tool-free method of working with angels/spirits?

[Lunarscorpio]

What is the best tool free method for working with certain angels or spirits? I'm interesting in archangels and shem angels at the current moment.

 

[Nembra]

Depends what do you mean by "best". Might I ask, what do you exactly imagine this work to look like?

 

[Yazata]

What is the best tool free method for working with certain angels or spirits? I'm interesting in archangels and shem angels at the current moment.

A lot of modern books require just the seal. Maybe a candle, some incense. And your head. New Avatar Power for example or the incredible 24 Triangles of the Shemhamephorash.

 

[HoldAll]

The books by the Gallery of Magick. Damon Brand's are mainly about angels and archangels, the sigils themselves are all you need; Zanna Blaise doesn't even bother to mention the Shem angels while using their names in Hebrew as sigils.

 

[Lunarscorpio]

Depends what do you mean by "best". Might I ask, what do you exactly imagine this work to look like?

I would love something simple, like no prep or clean up. Just a formulaic 1+1=2 way of calling up an angel or spirit. Many people have said a sigil, candle & prayer is enough.

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The books by the Gallery of Magick. Damon Brand's are mainly about angels and archangels, the sigils themselves are all you need; Zanna Blaise doesn't even bother to mention the Shem angels while using their names in Hebrew as sigils.

I really admire GoM but I find the emotional transmutation part is so difficult for me.

 

[Nembra]

I would love something simple, like no prep or clean up. Just a formulaic 1+1=2 way of calling up an angel or spirit. Many people have said a sigil, candle & prayer is enough.

I have certain doubts how much of an angel is a being that can be compeled to answer by a sigil. Angels answer to God, and how much they will answer to humans is strictly in direct proportion to how much they resemble God, to put it simply. There are whole traditions of "working with angels" that have never summoned anything but impostors. This is especially common with beings that introduce themselves with names of Archangels. Thanks to some parts of a rather lengthy initiation process I encounter angels quite regularly but they aren't the type to ever follow your summons, and I have never met a genuine archangel, which is kind of fortunate since it usually means one gets to be part in some largely important but rather unpleasant story.

There are, of course, ways to call more worldly spirits, but the thing with them is that they will usually speak through the depths of your psyche. How you summon them and which ones you'll be able to summon is quite personal, though doesn't have to be very involved.

 

[WonderFire]

Honestly, you're not going to get good results on total "no tool" approach. The most minimalist approach is through pentacles of Solomon from the Greater Key and that counts as a tool.
Look into Rufus Opus "Seven Spheres" and BJ Swain's "Luminarium" and "Living Spirits" for a fairy minimalistic styles of work that nonetheless is still using tools.