Magickal Servitors by Damon Brand
Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: It sounds like servitors can do anything. Are there any practical limits?
A: It’s largely down to your starting point. One person’s miracle is another person’s mundane. And this applies to all magick, not just servitors. Servitors can bend reality, but not sidestep it altogether. I think the answer is in the book, where I say, “Ask for results that would not be obtainable without magick, but not for results that you’d regard as a miracle. As an occultist, you fashion a good life by creating many magickal leaps that help your life progress, rather than drawing down one huge miracle. If you can keep that in mind, and allow your servitor to do its job, you will get the results you seek.”
Q: How would a servitor motivate a person who has been suffering from a lack of motivation for years?
A: If you create a servitor to change that aspect of your personality, it can direct the change for you. You’d have to be motivated enough to create it and sustain it, but that’s all.
Q: If servitor can boost character traits, can they also diminish negative belief systems?
A: Yes. The magick is very open to adaptation and interpretation.
Q: I’m not sure if my plan for sustenance is good. What do you think?
A: In the book it says, “Often, merely acknowledging the servitor’s existence is sufficient to provide it with continued life.” Anything above and beyond this should be good enough.
Q: Can you program a servitor to help out a certain number of hours a day?
A: Yes. Work this into the Timing of Action.
Q: Can servitors use negative energy for sustenance? If they are used to help out with knee pain, can they use the inflammation and negative emotions as a source of nourishment?
A: Yes, but be aware that when the problem is solved, the servitor will be gone. If the problem returns, you may need to create a new entity.
Q: I’ve got an idea for a servitor that I want to create. Do you think it would work?
A: If you feel that a servitor could work, give it a go. Your intuition will guide you.
Q: Can I create a servitor to help someone else? If so, does the person have to be aware of that situation?
A: You can, and the other person does not need to be aware of the servitor. You should house and maintain the servitor yourself, and it does not need to be physically connected to the other person.
Q: Can I discuss my servitors with others?
A: Be cautious for all the obvious, mundane reasons. Our worst enemies are usually the people who were close to us once. Other than that, there is no reason why not.
Q: Do servitors need to rest?
A: There is no need for rest, and many are set up to work continually.
Q: Can I house my servitor in…?
A: You can house it in whatever you want. Obviously, I prefer the method in the book, but you really can use anything.
Q: Isn’t this magick too advanced for beginners?
A: Where other books say ‘do this, do that, and here’s your result’ this requires far more input from you. But that’s also where its power lies. It is more advanced, in that it requires you to intuit and decide what to do. It also requires imagination. From what I’ve heard, beginners can get a lot out of it. It’s important to remember that servitor magick was invented centuries ago, but made workable and popular largely by young adults in the eighties who were willing to try anything – so it can be quite loose and free and non-exacting. The more you let go of perfection, the easier it is to get a result. I think it can be intimidating as it feels like you have to make a lot of decisions, but that is the beauty of the system. Each decision gives you fine-tuning, control, power.
Q: Is there a limit on how many tasks you should give to each servitor? I’ve heard you shouldn’t give them too much to do.
A: I think each servitor should have a general area of operation, but can be assigned many tasks so long as they are within its remit.
Q: Do I need to program my servitor to be curious and to learn?
A: Being born of your desire, it will be as curious, wise and cunning as is required to get the result. When you have children, you make love and get a baby – you don’t have to wire up the brain and program the instincts. It’s all there, as if by magick. Servitors are the same – you create them with a purpose and the magick that is required goes on under the hood.
Q: How can I make a servitor stronger?
A: Set the servitor tasks that it can achieve. When it is working well and achieving results, set it slightly harder tasks. If need be, recall the servitor and retask it, taking into account the more powerful results. That is, be guided by the specific results you want, rather than a general desire for ‘more power’.
Q: Is there a way of verifying the servitor’s existence?
A: The best way is to use the servitor as planned, and see the result you seek. Other than that, if you’re trying to prove that it’s real, you’re burdening your magick with doubt. Accept the servitor’s reality, rather than seeking proof. That way, you expect results and they come. There’s no better way to know your servitor than that.
Q: I can’t feel the servitors presence, but I really want to. How can I?
A: Some people do, some don’t. It isn’t important, but if you get hung up on it then you may stifle results. Instead, act as though it is real, and results will come. The result are what you are seeking, after all – any sensation of a servitor as a real entity is a bonus or side-effect, depending on your point of view, but is certainly not important and absolutely should not be your main purpose.
Q: You’ve been doing magick for decades but I’m new to this, so how can I possibly be good enough at visualisation?
A: As the book says, ‘The visual aspect is not all that important.’ It also says, ‘If your visualization skills are not good, you can still get worthy results.’ I cannot make it much clearer than that. You do not need to be an expert at visualisation, and as detailed in the book, so long as you use the methods as described, you will be doing it right.
Q: You mention emotion in the sustenance stage, but not in the creation/birthing stage. Why?
A: I don’t think it’s required. If you do, feel free to modify the method.
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Hi folks, I hope everything is going well for you!
Regarding purposes and powers, do the powers have to be really specific tasks or can you fit 3 simple “purposes” as powers under a categorical Purpose?
It’s difficult to answer, because it depends on the powers and I can only really guide you back to the book and see if you think that what you’re asking for is all harmonious. Overall, I’d say, yeah, you can build, say, a Sales servitor, and it could be used to make customers feel happy, make them enjoy spending, and it could be sued to make you sound convincing to them. Worth a try!
