Working with Heramael: healing knowledge, plants, and the art of the cure

A teacher of healing, in the grimoire sense

Heramael teaches the art of healing, including the complete knowledge of any illness and its cure. He also makes known the virtues of plants, where they are to be found, when to pluck them, and their making into a complete cure. The Grimoire Companion gives the same office, in the same terms: Heramael teaches the art of healing, complete knowledge of any illness and its cure, and the virtues of plants, where they grow, when to gather them, and how to prepare complete cures.

That office has three parts, and they belong together. Knowledge of an illness is the first part: what it is, how it shows itself, and what course it is likely to take. Knowledge of its cure is the second: what would address it, and how that cure is to be made and used. Knowledge of plants is the third, and it is the practical ground of the other two, because in the world this office comes from, cures were made from plants, and knowing a plant meant knowing where it grows, when to gather it, and how to prepare it. A healing working that ignores any of the three parts is incomplete, and a practitioner who seeks only a cure, without understanding the illness or the plant, has not understood the office.

Illness, cure, and the limits of a grimoire office

A grimoire office of healing must be read alongside ordinary medicine, not instead of it, and that point should be stated plainly at the start, not buried at the end. If you are ill, or if someone in your care is ill, seek proper medical care first, or at the same time, and do not let a ritual working delay diagnosis, treatment, or urgent care. Herbal knowledge, however deep, does not replace a doctor, a diagnosis, or a treatment that only modern medicine can give, and a practitioner who claims otherwise is not practising healing. They are practising avoidance, and avoidance harms the very person the working is meant to help.

Within that limit, the office has a real and valuable place. It addresses the knowledge side of healing: learning about an illness, learning about plants and their virtues, learning how cures were traditionally made, and learning to think clearly about health, care, and recovery over time. It also addresses the care side: the attention, the patience, and the steady observation that healing requires, whether the healing is of the body, of a household, or of a situation that needs tending rather than forcing. A working for healing knowledge is a working for understanding and for care, and it should be framed that way, with its limits stated, from the start.

Plants: where they grow, when to gather, how to prepare

The plant part of Heramael's office is the most practical part, and it repays slow study. Where a plant grows tells you about its character: damp ground or dry, shade or sun, lowland or hill, garden or wild place. When to gather it tells you about its season, its strength at different times of year, and the traditional cautions about gathering too early, too late, or at the wrong time of day. How to prepare it tells you about the form of the cure: whether it is dried, infused, decocted, powdered, or made into an ointment, and what each form is for. Those three questions, where, when, and how, are the foundation of traditional herbal knowledge, and they are questions that can be studied, practised, and recorded, whether or not a ritual working is involved.

Study of that kind should be done with reliable herbal sources, and with attention to safety, identification, and dosage, because plants that heal in one preparation and dose can harm in another. Never use a plant you cannot identify with certainty, never guess a dose from a general article, and never give a herbal preparation to another person, especially a child, a pregnant person, or a person on medication, without proper knowledge and, where appropriate, professional advice. A general article like this one does not supply herbal instructions, and it should not be used as if it did. It describes an office. The learning of that office belongs in proper herbal study, over time, with named sources.

The mandragore

Mandrake lore is indeed famous, and it is also a place where caution matters more than usual, because mandrake is a powerful and potentially harmful plant, and its lore is full of dramatic claims that should not be followed literally without study. This article does not expand the mandragore mention into instructions, and it does not present mandrake as a safe or simple working material.

The same care applies to the familiar spirits mention.

Preparation for a healing-knowledge working

Preparation for a working of this kind begins with clarity about the question. What illness, or what kind of illness, is to be understood? What plant, or what kind of plant, is to be learned about? What cure, in the traditional sense, is to be studied? State the question in one clear sentence, and write it down before the working. Then do the ordinary work that belongs with it: seek medical care where care is needed, consult reliable herbal sources where plants are concerned, and note what is already known and what is still unknown. A working made on top of that ordinary preparation has a different character from a working made as a substitute for it, and it is the first kind that this office describes.

