Servitors in a Spirit Filled World

By servitor, I mean any “created entity” visualized and brought to “life” by the magician. I think that the idea of an artificial spirit is actually pretty silly and arrogant. The world is filled with awareness and life. Some formed, some formless, and some in stages in between.

You aren’t creating an artificial spirit. You are giving a real spirit some form and direction.

Let’s dispel this power idea – this is sorcery, not Pokemon. The biggest name and most powerful spirit is not always the best for the task at hand. Its not about power, its about nuance. The question should not be “whats more powerful” but “whats best for this situation”?

There is currently a servitor that I have positioned in a tree that on the road that leads to my house. It is programed to alert me with a tingle on the back of the neck every time a vehicle passes with the intent of coming to my house. I have to say, it works WAY more often than not. I sit at my desk, feel that tingle, look up from my laptop and see a truck coming with a delivery. Silly? Maybe. But its fun and potentially useful.

Matthew Brownlee and I created a servitor to find an apartment in Philadelphia back in 1996, which it did in just a few hours. That servitor STILL is in use within the confines of Philadelphia and is wonderful at finding anything in the city from parking to sales to people. Oh yeah…that’s right, we did not feel the need to destroy it, and it did NOT suddenly turn on us and try to destroy us. From servitors, to Golems, to AI I often think that the assumption that everything we give life to will try to destroy us if we losen our grip on it, says more about the creator than the creation. It was Doctor Frankenstein that was the real monster after all, not his creation.