Working with Belial: standing, favour, and a ring with raised lettering

Belial, and what standing actually means

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. Those three phrases belong together, because together they describe a particular kind of standing, not a general wish to be liked.

Dignities and high office are not only titles. They are positions that carry responsibility, visibility, and the expectation that you will act in a way that matches the position, day after day, when nobody is watching as well as when everyone is. Favour with friends and foes is not only popularity. It is the regard of people who agree with you and of people who do not, and both matter when a position is real rather than decorative. A person can be popular with allies and still fail in office, if those who oppose them will not deal with them at all.

Before any work with Belial, be specific about the position you mean, in one sentence. Is it an office you hold, an office you seek, or a standing in a workplace, a community, or a family, where your word carries weight? What would holding that position well actually require, in practical terms, on an ordinary Tuesday? If you cannot answer that, you are preparing for a general wish to be regarded highly, and that wish, while understandable, is not yet a working.

Favour with foes, and reconciliation, read plainly

Favour with foes, read plainly, can mean a softening, a workable truce, or a relationship that becomes functional again after conflict. That is a different petition from a request to be vindicated, and it should be stated as what it actually is before any working begins. Write down which one you mean. A working aimed at reconciliation asks for a different outcome, and a different daily conduct, from a working aimed at winning a contest, and dressing one up as the other only muddles the work.

Familiars, in this field, are best understood as helpers for the work, in the traditional sense: companions to the practice, not servants to be ordered about. Be specific about what help you are asking for, and about what you are prepared to do yourself. A familiar that carries a practice forward still leaves the practitioner to do the ordinary work of the office, the conversation, and the decision. The seal does not attend the meeting for you, and the ring does not speak for you. It is a tool for the work, and the work still includes your own conduct.

Why a ring, and why raised lettering

A ring is worn on the hand that does things: the hand that signs, shakes hands, opens doors, and makes gestures in a working. That is why a seal in ring form suits Belial work about office and standing. It is present in the ordinary dealings where standing is actually tested, not only on an altar during a set working. A pendant is carried close to the body. A ring is carried into the handshake, and that difference is worth noticing when you choose a form.

Raised lettering makes the seal legible by touch as well as by sight. The letters stand proud of the surface, so the seal can be read with the fingers as well as the eyes, and the form of the seal is present in the hand throughout the day. For a working about standing, that legibility matters: the seal is not a vague emblem you happen to be wearing, but a defined seal whose letters are actually there, raised, and able to be felt. Hold the ring, turn it, and read it with your fingers before a working, so the seal is familiar to your hand before it is asked to carry any working at all.

How a lost-wax cast seal ring is made

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.

The gemstone itself is not named used here, so no stone is named in this article.

Working with the ring, day to day

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.

When the ring 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 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 method for a spirit you have not studied.

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. Note what changed, what did not, and what you did yourself in the meantime, because the record of your own conduct is part of the record of the working.

A ring prepares you for responsibility

A seal ring for Belial prepares you for the responsibility that comes with standing. It does not confer the standing itself, and it does not replace the preparation, the conversation, or the decision that the standing requires. That distinction is the whole point of working with a tool rather than buying a result. The ring is made by hand, cast in pure metal, blessed before it is sent out, and worn into the life where the standing has to be held. What it holds, in the end, is the work you bring to it, stated plainly, and carried out in ordinary terms as well as in ritual ones.

Wearing the ring into ordinary dealings

A ring for standing is tested in ordinary dealings, and those dealings are where the working shows its shape. A meeting where you speak plainly, a disagreement where you keep your language workable, a promise you keep when keeping it is inconvenient: these are the moments a Belial working is about, and they are also the moments most easily forgotten in a record that only mentions ritual. Wear the ring into those moments deliberately, and note them afterwards, because they are the evidence that the working is being carried, not only performed. Standing is not a single event. It is a series of small acts, repeated, and a ring worn daily is present for all of them, which is why it suits this office better than a tool that only appears on an altar.

Belial Goetia ring with raised lattering and a gemstone

A seal for Belial should be a seal, not a picture of one, and a ring should be worn where standing is tested.

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 ring with raised lettering and 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 ring with raised lattering and 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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