After the working, close properly, put the tools away, and write down what was done, in plain language, with the date and the question in one sentence. Then observe, over days and weeks, what is learned: a book found, a plant identified correctly, a source consulted that had not been consulted before, a clearer understanding of an illness or a course of care. Healing knowledge grows slowly, like the plants it concerns, and it should be judged over seasons, not over a single night. Keep the record for that long view, and let it show, honestly, what was learned and what was not.

How a cast seal is worked with

None of these is a showpiece gesture. Holding a seal during a working keeps your attention on the petition instead of letting it drift. Putting it under a candle gives the working a fixed centre and a fixed time. Putting oil on it marks it for that working and no other. Carrying it or wearing it as a pendant keeps the work close through an ordinary day, when the decisions that matter are usually made. Showing it to the desired person is a direct, old-fashioned use, and it should only be done where it is honest and appropriate to do so in the situation itself.

For healing-knowledge work, a seal held during study, or placed under a candle during a petition for understanding, is a natural use, because the work itself is largely a work of study, observation, and care over time. A seal carried or worn while gathering, studying, or caring for another person keeps the petition in mind when the practical decisions are made: which source to trust, which plant to study, which course of care to follow, in consultation with proper medical advice where that advice is needed. In each case, the seal is a focus and a reminder, not a cure in itself, and no medical result is promised here.

How this seal is made

These seals are lost wax cast seals of the daemons of the various grimoires. They are pure metal, actually cast, starting with a wax version, which is much higher quality than the 3D printed versions made from metal powder and plastic that are found around the internet. They are pictured as just discs here, and you can get them like this if you prefer, but a bail is either cast onto them or soldered on, depending on the metal used, so you can use the seal as a pendant.

This piece is a one inch cast metal seal or pendant. No made-to-order time is stated for this piece in the source to hand, and none is guessed here.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for each working: date, question in one sentence, what was done, what ordinary care or study had already been undertaken, and what was learned afterwards, over weeks and months. Healing records should be kept with particular care, because they concern health, and because a record that confuses a ritual working with a medical outcome can mislead later readers, including the practitioner themselves. Note, plainly, what medical care was received, what herbal study was done, and what the ritual working contributed, as far as it can honestly be told. That separation is not scepticism. It is good record-keeping, and it protects everyone the record concerns.

Do not repeat the same healing working endlessly, and do not let a working delay a change in medical care when that change is needed. If an illness worsens, if a new symptom appears, or if a course of care is not working, seek medical advice promptly, whatever the state of the ritual work. A working for healing knowledge should make a practitioner more attentive to health, not less, and more willing to seek proper care, not less. If a working is having the opposite effect, stop the working, and deal with the health matter directly, in the ordinary world, without delay.

When healing work is not the right work

Sometimes the right answer is not a healing working at all, but medical care alone, or rest, or a change in living conditions, or a conversation with a clinician about options that have not yet been discussed. Ritual work for healing knowledge can support those steps, by clarifying questions, by encouraging study, and by steadying attention, but it cannot replace them, and it should never be presented as if it could. That limit is not a weakness of the office. It is the office understood correctly: knowledge, plants, and care, in their proper place, alongside medicine, not instead of it.

What follows from a Heramael working, in terms of magical result, and still more in terms of medical result, is yours to observe, not anyone else's to guarantee, and no medical result is promised in this article at all. That wording is about magical and medical result, not about delivery dates for a physical item. A cast seal, made by hand in metal, for a petition that names a healing question clearly, studied properly, and pursued alongside proper care, is the honest form of this work.

Heramael Grimoirium Verum 1 inch cast demon seal Grimoire

A one inch cast metal seal or pendant of Heramael, who teaches the art of healing, including the complete knowledge of any illness and its cure, and who makes known the virtues of plants, where they are to be found, when to pluck them, and their making into a complete cure. The metals named for this piece are gold and silver. If you work in the Grimoirium Verum tradition and you want a cast seal of Heramael for healing-knowledge work, this is the piece offered here.

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No guaranteed magical result is promised with this piece. That wording is about magical result, not about delivery dates for a physical item.

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