Occult customer awareness 2

This is a follow-up on my previous article. In this article I'll be discussing #2 contained within the definition of customer support I've found online, namely "how conscious customers are of their needs or wants in relation to your company's offerings." 

In the past I've worked in the retail business for more than enough time in something akin to an Apple store around here, but which also sold washing machines and refrigerators and so on. During that time I've encountered all sorts of people, ranging from those who simply nose around in stores criticizing the merchandise out of spite because they can't afford it to those who walk up to a product with cash in hand saying they want that one. And then there are the people in between who have to be more or less tutored in the specifics of each product they are interested in based on their specific needs.

The problem is not everyone knows what their needs are and some of people have a harder time expressing those needs. Others confuse their needs with their wants. Others still misunderstand the explanations they receive for various reasons, Mercury retro perhaps, and this case, along with a negligent salesman generate the most amount of complaints these stores receive. I will offer three examples based on personal experience:

1. At some point a woman was interested in buying a refrigerator and specifically said she wanted to place it somewhere outside on some sort of patio. She was told that while there is no problem keeping the refrigerator outside, this should be avoided at times when the temperature climbed too high or plunged closer to freezing in order to prevent malfunctioning and this information was underlined by the salesman. 

It was around September when she made the purchase. Around this time of the year, under three months after the purchase, the woman returned and started making a scene because her refrigerator broke down. She was asked about the conditions in which she kept the product and she said she kept it outside because that's how the salesman instructed her. Being a supervisor at the time I intervened and called on the salesman whom I know had made that sale and I also knew what she told the client because I was close by when they were discussing various products. The woman insisted she had been told it was ok to leave the damn thing outside as long as she pleased and threatened us with such and such repercussions and so on. She was eventually left with no choice than to have us call her a repairman based on the product's warranty and we later found out the cooling agent had frozen because of the conditions the refrigerator had been kept in.

2. Another time an elderly couple came to buy a tab as a gift for their grandson. They specifically asked for a tab that could also be used as a phone, meaning it had to have a specific sim card slot. In this case the salesman confused a certain product with another and instead of selling them the "CODE-T" model which had a sim card slot next to the memory card slot, he sold them the "CODE" model which only had the memory card slot. The differences between the two were insignificant with respect to appearance and interface, their boxes were the same except for the codes and the two products were next to one another in the storage room. Nevertheless, it was the salesman's fault for not checking that the specific item he just sold had the sim slot.

The couple returned the following day saying their tab didn't work as a phone. We had no choice than to apologize for the confusion and offered them the choice of a refund or the "CODE-T" model for a small difference that also included a discount for their troubles. 

3. The following example was more common and it has to do with misunderstandings between the customer and the salesman, often due to the incompetence of the client. Every so often some local hillbilly came in wanting to buy a tv on which he could watch more than one channel at the same time. They were unable to offer more details to the salesman and so the latter had no choice but to show them different products, some of which had a split-screen option, while others had picture-in-picture and the salesman offered details on each product. 

As it was usually the case, the hillbilly pointed at a certain tv and rushed home with it upon paying to show off to his family and friends. In most cases they returned the next day making a scene and saying they either asked for a tv with split-screen or picture-in-picture, depending on the case, and instead got the other product. This prolly had to do with the fact some friend starter making fun of them for not having the kind of tv he or she has, which was the initial reason out hillbilly decided to buy one in the first place. Obviously, this was irritating because the salesman showed them both kinds of products while the customer, instead of paying attention, used their most primitive instincts to "bring home the kill" so to speak.

In this case there was little to do except to resist the urge to crack their head open with an axe while being screamed at and, after a considerable time, come to terms upon repeated offers to change their damn tv. 

Those were the days I had to stick to certain etiquette. Nowadays I have the luxury not to do that, especially when it comes to the occult environment, including my classes. But I will refrain from lashing out because it would do no good for others and instead I will spend more energy towards providing additional means of understanding. Whether this endeavor will succeed is not my concern. 

You see, if you come to me asking if whatever I sell can do such and such a thing and for some reason I somewhat fail to understand what exactly you want to know, I will either ask for more details or answer based on my understanding. I try to do so with as many details that would allow you to figure out if what I'm saying is on par with what you initially asked or otherwise. If you go ahead and follow-up on my answer instead of saying my answer is based on my faulty understanding, then I will assume my initial guess regarding your subject of inquiry was correct and I will go ahead and elaborate my answers based on that. 

Specifically, if you're asking me if my spirit conjuring class can help you get a "a spirit for companionship" I will immediately assume you are asking if it can help you get a familiar spirit. How? Simple! By simply picking any of the spirits presented in there, conjuring it and asking it to give you a familiar spirit under its command. The familiar spirit will then assist you from then on until your death or until such time you send it back to where it came from, for some reason. I will explain this to you prior to your purchase. If the explanations you receive are on the same page with your initial desire, you're free to get my class or not. If not, you can either offer me further explanation with respect to your specific desire or choose to look somewhere else. I'm fine either way.

