by Nemesis Fixx
This formula was inspired by the magick of the BAVILI people of KONGO. While studying the esotericism of the BAVILI people as documented in the book „At The Back of the Black Man’s Mind“, I gleaned insights into a potentially powerful spirit possession magick formula that would be ideal for invoking trusted spirits into suitable human hosts – permanently.
In meditating on the method of spirit possession described below: A small shed having been built, he encloses it with the fronds of the palm tree. He goes into the bush to gather the leaves of certain trees and herbs to make the necessary medicines. He picks out a man from the family for whom the Bankondi is made, who shall act as the spokesman of the figurine, and then proceeds to put the spirit into him by pouring a decoction or infusion of herbs he has gathered into his nostrils and eyes. The man thus treated lies down upon an empty bos within the shed, surrounded by the fronds of the palm-tree, until the spirit enters his head. He gives evidence of this by beginning to shake violently, so that his body makes a noise on the box like the beating of a drum. He then gets up and tries to run away, but he si forced back into the hut until the attack has passed, when he is given the name of „NGULI BWANGA.“ The wooden figures are charged with the porper medicines, and as „Mpumbu“ are then given into the custody of their spokesman, NGULI BWANGA. And when NGULI BWANGA has received the MPUMBU, he buries medicines in the ground and plants a MBOTA-tree. I realized the following spirit possession formula… Note that these evocation rituals are ideally used to evoke spirits other than those of humans/dead humans – so they are used for evoking nature spirits or those of gods or other higher beings.
- The person to serve as the host of the spirit is identified
- The shaman goes about and gathres herbs that are bound to cause the necessary altered state of consciousness during which the spirit can take refuge in the host – with expected visible signs – involuntary convulsions or trance states being a sign of success.
- The person is placed in a specially prepared room (a hut/shrine typically), so prepared to cause about sympathy or correspondence with the spirit being invoked.
- The host is placed to lie or dwell in the room, while the shaman proceeds to administer to him the invocation herbs – various channels of administering might be: ingestions, incense, drinking, and insertion into nose and or eyes.
- [Optionally] invocation chants or performances might be performed while the possession is awaited – these performances might be done by the shaman or with his assistants.
- Finally, if the host shows agitation and or enters the trance, then it is known the spirit is either entering or about to take hostage in him.
- The host must be restrained from escaping the ritual until when the trance state ceases naturally, after which he can be safely considered to be the host of the spirit. Additionally, as a completion of this ritual, the host is required to possess a symbol of the spirit for which they are a proxy – it’s via this figure that they are expected to commune with the spirit on-behalf of those who come to consult the spirit? So, the following extra steps are taken:
- A figurine representative of the spirit must have already been carved prior to the possession ritual
- This figure can be placed in a box/coffin upon which the host is made to sit or lay during the possession ritual – alternatively, the figurine can be tied onto the host during the possession ritual (or for women mediums, the figurine might be used to sexually bond with the woman at the peak of their possession/trance state)
- This figure, after the ritual, is then kept in a shrine managed/operated by this host.
- [Additionally] a sacred/spiritual tree is planted by the host in commemoration of his/her union with the spirit, and so as long as this tree flourishes, their spiritual bond flourishes as well – further, the tree might serve for the host or those who consult him, as a living proxy to the spirit.
There seems to be no described procedure for undoing this ritual!
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