|
Servitor (chaos magic)
|
|
Within chaos magic, a servitor is a psychological complex, deliberately created by the magician for a specific purpose to operate autonomously from the magician's consciousness. Concept A servitor is an entity "specifically created by the magician to perform a set range of tasks". At the start of the continuum are "dumb, unintelligent sigils", which represent a particular desire or intention. Alternatively, a magician may choose to create servitors from negative aspects of their psyche, such as "habits, shortcomings, faults, revulsions", rather than positive desires or intentions. In doing so, they can interact with those traits as personal demons, and bind or banish them to eradicate them from the psyche. History Austin Osman Spare stated that psychological complexes could be deliberately created through his sigil technique, referring to sigils as "sentient symbols". According to Spare, feeding sigils with free belief incubates "obsessions", which in turn gives rise to complexes.<ref name=Marik /> Peter J. Carroll writes: "These beings have a legion of names drawn from the demonology of many cultures: elementals, familiars, incubi, succubi, bud-wills, demons, atavisms, wraiths, spirits, and so on."<ref nameMarik /> Hine, in turn, compares the servitor to the Tibetan Buddhist concept of the tulpa.<ref name"Hine8" /> 
|
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
Main Menu
| Home |
| Articles |
| Search |
| Submit Article |
| Contact Us |
| Donate to Wikibin |
