Cimeies Evocation: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, and Lost Things
Who Cimeies is in the Goetia
Cimeies is a Marquis in the Goetia, and his offices are about learning and speaking well, and about finding what is lost. He teaches grammar, logic, and rhetoric. He discovers lost and hidden things. And he makes men valiant. Those offices, taken together, describe a spirit for a particular kind of person: someone who needs to learn, to argue clearly, to speak persuasively, or to find something that has been lost, and who needs courage to do it. If your matter is one of those, then Cimeies is the spirit whose offices match it. If your matter is something else entirely, another spirit's offices will fit it better.
The name itself needs a note, because you will see it spelled more than one way. The Grimoire Companion seal set and its report spell the same spirit Cimejes, and the seal figure shown above is filed under that spelling. It is the same spirit, under a variant spelling, not a different spirit, and the difference is noted here so that you are not confused if you come across the other spelling in older books or in the Companion set.
Grammar, logic, and rhetoric: the three arts
Grammar, logic, and rhetoric are the three arts of the trivium, the old foundation of learning, and Cimeies is given as a teacher of all three. Grammar, in this sense, is not only schoolroom rules about sentences. It is the art of language itself: understanding words, how they fit together, and how meaning is made and changed by choosing one word rather than another. Logic is the art of reasoning clearly: seeing whether an argument holds, where it fails, and what follows from a set of premises. Rhetoric is the art of speaking persuasively: putting a true argument in a form that others can hear, understand, and be moved by.
Those three arts belong together, and a petition to Cimeies should say which one, or which combination, is actually the difficulty. A student struggling with a language, a writer struggling to make an argument hold together, a speaker who knows what is true but cannot say it persuasively, and a debater who can speak well but reasons poorly, are all dealing with different parts of the trivium, even though they all fall under Cimeies. Name the part that is yours, plainly, and the petition becomes something specific, rather than a general wish to be cleverer, which is too vague to work with or to judge afterwards.
Learning, and what a teacher-spirit can and cannot do
A spirit who teaches is not a substitute for study. That point needs stating plainly, because it is easy to misunderstand what a teaching evocation is for. Cimeies can be asked to teach grammar, logic, and rhetoric, but the teaching will only take hold if it sits alongside real study: reading, writing, practising arguments, and speaking, day by day. A petition for learning that is not accompanied by study is a wish, not a working, and it will not produce the skill it asks for, because skill in language and reasoning is built by practice, not by a single night's working.
What a teaching working can do, alongside study, is to sharpen attention, to make difficulties clearer, and to help you see where your reasoning or your language is going wrong. It can help you notice the flaw in an argument you have been defending, or the word choice that has been muddying a piece of writing, or the habit of speaking that makes a good point hard to hear. Bring a specific difficulty to the working, not a general subject: a passage you cannot parse, an argument you cannot make hold, a speech you cannot shape, or a piece of writing that will not come clear. A specific difficulty, studied before and after the working, is how you will know whether the teaching has taken hold.
Discovering lost and hidden things
Alongside teaching, Cimeies discovers lost and hidden things. That office overlaps with other spirits who find lost things, but here it sits alongside the teaching offices, and that pairing is worth noticing. A lost thing, in Cimeies work, is often a lost piece of knowledge: a fact you once knew and have forgotten, a connection between ideas that you have lost sight of, a book, a note, or a document that has gone missing, or a piece of learning that has slipped away through disuse. It can also be a physically lost object, and the same discipline applies as with any lost-thing working: search in the ordinary way first, note where you have looked, and bring the remaining search, and the object named plainly, to the petition.
For a hidden thing, name what is hidden, as far as you can, and why it matters that it be found. A hidden premise in an argument, a hidden assumption in a piece of reasoning, or a hidden fact about a situation that changes how you understand it: all of these are legitimate matters for Cimeies, because they are matters of knowledge and of clear seeing, which is his field. And ask yourself, as with any hidden matter, whether you are ready for a true answer, and whether knowing it will help you act better. A true answer about a hidden premise can change an argument completely, and that is what asking is for, but it should not come as a surprise that you did not want.
