How to Summon a Demon

If I didn’t learn anything else from heavy metal, horror movies and Dungeons and Dragons, then I learned that demons are amazing . I want to invite as many people as possible into my life to follow my orders and participate in violin competitions. I’m sure you are too, which is why I’ve prepared a step-by-step guide to summoning otherworldly creatures. Since this is our first time summoning demons, we’re not going to start with Lucifer’s command. Instead, we will call a humble, tribal spirit into the glass.

This household rite is derived from a handwritten untitled grimoire , written around 1577. Known as a practical guide rather than a theoretical one, the book contains marginal notes from numerous unknown renaissance magicians/copycats who apparently tried to follow his formulas. (The book, by the way, is the original source of the magic word “Abracadabra!”)

A word of caution before starting a ritual: Many experienced magicians (wizards, warlocks, necromancers, etc.) argue that even a simple ritual requires a lifetime of dedicated spiritual practice and should not be done lightly or you may suffer great harm.

But they just want to get all the demons for themselves – the esoteric mystic rituals are easy to perform, fun and, since it’s all fiction, pose little danger, except for your mom, who will yell at you for stealing all her candles.

That’s over, let’s call something! The original spell is sometimes confusing due to the age of the language and the fact that it’s handwritten, but I tried my best.

Calling the spirit into the glass

Step one: gather everything you need. You will need:

• clean towel
• “Fair table”
• Glass
• Olive oil
• Wine
• Holy water
• White bread
• Fire

Step two : Place a clean towel on your (fayre) table and place a glass on it.

Step Three: Read the speech. Stand over your glass and read the following Latin aloud. Use an authoritative deep voice (so cooler): ” Omnipotens sempiterne deus adesto magna[e] pietatis tue misteriis, adesto piis Invocationibus nostris ut speculum istud quod in tuo nomine bene dicere facto… “.

This goes on for a very long time. The rest you can see in the source text. Make sure you read all of this and don’t miss out on the pronunciation of the words, otherwise it might not work.

Step Four: Read the dedication. Say the following out loud: ” deus qui hoc speculum ex materia fragilili …” You know what? Again refer to the source.

Step Five: Put five drops of olive oil into a “like a rose” glass.

Step Six : More Latin. Say ” discendat in hoc speculum virtus Spiritus Santi… ” etc. e. Check the source.

Step Seven: Apply five drops of oil to your thumbs and fold the cross.

Step Eight : More Latin !

Step Nine: Sufflate (?) and say ” discendat in hoc speculum [ut] supra”. (Good short.)

Step 10 : Wash the glass with wine, holy water and slices of white bread.

Step 11: Put everything on the fire – glass, table, towel, everything. This will help the spirit in some vague way.

Step 12 : If you did everything right and did not make a mistake in the pronunciation of Latin, you should soon see the appearance of the spirit. But you won’t hear him/them/it. So, you must…

Step 13: Read more in Latin .

Step 14: Shortly after your last recitation in Latin, the otherworldly spirit should become visible and audible. If you have done everything right, he/she/it will “app[e] with a voice that speaks and [d]reduces everything according to its will.” Good.

Consequences of your ritual

So, how was your ritual? Do you have a new friend to hang out with? If yes, then control can be a problem. And I have no idea how to send it back to where it came from, so that’s where you are.

Unfortunately, my ceremony didn’t work. Perhaps I mispronounced the word “discendat”. Or it could be a problem with the whole concept of “summoning demons”.

What do we talk about when we talk about summoning demons

Rituals to summon supernatural beings or powers are (and are) practiced in many spiritual traditions, from Shinto to Santeria. Different rites have different meanings and consequences in different traditions, so know that I’m only talking about the Western idea of ​​summoning obviously evil beings to the material plane. Like you see in horror movies.

Early history of summoning demons

Summoning a “patron god” (urban demigod) was common before battles in ancient Rome, but it’s not the same as summoning a demon. For that you need to fast forward to early Christianity.

Summoning a demon to do your bidding is central to the Testament of Solomon, a text falsely attributed to King Solomon that was written sometime between the end of the 1st century CE. and the High Middle Ages. In it, an angel gives Solomon a ring with an inscribed pentagram. Solomon uses his magic ring to force Beelzebub and the other demons to build their temple.

However, Solomon does not make a pact with these demons. He is depicted as a holy man, acting according to the will of God, enslaving the demons with His power. Early books of Christian practices for would-be magicians follow this model. The Key of Solomon , for example, contains spells (such as ” How to Make Holy Garters “), but they only work for the most pure, virtuous, godly person.

Hammer of the Witches

The idea of ​​summoning demonic demons for one’s own benefit as an act of evil became widespread with the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum (“Hammer of the Witches”) in 1478.

This book, written by the Catholic priest Heinrich Kramer, details the horrifying acts of witches, including pacts with devils, stealing babies, and all sorts of bad things. It is important to note that practitioners of mystical spells and summoners of demons are portrayed as being enslaved by Evil. These witches and sorcerers (mostly witches, of course) are not powerful, pious people who wield mystical powers. They are weaklings who gave their will to Santa (or rather, “Satan”) in exchange for selfish things. This is also, it should be noted, fake: the witches depicted in The Hammer of the Witches are feigned.

Fake or not, many people actually died because of the Hammer of the Witches . As many as 80,000 people, mostly women, were tortured and killed during the witch trials, which were heavily influenced by Kramer’s book. So if any tome is cursed…

Summoning a Demon after the Hammer of the Witches

Most of our current ideas about summoning demons can be found partly in The Hammer of the Witches , and partly in De praestigiis daemonum (On the Tricks of the Demons) and its appendix, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (The False Monarchy of Demons) . Written/collected in 1563 by physician Johan Weyer, these volumes describe 69 demons (excellent!) and their infernal hierarchy, and offer advice on how to summon them.

“Pranks of the Demons” is notable in that Weyer’s point is that witchcraft is not real, and that anyone who thinks they have entered into a pact with an evil entity is probably suffering from a mental illness, so maybe let’s not burn people on fire. more guys? He presents spells and rituals not as recipes to be followed, but as a way to expose practitioners of black magic in order to “expose their hallucinations to the bright light of day”. However, he doesn’t immediately jump to the line, “The witch hunters made this shit up.” Close, but not a cigar.

Either way, False Monarchy of Demons is full of cool demons. There are terrible creatures such as Amdusias, who looks like a man with the head of a unicorn, has claws instead of arms and legs, and is responsible for the cacophonous music played in hell. In addition, there are more good-natured hellspawn, such as Marquise Samigina, who takes the form of a small horse and teaches the liberal arts, and Naberius, who looks like a three-headed crow and teaches the art of the grace of life, like the demonic Martha Stewart.

Modern demons

The demons Weier described (minus the whole “it’s all fake” part) helped inspire everything demonic that followed, from the gothic excesses of the Romantic period to Alastair Crowley, heavy metal, the Exorcist , and that weird schoolboy who was really in love with Anton LaVey. Any practical guide on how to summon demons from later grimoires such as The Lesser Key of Solomon (or YouTube ) is likely to be based at least in part on these sources (even if its practitioners are unaware of it) and how it’s pretty stupid and fake.

However, evil is not fake. While there don’t seem to be many true practitioners of “black magic” in the world (and they’re really boring to talk to at parties, trust me), the idea that legions of evil people worship demons and should be stopped didn’t die with the end of the witch trials. . It keeps popping up – from the satanic scare of the 1980s and 90s to the Q-Anon freaks in 2022, I’m not sure what grimoire people are using to summon this particular evil, but I wish they would give it a rest. .

To sum up : there is no point in summoning demons, because hell is other people.