However, if by "a spirit for companionship" you mean something like the muchly desired, sought after and bragged about Holy Guardian Angel, then you should be more specific in your explanations because that is theurgic and in this case you wouldn't need a spirit conjuring class. You can do the Abramelin ordeal, Liber Samekh or any other such lengthy working that will have you encounter such a being. Keep in mind this being is personal to you and it's not something you can sell online next to a genie in a bottle and all that. Or you can calculate the name of your chart angel. Or, if you wanna go more abstract when it comes to terms, you can do PGM I. 41-195, "The spell of Phnoutis, the sacred scribe for acquiring an assistant." If it's legal to kill a falcon in your neck of the woods. Or you can do Nick Farrell's monkey thing with a baboon statue and lighting candles and all that. Or maybe you'd want to pay considerable amounts of money to someone to initiate you in certain ATR thing and bind a headspirit to you.

But if you're indeed seeking nothing but a familiar and cannot comprehend how you'd be able to get one from a spirit that can give you one upon asking, then maybe you can resort to more real witchy stuff. Something alike to The Grimoire of Arthur Gantlet or other sources contain old workings that should be able to provide you with what you desire. Considering you'd be willing to kill a certain bird and bury it and whatnot. Or if you'd be willing to kill a cat and stick beads up its ass and so on, depending on what the source in question instructs. This will draw certain spirits to you and you can pick your familiar from them. OR! You could trap an intranquil spirit?! Hahaha.

If anything else fails you can simply construct autonomous artificial spirits, empower them and charge them to serve you for such and such tasks. The information for this kind of thing is easily available using a simple online search so it should be easy to come across. 

To break it down, there's a personal spirit (in fact there are several but whatever), there are spirits you can attract to serve you, then there are artificial spirits you can create. Most people are unaware of the personal spirit because, in short, it's their personal link to the divine and people are way too stuck in the hustle and bustle of their mundane existence so they require a lengthy working that involves switching the focus away from the mundane, purification and so on in order to encounter that being. 

When it comes to the other spirits, you can call upon a deity or other spirits and ask them for a familiar to serve you for such and such purposes. You can additionally ask them to have the spirit inhabit an object of your choice such as a crystal, a doll, a tool, and so on, or it will simply "float around" you since the time they become your familiar. It is as simple as that: you call on an entity and ask them for a familiar. Or do the other method to draw them to you.

As for the artificial spirits, they're just that - a crystallized form of your own energy that is given a purpose to perform certain tasks while being provided with more or less autonomy. Just as in the case of the real spirits mentioned in the previous paragraph, you can instruct that artificial spirit to reside inside a certain item.

In conclusion, do you know how to conjure spirits? If so, why is it so hard to conjure one and ask it to give you a familiar? You simply have to ask just like you'd ask it to bring you money and fame etc. So why buy my spirit conjuring class then? If not, then you can buy it or any other source that tells you how to conjure spirits. If you then want to get a familiar spirit you will simply select an entity based on its powers and conjure it and ask it to give you a familiar spirit that will serve you from then on. 

Period. 

Even if you can't sense the spirits in any way, you should be able to discern later on if you have indeed managed to acquire a familiar upon asking it for XYZ and seeing whether anything in your environment changes in ways that allow you to come closer to your desired result.

I was talking to someone the other day about the level of degradation the occult world is experiencing. I blame it on people who spread shallow knowledge that misleads others who end up learning all sorts of things in a truncated or even all-out wrong manner. People who go around bragging about their phenomenal success achieved with little effort and who, out of the goodness of their heart, share but fractured pieces of information with others only seek to keep others at a dumb enough level that would determine them to buy more products. Some of those people will continue buying that stuff for a long time while others will seek a different provider. A few of them will eventually encounter me because I'm not that visible as I'm not advertising all over the place since I don't care about stuff like that.

Some of the people who happen to encounter me end up rejecting my services because, upon becoming aware of their desires and their expectations, I tell them certain things that contravene whatever they had been taught before. As an example, I tell someone who comes to me for assistance with respect to becoming rich that if magick were as simple as they had been taught then every person doing it would've become extremely wealthy within a short amount of time since they started doing it. A few spells over a few weeks and the bank account would overflow. This is not the case and there are people who've been doing this for decades and, despite significantly improving their finances using occult means, have yet to amass a fortune that would last them many lifetimes. 

