Last week, fellow occultist Brother MS
honored me with a request to take part in a double blind experiment, the
conjuration of a spirit he had recently encountered. He sent me the sigil (below) and a brief
description, and asked that I report back on my findings.
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| Daisos' sigil |
The spirit was initially encountered
during some Jupiter work during which Fr. MS asked Jove to send him a spirit to
help him with his concerns, particularly in regards to managing finances and
obtaining wealth. MS provided the following description of his experience: “As soon as he had asked, he sat up straight as though in
trance and had a vision of the sigil and following it, a small putto appeared
wearing a dalmatic and stole, carrying a spade and sliver of a lightning bolt.
Around him, in Greek letters, appeared his name: Daisos (Δαισος).” A short conversation ensued between MS and
Daisos, and the day after, MS received a small loan and then later, came into a
larger sum of money that enabled him to pay off some debts. Daisos seemed to him like a good character to
know, and few days later, RO and I got to work, amusingly enough, without
firstly looking up the definition for the word “putto”.
Daisos was conjured using a modified
Trithemian rite and Tzadqiel as an intermediary, in honor of the Jupiterian
nature of his initial arrival. I felt
him first of all as a burst of heat. We
asked after his nature, and he was a little confused. He settled on something like "catalysis
that brings expansion" and "quickening," such as when a plant
germinates. As to appearance, he
"rode" me more than I saw him, but both RO and I saw a triangular
image in the crystal, a little foxy. RO had
the initial impression that Daisos was a terrestrial spirit of air. The spirit said that he was more comfortable
with plants than people or animals. Our experience was that of an
agricultural/botanical spirit. The
spirit even made reference to the three blue-purple morning glories that were
on the altar in honor of Jupiter.
Further, he didn’t seem explicitly
masculine, although he did have an expansive feel about him. Indeed, he had a strong childlike quality
about him: RO asked him what his favorite flavor was.
He didn't understand this question at
all, and began (as a way to sideline the question almost) talking about how
things smell. I interpreted it as a
Shinto nature spirit type of entity.
Daisos had words explicitly directed
to MS: "needs to have heat to bring wealth, the heat that quickens"
and he showed me a seed.
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| MS's drawing of Daisos |
Following the conjuration, we spoke
with MS. The amount of agreement between
our experiences was quite remarkable. He
agreed that Daisos was very ruddy - that was his first impression. MS stated with respect to the first contact “it wasn't so much seeing but there was a heat
and then a more concrete image of the putto.”
MS showed us an image of Daisos that he had drawn, below, in which the
spirit is similar to a winged cherub.
When the three of us were talking about the experience, I had to confess
that I hadn’t known ahead of time what a putto was. MS described a putto: “They're nature
spirits. Usually called 'cherubs' but that's another thing. They are basically
classic, Romano-Hellenic angels.”
MS felt as though we had achieved a very
good confirmation of the basic nature of Daisos. We both felt the heat, the
agricultural/botanic nature of the spirit, as witnessed first by the little
shovel. The mention of the seed appealed
very much to MS, as he often works with plant spirits. The image of the seed had been appearing
recently in dreams, additionally. He
confirmed the innocent of the spirit, “He's very childlike in my interactions.”
It was an amazing experience, and
has built a little confidence into my practice.
I’ll be looking for further comparison work like this. Thanks to Brother MS, to RO and, naturally,
to Daisos!
MS may well tell this story from his side in his blog, The Digital Enchiridion: http://michaelseblux.wordpress.com/
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