Tonight I commune with Belial as part of our pathworking. I asked Belial to tell me what he would like me to bring to the ritual as an offering. Through the day he has said the following
• Blood spilled from my right hand by a rose thorn from the north of the garden
• Moss from the north side of a forest clearing
• Spiced rum and a chocolate fondant fancy
To understand belial you have to understand the Jews. In particular you are making an offering to “wicked or worthless” that is what belial means in Hebrew בְּלִיַעַל, it didn’t become a demon until the 15th century and that was through the writings of Johann Weyer the Dutch physician. He wrote the book during the trials of the witch hunts to try to show witches as being depressed and not a link to the devil to avoid more deaths and was the first physician to use the word Melancholy. Specifically the text he made for belial was in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.
So your offering to belial is more likely to be accepted by a spirit that is wicked or worthless to heed your call. The word occurs twenty-seven times in the Masoretic Texts of ancient Jews.
I usually use blood or alcohol, occasionally tobacco.
Like many Hebrew demons, the word Belial was originally understood (or at least used) as an adjective and became a pronoun. I argue his first emergence as a being came around during the time the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, as it is used as a pronoun in the War scroll. That being said, I don’t see it as diminishing the idea that Belial is a spirit as human beings have used words to describe forces beyond their understanding of the world for ages. The name or word is essentially a mask to allow humans to better understand the power behind the being we call Belial. Or that’s how I view it.
Interesting experiment I am planning on doing: evoking both Belial and the greek version of the name Beliar (which translates to "Baal of the Forest or wilderness) at the same time to see if one or two beings come forth. They are both used in translations of hebrew texts. I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile but finally getting around to it.