Author: Lee W Johnson

Everything has a lifespan, including the servitors you create, but how long that lifespan is, is determined by the actual purpose of the servitor, and if something goes horribly wrong what do you do? How do you get rid of the servitor instantly? Let’s have a look at those questions in more detail.

When it comes to my own servitors, I have a bit of a problem or difficulty in this area, because I do come to be quite attached to them. They are my creations, they are my children and, just like my real life child, I wouldn’t want to suddenly get rid of them.

The actual death process can be a bit difficult, but it’s a servitor and depending on what the servitor is created for, what its task is, will determine how long that servitor is active for.

If it’s a once-off task, then you can program the servitor to die after the task is completed.

In some cases the servitor is something that is ongoing through your whole life, maybe it’s something to do with health, maybe something to do with your business, your financial situation and things like that. These types of servitors continue to operate throughout your entire lifetime, so they will die when you do.

All these things should be programmed into the servitor at the very beginning.

When I say die, what I mean is, a servitor is a body of energy and that energy comes from a source, whether that be from you, the Elements or somewhere else, depending on how you created it.

At the end of its life span it then disintegrates back into the energy from which it came from. So if you created it from your personal energy, it just disintegrates back into your own energy.

If you created it from an Element, let’s say Air, it disintegrates and becomes the Element of Air again.

The energy body is a concentration of energy from the thing you created it from.

The death process is one where it just dissolves and disintegrates.

Apart from a programmed time that it will cease to exist as a servitor, if you are feeding it and then forget to do so, it will eventually die anyway. Like anything, if it is not being fed, it won’t survive.

If the servitor is being fed from an external force, such as the energy of another person or maybe it is eating negative energy that is being sent to you by other people, which is a constant influx of energy for the servitor, then it’s going to continue being fed and therefore won’t die. In a situation like this, it’s good to remember that the servitor could grow and become sentient and could start wreaking havoc, especially if it has a hoard of food at its disposal that never runs out. It will become a big fat servitor.

What do you do in the case of a servitor that has started running rampant? Maybe something just goes completely wrong.

Simply program a kill-switch at the beginning. It may be a command, a certain action, word or series of words that you do or say, and once done the servitor is no more.

What I like to do is I create the servitor’s name ending in a certain letter or syllable, such as EL. I then program it so that if I remove those letters or change them to something else in the name, say the name three times, and then clap three times, it will die, dissolve, disintegrate immediately.

Wherever it is, whether it’s in its house or off somewhere, this is pre-programmed in. It’s just a fail-safe just in case something does go wrong and you need that in order to just basically kill it. I hate using that word kill. I don’t like killing my servitors. I don’t like when my servitors die, but that’s just me. Maybe I get too attached to my servitors, who knows.

The other aspect to consider here is if you have housed your servitor in a vessel, I like to use stones, which makes the next process quite easy for me. But once the servitor has served its purpose, completed its task, and died, what do you do with the vessel?

Quite frankly, there is nothing magical about it anymore, it’s just an empty vessel, it’s just an ordinary piece of furniture around the house. 

You can for intents and purposes, throw it in the bin. If it’s a nice vase or a jar or an ornament or a statue of some kind, then you can just clean it and put it on the shelf.

The reason why I like using stones, which I take from a river, is that I can then return it to the river once it has served its purpose. That’s just my personal process.

So just to recap, the lifespan depends on the purpose, the task that it has.

If it’s a once-off thing, then as soon as the task is complete it dies. Otherwise if it is an ongoing task with no predetermined ending point, then you can program it so that when you say a particular word, do a particular action, visualise five things coming together and saying a particular word, whatever it is, whatever you feel works for you and something you’re not going to accidentally do, then you can pre-program that in as you create the servitor.

How many servitors is too many and what happens to our own energy? How much energy does a servitor actually require? How much does it take?

Very important questions to ask before going down the road of servitor creation.

When it comes to servitor creation there are a lot of questions regarding energy, use of personal energy, Elements, or some other source. Feeding it over a long period of time because a lot of servitors that you create are going to be around for a long period of time. Some of them could last for you the rest of your lifetime.

In a previous podcast I did mention that you should only create one, maybe two servitors, that are active at any one given time and the reason for that was the amount of personal energy that they take, if you are feeding them from your own energy.

If however you are using the Kabbalistic method where you feed them from the Elements, you’re not using your personal power and therefore it doesn’t drain you.

As you go more into servitor creation you’ll find you’ll start questioning things about the energy, about where it comes from, how the servitor is fed, how much energy the servitor needs. That all depends on your servitor and how active it is.

Of course if it is feeding from an external source, such as success from sales of a product that you sell for instance, then you don’t need to worry about your own personal energy and the health risks of becoming too drained.

Some people will say that you have to feed them once a week from energy that was generated within yourself or energy that you pull in from the Elements, energy that you pull in from places.

There’s lots of different ways you can build up the energy and feed the servitor.

That kind of approach gives a lot more energy to the servitor, so how much energy is enough.

I don’t think anybody can really agree on this but what I do want to mention is the use of personal power, the use of personal energy or your own chi in creation and feeding of the servitor.

In a lot of magical rituals and a lot of magical practices and acts we do expend a lot of energy, especially with servitors.

In the creation process itself, we do expend a lot of our own energy, in which case it usually leaves us feeling drained afterwards. Obviously we are going to regain that energy over two or three days, maybe a week, depending on how much energy you actually used.

During that period you will have to remember that your energy level, your chi, is so low that you are susceptible to disease and illness because you don’t have the protection. Chi actually builds up and is pushed through the skin creating an energy layer that is just above the skin. It’s called Guardian Chi. This layer above your skin is what protects you from outside influences, disease, viruses, things like that.

If you completely drain that Guardian Chi, you are going to be a lot more susceptible to these diseases and therefore it can be detrimental to your health, so if you have a very weak immune system, I will definitely advise you to be very careful with the approach you are going to take.

