Chaos Servitors - A User Guide
Chaos Servitors - A User Guide
Phill
(Or was it Phill Hine?)
SERVITOR DESIGN SEQUENCE
Defining your general intent will assist you if you wish to use symbols &
magical correspondences in creating your servitor. For example, if you were
interested in creating a servitor to act within the sphere of Healing, then you
could assemble any associations, symbols, emotions, memories, etc which you
relate to the concept of Healing. By consulting a book of magical
correspondences such as '777', you could build up chains of correspondences planetary figures, scents, colours, planetary hours etc. How far you go in this
direction is very much a matter of personal choice.
Here, you are creating the core of the Servitor's purpose -the Statement of
Intent which is analogous to the Servitor's aetheric DNA. Formulating the
Servitor's Statement of Intent may necessitate a good deal of self-analysis into
your motivations, desires, realistic projections of goals, etc. As in all sorcery
operations, it is appropriate to ask advice from your preferred form of
divination. To continue the example of a Healing Servitor, an appropriate
Statement of Intent might be: "To promote rapid recovery and health in ...
(name)..." Once you have determined the appropriate Intent to form the basis
of your Servitor, then the Statement can be rendered into a sigil, or glyph..
There is a wealth of magical & mythic symbols which you can draw upon when
creating a servitor, which can be used to represent different qualities, abilities
and attributes. There is also the symbolism of colour, smell, sound & other
sensory media to draw upon. In order to refine the 'program' which forms the
basis for your servitor further, you could embellish the sigil by adding other
symbols.
The above illustration shows the 'program' of a Healing Servitor. Its core sigil
has been placed within a hexagram, and the number 7 has been added to it.
Here, the hexagram represents balance, health, life enhancement and Solar
qualities, also forming the elemental symbols of Fire (representing healing fire,
the burning up of fever) and the elemental symbol for Water (representing
expulsion of toxins through sweat, calming influences). The number 7
represents the idea of harmony, and also represents the duration of the
Servitor's operation. The entire figure forms the 'instructions' for the Servitor
which will be visualised as forming a part of it, during it's launch phase.
Here, you should consider the duration of the Servitor's operation. In other
words, do you want the Servitor to be 'working' continuously, or only at specific
periods? Here, you may wish to take into account phases of the moon,
astrological conjunctions or planetary hours, for example, which could be
added into the Servitor's symbolic instructions. The Healing Servitor above for
example, was instructed to be active for a period of seven days, affecting it's
target recipient for seven minutes, at seven hour intervals. This instruction
serves to reinforce the number symbolism & association with harmony. It is also
at this point that you should consider what happens after the Servitor has
performed its task. It is generally held to be preferable that when a Servitor has
completed its task, the Servitor should be disassembled by its creator. There
are two approaches to doing this. Firstly, one can encode a "self-destruct"
instruction into the Servitor at the time of it's creation, where the duration of its
existence is defined in terms of the duration of its task, or the fulfilment of a
specific condition. For example, the Healing Servitor could be defined so that
it's sigilised Statement of Intent is:
5. Is A Name Required?
The Servitor can be given a name which can be used, in addition to its sigil, for
creating, powering, or controlling it. A name also acts to further create a
Servitor's persona. A name can reflect the Servitor's task, or be formed from a
mantric sigil of it's Statement of Intent. The example Healing Servitor was
given the name TUMMYHUM, a rather whimsical reference to its function.
The Material base is some physical focus for the Servitor's existence. This can
help to define the Servitor as an individual entity, and can be used if you need
to recall the Servitor for any reason. Examples of a material base include
bottles, rings, crystals, small figurines as used in fantasy role-playing or figures
crafted from modelling compounds. Bodily fluids can be applied to the material
base to increase the perceived link between creator and entity. This is very
much a matter of personal taste. Alternatively, the Servitor can remain freely
mobile as an aetheric entity. I tend to find that one-shot, task-specific servitors
can be left as aetheric entities, whilst for entities which have more of alongterm use, a material base is often helpful. For others, it might be possible to
link their use to a specific, identifiable, state of consciousness, which forms part
of the core associations which one builds up for a Servitor. It is also possible to
link a Servitor to a specific smell, such as a perfume or essential oil, so that
each time the oil is applied, the Servitor is activated. This can be particularly
Servitors can be created to have any desired shape, from tiny homunculi to
morphic spheres capable of extruding any required appendage. The shape you
choose to identify with this particular thought-form can add another level of
representational identity to the entity. A common practice though, is to
visualize the Servitor as a featureless sphere, pulsing with energy, glowing with
appropriately chosen colours, into which has been impressed, it's sigilised
instructions.