Osé's seal: wisdom, secret things, and transformation of form

Osé, and three offices that demand honesty

Osé is listed in the Grimoire Companion as a President, and his offices are large: he makes one wise in all liberal sciences, he answers of divine and secret things, and he grants transformation of form. Each of those, taken alone, would be a substantial working. Together, they describe a spirit for the practitioner who is willing to be changed by what he learns. Wisdom in the liberal sciences is not a collection of facts. It is a way of thinking, trained across grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, the old seven. Answers of divine and secret things are not gossip. They are knowledge of matters that are hidden, whether by their nature, by their distance, or by their sacredness. Transformation of form is not a costume change. It is a change in how a thing, or a person, appears and is.

That is why this article is not about spirit work in general. It is about Osé work in particular, and about learning, secrecy, and change as serious, specific matters. If you are studying the liberal sciences, seeking an answer to a hidden question, or working toward a real change in form, whether your own bearing and presentation, or the form of a working, or the shape of a situation, that is Osé's ground. If your matter is really about something else, another spirit may be the honest choice, and saying so is part of doing the work properly.

Be specific before you begin. A petition to be wise in general is hard to read afterwards. A petition to understand a particular science, to receive a true answer to a particular hidden question, or to transform a particular form in a particular way, is a petition you can judge. Osé's offices reward exactness, because they deal with matters where exactness is the difference between knowledge and illusion. Bring him an exact matter.

Why a seal, and why a cast seal at 2 inches

A seal is the spirit's mark, the sign by which the spirit is called and recognised in the grimoire tradition. Working with a seal means working with a specific being, for a specific purpose, not with spirit work in general. Osé's seal, at 2 inches, is a substantial piece: large enough to hold comfortably, to read clearly, and to work with on an altar or in the hand, without being so large that it cannot be carried. For work that concerns study and transformation, that size is practical. It can sit on the desk where you study, be held during a working, and be carried when the transformation concerns your bearing in the world.

The seals offered here 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 three-dimensional printed versions, using metal powder and plastic, that are found around the internet. A cast seal has weight, edge, and durability. It can be handled daily, anointed, fumigated, and put under a candle, without the worry that it will warp or melt. For a seal used in long study, that durability is the point. It will still be there, solid, when the study has run for months, and it will carry the association of all that work with it.

A pendant seal, fitted with a bail so it can be worn, adds a further use: it can be carried on the body, at the chest, through the ordinary day. That carrying is useful only if it is honest. A seal worn as decoration, with no working behind it, is just jewellery. A seal worn after a real working, and taken up again for the next, is a working tool that happens to be wearable. For transformation work, that distinction matters doubly, because the seal worn daily is itself part of the changed form, and a changed form worn without a working behind it is only a change of appearance.

Wisdom in the liberal sciences

The liberal sciences, in the old sense, are not a list of subjects to collect. They are disciplines of thinking: grammar teaches you to say a thing rightly, logic teaches you to think it through rightly, rhetoric teaches you to say it so that it lands, arithmetic teaches you to count truly, geometry teaches you to measure truly, music teaches you proportion and harmony, and astronomy teaches you to place things in the heavens truly. Wisdom in those sciences is therefore not the same as knowing many facts. It is the trained ability to think clearly, in order, across different kinds of matter.

If your working concerns a particular science, bring that science into the working, in its actual materials. The book you are studying, the calculation you are stuck on, the drawing you are trying to get right, the passage you cannot parse: lay it out, look at it honestly, and let the question be about that specific difficulty, not about being wise in general. A seal held or worn while you study is a reminder of that specificity. It does not do the studying for you, and it should not be treated as if it does. It marks the time as set apart for study, and it marks you, to yourself, as someone doing the work.

Study for an Osé working should be done in ordinary daylight, as well as in the ritual room. Read, practise, work the problems, and write down what you do not understand, in plain language. That written list of difficulties is often the real petition, even if it is not the petition you first named. Bring it into the working, and let the working be about those specific gaps, not about wisdom as an abstract quality.