Valour, and why courage belongs here
The last office given to Cimeies, that he makes men valiant, sounds at first as though it belongs to a different spirit, until you think about what learning and speaking well actually require. It takes courage to argue clearly when an argument is unpopular, to speak persuasively when you are afraid of being heard, to admit that your reasoning has been wrong, and to learn a difficult subject as an adult, when you are no longer a student and failure feels public. Valour, in Cimeies work, is not battlefield courage in the literal sense. It is the courage to learn, to speak, and to be corrected, which is a quieter kind of courage, but a real one.
If valour is the part of Cimeies offices that you need, name the situation that requires it, plainly. Not a general wish to be braver, but a particular occasion: a speech to give, an argument to make, a subject to learn in front of others, or a truth to state that you have been avoiding stating. A petition for valour that names the occasion is a working petition. A petition for valour in general is a wish, and it will be hard to know afterwards whether it has been answered, because there will be no occasion against which to judge it.
What an evocation performed on your behalf means
An evocation performed on your behalf means Cimeies is evoked for you, with a request given to the spirit, rather than you performing the evocation yourself. Your part is real, even though it is smaller than a full evocation of your own: light a candle at home, in the time agreed, with the same request in mind, and keep your attention on the matter while you do it. That candle lighting connects the working to you and to your location, rather than leaving it somewhere else entirely.
Offerings and rewards also have a place here. Athena also gives candles and offerings during the evocation, and afterwards, on your behalf. An offering given after the work, when you can see that something has moved, is part of closing the working properly, not an extra added on afterwards.
Preparing a request worth giving
A request for Cimeies should name one office, or one clear combination, not all of them at once. Grammar, logic, rhetoric, lost things, and valour are five different matters, even though they belong to the same spirit, and a single petition that tries to cover all five will blur all five. Choose the one that matters most now. If the learning is the urgent matter, ask about that. If the lost thing is the urgent matter, ask about that. If the courage to speak is the urgent matter, ask about that. The other matters can wait, and they will be clearer for having waited.
Write the request in one or two sentences, in your own words, and read it back the next day. Does it name the office? Does it name the specific difficulty, the specific lost thing, or the specific occasion? Does it say what you will do yourself, alongside the working: the study, the writing, the speaking practice, or the search? If it does all three, it is ready to be given. If it asks only for a general improvement, rewrite it until it names something particular, because a particular request is the only kind that can be judged honestly afterwards.
Working with the seal
The seal of Cimeies, shown above, is a useful focus for your own part of the work at home. You can hold the seal while you light your candle, put it under the candle while it burns, put oil on it if that is part of your practice, carry it with you during the days of the working, or wear it as a pendant if you have it in that form. For an evocation performed on your behalf, the main home use is simple: hold the seal, or have it near, while you light your candle, and keep it in a proper place afterwards, rather than leaving it where it will be handled carelessly.
For a learning working, there is a fitting use that is worth mentioning: having the seal near while you study, write, or practise speaking, in the days after the evocation, as a focus for the work you are doing yourself. That is not a substitute for study, and it should not be treated as one. It is a way of keeping the working present during the ordinary work of learning, so that the study and the evocation support each other, rather than sitting in separate compartments. Put the seal away properly when the study is done, and keep your record of what you studied, what improved, and what still needs work.
Afterwards: watching, offering, and knowing when to stop
After a Cimeies evocation, watch over weeks, not hours, because learning, speaking, and finding lost things move on a slower rhythm than a single night's feeling. Note what changed in plain language: a passage understood that was previously opaque, an argument that now holds together, a speech given more steadily than before, or a lost thing found, with the date and the circumstances. Note also what did not change, because that is information too. A difficulty that remains, after study and after the working, may need a different approach: a teacher, a different book, more practice, or a simpler question, asked more clearly.
If nothing changes, do not repeat the same evocation endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force learning or discovery. Do the work properly, once, with your own candle lighting at home, your study or search alongside it, and your offering afterwards, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is right. No promise is made here about what the evocation will teach or reveal for you. That wording is about the magical result, not about delivery dates for a physical item.
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