There’s a lot of threads on this to give you an idea:
My understanding is it varies, depending on the magician. The more you do it, the more the forces become a part of you. Most invocations (of forces) are done daily, like the Invocation of Jupiter, given by Jason Miller in his book Financial Sorcery, or Lady Eva’s Invocation of Divinity.
If you are invoking an actual spirit, then it is usually done once, with a finite time frame, at the end of which the spirit is dismissed. Godforms, like Odin, or Aphrodite are generally invoked rather than evok…
Greetings all, I am still learning. So this is more of a statement of the bits I have learned and questions regarding putting this all together.
Invocation to me can be your purposeful focus on an entity. Maybe your immersion phase, or preparation period prior to and evocation ritual. Like a crescendo, the build up. Being “filled with the spirit” (possession), Absorbing the entity’s power or flowing with that power.
Evocation to me seems to be more of the work, the physical. Using the power y…
Planning on doing my first summoning. Which is better invocation or evocation?
It can happen if you’re not in control.
In this case, you were very much not in control.
You know the saying “don’t bring up what you can’t put down” to paraphrase? Well that’s a very boring way to live your life, so instead what you should do is research your relationship with the entity in question before any work is done and then choosing where to go from there.
That’s not something you can read about in a book, so use your own abilities to feel it out.
In - invoke (some say its mild possession, channeling, automatic writing, etc) = draw in
Of course there are actual definitions and probably some good videos on it too.
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