Divine and secret things, and transformation of form

Answers of divine and secret things are the second office, and they require a particular kind of honesty. A secret thing, in this context, is a matter that is hidden: a motive, a fact, a divine matter, or a truth that has not yet been spoken. Before any working for such an answer, write down what you already know, what you do not know, and the boundary between them, clearly. A petition that names the boundary is easier to work with, and easier to judge afterwards, than a petition that asks vaguely for the truth to come out. It also forces you to ask whether you are ready for the answer. Some secret things, once known, change how you must act, and a working that asks for such knowledge should be undertaken with that consequence in mind.

Transformation of form is the third office, and it is the one most easily misunderstood. In the old language, it covers a change in the form a thing takes: a person appearing otherwise than he is, a situation taking a new shape, a working changing its outward form. For the modern practitioner, the honest applications are usually closer to home: a change in your own bearing, presentation, and way of carrying yourself in the world; a change in the form a project or situation takes; or, in ritual work, a change in the form through which a working is expressed. Name which of these you mean. A petition that blurs them will produce a muddled working and a muddled record.

Reflection about being specific about what you want is especially important here, because transformation, by its nature, tempts the practitioner to ask for everything at once: a new self, a new life, a new form, all together. Resist that temptation. Choose one form, one change, one matter, and work that, properly, once, and record it. A single transformation, honestly worked and honestly recorded, teaches more than a dozen vague wishes for change.

Working with a seal: holding, anointing, carrying, wearing

There are several plain ways to work with a cast seal, and each does a different job. Holding the seal during a working gives your hands something to anchor on while your attention is elsewhere. Put the seal under a candle when you want the working to have a steady, visible centre, on a safe, heat-proof surface, with the candle watched, never left unattended. Putting oil on the seal, anointing it deliberately with a clear purpose in mind, is another recognised use. Use a small amount, and let it sit before you handle the seal again.

Fumigating the seal, passing it through incense smoke with the purpose in mind, is a companion practice: it starts a working, and it prepares a tool for later use. Do that deliberately too, passing the item through the smoke with the purpose in mind, rather than waving it through quickly and putting it away. Carrying the seal, and wearing it as a pendant, are the uses that set a cast seal apart from a paper one. A pendant worn daily keeps the working present in ordinary life: at the desk, in study, in conversation, in the moments when a changed form must actually be carried. Showing the seal to the desired person is a use named in the old practice for workings aimed at a person. With Osé, where the matter is often study, secret knowledge, or transformation rather than persuasion of a person, that use will be rarer, and where it does not fit, it should not be forced.

Preparing yourself, a working order, and keeping a record

Before you work with the seal, be clear about why you are doing this working, what you are asking for, and what you are prepared to do yourself. If you cannot state the matter in one clear sentence, write it down, leave it overnight, and come back to see if it still reads true. Work from the instructions and teaching you already follow in the Goetia system. A general article like this one is not a substitute for proper teaching, and it should not be used to invent a purpose for a spirit you have not studied.

Clear the space you will use, set out what you need before you begin, and prepare yourself as you would for any working: washed, changed, clear-headed, with the petition in your own words, direct and honest. The following is a general order, not a fixed script. First, prepare the room and yourself. Second, take up the seal, deliberately, and set out the study, notes, or matter the working concerns. Third, anoint or fumigate the seal if your practice calls for it, naming the purpose in your own words. Fourth, speak your petition, clearly and once. Fifth, sit quietly for a time and listen, or turn to the study itself, rather than filling every moment with more words. Sixth, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the seal away in its proper place, or put it on to wear, deliberately.

Afterwards, write down what you did, when you did it, and what you noticed. Not what you hoped would happen, but what actually happened, in plain language. Note the question in one sentence, how the seal was used, and what changed in the days afterwards: a passage that cleared, an answer that came, a form that actually changed, in a way you could point to. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work. Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force wisdom or change. 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. Do not wear the seal as a substitute for the study itself. The seal supports the work, it does not replace it.

Osé cast seal pendant, 2 inches

A cast seal is made to be handled, carried, and kept, through months of study and through a change honestly worked.

These are lost-wax cast seals, pure metal actually cast starting with a wax version, made to order, with a bail fitted so you can use the seal as a pendant. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is cast by hand, for this work.

If you want the seal for that work, this is the one I offer: Osé cast Daemon Demon seal pendant, 2 inches, $216 CAD. View the product

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