Servitors Options

I have looked through this site and for some reason the only servitor creation topics have the process half the way done, they already have what they want it to do, what the sigil is, blah, blah, blah. What I would like to know is as follows.

1. HOw much expierience in the magickal world must you have to create one. Do you need to be really expierenced or can you do it at any time?

2. how exactly do you design a sigil and charge it?

3. What are the limits of a servitor, can they do anything or is it a limited selection?

4. Most importantly, what are the exact steps in creating one?


Thanks in advance to anyone one who replies, I appreciate it.

Thanks,

Mike M.

My suggestion is to read up thoroughly...from Hines to Bardon. If you need to resort to pain or whatever in order to bring about the charging of a sigil then you deserve the often messy results.
You need to practice PATIENCE! Bardon in his Initiation into Hermetics gives a very good outline for the process. Or......you can do it the quick, sloppy way! You still need to read up some more. Hine or Carroll are respected in their fields....*sigh* Why are you so hot and bothered to rush into EVERYTHING? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/baby.gif)

Hear hear!

You can create a servitor at any time, no problem. In fact, all you really need to do is devote a portion of your energy towards achieving an end on its own.

however...

The less knowledge and understanding you yourself have, the less knowledge and understanding your creations have. The more you understand the universe, the more effective, and more importantly, the safer your servitor will be. Occaisionally people talk about a servitor gone wrong, or running rampant - these things happen when the practitioner has incomplete knowledge of the universe and/or themself (arguably the same thing). Latent emotions, unconfronted desires for negative things, self-punishment you haven't gotten over, the list goes on and on.

No offense to anyone here, but there are reasons things go wrong, but for some reason everyone seems eager to say that bad stuff can happen, but not exactly why.... maybe i'm just analytical like that. A servitor is an extension of your own consciousness, and it makes ego based decisions which can mess things up just like you do, unless you yourself are already able to transcend your ego while creating your servitor. In my humble opinion, ego based magick begets ego based servitors. Also playing a part is the energy that you put into it. If you use pain, for instance, to charge a sigil, what kind of energy does it have to apply towards actualization?

My personal advice, is to learn to let your ego go, not even all the time, just for the duration of a ritual. Then, use some sort of positive energy. Sexual energy is really diverse, but you have to take into consideration your own psychological attachment to that energy. Some people have really messed up sexual energy, make sure you aren't one of those people unless you just want the associated energy to be included in the actualization of the sigil/servitor. Same goes with any other energy, really, but sexual energy needs to be purified and understood in the two lower chakras before you go spattering it willy nilly over every magickal endeavor. Know thyself...

Anyway, creating servitors and sigils is all good and well, but it's basically fire and forget magick. You wouldn't send a soldier into battle if you didn't understand the art of war, would you? Maybe he'll shoot the bad guy, or maybe he'll screw it up somehow while you aren't there to watch him, because you didn't tell him everything he needed to know.

Finally, if you do get messed up, try and learn from it. We're all students in the end.

peace

This post has been edited by Radiant Star: Sep 18 2006, 02:29 AM