The three steps to sigilizing with the AOS method.
1.The formulation of a statement of intent, capital letters are generally used because they appear more willful.
MY WILL IS TO BE PROTECTED FROM HARM
2. Cross out any repeated letters
MY WIL* *S TO BE PR***C**D F*** HA**
Resulting in:
MYWILSTOBEPRCDFHA
3. Now to combine these letters into a symbol. The letters can be flipped, superimposed, linked, or anything else really.
For example, a "W" can be "M" upside down and "E" sideways. The top (or bottom) curve of "S" can be a "D."
"F" can be a part of "E" and so on. After many revisions you end up with a glyph of your desire.
The means used and the way it happens are simple, the inverse of scientific. I use a formula, created by instinctive guess and *arbitrarily* formed, not evolved by hypothesis and experiment. The law of sorcery is its own law, using sympathetic symbols.
- Austin Osman Spare
Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy ... a mathematical means of symbolising desire and giving it form that has the virtue of preventing any thought and association on that particular desire (at the magical time), escaping the detection of the Ego, so that it does not restrain or attach such desire to its own transitory images, memories and worries, but allows it free passage to the sub-consciousness.
--A.O.Spare, "The Book Of Pleasure"
Resources:
Link
I recommend this site for an example of a sigil made this way as well as a more detailed description.
If i am still being a bit too vague try looking at the link.
1.The formulation of a statement of intent, capital letters are generally used because they appear more willful.
MY WILL IS TO BE PROTECTED FROM HARM
2. Cross out any repeated letters
MY WIL* *S TO BE PR***C**D F*** HA**
Resulting in:
MYWILSTOBEPRCDFHA
3. Now to combine these letters into a symbol. The letters can be flipped, superimposed, linked, or anything else really.
For example, a "W" can be "M" upside down and "E" sideways. The top (or bottom) curve of "S" can be a "D."
"F" can be a part of "E" and so on. After many revisions you end up with a glyph of your desire.
The means used and the way it happens are simple, the inverse of scientific. I use a formula, created by instinctive guess and *arbitrarily* formed, not evolved by hypothesis and experiment. The law of sorcery is its own law, using sympathetic symbols.
- Austin Osman Spare
Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy ... a mathematical means of symbolising desire and giving it form that has the virtue of preventing any thought and association on that particular desire (at the magical time), escaping the detection of the Ego, so that it does not restrain or attach such desire to its own transitory images, memories and worries, but allows it free passage to the sub-consciousness.
--A.O.Spare, "The Book Of Pleasure"
Resources:
Link
I recommend this site for an example of a sigil made this way as well as a more detailed description.
If i am still being a bit too vague try looking at the link.
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