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This article is from the Spell/Hex FAQ, by cat cat@luckymojo.com with numerous contributions by others.

27 Is it possible to invoke Gods, Spirits, Angels, or Demi-Gods, evoke demons, or summon the dead?

Evoking an entity means to call it with a voiced chant
(an evocation) and to cause it to manifest before you.
Invoking an entity means to call it with a voiced chant
(an invocation) and to cause it to manifest within you.

As Simon Progrediore (mailto:servellose@juno.com) explains:

"To evoke a spirit would mean to cause said spirit to
appear, either in the material world or in the astral
world, via magick mirror, crystal, etc.

"To invoke a spirit would mean to cause said spirit
to enter your body or mind. It is for this reason,
that students are urged NOT to invoke demons, only
the God-Names and so-called 'benevolent' angels."

Summoning simply means to coerce an entity to appear.
Non-coercive summoning is sometimes called "inviting"
the entity.

Many people claim to have done some or all of these
things, either in religious rites or in magical rituals.
To some observers, it seems that much invocatory and
summoning magic has a religious tinge to it and vice
versa. These folks cite the ceremony of Holy Communion
in the Catholic Church is an instance of summoning a deity
and the trance-possession of Santeria as an invocatory rite.

 

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