You have to develop your own personal approach and when you are developing these systems, these methods that are personal to you, you’ve got to use your imagination.

Think about it, educate yourself about what could happen or what might happen if you do this or that.

In one of Damon Brand’s books, he mentions that he houses the servitors in parts of his body.

The servitor might be housed on the tip of the tongue, one might be housed on the tip of the index finger, one might be housed on the tip of the right thumb or the whole right thumb, all different parts of the body. In this instance we could consider using something like the practice of Chi Gong to build up more Chi in order to feed them, but until you can actually gauge how much energy the servitors are taking, especially on a collective basis, you could end up depleting your entire guardian chi and become unhealthy, and if you have a couple hundred all housed over your body, you are going to need to produce a lot of energy.

It really needs to be looked at from a person-to-person basis.

Some people do build up a lot of energy naturally, as do I, but other people find that it depletes very easily. It depends on your lifestyle, it depends what you eat, it depends what exercise you do.

This all becomes personal to you, so how many servitors should you create?

It really depends on you.

While we are on the topic of energy draining, something you might want to consider, especially if you are a man, is the seven day creation method where you are using sexual fluids and orgasm to create your servitor. If you look into Chinese medicine and such things as Chi Gong, even tantric practices, you will find mention of men being drained of chi whenever they release semen. If you are doing this over a seven day period, you may not even have enough energy left at the end to launch your servitor. Just a curious side note there.

If this is a concern for you but you still want to use this method of creation and launching, then you can always build up the energy and concentrate it, and then on the last day, use orgasm and sexual ecstatic states in order launch your servitor. 

When it comes to magick there is no right or wrong way. Well, there can be a wrong way, because if you do something wrong it can go completely haywire, but what I mean by that is if somebody says this is the only way, they are talking nonsense.

There is no “only way”, there are lots of different ways you can accomplish a task or accomplish the act of doing magic, and you have to find the one that works best for you. You’ve got to keep developing and building.

Just make sure you adapt and grow, don’t get stuck in a rut thinking this is the way to do it and there’s no other way, because you’ve got to keep developing yourself, you’ve got to keep growing yourself.

Keep adapting, keep growing and you’ll become better and better as you go, and it never ends.

What do you do when your servitor isn’t pulling its weight and isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do?

There are a few options here, so let’s have a look at those.

Quite often we create servitors and send them off on their way and we wait a week, two weeks and we don’t get the results that we were anticipating. 

There could be a few reasons for this.

Maybe it doesn’t have enough energy.

Maybe it was programmed slightly wrong. There’s possibly a bit of a misunderstanding.

The objective of the servitor is to go off and do its task and what you programmed it to do and what you intended it to do. Sometimes we find that doesn’t happen.

There are three main options here.

The first one is to kill it. Just get rid of it and start again. 

To do that we can go back to the fail safe, the kill-switch, although if you can call it home then you can absorb it back into yourself, or dissolve the energy back into the Element, or just return it to the source that it was created from.

After you’ve gotten rid of that one you can then create a new one.

Just rethink the model, rethink the tasks that it’s meant to do, maybe rethink how you are creating it all together. Maybe a different method would work better.

In the first case it’s destroy and recreate.

In the second instance you can just find a different energy source.

Maybe the one you’re using isn’t potent enough to get the job done, so you can change the energy source or you can increase the current energy source. 

If you are giving it personal power, maybe you want to do some work where you are raising more energy within yourself in order to feed it.

You can use Chi Gong to generate more Chi or use the cone of power method from Witchcraft. Either way and whatever method you use, generate more energy, therefore giving it more energy, and then see if that works.

Giving it more energy doesn’t always get the results that you want though. You will have to again wait a week or maybe two to see if you get the results that you want after doing that, and then you may want to fall back onto one of the other methods if it doesn’t work.

It may be that you programmed it wrong. You may have had an intention in mind and the words that you used don’t quite relay that intention.

In many regards this wouldn’t happen because the intent you have gets pushed with the will and desire that you have. The words you use are not what the servitor is going to understand as the task.

Just rethink it. Go back to the drawing board. Look at how you structured it, how you structured the intent and what you told the servitor to do and maybe a change will do the trick.

The third method, which is probably my preferred method, is to create a supporting servitor.

Here you have your original servitor, which is doing its task, but not as good as it should. You then create another servitor to come in and help with the tasks, it aids the first one so they do the task together, but if it’s a complicated task then maybe the other one can split off and do some subsequent work, while this one is busy doing whatever it needs to do and then bring that work back, bring the energy back to the original one and give the original servitor support in what it needs to do. Sometimes there are just too many moving parts for one servitor to handle.

That’s definitely my preferred method because it does allow you to keep your original servitor around without having to feed it more energy or trying to figure out what went wrong.

This second servitor can actually hold the task of passing on communication to the first. This will allow you to communicate new messages to it which brings me to how to grow your servitor in its intention.

As an example, let’s say you have a particular product that you are trying to sell on a website. You create a servitor to bring people to the website, make them aware of the product and get them to purchase.

Subsequently you are working on another product which supports that first product. Now, you want to work with the same servitor you already have working on the website traffic and customers, because that servitor surrounds all of these processes and products. You can add to its programming to help you finish the development of this supporting product, and once it is ready, you then add to the programming of the servitor to also sell this product alongside the first one.

That is one servitor for the entire process.

What you can do is create two servitors that are all supporting each other and all working together.

One for the website sales and one for the development of the new product, instead of having just one trying to handle all of those things. You could even create a third one to join force with the first one and sell the new product alongside the first servitor that is selling the original product.

They would each focus on their areas, but they will all work together because it’s all part of the business.

So instead of putting too much demand and too much pressure on one servitor to do all the work, which may require it to need more and more energy. You can split that between two or more different servitors, all working on the same larger goal.

It’s very similar to sigil shoaling where you’re creating multiple sigils that have broken down a bigger goal into smaller parts of that goal. All work together to attain the larger goal. Team work.

