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[Opinion] Focalor for Protection & Divination

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Aeturnus2

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I got Wheel of Fortune tarot card on whether I should work with Focalor.
I wanted to work with him mainly for protection and enhancing my divination powers.
I was wondering if it would be foolish to reach out to him, instead of Michael, Kali (who was worshipped for more than 300 years in my family) or Pazuzu, who are clearly more powerful than him. Michael is the most powerful protector, unless you find someone more powerful in Zoroastrian current. Kali is the most wrathful roop (form) of Devi Durga, who is the most powerful amongst the Hindu pantheon obviously. Pazuzu is the right hand man of Lucifer, who is the King of the Wind Demons.

But I feel a kind of magnetism towards Focalor. Last time amidst attacks I had turned to invoke him there was a jamming sensation on my head. I had requested Focalor to protect me and enhance my divination.

My claircognizance has skyrocketed and I tell what is the right one amongst 4 options in a second, whereas I would struggle and pick the wrong choice previously.

Also is Focalor closer to Satan or to Lucifer?
 

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From my experience he’s a very good protector if you have an existing attack or binding which you want removed, so maybe that’s the purpose here
 

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From my experience he’s a very good protector if you have an existing attack or binding which you want removed, so maybe that’s the purpose here
What if the attacker is a demon above his hierarchy? Focalor would listen to his higher up instead of his summoner, won't he?
 

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What if the attacker is a demon above his hierarchy? Focalor would listen to his higher up instead of his summoner, won't he?
From my experience they operate in a more decentralised way at least in this plane, it's more about the energy put in instead of the rank and hierarchy of the demons. My personal opinion is that curses, attacks and so on are simply energy, learning and practicing how to manipulate that it could just as easily become an offering, or used for something else. But if you're worried, then call Lucifer first and then Focalor.
 

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Would it be better if I called Satan first and then Focalor?
It would probably work similar, but if you're going off of hierarchy Lucifer is the Emperor of the Infernals. Satan is a title that can be applied to multiple beings and then also a being.
 

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It would probably work similar, but if you're going off of hierarchy Lucifer is the Emperor of the Infernals. Satan is a title that can be applied to multiple beings and then also a being.
In the Dukante hierarchy, Lucifer is an Air elemental under Satan, who is the ineffable King of Hell. And I am way more close to Satan than to Lucifer
 

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In the Dukante hierarchy, Lucifer is an Air elemental under Satan, who is the ineffable King of Hell. And I am way more close to Satan than to Lucifer
If that's the hierarchy you're following and you're closer to Satan then yeah go for it, it can't hurt.
 

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Neat. Never worked with him, well, not this specific "aspect."
He may be an "echo" or "manifestation" or call him an "emanation" of Lucifuge Rofocale, who "is" also Syrach, Leonard, Sirachi, Satanachia.
Duke Syrach, a very important figure in Verum with 18 spirits under him
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(Oh, sidenote to the above:
in Vodou, the person who wins in a fight between bokors (sorcerers) - the person who wins is the one who the spirits like more, and who maintains a better relationship with them, gives them more things, calls them on the phone to chat , not just when they want something, treating them like a fry cook, or a hallucination.)

OK, take everything with a grain of salt, but maybe this is useful to you:
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From David Crowhurst's - 'Stellas Daemonum'
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Focalor

Focalor is a Duke who comes in the form of a man with the wings of a
griffon, also called Furcalor. He causes people to die by drowning them in
the waters by overturning their ships, though he will not kill anyone if the
conjurer does not permit it. He hopes, after one thousand years, to return to
the seventh throne but he is deceived in that hope.

