Familiar

How to create a Familiar :

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A ‘Familiar’ is an old-time name for a sort of assistant-associate-extension of himself, which the occultist living in medieval times was able to create, out of ‘INNER PLANE MATERIAL’, using knowledge-methods adapted from the knowledge-system of the ‘Caballa’ (spelt variously, also as ‘Kabbalah’, ‘Quabalah’ etc.)

Naturally, it goes without saying, that the ‘Roman Catholic Church’ then in power was very much opposed to these private occult practices and did succeed in their suppression and actually killed many of the occultists who did this operation. Driving them underground and also discredited them by labeling them witches and warlocks.
The forces of world opinion have again come around to the place where the power of the ‘Roman Catholic Church’ has been greatly curtailed and much occult knowledge has been and is being rediscovered and recovered from the great storehouse of ‘ASTRAL IMAGES.’ Is now being made available to you, this is in order that you can help yourself to a better life on the ‘Physical Plane’. This is the ‘avowed object’ of this series of lessons from the ‘Gnostic Institute.’

In the following instructions-knowledge-operations you will learn how to create a body-vehicle you can learn to ‘Occupy’ ‘Live-in’ and learn to use and operate in many different ways and for many different kinds of work.
Now at the start of this study I want to assure those of you who may have some doubts about this work that there is nothing harmful or dangerous about it. The knowledge embodied in this lesson is a necessary step for you to learn in your efforts to master this physical life. You will make no real progress in and on the physical plane until you have some knowledge and ideas of what goes on ‘Behind’ all ‘PHYSICAL FORMS’.

Much of which I am going to teach you in this lesson you now do and do all the time naturally and you have always done it naturally. The difference is that you are now going to learn to do it consciously and on purpose, with knowledge and power. In teaching this operation to you I intend to use several different methods to enable you to get an all-round grip on the main idea behind the instructions.

This main idea is for you to know and understand that ‘ALL ACTIONS’ ‘ALL YOUR ACTIONS’ are not limited to this ‘PHYSICAL PLANE ALONE’ but extend up and through ‘ALL THE PLANES AT ONCE?’ ‘YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING PHYSICAL WITHOUT DOING SOMETHING ETHERIC, ASTRAL, MENTAL AND CAUSAL???.’ You ‘USE ALL PLANES AT ONCE?’ AND AT THE SAME TIME, EVERY TIME YOU DO SOMETHING PHYSICAL.’

This idea will be shown clearly in the first exercise that you will do, the work, study of your hands. The second exercise will show you how to extend the work-study to the whole of the body. This will be followed by exercises, first in the physical and then in the ‘Astral Plane’ and then both together and then in the ‘ASTRAL’ alone.

First, as in all ‘REAL’ systems of ‘INNER DEVELOPMENT’, YOU START WITH THE PHYSICAL PLANE? In this exercise you start with the fingers of your right hand. Hold your right hand up in front of you. Turn your hand both ways and in all directions. Look at it as if you never saw it before? Then, holding your right hand with the palm towards you, move the thumb over the palm and say as you do this: ‘THUMB’, then keeping the thumb bent over the palm, bend the first finger down over the thumb/palm and say ‘FIRST FINGER’. Then, bend the second finger down over the thumb-palm and say ‘SECOND FINGER’. Then, bend the third finger over the thumb-palm and say ‘THIRD FINGER’. Then bend the little finger over the thumb-palm and say ‘LITTLE FINGER. Now reverse this procedure by raising the little finger and again saying ‘LITTLE FINGER’ and so on back down to the thumb.

Repeat this exercise about five times during the first day and increase it several times each day for a week After a few weeks work on your right hand you should then switch to the left hand, increasing the times the same way you did before. Take your time about this, don’t rush it and don’t force or pressure yourself to increase the movements to fast. Rather, do the movements with naturalness and earnestness and with deep feelings of the ‘MEANINGFULNESS’ of the hand-movements.

After two or three weeks of work on the hands individually start using both hands and build up to about twenty movements of each hand. In three or four weeks you should be able to close your eyes and see an image of your ‘Inner Hands’ do the same work as your physical hands are doing and at the same time. When this time comes, close your eyes and watch the ‘Etheric-Astral’ hands do the movements along with the exercising of the physical hands. Don’t force this, just experiment a little on it.

Next, lie on your back and put your right leg up in the air as you did with your right hand, first studying your leg as if you had never saw it before and then work with your leg in much the same way as you did with your hands. But this time you can develop you own ‘calls’ on the movements. If you use your toes, then do so with the calls but do what seems best for you and suits you best. Take a week with each leg but also keep up the work on your hands.