If you want to get creative you can also bring a robofish into it.

For instance you have three servitors that are each focusing on a particular area of a larger goal or task, but you can have one servitor which is overseeing everything else. That servitor can report back to you on progress and any problems that are arising. This one becomes the manager or team leader.

Magic is an art so you have to get creative with what you’re doing. Get as creative as you need and remember to colour outside the lines.

That’s it for the first season of this podcast. I will be back on the 5th of May with some incredibly exciting topics. In the meantime be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I publish a new video every week and we also have the Black Hat Chat live show on my channel every Friday where Rev Kai and myself get together and talk about Witchcraft and Magick. Check out the linktree in the description for the link to my channel, and don’t forget to also check out my website and all it has to offer while you are doing that. Have a great Imbolc or Lughnasadh, depending on which hemisphere you are listening from, and I’ll see you here just after the Beltain/Samhain axis.

The good thing about servitors is that they are your own creation and therefore you can actually create them any way you want them to appear.

What they look like is completely up to you, but there are some things to bear in mind.

When I was learning kabbalah I was taught that all the spirits, in this context specifically speaking about the Angels and the Archangels such as Raphael, Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel, don’t have a physical body, they are bodies of energy. Imagine them as a ball of energy, and I believe this extends to all Spirits and Divine Intelligences

The reason why people have given all these spirits bodies or physical appearances is because we relate better to something we can actually associate with.

When it comes to servitors a lot of people give their servitors an actual physical form. Personally, I tend to create a servitor as a ball of energy.

During the gestation period, the actual creation period, what often happens is they stay a ball of energy, but other times they start forming into some kind of anthropomorphic form.

It can be anything, the last one I created actually transformed into a Phoenix.

When it comes to your servitors, as I say, you can create them in any way you want them to look, but if you are going to give them bodies of famous people or superheroes or something like that, you need to bear in mind that they come with  particular characters and associations, and unless that character and association ties in exactly with the task of the servitor then it might end up going in a slightly different direction than what you intended.

Just some things to keep in mind when you are deciding what you want your servitor to actually look like, even if it remains a ball of energy. If it’s a servitor or artificial elemental that has been created from Fire it might be a red ball of energy. If it was created from water it might be a blue ball of energy.

If you are going to create multiple servitors, then you might get slightly confused about which one is which, especially when they all appear together.

You do however know which is which. There is a certain energy about each one that you can relate to and you know which servitor is which, but you might want to (just for your own sake) give it a form, give it a natural body so you can more easily identify them.

You see a centaur and you know which servitor it is.

When you’re actually doing the creation process, the ball of energy that forms into a body that you can relate to can happen at a later stage; it doesn’t have to be decided right at the beginning.

It can also take on its own form, but when I say it’s own form, it’s not it deciding what it wants to be, it’s more a development of your own psyche at the end of the day.

Your servitor has a particular task that it needs to do and as you are creating the servitor you might start associating a particular form with the task that it’s intended to do.

I find that when I decide to create a servitor and it’s going to perform X, Y & Z tasks, during the process of the actual creation, those defined tasks may start to change a bit, because over time we think maybe we should have added this to it or that to it.

Things will change, so you don’t need to add those things to the task during the creation process, but those things do start creating form and start to give an appearance to the servitor.

Just let it happen in its natural way, just like a baby really.

During the gestation period of a human we all look the same, right at the beginning when we’re just divided cells, but as the fetus starts to develop and starts to form, then we all end up looking different.

It’s very much the same thing. You know you’ve decided you’re going to create a servitor.  You take it through that gestation period which is simply a ball of energy, and then you birth it at the end, but during that period it might form into something that looks a little different to what all your other servitors look like.

Even if it is a body of energy, you might have a ball of energy that has something a little extra than a plain ball. It may be a red ball with blue streaks or a yellow ball with purple spots.

It’s really up to your imagination at the end of the day.

Each one can and should look different to all the others you create.

There are some people who will say that forming your servitors into the appearance of mythical beings like a phoenix or a griffin, shouldn’t be done because there is a particular energy surrounding that form itself. I do disagree. Coming back to the last one I created which took on the form of a phoenix. There’s an association with the phoenix which is ancient, thousands of years old maybe and therefore it has a particular energy around it, but that energy comes into the actual formation or into the actual task of the servitor.

In this instance, it developed into a phoenix because its tasks were associated with a process of rebirth, and because the phoenix is historically connected with that association, it became ideal for the servitor that I was creating.

I didn’t start out with that intention, but as it was being created, I realised the associations, the tasks that it was set to do, and it became a phoenix.

Don’t be particularly pedantic about it, don’t set your mind on a form or appearance until it’s been created.

Even after it’s creation, if you still have a ball of energy, somewhere along the line it starts to develop into a form. That’s fine, let it grow.

It has to start somewhere and as you keep feeding it, it will grow. It will become stronger, it will become more adept at the task that it was set to do and as it grows it may form into an appearance that is ideal for its association, for its tasks.

Don’t be so fixed on what it should be and should do and what it should look like right at the beginning, because change is constant, we can’t decide on something now and just leave it that way for the rest of our lives. We have to flow with the current, we have to adapt, we have to change ourselves and therefore our servitors, our own  creations are also going to change, they are going to adapt and they are going to morph.

Once you’ve created a servitor you will need to feed it in order to keep it alive.

There are some standard methods that people generally talk about and use, but there are a lot of other methods that you can look at. I wanted to look at two specific methods today.

The reason we feed our servitors is because if we don’t they start to dissolve back into the energy that they came from.

The creation of a servitor comes from energy, which is usually your personal energy or that of the Elements.

I’m sure that we could come up with other ways to create a servitor, but generally it’s a concentration of said energy into a concentrated body.

That body we then programme with intent and certain instructions on lifespan, tasks, and how they feed.

The general way to feed the servitor is with the energy it was created from, or you can use your own personal energy, you can build up chi and use the excess chi. You can raise the energy of an Element and feed it with that energy. 

