Servitor Interview?, Could a method used by fiction authors be helpful when creating entiti Options

This may sound completely stupid but forgive me I'm a noob to all this. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/baby.gif)

I've heard that sci-fi and fantasy authors 'interview' their characters by imagining them sitting across from them in a room and asking questions. The answers are supposed to let you get to the know the characters more.

Could this be useful if you intended to give a servitor/tulpa/whatever a personality? I was thinking about creating a 'friend' servitor just to start out with, and I was wondering if this could help.

And if it could, what would be some good questions to ask?

Well this topic has gone through some changes. Anyway, if asking my recommendations. If I was where you are now, and or had to start from scratch. I would start by picking up “Summoning Spirits” by Konstantinos, doing the practices in there. I don’t agree with many things there, but it is probably the best concise book on the subject out at the moment. That should eat up about 3~6 months of your time.

I have huge holes in my abilities, mainly because I never followed one path too long, I would also recommend taking up some more classic ceremonial practice. Most would recommend Modern Magick or High Magic, both have mistakes or places I have strong differences of opinions. However both cover the bases fairly well, and the practices inside I see nothing that is detrimental to 1st and 2nd year attainments. Another thing is if you do everything in either of the books. You will have a strong foundation. Giving you the ability to communicate with some authority on anything in those books.

High magic goes more the chaos rout, Modern Magick goes more the classical Ceremonial rout. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but consider them manuals for a beginner.

So armed with two Books, Summoning Spirits and your choice of Modern Magick or High Magic you have about a year or two of good guidance. Follow them to the tee, treat them as your bibles, do the work and you will get results and a whole new world will have opened up, not to mention, you probably won’t have annoying holes in your knowledge.

Understand that once you are done, you will reach a place of incredible frustration. Nearly nothing published by Llewellyn (the largest popular occult publisher) will be worth the paper it is printed on. You will graduate to Weiser and other publishers because Llewellyn offers you next to nothing of a higher nature and their fact checking is iffy and that is being positive.

The exceptions are well renown experts, Isreal Regardie and some others.

At this point you will have a firm grasp of what states of consciousness are and where you have to be to perform X. You will also have the habbit of keeping a magickal Diary (my biggest bane) and totally worth the effort, I just can not bring myself to keep one except during big works.

The Diary more then anything will probably show you your evolution.

From here you then can start looking into points of interest with more information at your disposal. Kabala, high magic, chaos, Mandalas, Tarot, enochian….

I would also recommend start studying different religions, as completely as possible. Pagan religions, are a good start, as the fundamentals of high magic will serve. There is little depth in most protestant Christian sects, so it should not take much time, but you won’t get much out of them. The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, totally different matter. I would also recommend the Mormons, but they are hard to get straight answers from. In the Jewish faith you can spend eons studying it. There is also the Eastern Faiths where you can spend an eternity.

But having a strong common base to pull from is really big. I have the issue that I learned things in a haphazard way, and those that provided my introduction left me unbalanced. I know how to do some odd things with very little in way of explaining them or comparing them to anything resembling a known structure. But if I need them, I always fall back to them.

In the astral, I still can not hear a thing that is not a mental communication. This is good and bad, but at times I would not mind being entertained by all the pretty sounds I know are flowing around me.

Overall after you have a base, you can always find more to learn and specialize to your hearts content.

Thick of magick as learning to drive in a place with no speed limits. You are not going to jump into a Ferrari and onto the freeway the first time out, you could, but you will probably do some expensive damage right away.

Another thing to know, everything you learn can be revaluated every 3-4 years. What you thought you knew now, you will eather disagree or really know in your heart in three years. So much so that you will not know what you where thinking when you tried something and it did not work as intended. (this is where a journal would be key).

I would make a solemn vow to take two of those three books as my teacher for the next 12 months (Halloween is a good day for solemn vows). ask for guidance to come your way, and the streagth to follow through on the vow, knowing that there will be hardship.

I see no down side other then the work involved. But if you really choose this path, there is always work to be done.