Next, sit down in a chair and bend forwards and backwards as far as you can and then bend from side to side, saying the ‘words’ or ‘calls’ to fir the actions. Take a week for this but keep up the work of the other exercises. From time to time you can close your eyes and study the ‘IMAGE’ of your ‘INNER BODY’ that should begin to appear to you. This is what you are building up. This ‘INNER BODY’ should appear as a grey-white shadow outline form. You can begin to practice moving this ‘INNER BODY’ more and more by itself and in connection with your physical body.

It is important that you should keep a diary of these exercises and note the times when they are easy and other times when they are not so easy. This is important information that you can only get from yourself and by yourself with regards to your own personal good times and bad times. There is no substitute for this kind of information about your self.

After five or six weeks have passed with these preliminary exercises-work, you will now into a period of extended exercising of you ‘INNER BODY’. For the purpose of this extended exercise you will ‘USE’ a ‘RITUAL’ the use of this ritual which I am about to give you has the added advantage of giving you ‘ACCESS’ to sources of ‘COSMIC ENERGY POWER WHICH YOU WILL FIND VITALLY HELPFUL IN YOUR PHYSICAL LIFEBEING-LIVING?’

Memorise the following material and memorise it so well that you will be able to recite it without stopping to think what comes next. It sounds easy and it is easy but it is also a bit complicated, involving as it does some synchronised word-actions. As you continue to study Ophiel’s lessons from the ‘Gnostic Institute’ you in time learn the deeper, inner meanings of this ritual and of these words. The ‘Ritual’ will still work well enough for you now. 1. Touch the forehead and say ‘ATOR’ (thou art) 2. Touch the breast and say ‘MALKOOTH’ (the kingdom) 3. Touch the right shoulder and say ‘Ve-Gevurah’ (the power) 4. Touch the left shoulder and say ‘Ve-Gedulah’ (the glory) 5. Clasp the fingers together and say ‘Le-Olahm’ (forever, AMEN)

The cabalistic cross ‘Ritual’ above is the preamble to the next section, which is.

Face east, visualise a steel dagger in your right hand and with it you trace a fivepointed star, a ‘BANISHING EARTH STAR’ called a ‘Pentagram’ according to whether it is morning or night as indicated in the diagram at the end of this lesson.

After completing the star ‘Stab it in its centre and say’ out loud, ‘Y.H.V.H.’ which is pronounced ‘YOD-HEH-VAV-HEH’.

Turn to the South, still holding out your arm with the dagger while turning and trace another star in the same way/direction, then stab it in its centre and say, ‘ADNI’ which is pronounced ‘AH-DOH-NAI’.
Turn to the West, trace the star, stab it and say ‘AHIH’ which is pronounced ‘EH-HE- YEH’.
Turn to the North, trace the star, stab it and say ‘AGLA’ which is pronounced ‘AHGAL-LAH’.
Complete the circle by turning all the way round, to the ‘East’ again and extend your arms out sideways in the form of a cross, facing east and say.

‘For before me is ‘Raphael’, behind me is ‘Gabriel’ on my right hand is ‘Michael’ and on my left hand is ‘Auriel’. For before me flames the pentagram and behind me is the ‘Sixrayed’ star’ Repeat the ‘Cabalistic’ cross.

You should repeat the entire ‘Ritual’ morning and night, noting the difference in the way that the stars are made as indicated in the diagram. Learn this ‘Ritual’ thoroughly; take about a month to work it carefully. Apart from this you should perform this ritual every day as it does have definite good effect on your whole being, from the ‘Physical’ to the ‘Spiritual’. Do not force the ritual; later on you will learn to expand it in several different directions and dimensions. Remember, do it morning and night and continue with your other work.

After you have practised the entire ritual for some weeks and know it very well, do the following, take a teaspoon of alcohol and place it in a dish or some fireproof material. Do this in a dark room or at night when you can see the flame easily. When it is burning, note the colour and the way in which the flame ‘wavers’. When you can get both the colour and the ‘wavering ‘ motion exact in your mind and recall them at will when you close your eyes, then add them to your ritual.

In the meantime, you are of course, to keep up your work with the ‘Ritual’ (the entire ritual described on the previous page.) with this addition. As you take the dagger in your hand, visualize it outlined in the blue flame. As you turn with the dagger pointing out from you see the circle you are making outlined in the same blue flames and also the stars you ‘draw/make’. When you have finished you should be standing in the centre of a large blue circle surrounded by four large flaming blue stars. One for each ‘Quarter’ of the ‘EARTH’.

At times your work will proceed well and the visualization will be quite ‘clear’, at other times, your work will be hard to do and the visualizations quite ‘dull’. Note both these times in your diary along with any other data that you have and see what you can find out ‘Astrologically’ about these times and what they have in common.
Remember that all this time you have been working with the ‘ritual’ you should have been continuing your work of seeing and moving your ‘INNER BODY’. When you reach the point where the ritual is letter perfect and your visualization of the blue flame circle is good and you can ‘see’ your ‘INNER ASTRAL BODY’ of light very well, then do as follows.

