Glossary

A deliberate close: a boundary, a clearing, a return to ordinary attention.

Close the tabs, clear the cache, log out, and do something ordinary. The gesture is the boundary; the ordinary thing is the return.

The moment a symbol is loaded with intention and attention, usually in an altered state.

A charge needs a beginning and an end. Mark both, and do not keep recharging the same sigil because the result has not arrived.

The written agreement that binds a group construct: purpose, members, feeding, boundaries and closing.

A charter that cannot be enforced is decoration. Name the person who closes the working and the date it is reviewed.

The general term for a made agency: servitor, egregore, tulpa or daemon.

Every construct has the same four parts: anatomy, creation, feeding and dismissal. If one is missing, it is not finished.

A mapping between a Grimoire aspect and a technical pattern, used to choose the shape of an instrument.

A correspondence is a design prompt, not a law. Use it to make a decision, then test the instrument and change the mapping if it does not work.

A background process, and by extension a working that runs without being watched.

A daemon needs a start, a stop, a log and a way to be found. The magical version is the same, with a sigil on the folder.

A screen, folder, page or virtual room arranged for attention, offering and return.

An altar is defined by return. Pick a place you will visit on a schedule, and keep it small enough to maintain.

A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.

A group needs a charter more than it needs a sigil. Write the boundaries, the moderation and the closing before the first ritual.

The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.

Put feeding on a schedule and count it. A construct fed by anxiety is being fed by the wrong thing.

The dated note of what was done, what was expected and what happened.

Record the expectation before the result. A record written afterwards is a story, not a test.

The deliberate dropping of a sigil's wording after it is charged, so the conscious mind stops editing the result.

Hide the sigil, destroy the draft, and put the intention out of mind. Keep the record external — a note in a ledger, not a rehearsal in your head.

A fault, error or unexpected output read as a signal.

Record the glitch before you interpret it. A screenshot and a timestamp turn an omen into a datum.

A narrowed, non-discursive state used to launch a working: drumming, breath, dance, exhaustion, sexual excitation or a long still sit.

Choose a method you can enter and leave safely. The state is a tool; if it takes hours to come down, it is the wrong tool for a Tuesday.

A built thing that performs or supports a working: a sigil engine, a servitor ledger, an oracle, a daemon.

An instrument should be usable by someone else from its docs. If it only works in your hands, it is a habit, not an instrument.

The pre-agreed condition and action that ends a construct.

A kill switch is a sentence, a date and an action: 'On the last Friday, delete the sigil and close the ledger.' Write it before creation.

An append-only record of constructs, feedings, readings and closings.

A plain JSONL file is enough. One line per event, with a timestamp, an actor, an action and a result.

A system that returns a reading from a question, a seed and a set of symbols.

An oracle should record the question, the seed and the draw. Without the record, you cannot tell a reading from a memory.

One of the twenty-four unequal hours of a day, each ruled by a planet in the Chaldean sequence.

Use the hour to choose when to start or close a working, not to wait for a perfect moment. A working done on the wrong hour is still a working.

A short value that makes a random or generated operation repeatable.

Keep the seed with the reading. It is the difference between 'the oracle said' and 'this draw, at this seed, said'.

A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.

Write the kill condition before you charge it. A servitor with several purposes is a badly specified one.

A condensed glyph made from a statement of intent and charged in a state of gnosis.

The glyph is the easy part. The charge, the forgetting and the record are what make it a working rather than a drawing.

Magic made with technical systems: a working that uses a machine, a network or a program as its medium or its instrument.

Use it for a practice where the artefact can be built, run, logged and changed. If nothing is built or done, it is commentary, not technomancy.

A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice.

Treat it as a psychological practice unless you have a reason not to. Keep a journal, keep ordinary relationships, and stop if it causes distress.

A complete operation with an intention, a method, a record and a close.

A working is not a mood. Write the brief, do the thing, record the result, close it.