To say that I have a long running interest in the creation of virtual lifeforms in an occult context would be a massive understatement. Indeed my ritual history is littered with trial and error pseudo-entities that for one reason or another failed to meet expectations and required dissolution, sometimes violently. But the following article, originally seeing digital print over on ChaosMagick.Com in 2022 is the culmination of my practical learning on the topic, now freely available for anyone willing to put in the work. I would recommend a suitably open mind before reading this, though, as these are not your grandfather’s servitors.
How To Make A Monster
Nesting Servitors in the Digital Astral
By Gavin Fox
The following essay is designed to be a masterclass in a very specific form of servitor creation. It leans heavily on the outcomes of my own experiments with both memetics and cybernetics, and as such may differ vastly from what is described by other practitioners elsewhere. There is a notable digital aspect to the procedure as outlined here, and as a result a little familiarity with those more mundane concepts may be of help.
To start, the most important part of any tulpa, servitor or egregore creation is to define the reason why an astral construct is needed in the first place. The entity I will be using as an example here is designed as an assassin of sorts, created to strike at the very hearts of the magickian’s enemies and leave no trace. It is safe to say that far less adversarial drives can also prove to be fertile grounds to birth a brainchild all of your own. Love, lust, money, the ends need not be bloody to justify the effort involved in crafting one of these yourself.
“I give you a name: You shall be the Reaper’s Queen. I give you a form: You are a pale, banshee like spirit in flowing robes with icy skin and long blade like claws. The sound of feet crunching in snow shall accompany your movements and a chill wind shall signal your presence. The faces and shades of those who have fallen in battle shall surround you, and you shall be glad of the terror they will strike into your victims.”
The next thing to do is define the laws which will govern the entity itself. It is recommended that a clause is written in early in the process that prevents the construct from bringing harm to either its creator or those who are close to them as well. This is essential, even if the servitor itself is not designed for psychic attack. Better safe than bereaved, as they say.
“I give you your code: You shall do what I say. You shall do no harm to your creator or those your creator cares about. You shall do no harm to your summoner or those your summoner cares about. You shall attack only the target defined by your summoner. You shall do no harm to others, even those protecting the target, unless they seek to intervene directly to stop you completing your task.”
Then the basic operating methodology is programmed next. The below examples are obviously related to the vicious nature of the Reaper’s Queen herself, but due to the artificial status of a servitor’s intelligence they function best when every possible action is mapped out in at least general terms. When creating life chance is where the errors creep in, and there is no excuse for being a bad parent.
“I give you your creed: You shall produce a cold shiver and feeling of unease to prove your presence to those who would call on your aid. You shall leave right away to begin tracking your target once this is revealed to you. You shall track the target tirelessly to the very ends of the earth, for vengeance is inescapable. You shall concentrate only on the current target, and queue other requests accordingly. You shall use your claws to rend your victim’s spirit, your appearance to strike fear into their soon to be frozen heart. You shall attack until drained, and then break off to feed. You shall refuel at any source available that does not go against the laws outlined here.”
Next is a little necromantic clause I like to add to all my more aggressive creations. Care should be taken when adding additional packets of programming to the servitor at this stage, as a lack of experience doing so adds to the possibility of unforeseen consequences. It is also a good idea to create a well defined end point for the operation being undertaken by the pseudo-spirit, as well as what a resting or waiting state between tasks looks like as well.
“I give you licence: You shall seek the spirits of the dead and offer them vengeance should they wish to accompany you. You shall add their hatred to your own and focus this too towards your target. You will not consider your attack completed until your target is destroyed utterly, body, mind and soul. Upon completion of the attack, you shall return to the astral and await further requests.”
Next a summoning spell to allow others to approach the entity is added if desired. This is not essential should the servitor be exclusively for personal use, though having some form of chant or practice designed to bring it forward for inspection remains useful. As with anything magickal, the more emotive the language the better.
“I give you a ritual, and you shall hear those who seek your aid: I call on you, Reaper’s Queen, to destroy (man/woman) for through their actions they have earned your hatred. Oh flawless stalker. Bringer of retribution. Nemesis. Cruel Fates. Cold hand of judgment. Destroyer of those who would harm others. Hubris punished. Harvester of lost souls. Gateway to the abyss. I call you. Come to me, that I may lay my target low with your sharpened teeth.”
Bringing a servitor to life is by far the most time consuming part of any birthing cycle, but after years of trial and error the following charging methodology has proven to be extremely effective in helping constructs like Reaper’s Queen stand on their own bloody feet. And no, for once it does not involve a pictographic sigil or prolonged masturbatory gnosis. Chaos magick can look stagnant from the outside, mired in the same handful of processes, but that is just the more public face of the art. Behind closed doors we continue to evolve.
Instead the description, operating program and summoning chant if one was created are compressed into folding code by meticulously counting all of the letters one after the other. For example, Q appears five times in the highlighted sections above, and G thirty. The numerical results from these are then converted into binary as one long string of numbers in alphabetical order. Zeroes are used for letters that do not appear, such as X in the case of my Reaper’s Queen. Maintaining a standard A to Z path during conversion is imperative for the correct output and the result should look something like this:
“11101011101111010110001101000000101011100010001000100010001111111011110101001101010111011010010011101101101001001100000111001011110111000100110101111100010010111111001011000101111”
It is then repeatedly chanted while enraptured by a relevant emotion tied to the eventual use of the entity, for as long as it takes to reach exhaustion. In the case of Reaper’s Queen, a mix of rage and disgust is perfect, though less violent outcomes will require more balanced states of mind to correctly program the end result. Maintaining any level of emotional arousal whilst also reading a complex string of ones and zeroes can be extremely difficult, but there is no reason why the operation cannot be repeated multiple times until the servitor’s presence is felt.
Remember that the binary for a given pseudo-spirit would never be freely released in such a way under normal circumstances, and indeed the ones and zeroes above have been subtly doctored to protect the core of my Reaper’s Queen from prying eyes. It is only chanted during the empowerment stage, and then stored in case the egrigore somehow malfunctions. Should the worst happen, your virtual being can be dissolved by simply running the string back through the converter in the opposite direction, uncollapsing the code and unravelling the spirit quickly, cleanly and with the minimum of fuss.
Of course only its creator can do this, as they are the ones who fed the construct the energy in the first place. For group efforts in egregore creation a consensus will need to be reached ahead of the attempt to dissolve the entity, as each magickian will need to pull their own essence free individually to fully wind it down. That said reality can be a depressingly grey place and occultists of any real skill are so terribly few. But with a little willpower and a knack for creating unreal allies, there is no need for even the most solitary of practitioners to work alone.
The Accelerated Chaote 