There are a lot of different ways that you can feed it.

You can use blood which is always from yourself, nobody else or an animal, only from you, and it only needs to be a drop, and blood sustains life.

There are a lot of other methods, but let’s talk about the ones I want to focus on.

The first one I would like to speak about was in a comment from someone on my YouTube channel, and it’s brilliant.

It comes from the work of Masaru Emoto. He was a Japanese businessman and pseudoscientist.

In 2004 he brought out a book containing images of the experiments he had been doing with water and emotions. The idea is that you programme water with a particular intent, and what he was doing was programming different vessels or containers of water with different emotions. He would then freeze the water and photograph the actual molecules of the water crystals. He found that water that was given the emotion of happiness, love, joy and things like that, had a very beautiful outcome. The formation of the crystals, the formation of the molecules created this beautiful pattern, whereas if they were given the emotion of hate, anger, frustration, all the negative emotions, then they would actually explode and they would form disconnected patterns that were in disarray, unlike the others which were ordered.

This is actually quite a good manifestation technique in itself in which that you take water and you concentrate emotion, and you visualise your intent into the water, and then you take it into yourself as you drink it and that brings the programmed molecules into your body which then helps your own body and the intent of the actual manifestation work you’re doing.

The commentator said that because she was programming water with solar energy and words, she got the idea to feed her servitors.

I actually put water on my altar, just for the spirits in general, so you can try to use this to feed your servitors. Place a glass of water that has been programmed with the intent of the servitor’s task next to its home and it can then feed on the energy.

The other one that I want to talk about is to give them offerings, as we would with other entities. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention this method. We can give them offerings of food, drink, even coins, jewellery, or shiny things.

A lot of people question how to actually give an offering to a deity or a nature spirit, but there are various ways that people go about it.

Some people will just take an extra helping of food at dinner time and put it on a separate plate and give it as an offering to the spirit. The next morning they will probably take it outside and leave it for the birds, ants and other animals in nature to consume.

There was a post that I read earlier this year, I think it was on a black magic forum, about giving offerings and how long you should leave the offering on the altar for and how to dispose of it, things like that. The answer I found to be extremely interesting.

The reason why we give offerings of food and drink to spirits is that they consume the energy from that offering. 

The act of giving the offering itself is an act of giving energy, and then the food and the drink itself has an energy in it.

With the food, specifically, as the food breaks down, it starts to degenerate, then the atoms, the molecules start to release energy as it decomposes.

As the food is decomposing, the molecules themselves are releasing energy, and so you leave the food for as long as you can. When it comes to a point where it’s finished decomposing or whatever point you actually want to get rid of it, because it could get a bit smelly, then take it outside and bury it in the ground.

The same thing happens with liquid offerings. Whether it’s an alcoholic drink or whether you put milk and honey out or even just water. It will evaporate and through that evaporation process, it’s releasing energy, and it’s that energy that feeds the deities, the nature spirits, the house ghosts, the brownies that keep your house nice and tidy, if you don’t keep it tidy yourself. You should though because otherwise the house ghost is going to get very upset with you.

So, why not give offerings to your servitors in the same way?

When it comes to feeding your servitors, think about ways you can do it. The whole thing is about releasing energy, to give energy, and it’s that energy that actually feeds the servitor.

If you can think of a manner that does this and will feed the servitor, then try it, use it and if you think of anything else, then leave them in the comments or send me a voice message on Anchor. I’m sure a lot of people will appreciate any ideas.

Today I’m going to talk about how to create an Artificial Elemental which is the same as a servitor.

We call it the Artificial Elemental in Kabbalah because it’s created from the elements rather than using personal energy or personal power which is mostly used in Chaos Magick.

There are quite a few differences between the creation of a servitor in Chaos Magick compared to practical kabbalah, which is why I decided to give them each their own spot to prevent any confusion.

To begin with, we’re going to need to create a name and a seal, or a sigil, that represents the Artificial Elemental, much like in the Chaos Magick method. In order to do this we need to use what is called the Yetziratic Wheel.

If you are familiar with Ceremonial Magic, specifically the Golden Dawn, you would have come across the Rose Cross.

The Rose Cross has two parts, the rose is the central part with the cross behind it. You’ll notice that the rose has three layers of petals. The inner layer, which has three petals are the three Mother Letters which represent the three Elements, Air, Fire and Water.

The next layer are the seven Double letters which represent the planets or celestial bodies, and finally the outer layer is the zodiac which are the twelve Simple letters.

When it comes to the Elements, in this particular application we only use air, fire and water, whereas in modern Magick, people often use the Element of Earth for Workings relating to money. So, if you want to create an Artificial Elemental for anything money related, what can you use?

It’s quite simple. Air is your mental element. It’s about intelligence, the mind, the brain and such things. Fire is more about passion, igniting things, getting things moving. Water is emotional, sexual. 

Let’s look at some examples of what you would do to create an Artificial Elemental for money related aspects.

A simple example would be a client that isn’t paying you, you need them to pay faster, or you need them to move faster. I’ve been doing web development for years and often come across cases where the client says that they need this and that by tomorrow, but trying to get the information out of them can take weeks and even months. In this case, you can use Fire, because it gets them moving. It ignites a flame under their backsides so to speak. Same with client’s that aren’t paying. Ignite fire under their backsides to get them paying.

Now, let’s have a look at Air.

Let’s say for instance you have an online business and you’re creating a course that you want to sell. Here, you can use Air to inspire you to create the course because it’s all about knowledge, it’s all about the mind. You’re bringing knowledge to people, so that would be the aspect of Air.

Now, let’s say you’ve created the course, and you want people to go sign up for it, then you might want to use Water, because it’s an online course that usually solves a pain point for your clients and for your audience.

What you may want to do is ignite emotions, play on their emotions in order to get them to sign up for the online course.

You can use the three elements in a way that doesn’t directly refer to the money, but they refer to the actions that you need to take in order to receive that money.

