Working with Valac: hidden treasures, serpents, and freedom from the bonds of enemies

Valac, under the name Volac in the Grimoire Companion

Valac is sold here under the name Valac, and the Grimoire Companion entry lists this spirit as Volac, a President whose work is tied to treasure, protection, and nature: he finds hidden treasures, reveals serpents, and delivers the practitioner from the bonds of enemies. That entry is the frame for this article, and its three points should be read together, because a treasure, a serpent, and a bond are three different kinds of hidden matter, and each one asks for a different kind of working.

Hidden treasures are not only money, and a practitioner who reads treasure only as cash will miss most of what the entry offers. A hidden treasure can be a resource that has been overlooked, a skill that has not been used, a connection that has gone cold, or an asset that is tied up in a matter nobody has looked at clearly for years. Before any working, say what treasure you mean, in ordinary terms, and where you think it is hidden. A treasure with no place, and no kind, is not yet a petition.

Serpents, revealed

Revealing serpents is a precise and unsettling office, and it should be read precisely. Serpents, in the older language, are creatures that are hard to see, that move quietly, and that can harm when handled carelessly. A working to reveal serpents is therefore a working to bring into view something dangerous that is currently hidden: a hidden hostility, a quietly damaging arrangement, a risk that is being walked past because it has not yet bitten. That is different from a general request for protection, and it should be stated as what it is: a request to see the danger plainly, before it acts, rather than after.

If a serpent is revealed, the next step is ordinary as well as ritual: distance, caution, and a change in arrangement, where a change is possible. A revelation that is admired and then ignored is not a completed working. It is information left unused, and unused information about a danger is a strange thing to have asked for.

Bonds of enemies, and what freedom means here

Deliverance from the bonds of enemies is the third point, and it is the one that most needs a plain statement before the working. A bond can be a legal tie, a debt, a promise extracted under pressure, a working directed at you, or a relationship that constrains you through hostility rather than through affection. Enemies, in this entry, are people or powers acting against you, not merely people you disagree with. Before you work, name the bond, in one sentence, and name what freedom from it would look like in ordinary terms: what would you be able to do, or stop doing, if the bond were lifted?

That plain statement matters because freedom from a bond is not the same as victory over an enemy, and it is not the same as revenge. A working aimed at freedom asks for the bond to be loosed, so the practitioner can act. A working aimed at something else, dressed up as freedom, will muddle the record afterwards, because the outcome asked for and the outcome received will not match.

Why incense for treasure, serpents, and bonds

Incense fills a room, and for work about hidden treasures, hidden dangers, and bonds, that room-filling quality has a use. A treasure hunt, a serpent revealed, and a bond loosed are all matters that involve a space, not only a person: a house, a workplace, a set of arrangements that have grown up around a matter. Incense marks that space as set apart for the working, and the question is asked in that prepared space, rather than in the middle of the ordinary arrangements that hide the matter in the first place.

If your practice calls for fumigating a seal for Valac, 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.

Preparing, and acting on what is found

Preparation is most of the work. Before you begin, write the matter down in one clear sentence: what you are asking, and what you are prepared to do yourself in ordinary terms. If you cannot state it plainly, you are not yet ready to begin, and that pause is part of the work, not a delay in it. Clear the space you will use, set it aside for this purpose, and prepare yourself in the same way you would for any Goetia working: wash, change into clothes set aside for the work, and set out what you need before you start, so you are not hunting for tools halfway through.

After a working, act on what was found, in ordinary terms, and record the action alongside the revelation. A treasure found should be claimed, used, or secured, as its kind requires. A serpent revealed should be avoided, handled with care, or removed from the arrangement, as the case requires. A bond loosed should be followed by the action the bond prevented. Those ordinary follow-throughs are the completion of the working, and a record without them is only half a record.

Found, revealed, and loosed

Valac work, done well, follows a sequence: a treasure named and found, a serpent named and revealed, a bond named and loosed. Each step needs its own plain statement beforehand, and its own ordinary follow-through afterwards. The incense marks the space where that sequence begins, and the record carries it forward into the life where treasures are used, dangers are avoided, and bonds no longer hold.

Whose treasure is it, and whose bond is it

Two plain checks belong at the start of Valac work, and both are about ownership in the ordinary sense. First, whose treasure is it? A hidden resource that belongs to someone else, or that is held in trust for others, is not a treasure to be claimed by finding it, and a working that finds it without asking that question will produce knowledge that is hard to use honestly. State, before the working, what claim you have on the treasure you seek, and what you will do if it turns out to belong to another person or to a shared arrangement. Second, whose bond is it? A bond that constrains you is yours to seek freedom from, but a bond that constrains another person is a different matter, and loosening it is a working aimed at them, not at your own freedom. Keep those two cases apart in the record, because a working that confuses them will confuse its own outcome, and a practitioner who cannot say whose treasure and whose bond they mean is not yet ready to begin.

Valac Goetia incense

Incense is not background scent for this work. It is part of the working itself.

I hand make each batch of incense when you order it, unless I have just recently made some. These are incenses of a quality I use myself for magical work, for spirit work, for work for clients, and for my own spellwork. I bless the incense 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 bought in bulk and relabelled.

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

I also make the oil to go with it, for the same work: Valac Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD, 1/2 oz bottle. View the product

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