The Daemon Demon seal pendant, 2 inches: a seal made to be carried and worked with

A seal pendant, made to be carried and worked with

A seal pendant is a seal made to be carried, not a picture of one. That distinction sounds simple, and it is, but it changes how you work with the thing in your hands. A picture can be looked at. A seal pendant can be carried, anointed, fumigated, placed on an altar, held in the hand, and worked with over time. It has weight, it has a surface you can touch, and it stays with you after the working is over, in a way a printed image does not.

That is why the form of a seal matters in traditional Goetia work, and why a seal that is made properly is different from a seal that is merely reproduced. The seal in this article is for traditional Goetia work, as a hand cast seal, in pendant form, 2 inches, for the Daemon or Demon of your choice. It is made to be carried and worked with, not left in a drawer as decoration, and not filed away as a reference image.

If you are new to this kind of work, it is worth asking yourself, before you order anything, whether you actually want a working tool, or whether you want a picture to look at. Both have their place, but they are not the same thing, and ordering one when you meant the other leads to disappointment that has nothing to do with the quality of the object.

Choosing the Daemon or Demon for the seal

It is a seal pendant for the Daemon or Demon of your choice, which means the choice, and the responsibility for that choice, is yours. Do not choose by picking a name that sounds powerful, or interesting, or fashionable. Choose from study, and from your own practice, by knowing which spirit's offices fit the working you actually need to do, and which spirit you are prepared to approach properly, within the system you follow.

Read the Companion entries, read the grimoire material, and, if you have a teacher, ask them, before you name a spirit for a seal that will be cast specifically for that name. A seal cast for one spirit cannot be casually reassigned to another, without losing the clarity that made it a working tool in the first place. A seal that has been used for one line of work, and then pressed into service for a different line, without thought, ends up meaning nothing in particular, and a seal that means nothing in particular is not a working tool. It is decoration.

Once the spirit is chosen, keep the seal to that line of work, at least for a season, and let the record show what that line of work produced. If you later take up a different line, with a different spirit, that is a different seal, and a different working, and it should be treated as such, not folded into the first seal as an afterthought.

Why 2 inches, and why pendant form

Two inches is a substantial size for a seal pendant. It is large enough to read clearly on the altar, large enough to hold comfortably in the hand, and large enough to feel, through clothing, as a presence, when worn. It is also large enough to be noticed, when worn openly, and you should choose it knowing that, not discovering it afterwards. A 2 inch pendant is not a discreet, easily overlooked piece. It is a working tool, worn openly or close, and its size is part of its function.

Pendant form, as opposed to disc form, means the seal goes with you. A disc sits on the altar and stays in the working place, and it accumulates association with that place over time. A pendant goes with you, through the ordinary day, through work, through conversation, through the places where the working actually bears fruit, which are rarely ritual rooms. That going-with-you quality is the point of a pendant, and it is why the form matters as much as the design.

Think about how you will wear it, before you order it. Will you wear it daily, through the working season, or only for workings themselves? Will you wear it openly, or close, under clothing, where only you know it is there? Neither choice is better in the abstract. The question is which choice fits the work: a seal for a working that needs to stay with you through the day may be worn close, and kept private, while a seal for a working centred on presence among others may be worn openly. Choose knowingly, not by habit.

How this seal is made here

These are lost wax cast seals of the Daemon Demons of the various grimoires. These are pure metal which is actually cast, starting with a wax version, which is much higher quality than the 3D printed versions, using metal powder and plastic, that you find around the internet. That difference is not a matter of snobbery. It is a matter of how the object feels, how it ages, and how it holds up to daily wear and to ritual use. A seal made from pure metal, cast from a wax original made by hand, has a solidity and a weight that a printed imitation does not, and that solidity is part of why it can serve as a working tool for years, rather than as a novelty for a season.