So, back to the creation of our Artificial Elemental. First, we create the name and the sigil as I mentioned previously. I’m going to use the example of having created an online course which we now want people to sign up for.

I am going to use Water and Air because I want to play on the audience’s emotions to drive them to go and sign up for the course, but the course is an online course and therefore it’s about receiving knowledge, which would be Air.

Using the Yetziratic Wheel, or the Rose Cross, we start with the zodiac, which is the sun sign of the person you are creating the Artificial Elemental for.  If it is for you, then you would obviously use your own zodiac. If there is more than one person involved with the situation then you can use multiple sun signs. I’m Virgo, so we are going to use that in this example.

Then you need to select a celestial body. In this case I might choose Jupiter and Sun, or Sol. We could also add Moon, or Luna, in this instance as it relates to dreams and emotions.

You will then go into the Elements, and here we are going to use Water and Air.

Now we have a selection. Virgo, Luna, Sol, Jupiter, Air and Water. When I draw the sigil I like to start with a circle and end with a curved line. The reason for this is the circle is representative of the beginning and end. It flows continually and it is the zero point, the nothing from which all things come and all things return. From this zero point the energy then travels along the lines. The curve at the end will bounce the energy back along the lines of the sigil, creating a continual flow of energy.

So, we start in Virgo with the circle, and then draw a line from there to Luna, then to Sol, then to Jupiter, continuing to Air and ending in Water, which gets a curved line to cap it.

You then need to take each of those and relate it back to the Hebrew letters. If you have my book, Elementals & Servitors, you will have all of the references in there. The eBook can be purchased on my website leewjohnson.com

As per our example, we’ve got  Virgo, which will be the letter Yod. Luna is Gimel. Sol or Sun would be the letter Resh. Jupiter would be Kaph. Air is Aleph, and finally Water is Mem.

You take all of these letters and you combine them and then come up with a name.

In this case we have Yod, Gimel, Resh, Kaph, Aleph, Mem. So we might create the name I’GRe’Ka’AM for instance.

So now we have the seal or the sigil, and the name.

Draw the sigil on a piece of paper, take it to your altar and standing in front of your altar you start breathing in the elements and direct them towards the sigil and build up again a ball of energy above the actual sigil, seal, whatever you want to refer to it as.

Now, just a quick break for some shameless, but necessary promotion. The next part of the process involves breathing techniques and pulling in the Elemental energy into your body and then directing it out of various points of the body. I will run through it briefly here, but the full explanation is not viable for a podcast discussion. If you would like to know more, please go to my website leewjohnson.com and purchase the eBook, Elementals & Servitors (it is $6.25). You will also find the Yetziratic Wheel with the translations and tables for the Elements, Planets and Zodiac with their related Hebrew letters.

And now to get back to it, and to put it into a nutshell, you will be standing in front of your altar and then you surround yourself with the element.

Because I’m using two elements here, you would work with one Element at a time, so you would breathe in Air and direct that into the seal and then breathe in Water and direct that one.  

It gets a bit difficult sometimes if you do that, so try and stick to just one Element, it just makes it a lot easier.

For the purpose of example, I am going to continue with just Water.

You surround yourself with the Element of Water and then you would breathe that into your pores. This is called pore-breathing.

Once you have pulled the Element of Water into your body, you then push it out and direct it, or concentrate it into a space on the seal or sigil. The points you push the energy out from are the five main energy points which would be brow, throat, heart, solar plexus and groin and out of each fingertip.

As you do this you focus that energy onto the seal and start to create a ball of energy. You then repeat that process over and over again so that the ball of energy starts to build up and grows bigger and bigger until eventually you’ll start feeling it push against you. When you feel that, just carry on pushing more and more energy into it so it becomes more concentrated.

Eventually when you’re ready, you then need to launch it, however, this is only necessary for the one type of Artificial Elemental.

There are two types of Artificial Elementals that you can create, much like in the Chaos Magick method spoken of previously. One that’s going to go out and do tasks and one that’s going to be formed inside an object, so it will be housed inside the object.

For the first one, where you are going to be sending it off to go and do whatever the task is, you would do as was mentioned earlier, pull in the energy, direct it into a concentrated space on the sigil and build up that energy. You then take your power hand and hold it just above the seal, or above the altar. You then slowly move your hand in a clockwise direction, all the time chanting the name of the Elemental.

As you circle your hand and chant, you progressively move faster and faster until it becomes a frenzy. When you’re going really fast, your hand starts moving up off the altar and you move even faster and faster then eventually you throw up your hand, shout GO and send it out.

The other type is where you would put it into an object, such as a plant, a tree, or a rock for protection of your property maybe. You could put it into an amulet or a necklace for protection of yourself, put it into a book for gaining knowledge. There are a lot of ways you could actually use this, but it’s something you want to keep close by.

In other words, it doesn’t need to go off and bring things back or whatever it may be doing if you send it away.

Now for this part you will need to understand what a Nefesh is. To explain it briefly, a Nefesh is the Lower Self, one of three parts of the soul spoken of in Kabbalah. It’s worth finding out more about the Nefesh as it is quite potent and quite powerful.

The Nefesh is the part of the soul which is action based.

The Ruach is the part that retains memory and so the two work quite well together because the Ruach, which is the Middle Self, is the rational side and the Nefesh is the irrational side. 

The Nefesh will go out and just take action, whereas the Ruach retains the memory. Without memory it’s kind of useless, so the two work hand-in-hand.

Everything has a spirit in Kabbalah, absolutely everything, every blade of grass, person, being, object, everything has a spirit and therefore everything has a Nefesh.

The Nefesh is the part that you use for the practice of Identification. There’s lots and lots that we can say about the Nefesh. It has knowledge of everything. It can be bi-located and split into two separate bodies, so the Nefesh can appear in physical form somewhere else while you’re in a completely different place. 

But to get back to the Elemental, you will be doing a type of Identification, which is a practice where you enter the body of something else. For this example we are going to use a tree.

