@hollyvangaalen5 days ago Hi Norse. Hope you’re all settled in now. I have a question. How do they utilize the energy “payments?”
How do they use it? Like currency. Thinking of offerings like currency, regardless of what the offering is will show the parallels between the two when put into practice. I know you’re a smart gal, but others may read this and want to know more if I keep it terse, so please forgive me for potentially over-explaining, my friend.
Currency gets it’s value from a lot of different areas, but here, we have to look at it in a hard currency point of view. Currency is used for goods and services. The value of the currency comes from a lot of things, but rarity and material value of the items it is made from come to mind. Coins of Gold and Silver have usually been more valuable than Bronze, especially when there aren’t stores of those metal types in a community.
Now, couple that with a sort of Corporate structure. The person at the top can (generally) dole out rewards to those who perform well. This is a common understanding of how complex spirits at the head of hierarchies act, too. Not just Goetics. If Belial hands the task off to one or more of his spirits, he will likely pay them, right? Now, think of building a house and all of the people that go along with that, especially if it’s done right. Not just the construction personnel, but those overseeing it. The plumber, electricians, roofers, maybe even interior decorators. All of them have to be paid and not all at the very end – IF the house gets built. The foundation layers won’t wait that long for payment, when they have to work at the very beginning. The payments are asynchronous when there are a lot of moving parts and some parts can’t be started until others have finished.
You’re seeing the similarities, I’m sure. I provide a rare form of payment. Not just blood, but magician’s blood who’s doing magical acts and cultivation just about daily and frequently multi-daily. That makes it even more valuable. Getting it from a magician that practices regularly is rare compared to regular people. Getting it from a magician that practices a lot is, arguable, a lot more potent and certainly much more rare. While there’s something to be said for progressive practice, this isn’t the place.
So, they have a magician calling upon them for atypical work (not just the typical emo requests), providing a rare currency that is desired, and the only strings attached is that they work to make my outcome happen. Seems a bit hard to resist, right?
Yet some do. Not because they don’t want it, but usually, they feel the mechanisms for the outcome of my goals are better done by others. None of us can agree on how “busy” these spirits are, but for shigs (sh**s and g*ggles), lets assume they have finite resources (troops they can apply to something) and that they are juggling a few tens of thousands of other requests. Makes a bit more sense in that light. Another reason is that they know I will call on them again for something similar. Now, someone reading is holding up their hand and wondering about the “rarity” or scarcity of it if I dole it out like parade candy. Fair point! But it only comes from the SOURCE once. It’s second hand after that, at best. Truth is, where that currency is accepted, I’ve never had it seem like a stale “second place” that I recall.
So, there you go. I could prattle on, but the points should all be clear. Let me know if there are more questions and I hope you and yours are well. Hit me up back channel if you need something, my dear.
