Working with Naberius: rhetoric, the arts, and dignities restored

A seal is not a picture of a seal

A seal for Naberius should be a seal, not a picture of one. That distinction sounds simple, and it is, but it changes how you work with the thing in your hands. A picture can be looked at. A seal can be carried, anointed, fumigated, placed on an altar, and worked with over time. It has weight, it has a surface you can touch, and it stays with you after the working is over, in a way a printed image does not.

That is why the form of a seal matters in traditional Goetia work, and why a seal that is made properly is different from a seal that is merely reproduced. The seal in this article is for traditional Goetia work with Naberius, as a hand cast seal, in pendant form, 2 inches. It is made to be carried and worked with, not left in a drawer as decoration, and not filed away as a reference image.

Naberius, and what working with him is for

The Grimoire Companion entry for Naberius is precise, and it is worth quoting in substance: Naberius is a Marquis with nineteen legions, who makes one cunning in arts and sciences and masterful in rhetoric, and who restores lost dignities. Three gifts, and each of them points to a different kind of life.

Cunning in arts and sciences is not a gift for examinations alone. In the older sense, cunning means skill that has been learned by doing: a hand that knows its craft, a mind that can follow a subject through its difficulties, a practitioner who can study a system without merely collecting its phrases. If you are working with Naberius for the arts or sciences, name the art or the science, and name the work you are actually doing in it. A vague wish to be clever is not a petition.

Mastery in rhetoric is the second gift, and it is the most easily misunderstood. Rhetoric, in this tradition, is not trickery with words. It is the ability to say what you mean, in an order that can be followed, to people who need to hear it. It belongs to teaching, to pleading a case, to speaking for a cause, and to any occasion where a matter must be put plainly and well. If you cannot yet say your matter plainly to yourself, that is where the work begins, before any seal is worn.

Restoring lost dignities is the third gift, and it is the most personal of the three. A dignity lost is a standing lost: a reputation damaged, a post given up, a place in a community that has slipped. Restoration, in this context, is not the same as revenge, and it is not the same as pretending nothing happened. It is the slow work of standing again in a place you once held, and doing the work that earns that standing a second time. No result of any of these kinds is promised here.

How a lost-wax cast seal is made

The seals offered here 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.

In lost-wax casting, the seal is first worked in wax, then cast in metal from that wax form. The wax is lost in the process, which is where the name comes from, and the metal that remains is a solid, cast object, not a printed shell. You can feel that difference when you hold it: a cast seal has weight, it has a surface that shows the hand work, and it does not have the layered texture of a printed object.

That process also explains why a cast seal is made to order, and why it takes time. A seal that is already listed takes about two to three weeks while seals that are not listed, but are under the other option, take eight weeks, because she still has not carved their waxes yet.

Working with the seal

A pendant seal is made to be carried, and carrying it is part of the work, not an afterthought. Hold it in your hand before a working, put it under a candle during the working if your practice calls for that, put oil on it deliberately, carry it with you afterwards, or wear it as a pendant. Each of those uses is a different way of keeping the seal in the work, and each suits a different kind of day: a candle working suits a set evening at the altar, while carrying the seal suits a day when the matter itself will be in front of you.

Showing the seal to the desired person is another traditional use Athena names for seal work in general, and it belongs here with a plain caution about clarity: show it, or carry it, for the purpose you have actually named, not for a vague hope you have not put into words. Rhetoric is practised in the mouth and in the ear: speak the petition aloud, listen to how it sounds, and revise it until it is plain. A seal worn for rhetoric and a petition that has never been spoken aloud are working at cross purposes.

Anointing a seal is a way of marking it for a purpose. In practice, that is often done with a matching oil, applied deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words. Fumigating a seal is the companion practice: passing it through incense smoke, to start a working, and for fumigating the tools and talismans that will be used in it.

Do not use a seal as a substitute for the rest of the working. Carrying a seal and then doing nothing else, with no petition, no attention, and no closing, is not spirit work. The seal supports the work, it does not replace it. If the matter is a speech, a lesson, or a case to be put, carry the seal on the day you must speak, and prepare the words themselves with the same care you give to the seal. If the matter is a lost dignity, carry it as a reminder of the standing you are working to restore, and let your conduct do the persuading.

Keeping a record

Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, seal and any oil or incense used, 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. 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. Keep the pendant in a clean, dry place when you are not wearing it, away from other metal objects that could scratch it, and clean it gently with a soft cloth.

Naberius cast Daemon Demon seal pendant 2 inches

A seal for Naberius should be a seal, not a picture of one. 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 Naberius, as a pendant, 2 inches, made for traditional Goetia work with Naberius, to be carried and worked with. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is cast by hand, for this work.

Naberius cast Daemon Demon seal pendant 2 inches, $216.00 CAD. View the product

#DignitiesRestored #Pendant2Inches #LostWaxCast #NaberiusCastDaemon #DemonSealPendant #CastSeal #TraditionalGoetia #Grimoire #Daemon #Goetia #Demon #Seals