By entering the tree, you become the tree. Your Nefesh combines with the Nefesh of the tree, and you have access to all memories, emotions and everything of the body that you are entering.

In the case of the Artificial Elemental and the type which is housed, you basically combine it with the Nefesh of the body, the tree in this example. The way you would do this is similar to what I explained before, but instead of creating a ball of energy and directing from the fifteen points of your body, you would build up a ball of energy between your hands by using pore-breathing whereby you project the energy out of and between the hands. As you build up the energy, you start to feel resistance as the ball of energy grows between your palms.

With this method, you place your hands around the object. So, you breathe in an element and then you breathe out between your hands, building the energy in the object and therefore the Elemental gets combined with the Nefesh of the tree.

When you are done, and if it is an object that is small enough to move, you can take it and place it wherever it’s meant to go so that it can do its job.

Incidentally, if you do a property protection Elemental which you put it into a rock, into a tree, or into a plant and put it somewhere on your property, you can create multiple ones.

If creating a property protection Elemental, a good Element to use is Air because it’s about the brain, the mind, the thinking process. It might not be so obvious why this would be protective though, so let me explain.

Imagine somebody comes onto your property with ill intent. They’re coming to rob your house. The Elemental jumps into action because it realises that the person has ill intent. The person stops, gets very confused, turns around and walks off the property and as soon as they’re off the property they realize what they were there for. They might then come back again, and as they enter the property they get confused again and can’t remember why they were there. They walk off the property and eventually they just give up. It’s because Air is being used, it creates the confusion in the mind of the person who has ill intent. 

So when you’re creating, really think about what Element you can use. Sometimes the answer is not that obvious.

Now that we know what a servitor is, we need to find out how to create them.

We actually create thought forms on a daily basis. Well, maybe not on a daily basis but more than we may think on a subconscious level, without actually consciously going about the act of creating one.

To consciously create a thought form or a servitor is a lot different and it has a more direct intent to it.

But let’s get straight into the actual creation. This will be a more general discussion, and I will discuss some of the aspects more indepth over the coming weeks.

The first step you want to take is to create a sigil and a name.

Therefore you start with sigil magick, which I have spoken about previously.

Once you’ve gotten to that point where you have broken down your will sentence into a few consonants, you then created your sigil or glyph, it is that glyph that becomes the sigil of the servitor.

You can go back to your collection of letters and create the name of the servitor. However, because you took out the vowels, you will need to put some back in so that you have a phonetic name.

Let’s say you have the letters M, P, R and N. Just trying to say that group of letters can be a little difficult and will not sound very good. If we add vowels then we may come up with MoPRuN, MopRuNe or maybe MaPRuNe for instance.

You can get creative here, just do whatever you want with the letters, even jumble them up to create something completely different such as RPMN instead of MPRN and then add vowels back into it and you might have RaPMaN, which would be great for a musical servitor. 

This really is as simple as taking those letters and creating some kind of sound that creates the name for your servitor.

Now, you have a name, and you have a sigil.

That’s step one. Step two is the actual creation process. 

The creation process in its basic format is one whereby you generate a lot of energy which gets directed into the sigil.

I’m going to mix a bit of the Kabbalistic approach that I learned into this as well.

With the Kabbalistic approach, when you’re actually creating the servitor, the thought form, the artificial elemental, whatever you want to call it, you build up the energy and then project it to a point. With each projection it creates a ball of energy and that energy can be whatever colour corresponds to your intent. For example if it’s money related, you can use green, if it’s romantically related, you might make it pink,  whereas if it’s about passion and sex, you can make it red.

If it’s about purification or protection you could probably use white, but you can also use black here, if you view that as protective. Black could be seen as the colour of earth, and earth creates a strong  barrier of protection.

Use colour correspondences that you feel would work for your purpose and how you feel about the colours.

Each time you project the energy onto the actual sigil, you therefore create this ball of energy and it keeps building and growing bigger.

There are a lot of different ways that you can create or generate the energy that you actually project onto the sigil for the creation process, but one of the most commonly used is sex magick and orgasm. This generates a lot of energy, very quickly, and it can be very intense.

Sex magick can be done solo, as a couple, or in a group. Just be sure that if you’re going to be doing this in a group setting or as a couple, that you trust every person involved.

Trust is a huge thing, it has to be. If you don’t trust somebody in a situation like this then you will find yourself in a very bad situation, so make sure you can trust everybody.

When it comes to sex magick and the creation of servitors, it is not just about the energy expended during orgasm. In this instance it is also about the sexual fluids, which are representative of the creation of life, whereas blood is representative of sustaining life.

This is the reason you may want to use sex for the creation of a servitor, because you’re going to want to put sexual fluids on the sigil which creates the life, but also orgasm to generate the energy which you then project onto the sigil to develop the “body” of servitor.

If you don’t want to use sex that’s fine. There’s a lot of other methods you can use.

You can use drumming for instance, or you can use dance. You could also use spinning to generate that energy. I wouldn’t use it myself because I know I’ll get dizzy and fall over, but that’s just me.

You can use basic meditation, breath work and visualisation as well. As you breathe in, you pull in the energy from all around you and form it into a ball of energy within you. That ball gets pushed out of your arms, out of your hands and into the object.

It’s basically building up energy and redirecting it, but if you are going to be creating servitors, you are probably at a stage in your magical practice where you already have a method that you use to generate and build energy, so I’m not going to go too much into that, as I say, there are lots of methods you can use.

Now, because I mentioned the creation of the name earlier, it would be a great idea to also use the name as a mantra whilst you are building up this energy. Chanting the mantra over and over again is fantastic for creating trance.

Once you have created your ball of energy, you will then need to program it. This is where you speak to it, give it its name and its purpose or its task.

