Working with Sallos: love kept true and lasting

Love, in the Companion's plain words

Sallos is a Duke in the Goetia, and the Grimoire Companion entry for him is short, and worth reading in full, because its second half is as important as its first: he stirs love between the sexes, and keeps affection true and lasting.

Stirring love is the part most people reach for first. It is the beginning of a matter, the spark, the attention turned toward another person, the feeling that something has begun. Keeping affection true and lasting is the harder part, and the longer part. It is the part that happens after the beginning, in ordinary days, in ordinary dealings, when the first feeling has settled into a life lived together, or apart, with honesty.

That second half is why Sallos work is not only for beginnings. It is also for continuations: for affection that is already there, and that needs to be kept true, rather than left to drift; for a relationship that is sound, and that deserves attention, rather than neglect; for a love that has grown quiet, and that needs to be spoken about plainly again, before quiet becomes distance.

True and lasting are careful words. True means honest, not performed. Lasting means steady over time, not brilliant for a night and gone by morning. A working that aims at true and lasting affection is therefore a working that asks for honesty as well as feeling, and for steadiness as well as excitement. Keep both words in mind when you write your petition, or the petition will aim at only half the matter.

Being specific about what you want

Before any Sallos working, be specific about what you want, in your own words, and in one clear sentence. Reflection about being specific is not a formality. It is how you tell, afterwards, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work.

Write the sentence down. Name the relationship, as concretely as your practice allows, and name what you mean by love in this case: a beginning, a reconciliation, a deepening, a keeping-true of something already sound. Then name what you will do yourself, in ordinary terms, to meet that matter halfway. A petition that asks for lasting affection while naming no ordinary action, no conversation, no change in behaviour, is not a petition. It is a wish, and wishes are hard to read afterwards, because any outcome, or no outcome, can be fitted to them.

Be honest, too, about what you do not want. If you want affection, but not honesty, say so to yourself now, and ask whether that is a working worth doing. If you want a beginning, but not the ordinary life that follows a beginning, say so now, rather than discovering it after a working has begun to move a matter forward. If you cannot state the matter in one sentence, leave it overnight and come back to it. That pause is part of the work, not a delay in it.

Preparation, and the room

Preparation for Sallos work is preparation for a working that concerns other people, and that fact should shape the preparation. Clear the space you will use, and set it aside for this purpose. Put away the things that pull your attention elsewhere. If you have a regular working space, use it. If you do not, choose one place and use it consistently for this working, so the place itself starts to carry the association.

Then prepare yourself. Bathe, or at least wash your hands and face, and change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands. Eat simply beforehand if you can, and avoid starting a working when you are exhausted, drunk, or already agitated. A clear head is a working tool, just as much as incense or a seal is, and a working done in the heat of a feeling often reads, afterwards, as something you wish you had phrased differently. Wait until you can state the matter calmly, even if the matter itself is deeply felt.

Next, prepare the words you will use. Do not improvise a whole petition on the spot if you can avoid it. Know what you are going to say, in your own words, and know what you are not going to say. A petition that tries to cover every possible outcome usually covers none of them well. Keep it direct, keep it honest, and keep it to the matter at hand.

Why incense, and why incense for love work

Incense fills a room, and for love work that room-filling quality has a particular use. Love, in its ordinary life, is lived in rooms: in houses, in kitchens, in bedrooms, in places where two people actually spend time together. A working that fills the room with scent, and sets that room apart for the working, is therefore working in the same medium love itself lives in: shared space, shared air, shared time.

Incense also marks time. It burns for a duration, and while it burns, the working is in progress. When it is done, the working closes, and ordinary time resumes. That bounded time matters for love work, because love work that never closes, that is carried on in the head for days and weeks, becomes worry, not working. Light the incense, do the work, let it burn out, close, and then stop, and let ordinary dealing resume.

Incense is also used, in this tradition, for fumigating tools and talismans that will be used in a working. If your practice calls for fumigating a seal for Sallos, pass it through the smoke in the order your system teaches. The incense is the material; the method belongs to the system you work in, and a general article is not a substitute for proper teaching in that system.

How the Sallos incense is made here

We offer a small variety of very rare and very useful incense. We hand make each batch of incense when you order it, unless we have just recently made some, of course. The incenses that we make are of a quality that we use them ourselves for magical work. They work well enough that I use them successfully for spirit work, work for clients, as well as my own spellwork.

That hand-made, small-batch point matters in a plain way. Incense made for this specific work, in a small batch, and used by the maker herself for the same kind of work, is a different material from incense made in bulk for general sale. You will notice the difference when you light it, in the clarity of the scent, and in how it fills the room without becoming harsh or muddled.

Because each batch is hand made when you order, the incense has not been sitting, opened and closed, through other people's orders. It is made for your order, and then blessed by me myself before it is sent out. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced.

A simple working order, to adapt to your own practice

The following is a general order, not a fixed script. Adapt it to the system you already work in, and to the instructions you already follow for Goetia work. Do not treat a general article as a substitute for proper teaching in the system.

First, prepare the room and yourself, as above, and have your one-sentence matter written down. Second, set out the seal, tool, or candle you will use, and the incense. Third, light the incense and let the room settle before you speak your petition. Do not rush from lighting to speaking. Give the room a moment to change, and give yourself a moment to notice that change. Fourth, speak your petition, clearly and once, rather than repeating it until it loses its shape. Fifth, sit quietly for a time and listen, rather than filling every moment with more words. Sixth, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the tools away in their proper place.

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. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work.

Ordinary action, alongside ritual action

Love work that is true and lasting is judged, in the end, in ordinary life, not only in ritual. If the working concerns a person you know, speak to that person, in the ordinary world, as the matter requires: honestly, directly, and at a time when a conversation can actually be heard. If the working concerns a relationship that is already sound, tend to it in ordinary ways as well: time together, attention, keeping promises small enough to keep.

Ritual and ordinary action should point the same way, or neither will carry much weight. A working that asks for lasting affection while the practitioner continues to neglect the relationship, or to speak dishonestly within it, is working against itself. That is not a moral judgment added to the article. It is a practical observation: a petition and a life that contradict each other cannot both be read as true.

It is also worth asking, honestly, whether the love in question is a person, a pattern, or a longing for a feeling you once had. The answer changes the petition, and it changes what you should be working for, and why. A working aimed at a person when the real matter is a longing for a feeling will not do the work you actually need done, and a working aimed at a feeling when the real matter is a person will miss the person entirely.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for each working: date, purpose in one sentence, 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. It may mean the petition was unclear, the timing was wrong, the work was not appropriate, or simply that the situation needs a different approach, in the ordinary world as well as in ritual.

Do not repeat the same working endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, observe, act in the ordinary world as the matter requires, 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, and in love work, noise is easily mistaken for feeling, when it is really only anxiety, repeated.

Sallos incense

If you are doing spirit work with Sallos, the incense is for filling the room and setting the working apart, not for show.

I hand make Sallos incense myself, in small batches when you order, and I bless it myself before it is sent out. It is made for spirit work and spellwork with Sallos, for love kept true and lasting, in the Companion's words. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced.

If you want the incense for that work, this is the one I offer: Sallos Goetia incense, $44 CAD. View the product

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