You may have noticed that I rarely use honorifics with entities. Some people swear by them. I don’t. It’s a made up system based on artificial rankings of a previous time. But with Paimon, I typically address him as King Paimon. Could I get away with not doing it? Sure, but what would something like that gain me?
King Paimon (KP) was already here before I read the entries for the next few days to get a feel for when each would be executed and maybe how. But, as is typical of my interactions with KP, things don’t go to plan in a straight-forward way. He’s typically a bit of a rogue in my encounters with him.
KP: “You need a trickster spirit.”
M: “I’m unsure what to do here. Lady Hel has helped me quite a bit. I feel like I owe it to her not to just give up on that avenue.”
Hel: “It doesn’t matter to me. ” (She meant it, I nodded, and she left)
KP: “I know just the person to have a spirit like that.”
(He talked for a bit about a few details. He nudged me to continue taking notes)
M: “But isn’t this supposed to be about building that spirit up? Part of the progression path for me?”
KP: “It can be. But. It doesn’t have to be. Besides, you are building it up. With energy, attention, maybe recognition even.”
KP: “You don’t have to do that yourself. Haven’t you learned that from work yet?”
He left.
Of course, he was right.
Let’s back up a bit and return to the start of the conversation. It starts off in the middle. The stuff beforehand was a bit important. When Barbatos told me to find out why the spirit in my soldier doll was withdrawing, I figured it was some sort of learning experience. It looked like one. There was a strong start, but in the last few days, he’d withdrawn and wasn’t as present as normal. I knew it wasn’t something that I had done.
The spirit didn’t want to do those things I was asking him for. I don’t know what changed, since he was really excited in the beginning. I don’t know that it matters, but I’m inclined to want to analyze it to see if I can detect something like that earlier. I do know I upheld my end of that loose bargain.
This isn’t the first time a spirit has done this in this project of mine. The bargains are loose because I don’t want a spirit chained to a job/role they don’t want for X number of years. I could have all sorts of stuff filled if I didn’t care about that. Isn’t my way, without some really good reasons likely involving safety.
Now, the back half of the conversation. With work, he’s referencing my delegation, which has been happening more and more as I start to slowly draw down in preparation for my move. It also has to happen so I can pick up more of the daily load while other management rotates out and the gap until a new person comes in. Several people, actually, so there’s a lot to do to get people ready for when I move. I don’t have a problem with delegating to my team. The problem is that I have specific knowledge they won’t have time to absorb fully before I leave in June.
So, what does he mean with the delegation reference here? He’s referring to someone having done part of the work already. As in, a Goetic that has trained a spirit to do certain tasks or facilitated the same. He’s saying that I don’t have to start from scratch or from the lowest rung for that part of the project. I saw an image in my head of having already built up the dead’s earthly half body, the ego, that separates from the higher self at death. I don’t want to debate that process, which seems mostly right, but I’ve seen things that contest that that may just be similar to one-offs. He was reminding me that I have done that upliftment in the past and didn’t need to perform all of the work every single time for this specific task. Man, that took a lot longer to say than I anticipated.
I am grateful for the personal mentorship that goes on during these weeks, but it doesn’t fit the nice, neat schedule. The text suggests a lot of emotional work can be done right now and with the stress at work, I assumed that’s what the conversation was going to be about. Work is fertile ground for that sort of thing. I did say it in the beginning that things don’t tend to go to plan once we start interacting…
My work with King Paimon was only a few minutes today. Certainly less than ten. It focused on that spirit and he wanted me to call him for that. I blooded his sigil, blooded some Benzoin incense, and made my request. It was a rough day, so I offered to share my beer with him, but he drank the…astral (?) version of it, as did a little spirit that also came in. I can honestly say that this is the first time I recall any spirit drinking the astral version instead of tasting it through my senses like I normally do. Well, I don’t normally let a…less complex…spirit taste it through me.
And KP indicated we were done for the day. It threw me off a bit when he said that and I felt he meant it. Things like that have a tendency to make me wary and that is something that perhaps I need to work on. Anyone that has worked with Goetics a while that needed some rearranging and hard lessons may sympathize with that. Honestly, maybe that’s an article I should write some time. A perspective on trusting after hard lessons from the spirits. I mean, those lessons WERE needed…I think..
M: “King Paimon, it is a week later. I haven’t gotten much done.”
KP: “You should neglect to put in the conversations we’ve had. I’ve known of this. I am unpleased.”
M: “Very different language I’m hearing than normal, Kind Paimon.”
KP: “Perhaps it is the messenger. (It is and he was being more direct)You spirit hasn’t moved. Why?”
M: “I don’t know. I’ve asked. My focus is elsewhere.”
KP: “It is. Command. I hinted you should. Not in my name. It doesn’t need to hear it from me.”
He left.
He did come back swiftly and let me know he wasn’t thinking negatively or displeased.
He was letting me know I must command the spirit. When I was concerned that this would create a negative environment subsequently (after me), he reminded me that it was in MY control and command being demonstrated by my association.
That IS true, telling, and gold. Thank you, King Paimon.
(Note – why is this important. Because once the spirit leaves my care, part of the reason it will continue to work as it agreed upon is the agreement that was made. If the command portion isn’t strong enough, then negative activities will happen earlier in the cycle and then I would have sent a spirit out that is much more negative than positive. This is the opposite of my intent)
After I wrote this out and reflected, King Paimon returned. He indicated I had learned what he wanted me to and that we were done with his week. I was a bit taken back by this. Hail King Paimon!
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