If it has a lifespan, you program that in also. For some servitors you will only want it to complete a single task, and once complete, it will end. For others, you will need them to continue indefinitely, maybe the same lifespan as yourself so when you die, it dies, or when you find you no longer require its services, you can then end it. In this instance, the servitor will dissolve and return back to the source that it was created from. That would be the magician’s personal power if it was created from that, an Element, or whatever energy source was used during its creation.

Some people will perform the creation process once, therefore in one sitting, whereas others will take a week to create the servitor, sort of like a gestation period. If you are wanting to create your servitor over a week, then simply repeat the process every day. This can be really good to build the energy of the servitor. Each day you add a little more so it grows bigger and bigger.

By about the third or fourth day, you will actually start feeling the energy of the servitor. You may even feel a personality developing. After that week you can then sustain and feed it. Keeping your servitor fed is very important. If you don’t then it will simply dissolve and die.

Feeding can be done every week for the first month and then once a month after that, depending on the source that your servitor is feeding from. You may have created one that is feeding from a source external to you, such as absorbing negative energy for you.

The basic manner in which to feed your servitor is to simply give it more of the energy you used in order to create it, although you can use a drop of blood as blood sustains life. So if used sexual energy and sexual fluids in the creation, that being sex to create life, you can sustain that life by feeding it bloody afterwards.

If you are feeding it with other energy such as the Elements or other source, you can also use the mantra to generate that energy, bringing the chanting into a frenzy. As always, get creative.

Of course, how often you feed it depends on the purpose of the servitor and how often it is being used. If you are using the servitor a lot, you might want to feed it more often because it needs the energy to actually go out and do its work. Just like we need to feed to get energy, so does the servitor.

You may also want to consider housing your servitor, especially if it needs somewhere to rest between its work, or if you want to call it back to feed it for instance. This can be in the form of a statue, a box, a crystal ball, a rock, a piece of jewelry, the list is endless. However, make it something pleasant for you. If you choose an object that you don’t like, you are probably not going to connect with your servitor, because the servitor is going to be housed within the object.

Once you have the object which will house the servitor, just speak to your servitor and invite it into the object. If it doesn’t like the object then choose a different object until you find one that you both like.

The house can also double up as the feeding area. Put energy into the house and when it does come back to rest, it can feed on the energy that you have stored there.

With some servitors, again it depends on the purpose, you can create a permanent house. You would tie the servitor to the object. For instance if it’s for protection around your property you can take a stone or a rock, even a tree. The object would then become the permanent house of the servitor. If it is a rock then you would place the rock on your property, and when it needs to do any kind of protection it can come out and do whatever it needs to do.

There’s lots of reasons why you would need an object or housing for the servitor and lots of reasons why you may not need one.

The last thing I want to discuss about servitors is the death of a servitor.

If you are creating a servitor that you want for a long period of time, maybe the rest of your life, it could be a protection servitor for instance, that you want to keep around forever, you can program it to die when you die.

If it’s the kind of servitor that only needs to do a particular task for a period of a year or a month or whatever it may be, you can program it to die after that period.

When I say die there are two methods of either dissipation or absorption.

Dissipation is where the energy just dissipates and it becomes nothing. This will happen if you don’t feed your servitor, unless it becomes slightly sentient and finds a different source of food rather than you.

As an example, if it’s the kind of servitor that is going out to influence people in whatever manner, it can actually latch onto those people and start feeding off their energy and that will prevent it from dying, but usually dissipation will happen if you don’t feed it, in which case it is going to dissipate and fizzle away into nothing.

The other method is absorption where you absorb it back into yourself.

If you’ve used your own personal power to create the servitor, then in the creation process you’ve projected that power out to a point. Absorption is simply the reverse of that. You absorb the energy of the servitor back into yourself.

In this case it becomes an extension of yourself, an extension of your personal powers, a bit like externalising an archetype of yourself; of your own mind; of your own being.

That’s it basically.

Give it a bash and see how it goes.

You don’t want to create too many servitors if you are creating them from and feeding them your own personal energy because you will need to sustain them. So if you have one servitor, that’s actually plenty. So make sure it is for something that you really really need.

If you have five or ten servitors, the amount of energy that you may need to expend could be astronomical, so you are going to end up giving all your energy away to ten servitors and you’re not going to have any left for yourself. Unless of course you are not using your own personal energy. As I mentioned we will discuss these things a little more indepth over the coming weeks.

Let’s talk about servitors or thought forms. 

Today’s discussion will be about servitors or thought forms generally. What they are, what you can expect, etc.

Servitors are energetic thought forms that you, the magician or the witch, would create in order to go out and perform certain tasks for you.

What they can do for you is really limited to your imagination.

You can bring back information, you can bring back knowledge, you can spy on people, you can attract more customers and bring in more money, if you’re having problems with clients who aren’t paying then you can create a servitor for that purpose. You can create them for protection, you can create them for healing. The amount of things you can do with servitors is actually endless.  It all depends on your needs and your requirements and what you want to do with the servitor.

Now, there are a variety of different thought forms. The general one spoken about, that being the Servitor, is usually found within Chaos Magick.

In Kabbalistic practice it’s usually called an Artificial Elemental, and in this practice you generally only work with the Elements. In Kabbalah those Elements are usually Air, Fire and Water. In other traditions and paths you may use all four which would be Air, Fire, Water and Earth. There are some differences in variations between paths and practices themselves.

You also get egregores. In broad terms, an egregore could be likened to a God or Goddess. In many regards they are. If you look at the Christian God for instance, this God is an egregore.

In fact you may find that in a lot of cases, when working with a spirit, that spirit is quite often an egregore.

An egregore is very similar to a servitor, in that it is an energetic being that has been created by a magician or a witch, a person. That servitor was sent out to do a particular thing or perform a particular task and therefore, it has certain aspects tied to it. As an example a servitor that is created to bring in money would have aspects of wealth, prosperity and abundance, or a love related servitor would encompass such things as love, sex, desire, lust, romance.

