Pacts with a Demon

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What Exactly is a Pact, and How Does It Work?

Let’s break down a pact into its parts to look at it intimately. Basically – the pact is a contract between you and the Daemonic (and sometimes you and yourself with the Daemonic as a witness). You are basically stating that you are willing to give the Daemon something specific, in exchange for something specific that you want. It’s essentially a formal contract.

What are acceptable things to offer a Daemon in exchange for the “favour”?

Let’s just make a small list. Blood (just a few drops) Offerings of alcohol, water, food, or flowers for a specified number of days. Your attention to their teachings or wisdom. Your promise to be a good student. Your promise to do service for them here in the physical (and this will never include illegal activity or harming another living thing!!!!)

Usually service includes writing, speaking, helping others, or serving them in your private temple. In this instance, you may choose to only make pacts with Matron/Patron Daemons, or teachers who show up to take you under their wing. Your dedication to make a change in yourself (for the better). Then, after you establish what you’re giving, and what you’re getting, you sign the pact with ink made with your own blood. Or you can sign in any old ink, prick yourself again (if you’re offering blood in the first place) and then add a drop of blood after the signature.

The pact is then burned, transforming it (alchemically) from the physical realm to the spiritual plane. Once you sign it and burn it, it’s done. Usually a pact is done in the temple after the ritual space has been constructed in a way that you, the magician, sees fit. All of this obviously leads to the question, “Why would I create a pact?”

Why Would You Create a Pact?

Admittedly the “why” is going to depend on the person. For some, they’ll think a pact is the easier way to accomplish something instead of hard work. I suspect the Daemonic will have a nice lesson for those who are of this mindset. For others, the why is motivation. They desire something so profound, even if it’s that connection to the divine, that they are willing to make a pact. Or perhaps they want something so badly, they’re willing to sacrifice something of themselves to themselves, and the Daemon as merely witness. Pacts can be made for virtually any reason you can come up with.