Working with Belial: a cast seal ring, worn on the hand that acts

Belial, dignities, and favour that has to be lived

In the Grimoire Companion entry, Belial is a King whose work is tied to power, familiars, and reconciliation: he grants dignities and high office, wins the favour of friends and foes, and gives excellent familiars. A seal ring is a fitting form for that work, because a ring is the form of a seal that is also a sign of standing. Historically, a seal ring seals, marks, and authorises. It is not only worn. It is used, and its use leaves a mark. That old double meaning is still present in a cast seal ring made for Goetia work: the ring marks the hand that acts, and the hand that acts is where standing is won or lost.

Dignities and high office, in this reading, are not decorations. They are positions that require daily conduct: decisions made, conversations held, promises kept or broken. Favour with friends and foes is the regard that makes those decisions workable, from people who support you and from people who do not. A ring worn on the working hand is a reminder of that daily conduct, present in the handshake, the signature, and the gesture, not only on the altar.

Reconciliation, and familiars, in ring work

Reconciliation, as part of Belial's office, means a relationship made workable again after conflict, and a seal ring suits that petition in a particular way. A ring is worn continuously, through ordinary days, and reconciliation is also a continuous matter, built from ordinary exchanges rather than from a single dramatic gesture. A working aimed at reconciliation should therefore be followed by ordinary conduct that matches it: messages answered, meetings kept, language kept workable. The ring does not do that conduct for you, but it is present while you do it, and that presence is part of its use as a tool.

Familiars, in the traditional sense, are helpers for the work, companions to the practice. A seal ring for familiar work is worn into the practice itself, on the hand that handles tools, turns pages, and makes gestures in a working. Be specific about what help you are asking for, and about what you are prepared to do yourself, because a familiar that is asked to carry a whole practice, while the practitioner does nothing, is not a working arrangement but a wish dressed up as one.

A cast seal ring, not a printed emblem

These 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, which is much higher quality than the 3D printed versions using metal powder and plastic that you find around the internet. A cast seal has weight and a surface that shows the hand work, and it does not have the layered texture of a printed object.

A seal ring differs from a seal pendant in how it is worn and how it is read. A pendant hangs, and is seen when it is shown. A ring sits on the hand, and is felt with every movement of that hand. The seal face of the ring is the working surface, and the gemstone set in this ring is part of that face, though the stone itself is not named used here, so no stone is named in this article.

Working with the ring: holding, oil, candle, carrying

A seal is worked with in the ways a working tool is worked with: holding it, placing it under a candle, putting oil on it, carrying it with you, wearing it as a pendant, and showing it to the desired person where your practice calls for that. A seal kept only as a picture does none of those things, and a seal left in a drawer after one working is not being carried through the life the working is about.

A ring can be worked with in all the usual ways of a seal, and in one way that belongs to rings alone: it can be worn through the working itself, on the hand that is doing the work, rather than set aside on the altar. Hold the ring before a working, put oil on it where your practice calls for that, place it under a candle during a working, and carry it afterwards into the ordinary life the working is about. If your practice calls for showing the seal to the desired person, a ring can be shown by the hand itself, in the course of ordinary dealing, without a separate display.

When the ring arrives, take time to look at it, to hold it, and to set it aside in a clean place used for your working tools, before wearing it everywhere at once. 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.

After the working: the record of standing

After a working, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise. For standing work, the record should include ordinary events as well as ritual ones: the conversation that went better, the decision that held, the relationship that became workable, and the occasion when you acted in a way that matched the position you hold or seek. Those ordinary entries are the evidence of the working, and they are worth more than a retelling of the ritual alone.

A cast seal ring for Belial is, in the end, a tool for standing that has to be lived. It is cast by hand, in pure metal, blessed before it is sent out, and worn on the hand that acts. What it carries is the work you bring to it, stated plainly, and carried out in ordinary terms as well as in ritual ones.

Sealing a working, in the ring's own sense

A seal ring has an old use that a pendant does not: it seals. A seal pressed into wax closes a document, marks it as authorised, and shows if it has been opened. That old use is a useful image for Belial ring work, because a working about standing also needs a closing: a point at which the working is finished, the petition is stated, and the practitioner returns to ordinary conduct with the matter sealed, in the sense of settled for now. A working without a closing tends to leak into worry, with the practitioner returning to the same petition again and again, in thought if not in ritual, and that leaking undoes the clarity the working was meant to give. Close a Belial working deliberately, with the ring on the hand, the petition stated once, and the record written, and then let the ordinary conduct that follows be the working's continuation, rather than reopening the petition every day. If a second working is needed, it should be a new working, with its own stated purpose, not a repetition of the first one done because the first one was never properly closed.

Belial Goetia cast seal ring with a gemstone

A seal for Belial should be a seal, not a picture of one, and a seal ring should be worn on the hand that acts.

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 Belial, as a cast seal ring with a gemstone, made for traditional Goetia work with Belial, to be worn 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 Belial seal made in this way, this is the one I offer: Belial Goetia cast seal ring with a gemstone, $324 CAD. View the product

Companions for the same work, made in small batches when you order: Belial Goetia incense, $44 CAD, and Belial Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, 1/2 oz bottle. View the product

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