When I began creating servitors, it seemed like every resource I came across dealt only with creating servitors that were meant to last for a short time. I had a problem that met the criteria for a servitor in every way- I wanted it to run constantly in the background, on its own, doing what I told it to like a good little pet, or something.
I tried and looked, surely one more search would tell me exactly how to do what I wanted to do.
Not really. I managed to piece together a process that actually worked damned well for myself. Later on, I found author Taylor Ellwood uses pretty much the exact same process, so it was a really nice confirmation to me that I was on a similar track.
I understand everything a lot better than I did way back then, so hopefully this update will help you make servitors designed to outlive you, rather than just be throwaways.
Note: Steps 1 and 2 can be interchangeable. I sometimes select the media, then decide the purpose based on the materials properties. Either way works as well as the other.
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Decide what you want your servitor to do. Be realistic but realize that if it can be done with magic or energy, a servitor can do it.
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Pick the material, object, or type of artwork that you will use to represent your servitor. It doesn’t matter if you pick an item that is already completed, a figurine, a ring, or if your arts and craftsy- anything you can create can be used to make a servitor, be it physical, digital, or energetic- creation is creation, the act of creation gives a very special kind of energy to the energetic body of your servitor and makes them much stronger from day one.
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Pick your energy source, name your servitor and design your rules. I like to keep it really simple. The simpler it is, the less likely you are to have trouble with your servitor in the long run. Your creation needs to know what it is supposed to do, not how it needs to do it. It will learn and grow and develop and figure out the right path to take, all on its own.
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Create your servitor. Take your time, think about the things your servitor is going to help you with, think about the future, think about the servitors’ rules- let all ramble in your mind while you create your servitor. Think about how their help will make your magic easier and your results faster- think about all the good things that will happen. Imagine energy going from you to them, or from the source to them or whatever you chose to empower the servitor with.
Focus on doing the best job you can do for the level you are currently at for the project. You can be brand new and still make this work right the very first time, no matter how your project physically looks, if you follow these principles.
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Empower the servitor with an outside deity/entity (Optional) To do this you merely need to contact the entity and broker a deal. Yeah, that sounds hard and isn’t really wise for beginners. What you can do however is make a petition requesting the entity empower the servitor, you can also open their sigil and request the same regardless of whether or not you can hear them, they can hear you.
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Use your servitor. Servitors don’t really need an awakening ceremony or visualization of any kind if they are made this way- they usually are pretty much sentient and may already know things you don’t know or details they couldn’t have by the time you are done. Whatever magical skills you have, they get an energetic piece of through the creation process. This means if your clairsentience is outstanding, so is theirs.
Use simple tasks to start with, try to use things you can verify. Task your servitor and then let it do its job. When you get results send it again. Don’t worry about how it will happen, that’s the servitors’ job to figure out.
This is an update from my 2020 servitor tutorial and has been refined as my practice has evolved. You can find the original thread here: Servitor Creation Tutorial-How I dos it, in Ten Easy Steps