While I cannot say that preparing for an operation from the Heptameron has been easy, I can say that it has been rewarding thus far. One of the many emphases in Liesewski’s book is focused on the preparation of the pentacle. That’s what I’m filling you in on here, and then I’ll be going through the rest of the setup process as the time arrives.

I have to apologize that my posts have been less frequent of late. I have some catching up to do, but I have to tell you about my latest magickal experiment.

Remember when we were talking about creating servitors? Well, here’s the next installment: name and appearance. Let’s talk about appearance first.

I’m going to do an eight-part series on Servitors over the next couple of weeks, so you might want to pay attention to this. If you’ve ever thought about using Servitors for your own ends, then you may find this quite an enjoyable series.

Just to give you a brief intro to the subject of Servitors, lets define what they are.

The darkness and the light. The day and the night. The movement and the stillness. The hard and the soft. The open and the closed. The above and the below. What are these pairs of words? They are thoughts on polarity. And polarity, as we know, is inclusive of both men and women, the male godform and the female godform. But aren’t we a bit unbalanced as modern groups go?

Today, I took a nice long shower, cleansing myself psychically as well as physically. After, I lay on my recliner under a blanket and put myself into trance, hypnosis-style. I envisioned Phorlakh’s sigil on the big black curtain in my Magick Theatre, and then walked through the portal. I vibrated “Adonai ha-Aretz” (phonetic: ah-doh-nye hah-ah-rets) and then waited. Phorlakh showed up almost at once.

When you make a “spirit box” (as they are sometimes called) or a “spirit pot,” you have to find out what to put in the box/pot, and what color to make it, and so on. So for my purposes, I used Liber 777 to come up with correspondences for Phorlakh so that I could make a box in which he could place some of his essence.

According to Liber 777:

• Phorlakh is an Angel of the Earth Element, and the key # is 32bis
• Element: Earth (cold and dry)
• General Tarot Attribution: Coins/Discs/Pentacles
• King Scale/Color: Citrine, Russet, Olive and Black (Quartered, these are the colors of the earth pentacle used in Golden Style magickal evocation given in Summoning Spirits)
• Queen Scale/Color: Amber
• Emperor Scale/Color: Dark Brown
• Empress Scale/Color: Black and Yellow
• Animal: Bull (Cherub of Earth, also Taurus sign)
• Plants: Oak and Ivy (apparently all cereals, as well)
• Stone: Salt
• Weapon: Pentacle, Bread, Salt
• Perfumes: Storax, all dull and heavy odors
• Sense: Touch (North)
• Supreme Elemental King: Thahaaothahe (phonetic: thah-hah-ah-oh-thah-heh)
• Archangel of the Quarter: Auriel (phonetic: oh-ree-el)
• King of the Elemental Spirits: Ghob (phonetic: gobe)
• Attribution of the Pentagram: left lower point

Using these correspondences, I made Phorlakh a box. The box itself is actually a black box in which I received a watch as a gift over the holidays. Inside, it is coated with black faux velvet. I placed the following inside the box:

• a string of nine amber and nine jet beads
• a sprig of ivy from the back yard
• a vial of salt
• a length of yellow and black embroidery thread braided together
• Phorlakh’s sigil painted in yellow paint on a white piece of paper
• a pentacle pendant from an old necklace (which I’d still be wearing otherwise, but I thought a bit of a sacrifice was necessary)
• a piece of Jet that used to be in the shape of a crescent but has been broken for quite some time

I then visited Phorlakh and got his permission to place his name (in Hebrew) and in his sigil on the outside of the box. He told me to also put on the box, once on each side, the name of the elemental spirit “Agla.” I asked if it had to be in Hebrew, and he said, “No.” Then I asked if Enochian was appropriate. He said that if I preferred, I could use Theban or Latin or something else, but not Enochian. I agreed. After I put the appropriate names and sigils on the box in metallic gold paint (an earthy tone, having to do with money, which is of the element of earth), I tied around the box a nice silken ribbon dark brown in color.

I have since given several tea-lite candles to Phorlakh by lighting them in front of the box. In addition, I recently melted some yellow wax and used an empty tea-lite container to make a wax circle upon which I carved Phorlakh’s sigil.

When I attempted to evoke Phorlakh to the physical plane, I had both the box and the waxen sigil in the triangle in order for him to charge them.