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.

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?

My guardian servitor was I think the third sigil that Grimstone and I had done together...and he did the writeup of the circle; I collaborated on the design of the sigil itself, but aside from that, all I did was the initial design work, in terms of visualisation. You will however want to have at least some idea how to centre/get yourself into a somewhat "wierd" or trancelike state...knowing how to channel energy through your hands is also necessary.

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

Write a statement of intent, cross out the letters that repeat, and then design the sigil as a geometric shape from the letters that are left. You can overlay different letters of similar design, and it's actually better to do so, because the sigil ideally needs to be simple enough for to be able to visualise.

For more complex/humanoid servitors, our approach was drawing up a pentagram/circle, using the primary sigil in the centre, but then also incorporating runes with specific meanings from a runic alphabet (such as the elder futhark) in order to define specific attributes/abilities for the servitor. The circle then serves as the equivalent of a DNA helix. For simple servitors tho you don't need to do this.

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

They can apparently do more or less anything, but an individual servitor is nearly always single use, from what I've seen...it makes creation a lot simpler, and that's important.

The single major issue with complexity in my observation is that the more complex the servitor, the more astral juice (energy) is required both to initially create it, and to keep it up once it's been made.

My guardian servitor is in the shape of a seven or so foot female Orc, and I arguably made her personality way too complex; if she doesn't get jobs or feed from negative thoughtforms which she has the ability to do, I've had her dissipate within three days before, and had to re-evoke her. Her personality is also sufficiently complex that she was actually quite traumatised by that experience, as well. They can get smart, they can get emotionally complex, and they can get difficult to handle. They can also have the ability to learn and adopt new behaviours in an entirely emergent way if you give it to them, which means that you can have them responding to you in unfamiliar ways.

Some safety tips IMHO are thus:-
1. If you're going to have any for long-term use, minimise the number of them that are this type. The less time it lives, the less problems you'll have.

2. Avoid giving them more than the necessary bare minimum of intelligence, since they can end up getting smart enough in some cases that they actually think of themselves as independent life forms, when of course they really aren't.

3. Avoid giving them excessively complex shapes, since this needs more energy to maintain.

4. ALWAYS explicitly build in a directive to be loyal to you/accept all commands from you. I read about someone trying to re-absorb a servitor who ended up with *physical* injury because the servitor was sufficiently resistant to the idea, and actually tried to fight for its' "life." This is the other reason why giving them more intelligence than necessary is a bad idea...they start thinking of themselves as independent beings.

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

What we did:-

1. Spend some time working out exactly what you want the servitor for, what it's going to do, what is the minimal shape necessary for its' task, and what is the minimal degree of intelligence needed for its' task. This is probably also when you'll come up with its' name. You can also think about whether you want any elemental correspondences for it to be able to feed itself, what it's going to accept as an offering if you want to be able to offer to it, etc.

2. Select physical base. This is a physical object (think the lamp from the Aladdin story) for the servitor to live in. It doesn't have to be a container as such...I use a little statue for my Orc. Phil Hine also suggests rings, although I read about someone using an envelope for a mail related servitor. It can be basically anything, but it'll make your life easier if it's small enough for you to carry easily, and also visually is in some way associated with the servitor it contains.

3. Write your statement of intent, and work out the letters to use in the sigil itself, as described above. Then do a rough draft of the sigil before writing the good copy on the paper to be used for the actual spell. If you're going to want to re-cast the spell/make another servitor of the same type, you'll want to make another copy of the sigil in your grimoire also.

4. Either draw circle with runes and central sigil for complex servitor, or just the sigil itself for a simpler one.

5. Charge the circle/sigil. Since we did it together, we did it via a process of channelling energy from our sending hand directly into the circle/sigil over a space of around 60-90 minutes. I've had a shorter method work for a simpler servitor, but I don't recommend that for complex ones. People make this process sound way more difficult than it actually needs to be, IMHO. Yes, you need to be focused, and another person helps...but it's not impossible to do, either...especially if you have any kind of meditation pattern and/or know how to center. Masturbation will work as a charging method for a simpler servitor, and you can also use the fluids you get from that activity as an additional energy source for the servitor as well.

6. Meet your new servitor. ;-) Give it a job straight away, ideally...since they tend to get a boost of energy from every task they complete which you attribute to them.

7. If it's a particularly complex servitor, and/or you're not entirely sure how you're going to feed it, I highly recommend the initial use of at least a small amount of your own blood both on the physical base and on the sigil, and semi-regular application of semen/menstrual blood to the physical base as well, as an energetic booster. Blood is by far the most potent energetically of the two, but semen will keep a servitor up for a day or two in the absence of any other form of energetic feeding in my observation.

This post has been edited by Petrus: Dec 1 2007, 07:17 PM