Belial incense: fumigation for dignities, favour, and work with a King

Why incense, in a Goetia working

Incense in a Goetia working does two things, and they are worth keeping separate. First, it fumigates: it passes smoke over the tools, the seal, and the space, marking the beginning of the working and setting the room apart from ordinary use. Second, it carries the working itself: the smoke rises, the scent fills the room, and the practitioner, breathing it, is reminded with every breath that this time is set apart.

Those two functions are why incense is not improved by using a great deal of it. A room thick with smoke is a room that cannot be breathed in, and a practitioner coughing through a working is not attending to it. A little, burned deliberately, at the start of a working, and replenished if the working is long, does the work. The rest is atmosphere, and atmosphere is not the working.

This article is about incense made for work with Belial, a King of the Goetia, hand made in small batches, for spirit work and spellwork with Belial. It is about fumigation in that frame: for dignities, for favour, and for the kind of work a King is approached for, approached with the respect a King is owed.

Belial, and what working with him is for

The Grimoire Companion entry for Belial is a courtier's entry: Belial is a King with eighty legions, who grants dignities and high office, wins the favour of friends and foes, and gives excellent familiars. That is a high office, and it should be approached as one.

Dignities and high office, in this tradition, are not a vague wish to be respected. A dignity is a standing, an office, a place that is recognised by others: a post held, a rank kept, a reputation that carries weight when you speak. High office is that standing at its highest: a place where decisions are made, and where the practitioner will be judged by them. If that is what you are working for, name the office itself, and name what you will do with it once it is yours. A working that only asks to be important, without saying important for what, has not yet been thought through.

Winning the favour of friends and foes is the second gift, and it is the more delicate of the two. Favour from friends is maintenance: keeping good relations good, by conduct, by attention, and by keeping promises. Favour from foes is reconciliation of a harder kind: a matter settled, a quarrel ended, an opponent who no longer stands in the way, not because they have been forced, but because the matter between you has been put right. Both kinds of favour are earned in the ordinary world as well as in the working, and a working that asks for favour while the practitioner continues to act against it will not hold.

Excellent familiars complete the entry, and they belong to the same picture: a familiar, in this tradition, is a spirit helper given to a practitioner who has earned the standing to receive one. A King gives excellent ones, and excellence here means fitness for the work, loyalty in it, and a helper that suits the practitioner's own standing. Neither familiars, nor dignities, nor favour is promised here.

How this incense is made

It offers a small variety of very rare and very useful incense, and it says each batch is hand made when you order it, unless a batch has just recently been made. The incenses are of a quality the maker uses herself for magical work, and she says she uses them successfully for spirit work, work for clients, as well as her own spellwork.

Hand made when ordered is a different promise from made in bulk and stored. It means the incense is prepared for the work in hand, in a small batch, rather than drawn from a warehouse stock that has sat for years. It also means timing follows the making, not the other way round, and that is worth knowing before you order, so that a working planned for a particular day is not planned around an arrival that has not been confirmed.

Incense in general is made from resins, woods, and plant materials, but this article does not guess at a recipe that has not been stated. If the composition of a particular incense matters to your practice, for allergy, for tradition, or for any other reason, that is a question to ask before ordering, not a detail to assume.

Fumigating in practice

In practice, fumigation is a deliberate act at the start of a working. Light the incense, let it take, and pass the seal, and any other tools to be used, through the smoke, naming the purpose in your own words as you do it. Fumigate the space itself lightly, so that the room is marked, and then set the incense aside to burn while the working proceeds, replenishing it only if the working is long.

For Belial's work, fumigation suits a working where the practitioner must present themselves: a petition for office, a matter of favour, a case to be put before others. The smoke marks the practitioner as much as the tools, in the sense that the practitioner who has fumigated deliberately has already slowed down, attended, and named the purpose, before a word of petition has been spoken. That slowing down is part of the preparation, not a delay to it.

Be specific about what you want, in your own words, before you fumigate. What office, what favour, from whom, and for what purpose? A general wish to be favoured is not yet a petition. What, exactly, are you asking for, and what will you do yourself towards it? Reflection of that kind is not a formality. It is the difference between a working that has a shape and a working that only has a mood.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, incense used, what you fumigated, 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.

Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, 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.

Care for incense is simple, and practical: keep it dry, keep it closed when not in use, and burn it with attention to fire safety, on a proper burner, away from anything that could catch, and never left unattended. A working interrupted by a fire risk is not a working at all, and a tool that endangers the room endangers the practice. Nothing in this article promises a result from fumigation, and nothing here should be read as a substitute for ordinary action in the world.

Belial Goetia incense

I make these incenses in small batches, by hand, when you order them, and I use them myself for spirit work, for clients, and for my own spellwork. This one is for spirit work and spellwork with Belial. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work. A matching Belial oil is also offered, for spirit work and spellwork with Belial, if your practice calls for oil as well as incense.

Belial Goetia incense, $44.00 CAD. View the product

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