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It's one of those weird cases where the opposite of nothing is still nothing.

It's still called summoning.

If you want some "real" rituals, check out Wiccan.

It's all summoning.

Doesn't matter if you're using to get a an angel, a demon, a djinn, an elemental, an oni, whatever, you're summoning it, or calling it depending on exactly what all details are involved.

Guidebooks wise? Save your money. You might as well just pick up a copy of the necronomicon and use that. It's all malarkey. I mean, it's fun, but you'll spend a lot of money on junk you don't need, and time following rituals written by someone looking to make a buck or just self aggrandize.

And I'll tell you how I'm so confident in that statement. I used to run with people that believed in it hard core. Serious Golden Dawn, OTO and similar ceremonial practitioners. I've been around Wiccan and other neopagan practitioners as well. Pretty much every branch of occult and magical practice that's out there tbh, including Satanists and people that think the necronomicon is actually an ancient text full of magical knowledge.

At most, you'd get some flickering candles or big pops in a fire, and people would oooh and aaaah like it was something significant.

Now, I'm not saying that any of those practices are useless. I'm not. But it's use is internal, not external. I don't give a fuck how many times someone "summons a demon", the only thing they're getting is entertainment, nothing is going to magically appear in their circle. It just doesn't happen. And then, they'll be all "oh, the powers weren't right", or "there must be an error in translation". Which, fine, I'm not going to shit on you because nothing happened, but nothing ever happens. Thank you for inviting me, it was fun anyway.

Anyone I've ever met that claimed to have summoned anything can't reproduce it when there's anyone else present, and that means they're full of shit. And if anyone is stupid enough to trot out the "bad energy from disbelief" bullshit, they can fuck right off. If that's true, then a single atheist is more powerful than an entire coven full of believers. How does that make sense?

I'm not saying not to try it if you want to, have fun, go to it. Just be aware that you might as well make up your own rituals because they're just as successful as stuff in any of the books, and a lot less expensive.

Thoughts and prayers

Just join your local church....