'Invocation' Articles
Invocation is a call for communion. Invocation is based on a basic understanding of reality that we all came from the same source. So an invocation is a call for the one summoned to indwell or overshadow the caller, though sometimes the call is lead by someone else. Invocation is typically thought to apply to divinities, but in fact is not confined to a limited class of beings as we all are constituents of the originating divine force anyway. All beings that exist are echoed in you.
In all views, there are basically two directions. This is both the spiritual order and the map of the path. There is the exoteric and external, and the esoteric and internal.
Call For Communion
Does anyone know, what is invocation? A call. It is that, but there is more. Anyone ever hear the term conjuration? It was originally a term describing an oath and then became used to describe what would amount to a court subpoena. It was a call to appear. The reason I point this out is because most people focus on calls to have something appear, and these work very rarely, if at all. Most people, for one, have not done the work that would give them that sort of presence to support that call. The other, being that the beings called… Seek More
Practice Of Invocation
On to why you might practice invocation. There are two basic reasons. One is that when the spirit responds it shares its perception with you. Allows you insight you wouldn’t otherwise be privy to. For a period of time, you see as the spirit does. The other reason is that if it’s called for, you can act with the powers of the spirit you called. They are often powerful healers among other things. On a related practice, they call it sorcery and is related to talismans among other things. In sorcery, rather than allowing a spirit to share in your… Seek More
Practices Related To Invocation
Image magic is an invocation of your intended spirit/idea? Good question, and it can be a prelude practice, but actually falls more into the realm of conjuration. Because for the period that you are focusing on the image work, it is external to you. Invocation can lead to conjuration as you seek a spirits blessing on a home or ritual item and vice versa. I do not know this image magic. What does that mean? Ah, voodoo dolls, sympathetic ritual, working by proxy. It is all image magic. Isn’t what you described in sorcery of putting the spirit in an… Seek More
Paths In Invocation
As you invoke the spirits, you accomplish two things. You learn from them, and thereby claim some of their wisdom as your own. You can use it even without calling for their help, and the same thing that applies to people applies to spirits. You rise or fall to the level of the company you keep. So as you work with your mentor or mentors, you will share to some degree in their spiritual stature. This serves to protect you even further from hostile spiritual influences. There is hierarchy even in mentors who do carry, just as you have said. Their… Seek More
Genius Loci
Everyone familiar with conjuration? Calling spirits to be present at your working? Most people think of the spirit world as being a sort of phantom world that is meshed with the material world. This would be a mistake. You have, for the sake of our discussion, two selves. Your flesh and blood self, which I dare say is the more superficial, and your spirit self. The spirit self is “one pointed” as Buddhists often say. It doesn’t occupy physical space. No, it does not fill the space that you call your body. Your body is full of flows of energy… Seek More
Spirits In The Body
The most common experience of spirits in the body would be elementals. Maybe the most common spirit invocation you might have already experienced would be an earth elemental. Just a spirit of the earth. They don’t make a lot of mental noise, but they enter your body space to balance its share of earth energy and maintain the earth connection. Invocation implies action on my part, yes? It happens naturally also. I expect we often do it without thinking about it? Our mood, etc.? We either do it or are receptive to it. There is a pre-existing order of the… Seek More
Group Invocation
A spirit does not have the restrictions of incarnation, so it’s possible for multiple people, a group, to all have the same spirit enter them. Ah, a unity. Which can aid in the unifying of wills, make for a more powerful healing, say, or other working. This is why meditating in a group is so powerful? That’s exactly why, though in the case of meditation no disincarnate spirit needs to be involved, still that’s the essence. This reminds me of the transcendental meditation studies where they determined the size of a group required to have an impact, like on local… Seek More
Spirit Bonds
Certain crystals sing in certain conditions. That raises a good point about tools used in invocation, though it can be trick to call them tools. Humans are not the only things that can or do invoke. Crystals often invoke other spirits as well as having an earth spirit of their own. They came in on the sound of tree snails caressing the wind. We sang that song, too, they came. Tree snails. Oh, indeed. Your dog can invoke, or your cat. They often do, and an animal that is around invocation often is in some traditions called a familiar, because… Seek More
Helped And Helping Spirits
To summarize, in conjuration you try to use your knowledge of the spirits to affect their behaviour outside of you. Like a chemist looking for a specific reaction. In invocation, you open yourself to them with the intention of working with them rather than swaying how they work. I can summarize the purpose of invocation simply. To be inspired. To bring in insights and power you aren’t normally entitled to. It’s important to remember that you are being helped, and it’s not about you being special. “Grandma” does not love you best. Muse? The muses would be an invocation. It’s… Seek More
