Thread: Servitors gone mad?

I still need some work on my LBRP

Redhand posted a very good post on the LBRP and just rereading the post I have gain more insight into the ritual .

It seems that at first you read or begin practicing the ritual you are given just what is needed to get you on your way and with practicing what has been given to you, you build upon it in depth different aspects of the visualization that go hand in hand with the ritual as well as building of confidence to move to the next step

As Redhand also states about banishing you need to clean up what has been created just for the fact it is called responsibilty for you actions, if you make a mistake in your creation you banish start over and start a new one that simple !!

with all that is going on and the viels that are becoming thinner between the two worlds it's pretty good idea and even those that have been doing this for years still practice responsibility and gain new insight to their ritual practice

Originally Posted by SWM

I still need some work on my LBRP

You will get there. When I first tried the SOP after knowing the LBRP I felt like a novice and I had been practicing magick since I was three. Here I was grown up and learning Western Magick for the first time after years of Eastern and felt like a dummy. Now i can do it in my sleep but it is a lifetime commitment and as you go every day you will become better and better at it. Have patience and know you are an intelligent responsible being.

Occultist Dion Fortune explains in one of her books ( I'll have to find the passage ) of the importance of banishing what you create and the problems the havoc of servitors running around.

The more power that they attain they can overcome the creator as well as those around, harm physical harm.

The author also goes on explaining the amount of energy expounded into banishing the now very powerful Servitor that has been created and is now running amok.


Most of it not all of the Mags of the earlier days explain the fact that responsibility is the first rule to becoming a good and successful Mag

If you have to pause at the choice of a name it should be as plain as day that it is not natural to you and you should not attempt creation for you are not entirely comfortable with the yourself- itself paradigm. Your creations should exude forth from you as natural as a heartbeat, breathing, body odor.

out of hand with no specific path - it's a part of you and your daily routine.

I have NEVER experienced an "out of control" servitor. I believe this is an oversight in the creation process. You need to create it with at least a bit of love, if you create a servitor as a tool. It has no reason to like you or any compassion for you. Which can lead to "out of control servitors" if left unattended, also creating them to serve one purpose to me seems.. Wasteful, and I've never destroyed a servitor, OR banished them. They all left me of their own accord (save for one)

I have made at least three "servitors" on three separate occasions. The first was called a "Pooka" for some odd reason .. Which took the form of an owl. It was to be my life time magickal companion, after time however I started seeing him less and less, I however never released him. He just did not appear to me any more. But I do believe that he still guides me.

The next was an astral familiar by the name of Eyes. A black and white wolf. Made as a messenger, he could go across the world instantly. I released him to my honorary niece. I miss him, but he is a great friend to her.

The last was another astral familiar, this time a phoenix who left me of her own accord.
The process I use to make them raises energy from the Base chakra in a spiral motion, my hands held together in a pyramid. I then visualize it, it's purpose and then create it and name it. I let them have their own lives because they are NOT servitors. I have never referred to them as such- to do so would be paramount to thinking of them as if they are servants or slaves. Also, they have never been "mischievous" or anything of the sort to me. Nor have they acted harshly to myself or my family if left unattended the idea of destroying them when "done" with them appalled me when I first read it. I even tried it once, with a dragonfly shaped familiar who's mission was to bring love into the life of a friend of mine who was going through a rough patch- and for some reason, the spell failed.

Now, this familiar of yours has expressed a will to live. At this point, you have no true right to destroy it, though keep a close eye on Vanth... Though if it turns on you, then you will have to take action. But because it showed the will, it's life belongs to itself. You seem to have treated it with kindness, because if not it would not have stuck around to you the moment it realized what you were thinking. So I say, keep Vanth around, not as a servitor you control. But as a familiar whom helps you. I always have a " fail safe" when I make my familiars in case, a single word or phrase that either deconstructs them, or releases them. So if you are wary, then add such a word.

Though unless they turn malevolent or are made incorrectly, I do not believe in destroying them rather recklessly. I use the term familiar, because familiars are beings that aid us in our magick and are deeply connected to us, whereas servitor does not display this at all. When it is connected to you, it is less likely to go out of control, and it should grow with you. A change in terminology indicates a change of subconscious attitude.