SERVITOR CONSTRUCTION: A PERSONAL APPROACH
By J.D. Tindsley
Warning!!!: The following represents a sketch of my
personal1 approach to servitor construction. In
it I talk about elemental and planetary energies, these are part of my personal
belief system and you are under no obligation to accept them yourselves. The
basics of servitor creation remain the same, the shaping and naming of the
servitor, the building up of its energy form, and its awakening and directing
to its target.
- Firstly decide upon the general purpose for which you are forming a servitor.
For example this may be "To assist me in all matters concerning the acquiring
of wealth for myself and others." You should treat this as a statement of
intent and tighten it up as you would do normally.
- Decide upon a name and physical appearance for your servitor. These should be
symbolic of your intent.2
- Make a model to serve as a material base for the servitor. Some magickians use
ready made models such as lead miniatures for this. I prefer to sculpt mine out of
clay, as this allows me to include herbs and minerals symbolic of the servitor's
purpose in the model. With these I also include a small quantity of blood or semen,
as these substances have a reputation for forming a strong magickal connection and
accumulating magickal power. You can if you feel like it ritualise the whole
sculpting of your material base, so as to provide a battery of energy of an appropriate
type to work with in your creation ritual.
- The creation ritual itself. Lay out the place where you are working as you would
normally. Place the material base in the centre of the circle. I often place it upon
either a diagram symbolic of its general purpose drawn in powder, or upon my pentacle.
- Banish with your usual banishing ritual.
- Name the servitor using some kind of naming ritual. For example, sprinkle the
material base with salt water saying "By the powers of Earth and Water, I name
you ." Then cense the base with incense saying "By the powers of
Fire and Air, I name you ."
- Move to the quarter of the circle that you attribute to the element of Earth,
connect with that element, and direct the elemental energy into the legs of your
model.3
- Do the same for Water directing the energy into the model’s abdomen and
groin.3
- Do the same for Fire directing the energy into the model’s
chest4 and arms.3
- Do the same for Air directing the energy into the model’s
head.3
- Now make a connection with the planetary energy5
appropriate to the servitor’s purpose. For example, Jupiter for wealth, Venus for
love etc. Direct this energy into the material base, seeing the servitor's astral
body forming out of the energy around the model.
- Fill your body with general life energy, and concentrate this energy in a
glowing ball in your right hand (assuming that you are right handed). Take the
servitor in your left hand, see it as a small sleeping creature. Breathe upon it
saying "Come Alive, ." Pouring some of the energy from your right
hand into it. See it starting to stir. Repeat this a symbolically appropriate
number of times until you have used all the energy from your hand. Each time your
call to the servitor must be more fervent, and you should see and feel the servitor
becoming more awake. With the final cry it’s eyes spring open and you can feel its
tiny heartbeat in your hand.
- Now with the full force of your will, you must aloud specify to the servitor its
function, the duration of time for which it shall exist and the method by which it
may be destroyed. For example say " you shall assist me in all matters
concerning the acquisition of wealth for myself and others. You shall obey such
spoken commands that I give you when I call you by name. The term of your existence
shall be for four years from this day. Your existence shall cease upon the shattering
of this your material base, at which point you shall be reabsorbed into me, your
absolute, this being the fulfilment of your nature."
- Command the servitor now to rest within it’s material base, and wrap the model in
a silk cloth of an appropriate colour.
- Perform a final banishing.
- Unwrap the servitor when you wish to use its services, and command it by name. Then
leave it unwrapped. When it has completed it’s duties, command it to rest again within
the model, and wrap it up again.
- Do not forget to reabsorb the servitor when its time limit has expired.
Author's notes
1: Most of the method that I use is based on Method 2 of elementary
construction, from Franz Bardon’s book "Initiation into Hermetics".
2: I would use various Qabbalistic techniques, such as gemetria,
to formulate the name, and perhaps then the Golden Dawn technique of forming telesmatic
images to find out what the servitor looks like.
3: For example I would for Earth go to the North, draw the invoking
pentagram of Earth and project the energy into the model using the sign of the enterer,
while vibrating an appropriate word of power. I would use the West for Water, the South
for Fire, and the East for Air.
4: The attribution of the chest to Fire and the head to Air is the
system I use. There is an equally popular alternative tradition that gives the chest to
Air and the head to Fire.
5: I would use the appropriate planetary hexagram to assist in this,
and then the sign of the enterer to project the energy.
© J.D. Tindsley; used with permission. HTML coding by Frater T.S. for Sunwheel Oasis.
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