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Assembling the Muse (Take 2)

  
 
elmo oxygen
04:49 / 04.12.03
Please excuse the topic repost -- it is my first time writing a topic and I got confuzzled. Hopefully the bad post will be moderated away soon. Appy polly loggies. [/embarrassed]

Anyway:

After a long period of reading and absorbing large a fairly large amount of esoteric stuff, and a brief period of hesitation, I have decided to begin applying what knowledge I've accumulated. My first magickal undertaking is going to be the creation of a fetish servitor to assist in magickal and creative pursuits. (Peter Carroll's Liber KKK sets the first working in the training program as a 'sorcery evocation' of this very kind, so I figure it's a decent place to start.)

Over the past several weeks, I have been wondering and taking note of the associations and ideas I would attribute with this type of being. I decided, by intuition, that the being would be of a dual nature, but would nonetheless behave as a coherent whole. The two-sided nature of the entity produced an association with Gemini, and thereby Mercury/Hermes. I think this is a good identification to have with a personal servitor for increasing the success of magickal and creative (writing) pursuits. The name that I have found has the strongest resonance with the nascent servitor fetish -- TUDOR ANTHEM. (Gematria is welcome to anyone who'd like to provide it -- I'm happy with anagrams: "truth daemon," "ardent mouth," and "mutant horde" seem pretty magickal transliterations of the name to me, and that's what counts, right?) Its displays qualities of both sexes and genders, even hermaphroditic -- the duality-in-one theme recurrent again, as well as some strong resonance to Hod (if you go in for the (K/C/Q(u))abal(l)a(h) stuff.)

An entire list of associations and attributions would be too long and probably inappropriate here, but I assure you I have spent a lot of idle brain time on this. I am gathering materials, and will probably assemble the physical base for it soon.

Does anyone else have experiences with personal servitor creation they'd like to share? Or just encouragement or curiosity would be nice too. Also, feel free to share your thoughts, methods and techniques on how I might suitably assemble this muse thing.
 
 
illmatic
08:08 / 04.12.03
Well, I've no experience I can share, but you're welcome to my encouragment. If this is to become it's a creativity entity, why not key it in somehow to a creation in whichever medium it is that you work in - ie. to evoke it, draw it, write descriptions, sing it, sculpt it or whatever. You could do this as a one-off operation or you could allow it to change over time, redrawing or rewriting it's material base as your perceptions of it change.

This piece might be of interest.
 
 
trouser the trouserian
11:58 / 04.12.03
elmo
sounds to me - that in having assembled all those associations & attributions - that your servitor is already 'working'.
 
 
elmo oxygen
15:29 / 04.12.03
AoG:

I'd agree that the servitor TUDOR ANTHEM is indeed psychoactive in some way, but at the moment it seems to be using its influence to direct me towards recognizing it as a fully individuated entity. I could see this as TUDOR ANTHEM gathering components and fragments of itself in words, images, stories, and symbols, out of which fragments it will eventually appear as a whole greater than its parts, or perhaps it's my subconscious assembling a sophisticated psychological "other." I don't know.

In any case, TUDOR ANTHEM seems to be accumulating force and speed, and in a sort of positive feedback loop. Perhaps the question I was trying to ask is, in this process of development, how might I hasten critical mass -- the point at which this thing really gains independent identity, and is able to act in its appointed function? Keep in mind I'm practically inexperienced in magick, though I've read a lot.

I've started aknowledging TUDOR ANTHEM out loud when in private, but as yet ze doesn't have much to say. I've been thinking of using glossolalia as an edification between myself and TUDOR ANTHEM -- not as 'meaningful' communication but as a way of offering up subconscious energy to the servitor in the form of speech. This seems more direct than what I have been doing, that is, using mediated words and images. Is this a good idea at all?
 
  
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