In my particular case, I started out with a servitor to increase motivation. But for all the motivation I have, it only can go guided to the current thing I am doing, which might not be the most useful for the day. I figure that the problem is both procrastination and lack of organization due to having procrastinated to much already causing a blockage in proper results. So if I could either develop my current servitor or create a new one for “getting my shit together” with the motivation increase, the demolishing of procrastination and organizing my days to actually know what to get done according to priorities I’d probably better off.
What do you think about this? And if you feel you have any suggestions as powers that could be also useful for the purpose of getting it together I’d appreciate getting to know about them, Thanks!
I think you’ve hit item intuitively – that lack of organisation is tried to the procrastination. So, yes, one servitor tuned to cover all these areas could work. I could be wrong, but but it sounds right to me. AB
Thanks AB, I shall quickly review the book to check if I can rework on my current servitor of if I have to make a new one.
Hello Adam B! I have a query about servitors,.again! As I mentioned on your FB page recently, I would like to pick your brain about servitor creation. I don’t know when you will read this. Hope to hear from you.Thanks!
Hi. Here now. Might take a day or two to reply, but I’m back online.
Hello! ok, then I will just ask and wait for answer.
I have already worked with servitors as you might remember from the first time I came over to ask something about it.
This would be my third servitor. This time around it is for traveling. I want it to protect which is important when going anywhere these days, but! I would like to also give it another purpose. So it will really have dual purpose you could say. So it would be first: For protection while I travel etc. Second: Is for something else, still related to my travel, but leaning more to the physical, hmm, charm, etc!. But I find myself postponing the creation, because I know is two different sort of purposes, but not really. I do not want to create two travel servitors. As it is I will still be feeding my other two babies 🙂 – my first two servitors- I do not want to stop doing that.
I find it easy to create them, and get to love them easily. I guess I do that. But that is fine, because they serve me brilliantly. I find it easy to know how it will look, name, main characteristics and sigils. I tend do work first on whatever comes to my creative flow. But Purpose is where I get stuck. I know what power I would like it to have as well as primary purpose, but I get stuck once I want to do conception. Is there a way to word the purpose so that it would encompass both things I want it to do?
I hope I did not go on too long with this query. I am traveling by the end of this month and I have been trying to create this particular servitor since the middle of last month.
Thank you much for reading and your help 🙂
Best!
*M*
Hey, I’m still here, so can answer now. Couple of solutions. One would be to use other magick to protect travel – there’s lots in the angel books, in Magickal Protection. That would leave your third servitor to do one thing, the other thing you have in mind.
The other is to create two servitors. I know you said you don’t want to, but it if you’re getting that stuck at Purpose, then it sounds like your intuition is screaming at you not to make a jumbled servitor. If you can’t find a way to make it do what you want, cohesively, then perhaps it’s not a good idea to jam all that into one servitor.
There is a final way, which is to see the overall event, your travels and all that happens, as a significant event, which you wish to be safe with a particular outcome, and you create a servitor that has this one purpose – to make everything safe, to go as planned, for ‘charm’ stuff to go the way you want, and for you to return happily, with everything charmed, safe and happy along the way. But, in truth, this would mean it was a one-use only servitor, (unlikely you’d need that mix again), and this type tends to be a bit weak and vague. The other two options are probably better.
Yes! I did think that. About making a separate protection magickal work and leave the servitor to do the other. It did cross my mind. What you suggest. About 2 servitors. What stops me is the time frame I have as I like to prolong the gestation process and I want to give my servitor enough time to get comfortable. Maybe its just me, but I have noticed servitors need time to adjust to “life”. Lesson learned from my first servitor.
I think the best solution is the first you suggested. Create separate magickal protection and make just the one servitor for the rest of my travel purpose. I shall do that.
Thank you so much! Out of all the books I bought from GOM, the one that I felt more at ease with is the Magickal Servitors book. Is like I am a duck to water. Easy piece! and of course Chaos Magick, definitely!
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I look forward to another lovely find from your publications.
Best!
*M*
Hello again Adam B, Just wanted to add, I didn’t know you have another book! Sigils of Power and Transformation. I like working with sigils. Looking forward to my purchase. Not a fan of e-books, I am getting the paperback edition. Looking forward to this book. So glad I went back to amazon to look up something else and found it.
M
I have been working with a servitor to find a lost item. But haven’t fount it after two weeks. Should I re task it or just keep asking it to find the item or just leave it alone to find it in it’s own time?
Hi Christina. Tricky one, this – finding lost objects is always quite strange with magic because it can be so, so easy or really difficult because you can’t let go of the ‘looking’. So to remain active makes it hard not to lust for the results. What you might want to do is retask the servitor and ask it to find any item you lose, forever – make it a servitor you keep for a long time. This gives it an ongoing purpose and that can sometimes (just sometimes) help to urge a servitor into action. The alternative is to completely let go, forget about it, so long as the servitor knows it only gets fed or rewarded when it finds something for you. Actually, that’s another way to retask – a little more coercively; you tell it that it will fade into nothingness unless it finds the object for you. Sometimes works, going about it in that way. Sometimes, too, things are just so lost that no magick can find them – I hope that’s not the case for you.