Get ready to perform the ritual, bring a chair with you into the circle area, start and finish the ritual and then seat your self in the chair facing ‘East’. SEE THE ‘INNER BODY’ YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH NOW FOR THIS LONG TIME STEP OUT OF THE SEATED PHYSICAL BODY AND STAND UP IN FRONT OF YOU. YOU ARE TO REMAIN SEATED AND PUT THIS ‘BODY OF LIGHT’ THROUGH THE RITUALWORK MANY TIMES.

Practice this many times, use all the ways you can think of, do the ‘ritual’ physically. Have the ‘Body of Light’ do the ritual alone. Do the ritual with the physical body and the body of light together. With practice you will develop a good control over this ‘ASTRAL BODY’. ‘Don’t be impatient! This is a great ‘ART WORK?’
THIS BODY YOU HAVE ‘CREATED’ OUT OF YOURSELF IS YOUR ‘FAMILIAR.’

From now on it is just a matter of training-work-training-work, naturally, the more you work and use the ‘Body of Light’ the more it will become trained, just as your ‘Physical’ body has become trained through ‘USE?’ You will soon discover, very soon, that this ‘Body of Light’ will possess some will and life and independent movement of its own. However, as you have developed it inside the circle you should have no trouble with it. No outside forces can control it. The more you work with it the more of yourself and your knowledge and intelligence and life powers you can transfer to it.

Just as an athlete must train his physical body and keep it ‘practice’, so must the occultist train his ‘Astral body’ and keep on practising using it. When you are not using your ‘Familiar’ keep it inside you. Draw it back into you, give your ‘Familiar’ a name and ‘talk’ to it. In time, it will develop a kind of independent existence of its own but do not be alarmed about this, as it exists only as an extension of yourself. You can easily end its independence anytime that you wish by bringing it back into yourself.

Remember even your physical body had a kind of independence from yourself it may be fatigued when you are filled with ideas and desires you want the physical body to carry out. How much less real independence this ‘Familiar’ you have yourself created can have then is obvious. Are you going to work against your self?

Of course not and neither is this extension or yourself that you have created to help you through this tough physical life. Whatever you may have heard to the contrary or whatever you may have been told, all this ‘Familiar’ ever was is just what I have shown you how to ‘Create-make’ it is an extension of yourself.

You do not really ‘CREATE’ this extension either, it was ‘THERE’ all the time but you have just given it definite ‘POWER TO MOVE’ in ‘DIFFERENT WAYS’ from before and learned to ‘USE IT CONSCIOUSLY?’

As it the use of you ‘Familiar’ you should pick this up rapidly as you practice with it but if you don’t then you had better contact me for more directions and information but first do the work of ‘Creating’ it and practising it as described in this lesson.

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A familiar is a spirit that maintains regular contact with a person, sometimes acting in service or guardianship, or providing information and instruction. The term familiar is from the Latin term familiaris, meaning “of a household or domestic.”

Familiars can be either good or evil in nature, and they vary significantly in intelligence and powers. They assume many shapes, such as elementals, animals, birds and insects, and even spirit lovers. The shapes assumed reflect the nature of the spirit, who may be intent on deceit. Personal familiars sometimes attach themselves to a family bloodline and serve generations. They can possess people and animals and are capable of acting independently of the people with whom they associate.

Familiars are summoned via magical ritual, given, appointed, traded, bought, and sold, or they appear of their own volition. They can be housed in bottles and rings. They have been part of shamanic and Sorcery traditions around the world.

Early Beliefs about Familiars

The Greeks and Romans believed in familiars called DaimonEs, which occupied homes, buildings, and other places and attached themselves to people. Such spirits provided advice and guidance, performed tasks, acted as servants, and did guard duty. Socrates said daimones whispered in his ear to warn him of danger and misfortune. Plotinus also was said to have a familiar, who appeared when summoned and obeyed him and was superior to lowerranking spirits such as the genii, guardians of places. Other early beliefs about familiars cross over into the lore of Fairies, elves, brownies, gnomes, and trolls. Spirits that work in mines and guard hidden treasures are sometimes called familiars. The Djinn summoned by King Solomon to build his Temple of Jerusalem are comparable to familiars.

Familiars in Magic and Witchcraft

Familiars can be conjured magically for a variety of purposes. In esoteric lore, they are the constant attendants and servants of magicians, wizards, spell casters, and healers. Low familiars are inanimate objects, such as magical books that mysteriously appear. The English magician John Dee acquired a scrying (divining) crystal inhabited by a familiar spirit, which he and his assistant, Edward Kelley, used to communicate with angels and spirits. High familiars assume plant, animal, and human shape. Some familiars assume whatever shape is needed for their purposes. Dee had another familiar, Madimi, who appeared as either a young girl or an adult. She even appeared naked when dealing with a sexual matter.

