This is a megathread to quickly display together popular and loved tutorials about getting in touch with an entity.
I usually recommend you read through all of these, hen pick whichever one calls to you, sounds more fun and interesting or doable depending on our skill level. As usual I highly recommend you get acquainted with the topics of spiritual hygiene and astral sense development as a building block for this kind of work.
Does anyone know the structure of a ritual to evoke goetic spirits? or could you tell me where I can investigate? Thanks in advance.
Types of Evocation and how to:
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What is evocation:
The art of presencing a spirit outside of yourself, in a form which you can either physically or psychically perceive.
What types of evocation are there?
Grimoire Tradition Evocation which relies on many physical tools and trinket in order to put the magickan in the right state of mind. This method is usually forceful, especially towards demons. This is a met…
By Sigil: How To Start Using Spirit Sigils To Get Anything You Want - Become A Living God
By Petition: Tutorial: Petition Spells
By Signs and Omens: Tutorial: How to identify messages from the spirits
By Pathworking: We don’t have a tutorial for this
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Please add your own favourite way to make contact if you don’t see it here.
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How to get a ritual to work: in the context of a specific book here but the tips apply to all rituals to master success with ceremonial magick:
This book confuses the hell out of most people on here for several reasons yet I’m going to try and clarify it for the ones who can’t seem to get it it to work
In truth, this is one of the most freakishly effective books I’ve ever encountered and I’ll go on record saying it’s my favorite on the subject. It’s not without nuance though and we’ll explore some of the common sticking points
I get PM’s a lot asking for insight and my usual advice tends to be fairly similar (you all want your ex bac…
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Suggestions for troubleshooting difficulties with evocation.
If you have done the basics aka
Preparatory Immersion
Use or Development of a Working System
Attainment of Omnipotence
Substantial Contact
Incantation
Communication with the Spirit
Issuing a Task
Dismissal
Psychological Retraction,
and still are having problems then here are my suggestions:
You are probably over thinking it all thus making the evocation harder then it needs to be. Stop thinking over every detail and just relax. Clear your mind. Put it this way, if you call on a spirit alone, it will come. You may not see it,hear it, etc but it will be there. So just know that regardless of what happens as long as you are able to speak then a evocation is possible. Granted it will be a one sided conversation and be a bit awkward.
It is easier to do evocation when you lose touch with reality and enter a state of psychosis. That is why so many suggest you do it in the dark or outdoors. You can even use certain music to enter psychosis if you want to practice “losing yourself”. I will not list a type of music because I have found it to be more on personal preference.
That is why drumming,chanting,dancing, reading scriptures/grimoires for hours on end=good brain wave states for evocation. Azazel once told me “Lose yourself in psychosis and darkness and you shall experience the entirety of evocation”.He meant darkness literally because when you are in the dark your mind will start to drift onto unsettling thought. Being in the dark also makes the …
See Corwin Hargrove’s Goetia Pathworking book.