The seal can be made into a pendant, with a bail cast onto it, or soldered on, depending on the metal used, so that you can use the seal as a pendant. That bail is not an afterthought. It is part of the making, and it should be sound, because a pendant whose bail fails in daily wear will be lost, and a lost seal is not only a lost object, but a broken line of work. Check the bail when the seal arrives, and check it periodically, as you would check any working tool that you carry daily.

Made to order time, as stated for this line, is approximately 2 to 3 weeks, and the ones which are not listed but are under the other option take 8 weeks, because the waxes for those have not yet been carved. That waiting time is part of hand making, not a delay to be resented. A seal cast from a wax that has not yet been carved cannot be hurried without changing what it is. If you need a seal for a working on a particular date, order with that time in mind, and do not treat the making time as though it were a promise about magical result. It is a making time, for a physical object, and it should be planned for as such.

Working with the seal, in the traditional ways

A seal pendant is worked with in the traditional ways for seal work, adapted to your own practice, and to the system you follow. Hold it, in a quiet, focused session, and let the holding itself be part of the working, not merely a prelude to it. Put it under a candle, for a working that runs over time, while you attend to other things, and let the candle and the seal work together, in the place set aside for them. Put oil on it, to anoint it, to mark it for a purpose, deliberately, naming that purpose in your own words. Carry it with you, through the day, so that the work stays present, in ordinary situations, not only in ritual ones. Wear it as a pendant, openly or close, as the working requires. Show it to the desired person, where your practice calls for showing, rather than merely holding or wearing in private.

Each of those uses suits a different kind of working, and they should not all be used at once, for the same working, without thought. A seal that is held, anointed, placed under a candle, carried, worn, and shown, all in one evening, for one petition, has not been worked with in six ways. It has been handled, without distinction, and handling without distinction is not working. Choose the use that fits the petition, and use the seal in that way, deliberately, and record what you did, so that you can tell, afterwards, which use produced which observation.

Fumigate the seal with incense, at the time you prepare it, if your practice calls for fumigation. That is a common use for incense in seal work: to start a working, and for fumigating the tools and talismans that will be used in it. Do that preparation deliberately, and record it, as you would record a full working, because preparation done well is part of the working, not separate from it.

Working with the seal over time

A seal is not used once and put away. It is returned to, and that returning is part of the work. Keep it in a place set aside for working tools, between workings, not mixed in with ordinary objects. Clean it as its metal requires, and handle it with the same attention you gave it when you first received it. That care is not superstition. It is the habit that keeps a working tool distinct from an ordinary possession, and that distinction is what makes it useful when you return to it.

Keep a record, as with any seal work: date, purpose in one sentence, which spirit it was for, what you did, and what you noticed, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. Seal work, in particular, is best judged over time, because a seal's work accumulates, through repeated use, and through carrying, in a way that a single working cannot show. A record kept over a season will show you more than any single session could.

Do not use the seal for everything at once. A seal asked to do every kind of work, for every purpose, ends up doing none of them clearly, and leaves you unable to say what any particular working was for. Keep it to one spirit, and one line of work, at least for a season, and let the record show what that line of work produced.

When this is not the right tool

Sometimes the right answer is not a seal pendant at all. If you are new to Goetia work, and you have not yet studied the system, a book, or time spent with the material, may serve you better than a seal, at least at first. A seal does not teach you the system. It gives you a tool for a system you are learning, and it works best when it follows study, not when it replaces it.

If the matter at hand is a legal matter, a safety matter, or a medical matter, deal with that matter in the ordinary world first, or at the same time. Ritual work is not a substitute for a lawyer, a doctor, or for leaving a dangerous situation. If you are unsure whether a working is appropriate, wait, ask a teacher you trust, or choose a simpler practice first and see how that sits.

I make no promise about what this seal will do for you, in terms of magical result. I make a promise about how it is made, as a lost wax cast seal in pure metal, in pendant form. What follows from your practice is yours to observe, not mine to guarantee. That is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items.

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