Summoning Spirits Quotes

“Necromancy is the calling forth of the spirits of the dead. The entities summoned in evocation are not dead, they were simply never alive in the first place.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“The process of creating and eventually destroying an egregore consists of eight steps: (1) deciding what task it will accomplish; (2) deciding on its appearance; (3) naming it; (4) creating its sigil; (5) sculpting a representation of it to reside in when not active; (6) performing a ritual to give it life for a predetermined amount of time; (7) performing a ritual to destroy it when that time comes; and (8) disposing of the physical representation.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“Reading a spell over a lit candle will not bring you what you desire, but empowering the candle and visualizing your goal while you read the spell will.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“The magical universe, like the physical one, is a realm of equilibrium. If a rock is thrown into the air, gravity pulls it back to Earth to maintain that equilibrium. Likewise, if a magician leaves his or her own plane, then the universe will help that magician return. The same also holds true for entities.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“Word your commands to entities, or even candle spells and talismanic charging rituals, so they include a clause about not having anyone come to harm as a result of your ritual.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“Do not let the authenticity of grimoires worry you; after all, if they have been in use by magicians, they will work. Period. It doesn't matter if the Key of Solomon was written a thousand years after Solomon's death. Whether the entities already existed or were simply made up, their existence today cannot be disputed.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“Sometimes, creating an egregore can be dangerous, regardless of the use a magician puts it to. This is because egregores grow stronger the longer they are allowed to exist. While an existing entity can be banished back to its realm of origin once its task is completed, an egregore has no place to go back to. It is for this reason that magicians usually give egregores a set amount of time to "live," and after this time runs out they are ritually destroyed. This prevents them from becoming more and more powerful in the astral plane, until they are virtually uncontrollable. The legend of the golem illustrates this possibility in an accurate, yet allegorical way, and what follows is a short summary of the tale.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“Magic, like everything else in the world, comes from God.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“In the Western Ceremonial Tradition, the whole point of practicing magic is to obtain conversation with your Holy Guardian Angel and eventually reunite with God.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation

“Evocation can be defined as the calling forth of an entity from another plane of existence to an external manifestation in either the astral or physical plane.”
― Konstantinos, Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation