Spare's Sigil
The alphabet-of-desire method: write the desire as one sentence in the present tense, strike out every repeated letter, and arrange what remains into a single glyph.
- Origin
- London
- Era
- 1913
- Summary
The alphabet-of-desire method: write the desire as one sentence in the present tense, strike out every repeated letter, and arrange what remains into a single glyph.
- Steps
- Write the intent as one sentence, present tense, affirmative. No 'will', no 'not'.Remove every repeated letter, keeping the first occurrence of each.Arrange the remaining letters into a single composite glyph — overlap, rotate and ligature them until the word is no longer legible.Charge the glyph in a state of gnosis (exhaustion, trance, or another single-pointed state).Destroy the paper, or put it out of mind, and do not read the sentence again.
- Requires
- the sentencepen and paper
- Deterministic
- true
- Renderable
The letter reduction is fully mechanical; the glyph's arrangement is a design choice, so a generated shape is one valid reading of the rule rather than the sigil.
- Caveats
The method is Spare's, the forgetting is the practitioner's. A sigil that stays legible or stays remembered is, in Spare's own account, not yet a sigil.
- Keywords
- letter eliminationalphabet of desireForgettingchaos magic
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