I work with Servitors. Although I believe a Servitor can be created to any model -- after all the art and SCIENCE of magick is about creativity, experimentation and proof -- I suggest you create your Servitor with only an initial infusion of your energy. It should NEVER be engineered to feed off you (ie. give birth, but no nursing!). Otherwise you're creating something vampiric and unhealthy in my opinion.

I always create my Servitors with this formula in mind -- yes, it's a little Daoist (Taoist), but perfectly in line with Chaos magickal theory (translated from a Dao saying) :

I take energy from the Universe
The Universe takes energy from I
I am the Universe
The Universe is I

By definition, this form of energy, lifeforce, THE FORCE, whatever you want to call it is entirely inexhaustible. George Lucas took his ideas for The Force from belief in the Dao (Tao) a connecting energy that binds us all.

There is no reason at all that a Servitor must "drain" or take energy from its creator, when the source of your own life force is the Universe. In other words, both the creator and the servitor draw force from the same Dao.

So, to avoid any drains, or psychological pull-downs, I program the Servitor with

ACHIEVE YOUR TASK, ENERGIZED BY THE UNIVERSE.

(Note: always program with positives (negatives are invisible) and always with a YOU ARE tense rather than a YOU WILL BE tense.)

It's the same energy that feeds us all. And ultimately, "as above, so below", "what is created in the astral manifests also in the physical" and all the logic we use to explain how our servitor works -- it all boils down to giving our creative force birth, limiting it to our WILL (Crowley's definition of magic, paraphrased), then allowing it to ADD to our power and sense of enlightenment rather than draining it. No Servitor, in my opinion, should ever be a drain, other than at inception. It should grow in power until it's single goal is achieved, then it should be reabsorbed by its creator, making the magician even more energetic and powerful in the end. Win-Win.

On reabsorption: even though a Servitor is created for a single mission (normally) there's a major reason to reabsorb (and program the Servitor with this in mind -- either using time-coded re-absortion or a mechanism for willful absorption) -- you have absorbed a little more experience and energy, and grown as a magickian. I actually feel additional energy the day after I create a Servitor. But I feel a genuine burst of positive energy when I reabsorb that "grown" part of myself.

This post has been edited by Mezu: Jan 22 2007, 04:51 PM