Write a servitor's design document as the chaos-magic lesson teaches, with one task, a form, rules, feeding, a lifespan and a dissolution phrase, checked against the lesson's cautions and drawn as a being of light in the shape and colour you choose, around its sigil. Launch it step by step: quiet gnosis with a breathing ring, or excited gnosis with a drum that quickens; its sigil drawing itself as you speak its name; a charge held at the peak; and a release as it flies. Then feed it, log honestly whether its task got done, see whether feeding makes any difference, and retire it deliberately. The golem, David-Néel's phantom monk, Dion Fortune's wolf and the egregore are set beside the design, where their warnings apply. The design document is drawn as a page of parchment, with its sigil as a seal, to save and print.
mixer2 lessons explain the ideas behind this tool.
A servitor is a deliberately made thought-form with one job. On the spirit model it is a small being; on the psychological model it is an automated intention, a habit with a face. Either way, write the design document first, as the lesson teaches. Your draft is kept in this browser as you write.
Alexandra David-Néel said her phantom monk took six months to dissolve. An end agreed at the start is easier.
The lesson asks for the design in writing before anything is launched, and a week's pause to revise it. Here it is as a page to print and keep with the sigil.
from the late 1970s
Servitors as tools: designed, charged, used, and ended.
Sources: P. J. Carroll, Liber Null (1978); P. Hine, Condensed Chaos (1995)
CAUTIONS
A few things to do with this tool, from a first try to a habit. Each one you tick counts as practice for the day, towards your streak and milestones.
Kept in this browser. Notes you send to the journal are kept there as well.