Barbatos: a cast seal pendant for hearing what is hidden

Understanding speech that is not your own

Barbatos is a Duke whose office, in the Grimoire Companion notes, is about understanding: he understands the speech of birds and beasts, reveals hidden treasure, and knows past and future. That is a distinctive combination, and it is worth reading slowly, because it is not three unrelated powers. It is one power, seen from three sides: the power to understand what is being said when it is not said in your own language, whether that language is the speech of animals, the hidden place of a treasure, or the past and future of a matter you cannot yet see clearly.

If you are considering a Barbatos seal, ask yourself which side of that office is actually yours. Are you trying to understand an animal, a situation, or a person whose speech you cannot follow? Are you looking for something hidden, in the plain sense of treasure, or in the wider sense of a resource, a document, or a fact that is concealed? Are you trying to know the past of a matter, or its future, because the present alone does not explain it? A petition that tries to cover all three sides at once is a petition that covers none of them well. Pick the side that is yours, state it in one clear sentence, and keep the rest for another working.

In the Grand Grimoire hierarchy notes in the same Companion material, Barbatos appears as a subordinate under Satanachia, the Commander-in-Chief. That placement is a hierarchy note, not a new office, and this article does not present it as one. The office that matters for this pendant is the one the Companion gives for Barbatos himself: understanding speech, revealing hidden treasure, and knowing past and future.

A seal is not a picture of a seal

A seal for Barbatos should be a seal, not a picture of one. A picture can be looked at. A seal can be carried, anointed, fumigated, placed on an altar, 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 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 with Barbatos, as a hand cast seal, in pendant form, 2 inches. 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.

How a lost-wax cast seal is made

The seals offered here are lost wax cast seals of the Daemon Demons of the various grimoires. They are pure metal which is actually cast, starting with a wax version.

In lost-wax casting, the seal is first worked in wax, then cast in metal from that wax form. The wax is lost in the process, which is where the name comes from, and the metal that remains is a solid, cast object, not a printed shell. You can feel that difference when you hold it: a cast seal has weight, it has a surface that shows the hand work, and it does not have the layered texture of a printed object.

That process also explains why a cast seal is made to order, and why it takes time. A seal that is already listed takes about 2 to 3 weeks while seals that are not listed, but are under the other option, take 8 weeks, because she still has not carved their waxes yet. Barbatos is a listed seal, so the shorter timing applies to it in principle.

Working with a pendant seal for understanding

Preparation is most of the work, and with a seal for understanding, that preparation starts with listening, not with speaking. Be clear about what you are trying to understand, what you have already observed, and what you are prepared to hear, even if it is not what you expected. If you cannot state the matter in one clear sentence, write it down, leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true. A petition for understanding that is itself unclear is a petition that asks for clarity while refusing to be clear, and that contradiction usually shows up later in a confused record.

When the seal arrives, do not start by wearing it everywhere at once. Take time to look at it, to hold it, and to set it aside in a clean place that is used for your working tools. If your practice calls for cleansing or consecration of a new tool, follow the instructions you already follow in your system. A general article like this one is not a substitute for proper teaching in the system, and it should not be used to invent a consecration rite for a seal you have not been taught to consecrate.

A pendant seal is made to be carried, and carrying it is part of the work. You can hold it in your hand during a working, place it under a candle, put oil on it, carry it with you, wear it as a pendant, or show it to the person you wish to affect, as your practice calls for. For Barbatos work, carrying the seal when you are listening, observing, or trying to understand a situation, and putting it away properly when you are not, is a practical discipline. A tool that is treated carelessly tends to be worked with carelessly, and that shows in the record you keep afterwards.

Treasure, past, and future: keeping the record honest

Hidden treasure, in the old books, is not only gold in the ground. It can be a resource you have overlooked, a fact that is concealed, or a connection you have not yet seen. When you work with Barbatos for treasure, record what you were looking for, in concrete terms, before you start, so you can tell later whether you found it, or whether you found something else and called it treasure afterwards. A record written after the fact, to fit the result, is not a record. It is a story.

The same discipline applies to past and future. If you are working to know the past of a matter, write down what you already know, and what you do not know, before the working. If you are working to know its future, write down what you expect, and what would count as a different outcome, before the working. That way, when you look back weeks later, you can tell whether the working gave you knowledge, or whether you simply reinterpreted ordinary events to fit a vague expectation. Understanding work is judged by that kind of honest record, not by a single dramatic moment.

Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, seal and any oil or incense used, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the petition was unclear, the timing was wrong, the work was not appropriate, or simply that the situation needs a different approach. Care for the pendant itself is practical: keep it in a clean, dry place when you are not wearing it, away from other metal objects that could scratch it, and clean it gently, with a soft cloth.

Barbatos cast seal pendant, 2 inches

A seal for Barbatos should be a seal, not a picture of one.

I make these as lost wax cast seals, cast from a wax version in pure metal, one at a time, and I bless each one myself before it is sent out. This one is Barbatos, as a pendant, 2 inches, made for traditional Goetia work with Barbatos, to be carried and worked with, not left in a drawer as decoration. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is cast by hand, for this work.

If you want a Barbatos seal made in this way, this is the one I offer: Barbatos cast Daemon Demon seal pendant, 2 inches, $216 CAD. View the product

A matching Barbatos incense is also offered, at $44 CAD, for fumigating work with the seal.

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