As that servitor grows, it becomes stronger. If it is then used by multiple people, it is then fed more energy and grows exponentially. It is this group energy that causes the servitor to grow even more, and it can gain sentience and it is then that the servitor becomes an egregore. This means that it will feed off the group, and the group can tap into its energy to achieve their goals for those aspects that egregore is assigned to. The bigger the group, the more powerful it becomes and then the magick becomes easier.

You can imagine an egregore as a cloud that hovers over a group of people. As the people in the group feed it more energy, it grows bigger. As the group grows, so does the cloud, and those people can tap into the knowledge and power that the cloud or egregore holds.

There is always a give and take. You can take the information, knowledge and power, but you also have to give back energy which allows the egregore to grow and also survive.

Now, I’m not saying that all Gods and Goddesses are egregores. You do have the original energies, the original powers, but in a lot of cases those original powers may have been introduced into a certain society which has changed them into something different.

As an example, let’s say a deity is introduced into a small village. The people in that village start worshipping that deity and over time, over generations, over centuries, you might find that the intention gets morphed a bit. Then, from the original energy that was the God or Goddess, it’s become something a little bit different and that can become an egregore. I do however believe that even when we morph the energy of a deity into an egregore which is not that deity specifically, more kind of like a carbon copy that has been altered slightly, it still connects to that original energy that was and is the deity.

Now, if you are working with the original energy of the deity or an egregore doesn’t actually matter. You will still get the results you require, and that is what counts. In fact it is probably easier to work with the egregore as the energy isn’t as strong, which can quite often knock you off your feet.

I do want to have a look at the group mind briefly, as it is a very very powerful thing and is sometimes called the mob mind.

Imagine a situation where there’s a large group of people in one area. One person all of a sudden has a gripe with somebody else and that person starts screaming and shouting. Then another person joins in because they have the same problem with this somebody. It may not be a somebody, it may be a political issue, but whatever it is, more and more people who share the same viewpoint start to rally together and the group starts to grow. The energy starts moving from that one person towards all the other people, and all of a sudden you’ve got this mass of people that are all connected to a group mind or a mob mind. This is not exactly like an egregore, but if you were to actually see the energy you’d probably find that cloud forms over the top of this group or mob. However, once that group then disperses and people start disconnecting from that energy of the group mind then things start to calm down and everything goes back to normal. Quite often some of the people that were part of that mob mind will wonder why they got involved to begin with. They simply get taken up by the passing energy and get hooked into it.

So, it is very similar to what we’re talking about with an egregore, however a mob mind is short lived, whereas an egregore will have a much longer lifespan, often over centuries.

The egregore is a very interesting topic but it’s not quite what we are going to talk about today.

I’m going to be focusing specifically on servitors which can help you with your life. As I said, you can do anything with them, whether it be bringing in money, bringing in love, finding sex, helping your spiritual journey, bringing in more knowledge, protection. It can be many, many, many things, whatever you actually need and desire.

So, a servitor is an energetic being that you create to go out and perform a task, whatever you need. 

A lot of people will say that you are to command the servitor. In terms of this we have to look into any kind of spiritual or magical work where we are working with entities, whether it’s an energetic being that you are creating or if it’s an angel or a demon, but specifically in the area of demons where you get the evocation workings in regards to the Goetia and the other Solomonic Grimoires that were written a couple or a few centuries ago.

The problem is that those Grimoires were based very much on Christian concepts and within Ceremonial Magick. You will find that you are instructed to command, trap, bind and threaten the Spirits. However, if you do that, the Spirits aren’t going to be very kind to you if they get loose, just like a person would retaliate if you did the same thing to them. When someone has learned these methods, they tend to often allow that behaviour to spill over into their servitor workings.

In many ways such a person may develop a bit of a “god complex”. Because of that they feel like they are supposed to command the servitor, but this work is like creating a child and this child needs you. You have created a baby which came from you. This child is not something that you just get to push around and beat on whenever you feel like it because you are its “Master”. You’ve made this entity, this energetic being. You’ve created it, and it becomes your child. You’ve got to view it the same way.

In Abarat by Clive Barker, there is actually a scenario where one of the characters has created an entity to do it’s work around the house.  However, this character beats it up, pushes it around, and puts it into a cage when it’s not working, generally treats it like an animal, worse than an animal, you shouldn’t even treat animals like that. Eventually it get’s a foothold and it gets out of the cage, and because of all the pain it has been put through, it retaliates and it destroys the person, the owner, the “master”. Even if you look into BDSM where you have a Master/slave relationship, the Master isn’t there to unnecessarily abuse the slave. 

The Master will encourage and care for, help to bring out aspects in the slave that the slave is too scared to actually bring out themselves. In the case of the servitor, this is your baby, this is your creation. You’ve got to treat it the way that you would if it was a physical being.

Anyhow, I just want you to keep that in mind because I remember in the past I saw a lot of books written about servitors and commanding and binding and caging and I don’t know how people can do that, but anyway.

We should also talk about the artificial anthropoid.

You may have heard of the golem. Not however Golem from Lord of the Rings.

A golem is mostly found in the Kabbalistic Hebrew texts that has a physical body that has been given life, usually created for protection, by a Rabbi.

Probably the most famous of these is the Golem of Prague. Fascinating story.

But the golem has a physical body, usually made of clay, that the Rabbi would perform certain rituals upon which then brings the clay body to life. There is a particular Hebrew text written on its forehead which means life, and when you wipe one letter out, it changes the word to death and the golem then dies.

So, that’s just a brief look at the servitor which ties in nicely with Chaos Magick, but also with sigil magick which I spoke about previously. With the servitor you create a sigil, and from that sigil you then create a name and even a chant that can be used when creating the servitor. 

Following this I will discuss how to create a servitor from the Chaos Magick perspective and then following that, an Artificial Elemental from the Kabbalistic point of view.

The servitor is a very broad topic, so if you have any questions over the course of this discussion over the next few weeks, please leave a comment below in the blog post, or a voice message on Anchor if you are listening to the podcast.