"If I pay you for a money spell, how long will it take to manifest $50.000 for me?" some guy asked me once... Gee, lemme just ask ma crystal ball... Hmmm you're currently making like $13 an hour and you have no prospects for a better paying job, huh? Abut an year or so although I'm not good with the math... "WTF!!!" WTF indeed, which is why I wrote this article. For that and many similar reasons. Such answers will discourage people from buying my services and I couldn't care less. In many cases they will return to the initial bragger and happily continue to purchase any dreams that person is selling. 

There are also cases where self-proclaimed whatnots speak about certain things with authority, making them seem like they're highly complicated. At the same time those people allude to the fact only they possess the intricate knowledge required to make use of such things. I imagine how someone can talk about familiar spirits in this manner and people would be under the impression this must be a highly advanced topic. So it's no wonder when people become uneasy upon being told it's not like that.

This has given me an idea! Howbout I start selling familiar spirits myself? Off the top I'm thinking of storing them into crystals. I would only do it on demand, but only if the astrological conditions at the time are favorable based on the client's requirements in the case of familiars for practical purpoeses. Otherwise, I can bind a familiar to a crystal solely for the purpose of the spirit teaching the recipient and/or helping them for mystical purposes. I would have to look up shipping costs and whatnot, but the way I see it the shipping price added to the price of the crystal and that of the actual magical operation would likely surpass that of my conjuring class.

So howbout it? Lemme know if you're interested. 

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo

PS: nowhere in my class description does it say it will teach someone to get a familiar spirit because until now I imagined this would be implicit since you'd simply ask the damn spirits for a familiar, doh!

PS 2: here's a short text on getting familiar spirits I wrote almost three years ago on a fb group and it's in its unedited form.

"In general, familiar spirits can be obtained from a god or a spirit which rules over many others and is able to provide the operant with one. The classic grimoires are full of spirits said to offer familiars to the magician. 

 

Probably the most spectacular way of achieving this is by undergoing the Abramelin ordeal. At the end of the 6 or 18 month perdiod (depending on the version), the magician meets their Holy Guardian Angel. Then with the help of the angel, the magician summons the four Kings of Hell, makes them swear obedience to him/her (I'm not sure of this part, as can't remember Aaron Leitch's article to the letter, but it doesn't really matter), then he or she asks each of them for a familiar spirit.

 

But there are also other, less daunting ways of getting a familiar spirit. You can call upon a spirit (Elemental, Olympic, so called Goetic etc.) or a god/dess and ask them directly for one. I think it's better to have an ongoing relationship with that entity, but I see no harm calling upon an entity you have yet to work with. It's best to prepare offerings beforehand. It's also best if you could communicate with the entity, either in your mind, or by using various other means, such as a pendulum, tarot cards, Ouija board etc. You can even go into "astral vision" (some articles on this are found in the group) during the ritual and ask the entity you're calling upon to show itself there. If you can't "hear" spirits, you can ask it to communicate with you by using various signs and gestures. 

 

After you call upon the entity using a particular ritual for that purpose, you will ask them to provide you with one of the spirits under their domain, as a familiar. You also need to mention the purpose you want that spirit to help you for: money, sex, magick, and other mundane stuff. I'm not sure about this, so maybe others will step in and help me out, but I think it's best to address an entity who usually deals with the purpose you want the familiar for. A Fire elemental, for example, would be good for action, aggression, while an Earth elemental would be good for money.

 

Once you ask that and name the purpose, the familiar would come forth and introduce itself - remember their name! At least that's what happened in my case - if you've experienced something different, please share. At this point you can give thanks to the initial entity, and give them the offerings. You could have an offering ready for the familiar, as a welcoming gift. Now you can commune with you familiar. Ask them about themselves, what they like as offerings, how it is best for you to work together etc. Afterwards you can close the ritual.

 

Treat the familiar as a friend, not as a slave or anything, and it will help you a great deal! Mine helped me meet my HGA, for instance.

 

You can create a permanent home for your familiar in the form of a spirit pot or box - I've added a few articles on this, including on houses for the Fey. This container could be something the likes of an old jewellery box which you have cleansed and consecrated. The spirit would be able to tell you what it prefers. You can the add stuff inside of it to the spirit's liking, such as herbs, stones&crystals, metals etc. I got my familiar from Bethor and I also added Bethor's seal inside of my box. On the back of the seal I drew a sigil made of my spirit's name, made according to his instructions. 

 

After you've done all this, you can light a tea light inside the container and ask the spirit to get inside of it and take hold of it as its own. You can do this within a magick circle or not. You will place any future offerings either inside the container, or next to it, while calling the familiar by name and asking it to receive it. You should have settled by now on the kind of things the spirit likes and how often you should offer them. Make sure you feed you spirit on a regular basis! This is a form of showing respect, but also as a way of empowering it when you ask it for certain, more difficult tasks.

 

You can commune with your familiar as often as you like. You can even visit it in the astral, using your astral vision. I say good night to my familiar every time before I fall asleep, and I even add a small prayer for him - not to him."