#goetic demons
If you want any chance of forming solid relationships with demons, don’t follow the rituals established in the ars goetia. Those rituals are intended to lure and effectively trap demons while you “work with” them. Protect yourself against demons you don’t have strong relationships with and don’t trust, but trapping them and making them work for you is just asking for a demon to be pissed at you later.
Demons are not your tools or means to an end, they are entities that command respect and to be treated with dignity.
This isn’t discussed enough among practitioners, thank you for bringing it up.
There is plenty of important information in the ars goetia, and preserving it is important for the sake of history and learning from King Solomon’s mistakes. The reality, though, is that his approach to working with demons allegedly caused him to go insane and suffer at the hands of the spirits that he conjured.
If you want to have organic, healthy working relationships with the demons of the goetia, or any demon really, using demon traps or force summoning isn’t going to help you.
If anything, that is going to cause them to have an aversion to you, and it’s going to really fuck with your life, and your practice. Don’t be surprise if you trap a demon, force it to share its energy for a magical practice, and then suddenly everything in your life is going sour.
S. Connolly wrote several books on demonolatry that talk about working with demons in a healthy way. The Complete Book of Demonolatry is a great guide for people who want to work with these demons and their sigils without utilizing the seals.
I think this is extremely important to keep in mind when it comes to any spiritual entity not of our physical realm. They do not exist to be at our beck and call. They’re not around for our amusements. They’re not toys to be played with and then discarded later. If you’re going to disrespect otherworldly beings, don’t be surprised at being disrespected back in otherworldly ways that you may not be able to handle.
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