- left for personal interpretation and experimentation.
- Historically the magician has called upon the services of entities
- of his own manufacture in order to render services ranging from the
- benevolent to the malefic. It would seem the approaches to their
- creation have varied as widely as their specific purpose. I offer
- the following as a personal approach to their manufacture.
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- To begin, I have found it useful to incorporate what I call a
- skeletal sigil as the first step in the construction. This is
- basically a pictorial sigil, ala Austin Spare (or so it is claimed),
- that serves as the servitors will. (Note: it has been suggested to
- me that bind-runes could also be used for this application, for
- those who work within that system, this may be worth investigating.)
- It must be kept in mind that all things that coincide with its
- "will" will be pursued and all other ignored. Consider also that
- having a servitor to "do my bidding" "bring me luck" etc. suffers
- the same problems as sigils with similar nebulous directives.
- Servitors given the initial will that incorporates very specific
- directives and goals seem to work much better. Moreover, creating a
- complex series of skeletal sigils and instilling "life-force" in the
- servitor to such a degree as to give it great sentience makes it
- particularly difficult to reabsorb later. Having had problems with
- relatively stupid entities, I have not yet the fortitude (or lack of
- sense) to create an extremely "smart" creature. Incorporating a
- single "will" sigil should be sufficient to the task at hand and is
- recommended to the beginner.
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- Once you have created this skeletal sigil, it is time to flesh it.
- Without being conscious of its original intent, stare at the sigil
- in as deep a trance as possible. Go to the hum. Make your space-time
- become cave-like and moist. Look at the sigil, let it move, give it
- form, give it what it needs to live, etc. You are trying to get to a
- point where you can completely visualize this beast of your own
- creation, so you can empower it. Let your imagination run wild as
- the sigil pulses with form and purpose. Remember, you must become
- intimately familiar with its form, so let it stabilize before you
- continue on with something else. You will know when you are finished
- with this part when you can recall, smell, feel the thing in its
- entirety from all perspectives without permutations. You will be
- surprised with what you end up with.
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- Now we empower the critter. With the servitor completely visualized,
- in a place conductive to this phase, allow your consciousness to
- engulf it. A good thing to practice is listening to and feeling your
- own automatic functions. How do they feel to you? What does the
- energy feel like that animates your being? What does "the breath of
- life" feel, taste, sound like? Another good exercise, so I have been
- told, is to find some roadkill, and after poopooing the
- inconsiderate driver, take it into a room WHERE YOU WILL NOT BE
- DISTURBED and sit with it for about a week. Stare at it, allow your
- consciousness to encompass it, get to a point where you can feel the
- maggots crawling around inside. Get to the point when you can feel
- the new life in it, growing, eating and reproducing. Feel the
- distinction between perceiver and perceived diminish. You will feel
- the entire process of decomposition. These kind of exercise prove
- very useful at this stage because you will want to instill and
- "become" aware of these processes of life within your servitor to a
- very acute degree and "nourish" it with these animating principles.
- Again, know the energy that you will be using to animate it. I
- recommend an Orphidian method of empowerment. As with visualisation,
- you will want to continue this nurturing phase until all of the life
- systems are stable. No fluctuation allowed. This may take a
- considerable amount of time, patience and energy. After
- stabilization, you may find it a good time for naming.
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- Following the empowerment phase (and whenever the entities services
- are needed) it is advisable to incorporate rituals specific to the
- instruction of the servitor. Make sure your specific task coincides
- with its prime directive. (Don`t have an entity with a martial aire
- go looking solely for money, you may have to fight for it!) For
- example, if an entity called, "Braga", had as its prime directive
- "to find a new sex partner" (as articulated in the skeletal sigil)
- one would call it up in a ritual and instruct it to "make your aid
- available at the party tonight". This "instructional" phase is what
- you will resort to when specific tasks are required of the
- psychodenizen. I personally prefer simple pathworkings after a
- meditative period in which I "sync-up" with the creature, although
- Enochian calls may be prefered by some and simple English commands
- by others. I must emphasize the importance of applying scientific
- method to one`s own intuitive faculties.
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- At this point, what you choose to do specifically will depend
- entirely on the entities` task.
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- Finally, you will get to a point when you will want to absorb the
- creature. Speaking from a painful experience, the entities do not
- want to be absorbed. This is natural considering the amount of work
- that went into their manufacture. To illustrate, a while back, when
- we had just started such work of which the first part was the
- absorbation of previously created entities. All I`ll say is by the
- time we ended that night that I ended up with 13 stitches in my head
- (blood everywhere) and a bad haircut.
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- I have found it advisable to take the initial sigil in hand,
- repeating the will sentence outloud over and over again, while
- understanding that what was an independently created and fleshed
- desire, was yours all along. Its power was your power. Visualize it
- dissolving into a pure-energy state which you draw back into
- yourself. All this should take place in an suitable atmosphere where
- you can make it as intense and effective as possible. It is crucial
- to make sure you have all your bases covered.
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- The possibilities are many, and may I suggest that you temper an
- experimental fervor with caution.
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