One of the things immediately noticeable about the name Focalor is its
proximity to that of the Prime Minister of the spirits featured in the Grand
Grimoire, Lucifuge Rofocal. The first part of this name, Lucifuge, portrays
one who “flees the light” and is derived from the categorizations of spirits
cited by pseudo-Psellus in which the Lucifugus are “Charonian spirits
which, hating light, dwell in cold darkness, are eminently malicious, lack
sensibility and destroy men's intellects.” The latter part of that name,
Rofocal, has been cited as a roughshod reversal of the name of Lucifer due
to Lucifuge denoting one who flees from, rather than brings, the light. This
possibility is plausible but incomplete, but by analyzing the name Focalor
—which comes from the Latin foculare denoting a hearth or fireplace, and
foculus which denotes a brazier, altar fire, or pyre—a more complete
origin is revealed. The name Rofocal was constructed by reversing the
ultimate letters “o” and “r” of Focalor and placing them at the front end of
the central word focal. Focal, in turn, is a derivative of the word “focus,”
which in the late classical period was a term used to describe fire itself,
while calor, which makes up the second part of this spirit's name, refers to
“the heat of passion,” “warmth,” “glow,” and “fever.” By dismantling and
rearranging the calor part of this word, as the name Rofocal does, the
“heat” aspect of the name Focalor could be considered extinguished,
leaving the cold darkness that the class of spirits pseudo-Psellus described
as “Lucifugi” suggests. Furthermore, applying the polylinguistic principle
common for daemonic names, the prefix ro- that precedes focal reflects the
Hebrew word (ro), meaning “evil,” “wicked,” or “repugnant.” This
gives the full meaning of Rofocal the context of “wicked passions” or “evil
heat,” thus presenting an imagery consistent with sin and hellfire.43

As fiendish anagrams, wordplay, and word reversal appear relevant to
the construction of spirit names, another source worth considering is the
third square of Chapter X of the third part of the Book of Abramelin. In
this square, the word RAFACOL appears. This would be a tenuous
connection if it weren't for the fact that the purpose of this square is “to
make magical storms cease,” which is a reversal of the effect of causing
magical storms that Focalor creates, suggesting that rearranging the letters
of a daemon's name is a means to alter the magical effects attributable to it.
This is a commonly applied method in magical systems such as John Dee's
Heptarchic system in which the letters that make up the names of the
angels and servitors in the elemental tablets are reversed in order to work
with their averse manifestations or cacodaemons.

Figure 51. Abramelin Square “to make magical storms cease.” Note the
vertical and horizontal appearances of the work RAFOCAL at its center.
The death and destruction by water that Focalor causes place him under
the category of spirits that manifest as storms that the Elemental Kings and
those under their command use to “hurt the land, the sea [and] the trees.”
In the case of Focalor, the element he appears related to, despite the Fiery
connotations of his name, is Water, as it is in accord with the Greater Key
of Solomon's statement that such spirits “come with great rains, thunder,
hail, lightning, thunder-bolts, and the like.”44 Similar powers are seen in
the spirit Furfur, who can also cause great and tumultuous tempests, which,
as a destructive tendency, give him the malefic Furcifer nature that his
name attests. Similarly, this tendency is also attributable to Focalor, whose
Furcifer nature is also evident in his Goetia of Solomon alias Furcalor.
These destructive tendencies also suggest him to be under the ultimate
command of Satan, whose office is “to kill, to destroy, to make blind and
to do many mischiefs.” This connection to Satan is also reflected in
Focalor's desire to return to the seventh throne after a thousand years,
which reflects the same desire that Satan expressed, though the number for
him, as with the others who express it, is 1,200 years rather than a
thousand.

With Focalor's clear influence over the harmful aspects of Water, the
astrological timings that one may wish to consider when planning to work
with him are those of the ninth Lunar Mansion Al Tarf between 12°51′ and
25°42′ Cancer, which hinders travelers and causes discord, and the twenty-
seventh Mansion Al Fargh al-Thani between 4°17′ and 17°8′ Pisces, which
causes danger to seamen and the destruction of enemies. Of the decans, the
first of Scorpio is the most auspicious due to its double Marsian nature,
which brings destruction and melds the influences of the Fiery Mars with
the violence and Watery nature evident in the name and character of this
spirit. With the Northern and Watery connotations evident in Focalor, his
Elemental King is Egin, and the rules applied for working with that ruler
when the Sun is in the North may also be applied to him, as may the
position of Mars—or a Mars-aspected Moon—in the first decan of Scorpio
or when the Moon is in the aforementioned Lunar Mansions. Additionally,
the aspects related to “wicked passions” present in Focalor's probable alias
Lucifuge Rofocal are resonant with the third decans of Scorpio and Pisces,
the latter of which is governed by Mars. From these factors, Mars's
placement throughout Scorpio or in the third decan of Pisces should be
considered when working with this spirit, especially during the day and
hour of Mars when Scorpio or Pisces is marking the Imum Coeli.
 
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