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Sloppy servitors

 
  

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electric monk
17:47 / 31.01.07
I'm working on starting a conscience thread right now. Hopefully, we can discuss some general philosophy over there and get back to the servitor talk here.
 
 
The Ghost of Tom Winter
17:52 / 31.01.07
Well, I say mana because it’s what I learned in my anthropology classes. What I mean, what it seems to mean, is a universal energy that is apparent in all things to varying degrees. Mana is within people, and can be used by people with the know how. So perhaps, a servitor is the user’s concentration of mana into an object or desire (i.e. energy onto will). In my own experience, it seems like the servitor (for lack of better word) I’ve used is, as I envision, a mass of cloudiness, but I give that cloudiness a persona of sorts and associated feelings that translate into the actions the servitor is meant to accomplish.

Perhaps it’s more important to ask, do you think consciousness is alive.

Personally, I’d say it all comes in degrees. Imagination can become action, fantasy become real, intent become action etc. When your degree of imagination becomes so much that it is affecting another human in a negative manner, then yes you should take a step back for a moment. Imagination on its own will not kill or ruin someone’s day.

To tie this into servitors, if you focus your imagination let’s say, onto an item so that that item embodies these thoughts of yours, then you are allowing that imagination to become reality and making your consciousness become a “living” thing.
An example might be a lucky rabbit’s foot. At first it’s just the rabbit’s foot, but as you keep it around maybe you’ll notice more luck coming your way, you’ll thank the foot, pet the foot to gain more luck etc. Does anyone else think that qualifies as a “servitor”?

Did we ever form a working definition of servitor? I feel like I’m vaguely classifying stuff that I’m not even sure what it is precisely.
 
 
electric monk
18:19 / 31.01.07
What I mean, what it seems to mean, is a universal energy that is apparent in all things to varying degrees. Mana is within people, and can be used by people with the know how.

This sounds like what Pete Carroll refers to as "Kia".
 
 
electric monk
18:22 / 31.01.07
Here's that thread, BTW. Apologies for bare-bonesness.
 
 
Unconditional Love
06:25 / 01.02.07
My last comments were taken directly from my experiences of magical/spiritual work.
 
 
crimson
03:00 / 02.02.07
Hey...when we dedicate foods and drinks and things to servitors...and to gods too for that matter, do we consume them in their name or do we, as Ive been doing, give them the stuff then throw it out, use it for compost etc or does it even really matter either way??
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:53 / 02.02.07
Depends on the servitor. Depends on the God. In some traditions you're supposed to dispose of the food/drink on earth or in water, or at a crossroads, or under a tree; in others, the food or drink is left on the altar for the God/dess to enjoy, then consumed with Hir blessing. With servitors I suppose you'd decide all that at the setting-up stage.
 
  

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