{"id":1089,"date":"2013-04-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2013-04-24T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:00:00","slug":"project-null-satyrs-first-servitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/24\/project-null-satyrs-first-servitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Null: Satyr\u2019s First Servitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"projectnull\"<\/a>I have been planning to experiment in servitor creation since I first set out to study Chaos Magick.\u00a0 Unfortunately, none of my major sources treat the subject in any real detail.\u00a0 So I went that vast repository of knowledge, madness, and wisdom which I we all know and love: the Internet.\u00a0 My hope was that a variety of perspectives would allow me to identify the core techniques by triangulation, and from there come up with my rite.<\/p>\n

Here are the sources I found most useful:<\/p>\n

* Servitor Creation<\/a> at Atreus World of Wierdness<\/p>\n

* Pope Michae\u2019s Basic Servitor Creation<\/a><\/p>\n

* Servitor Creation<\/a> at Spiralnation<\/p>\n

CAVE CANEM\"File:Pompeii<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Between native talent and practice bordering on paranoid, protective magic has always been one of the things I am best at.\u00a0 Thus, it was always my intention for my first servitor to be a household guardian.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m an asshat, I ignored all suggestions to start simple.\u00a0 I chose the form of a dog in order to tap into the \u201cguard dog\u201d egregore, and in order to use a foo-dog shaped teapot, which I happened to have, as a vessel.\u00a0 I named him for one of the great guards of myth, in order to tap into that stream as well.\u00a0 Hereafter I will refer to him as Cave Canem<\/em>[1], or CC for short.<\/p>\n

I wrote and sigilized ten lines of \u201ccode\u201d, and chose its master sigil from a number of glyphs which I had produced through automatic drawing last semester.\u00a0 I wrote a incantation containing the servitor\u2019s name, the instructions I had sigilized, and the terms of the contract between us.\u00a0 I then drew a stele-image of CC bearing his n\"IMG_5635\"<\/a>ame and all his sigils.<\/p>\n

I placed that penciled image and the vessel on an improvised altar in the middle of my temple.\u00a0 I banished and purified everything.\u00a0 I got out my Abramelin oil and the brush I use for sigils.\u00a0 I raised the power, declaimed the incantation, inked the sigils on the drawing, and painted the vessel with the master sigil.\u00a0 Then I called down an amount of power that easily put this in the top ten most powerful rites I have ever performed, possibly the top five.\u00a0 I anointed the vessel with the Oil of Abramelin, and the dog awoke.<\/p>\n

His presence was immediate, almost tactile.\u00a0 He responded warmly to my attention.\u00a0 The next several times I drove, CC sat in the back seat behind me with his nose on the back of my head.\u00a0 When I drove to Kansas City for Spring Break, he made much of the drive with me, though he grew \u2026 thin across Illinois.\u00a0 Even in Kansas City, though, he appeared instantly when I spoke his name.<\/p>\n

I would consider this an unqualified success, except that I haven\u2019t actually seen much of him since I got back from Spring Break.\u00a0 But I came back from Spring Break ill enough that I probably shouldn\u2019t have driven.\u00a0 I missed (another) two days of class, and ultimately ended Break even further behind than I started.\u00a0 So I haven\u2019t really had time for more than a bare minimum maintenance of my spiritual obligations; I hadn\u2019t seen much of any of my Friends Upstairs, actually, for that reason, until last Wednesday when I received instructions on how best to rearrange my altar.\u00a0 So one is uncertain if he didn\u2019t \u201clast\u201d or if one\u2019s head is merely stuffed up one\u2019s own ass.<\/p>\n

Still, I\u2019m pleased enough with the outcome of this attempt that I\u2019m planning a second, more ambitious servitor project: an army of flying monkeys.<\/p>\n

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1 \u2013 Classical Latin:\u00a0 \u201cKah-way ka-nem\u201d, trans:\u00a0 \u201cBeware the Dog\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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