Chaos Servitors:
A User Guide
SERVITOR DESIGN SEQUENCE
1. Define General Intent.
The first step in designing
a Servitor is to decide the general sphere of influence into
which your intention falls, such as healing, protection, binding,
harmony, luck, divination, mood enhancement, success in ....,
and so forth.
Defining your general intent
will assist you if you wish to use symbols & magical correspondences
in creating your servitor. For example, if you were interested
in creating a servitor to act within the sphere of Healing,
then you could assemble any associations, symbols, emotions,
memories, etc which you relate to the concept of Healing.
By consulting a book of magical correspondences such as '777',
you could build up chains of correspondences - planetary figures,
scents, colours, planetary hours etc. How far you go in this
direction is very much a matter of personal choice.
2. Defining Specific Intent.
Here, you are creating the
core of the Servitor's purpose -the Statement of Intent which
is analogous to the Servitor's aetheric DNA. Formulating the
Servitor's Statement of Intent may necessitate a good deal
of self-analysis into your motivations, desires, realistic
projections of goals, etc. As in all sorcery operations, it
is appropriate to ask advice from your preferred form of divination.
To continue the example of a Healing Servitor, an appropriate
Statement of Intent might be: "To promote rapid recovery
and health in ...(name)..." Once you have determined
the appropriate Intent to form the basis of your Servitor,
then the Statement can be rendered into a sigil, or glyph..
3. What Symbols Are Appropriate
to the Servitor's Task?
There is a wealth of magical
& mythic symbols which you can draw upon when creating
a servitor, which can be used to represent different qualities,
abilities and attributes. There is also the symbolism of colour,
smell, sound & other sensory media to draw upon. In order
to refine the 'program' which forms the basis for your servitor
further, you could embellish the sigil by adding other symbols.
The above illustration shows
the 'program' of a Healing Servitor. Its core sigil has been
placed within a hexagram, and the number 7 has been added
to it. Here, the hexagram represents balance, health, life
enhancement and Solar qualities, also forming the elemental
symbols of Fire (representing healing fire, the burning up
of fever) and the elemental symbol for Water (representing
expulsion of toxins through sweat, calming influences). The
number 7 represents the idea of harmony, and also represents
the duration of the Servitor's operation. The entire figure
forms the 'instructions' for the Servitor which will be visualised
as forming a part of it, during it's launch phase.
4. Is there a Time Factor
to Consider?
Here, you should consider
the duration of the Servitor's operation. In other words,
do you want the Servitor to be 'working' continuously, or
only at specific periods? Here, you may wish to take into
account phases of the moon, astrological conjunctions or planetary
hours, for example, which could be added into the Servitor's
symbolic instructions. The Healing Servitor above for example,
was instructed to be active for a period of seven days, affecting
it's target recipient for seven minutes, at seven hour intervals.
This instruction serves to reinforce the number symbolism
& association with harmony. It is also at this point that
you should consider what happens after the Servitor has performed
its task. It is generally held to be preferable that when
a Servitor has completed its task, the Servitor should be
disassembled by its creator. There are two approaches to doing
this. Firstly, one can encode a "self-destruct"
instruction into the Servitor at the time of it's creation,
where the duration of its existence is defined in terms of
the duration of its task, or the fulfilment of a specific
condition. For example, the Healing Servitor could be defined
so that it's sigilised Statement of Intent is:
"To promote rapid recovery and health in ...(name)...working
at 7/7/7 intervals, the sum of which is the spell of your
life."
The other approach to disassembly
is to perform a ritual 'reabsorption' of the Servitor, mentally
drawing it back from it's task, taking it apart by visualization,
taking back the original desire which sparked it's creation,
and taking apart or destroying any material base which you
have created for it. Whilst classical occult theory has it
that if you do not look after your thought-forms, they will
wander around the astral plane annoying people, there is good
psychological sense for terminating the 'life' of Servitors
which have completed their assigned task - that you are reclaiming
responsibility for that desire-complex which you used to create
the Servitor.
5. Is A Name Required?
The Servitor can be given
a name which can be used, in addition to its sigil, for creating,
powering, or controlling it. A name also acts to further create
a Servitor's persona. A name can reflect the Servitor's task,
or be formed from a mantric sigil of it's Statement of Intent.
The example Healing Servitor was given the name TUMMYHUM,
a rather whimsical reference to its function.
6. Is a Material Base Required?
The Material base is some
physical focus for the Servitor's existence. This can help
to define the Servitor as an individual entity, and can be
used if you need to recall the Servitor for any reason. Examples
of a material base include bottles, rings, crystals, small
figurines as used in fantasy role-playing or figures crafted
from modelling compounds. Bodily fluids can be applied to
the material base to increase the perceived link between creator
and entity. This is very much a matter of personal taste.
Alternatively, the Servitor can remain freely mobile as an
aetheric entity. I tend to find that one-shot, task-specific
servitors can be left as aetheric entities, whilst for entities
which have more of along-term use, a material base is often
helpful. For others, it might be possible to link their use
to a specific, identifiable, state of consciousness, which
forms part of the core associations which one builds up for
a Servitor. It is also possible to link a Servitor to a specific
smell, such as a perfume or essential oil, so that each time
the oil is applied, the Servitor is activated. This can be
particularly useful when creating Servitors for general Healing,
Protection, or enhancement of a particular mood. A dab of
the perfume can be put onto the Servitor's material base,
and the perfume should be inhaled during the launch of the
entity.
7. Is a Specific Shape Required?
Servitors can be created to
have any desired shape, from tiny homunculi to morphic spheres
capable of extruding any required appendage. The shape you
choose to identify with this particular thought-form can add
another level of representational identity to the entity.
A common practice though, is to visualize the Servitor as
a featureless sphere, pulsing with energy, glowing with appropriately
chosen colours, into which has been impressed, it's sigilised
instructions.
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