According to tradition, familiars can be magically locked in bottles, rings, and stones and sometimes sold as Charms for success in gambling, love, and business. In witchcraft lore, familiars are low-ranking Demons or IMPs given by the Devil to those who commit to Pacts with him. Or witches inherited familiars from other witches. Demonic familiars were said by witch hunters to serve witches in all ways, even sexually. They carried out spells and bewitchments. Most witch familiars were believed to be in animal form; some were spirits kept in bottles and flasks. Even Fairies were said to be familiars. A witch could have multiple familiars. Cats, especially black, were the favoured forms. The fear that all cats were witches’ familiars led to cat massacres in Europe. The witch hunter Pierre de Lancre said the highestranking witches have familiars in the shape of horned frogs that sit on their left shoulder and are invisible to everyone but other witches. Some witches had familiars in human form.

Other common witches’ familiars were dogs, toads, mice, ferrets, weasels, birds, wasps, bees, moths, hedgehogs, rabbits, and farm animals, as well as monstrous hybrid creatures. For example, the accused English witch Elizabeth Clark (17th century) confessed to having five familiars, including Vinegar Tom, a creature that looked like a greyhound with an ox’s head and could shape shift into a headless child.

Familiars all supposedly had grotesque names that gave away their true Demonic identities. Elizabeth Francis, an accused witch in the Chelmsford, England, trials of 1556, had a white spotted cat named Sathan. Other names recorded at witch trials were Verd-Joli, Verdelet, Ilemanzar, Greedigut, Jezebel, Abrahel, Grissell, Martinet, Blackman, and Pyewackett.

Witches who were arrested and imprisoned were watched secretly to see whether their familiars came to their aid. Even a fly, ant, or cockroach that went toward a witch was called a familiar. Guards had to watch carefully that familiars—believed to be assassins dispatched by the Devil—did not kill an accused witch before she could be tried.
Witches were said to take great care of their familiars, suckling them with their own Blood through “witch’s marks,” small teats, discolourations, and welts upon their bodies.

Having a familiar was sufficient to condemn a witch to death. In England, the Witchcraft Act of 1604 made it a felony to “consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose.”

In contrast to the familiars of the witch trials, the literary MEPHISTOPHELES is an elegant familiar, usually assuming the form of a tall man in black who attends his victim, FAUST, in order to subvert his soul. Faust also was accompanied by a black dog familiar. Many modern Witches, Wiccans, and Pagans have familiars as magical helpers. Many are animals (often cats) whose psychic attunement makes them ideal partners in magic. Some Witches turn pets into familiars, and others send out “calls” on the psychic planes to draw in the right animal. Others create familiars from astral thought forms.

Familiars attend rituals and protect against negative spirits. They are sensitive to psychic vibrations and power and are welcome partners inside the magic circle for the raising of power, the casting of spells, scrying, spirit contact, and other magical work. They also serve as psychic radar, reacting visibly to the presence of any negative or evil energy, whether it be an unseen force or a person who dabbles in the wrong kind of magic. Familiars are given psychic protection by their witches.

Sexual Familiars

Spirits enjoy human sexual intercourse, either by drawing energy from people engaged in it or by assuming or possessing a human form in order to participate in sex directly. Depending on the nature of a familiar, it enjoys the higher spiritual nature of sex or the lustful physical nature of it. A familiar might try to influence a sexual encounter by prolonging it as long as possible. It usually presses on top of a person or lies alongside him or her. A person feels a sexual encounter with a familiar as intense waves of physical pleasure. Familiars can engage in sex by possessing a person’s body and generating internal sensations of pleasure, by possessing a person’s human lover to manipulate his or her hands and body, and by causing erotic dreams.

The low, Demonic types of spirit sexual encounters are with an Incubus (male Demon) or Succubus (female Demon). During the witch hysteria, witches were said to copulate with Demon lovers, and Demons masquerading as seductive humans attacked sleeping people at night and raped them.

Problems with Familiars

Frequent contact with familiars can result in nightmares, physical injuries caused by familiars, and also Obsession, in which a person sees, hears, and feels an influencing spirit, and Possession, in which the familiar completely takes over a person.

Also, spirits do not always distinguish between truth and falsehood, and so discernment must be applied to whatever information they impart. Familiars can manifest as voices in the head that cause compulsive, aberrant behavior, including self-inflicted wounds, suicide, and violence toward others. Excessive and draining contact with them can create mental, emotional, and physical strain and breakdown.

Familiars that create problems can be banished by ending all engagement with them or, if necessary, by ritual banishment.

See Sinistrari, Lodovico Maria.