Re: Never summon what you cannot banish? Opinions/ideas?
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 4:57 pm
Just for the sake of argument, a crude metaphor:
Any living thing you invite inside your home, or inside your life, has the potential to cause you serious harm. Why would this not be the case with non-corporeal entities, as well?
I love my cat, for example. We have a good time together, and she's my little buddy. However, if I cross a line with her, she is 100% capable of sending me to the hospital despite only being 2 feet long and about 10 pounds. A dog would be all the more capable of wrecking my shit, and another human being? My mother and I could absolutely kill one another. We don't, because we both benefit from one another. Same with my cat. Same with any pet, or any friend. If you both benefit from the arrangement, and you both mutually enjoy said arrangement, then there is a much lower chance that either of you is going to do any form of harm (psychological, physical, or otherwise) to the other.
It's the same with demons, spirits, and immortals. If you have an arrangement that doesn't interest them, they'll likely just ignore you. Maybe they'll mess with you a little if they find you particularly laughable, depending on the entity. But if you have an arrangement counter to their interests in any way? If you do something that obstructs their own needs, plans, or desires? They may very well cause you harm, just as if you refuse to feed a dog for awhile it will eventually turn on you and take its pound of flesh for the insult.
Does this mean you can't have an excellent working relationship with a spirit or deity? Of course not. But does this mean that said spirit or deity with whom you have a great relationship can't cause you harm? Absolutely not.
Even human best friends hurt one another sometimes, because everyone ultimately pursues their own needs and interests, and sometimes that runs counter to what someone else needs or desires. There are arguments. Sometimes, there are outright fights. Sometimes, relationships break down, and whatever trust, respect, and care you did have for one another goes out the window entirely, and this person you once called friend now actively works against you.
Spirits, whatever their 'category' for our community, are not immune to this behavior. We may not exactly comprehend their motives, nor particularly understand where they're coming from as their viewpoint is so distant from ours in so many cases. But this just means that, in any relationship we form with them, we work with caution, and make sure to peaceably break an arrangement if we find it is no longer suitable to our personal needs--or prepare to fight (in this case, banish/ward/shield/etc. or even engage in magical warfare with) said entity. Will it happen often that you have to have all-out war with a being like a demon or a god? Probably not! They have better things to do. But if you antagonize them? If you hand over all your power to them and expect them to do the work for you? If you ask them to have ONLY your best interests at heart, and not their own wants/needs/desires?
It's going to end badly for you, just as if you yank a cat's tail.
Any living thing you invite inside your home, or inside your life, has the potential to cause you serious harm. Why would this not be the case with non-corporeal entities, as well?
I love my cat, for example. We have a good time together, and she's my little buddy. However, if I cross a line with her, she is 100% capable of sending me to the hospital despite only being 2 feet long and about 10 pounds. A dog would be all the more capable of wrecking my shit, and another human being? My mother and I could absolutely kill one another. We don't, because we both benefit from one another. Same with my cat. Same with any pet, or any friend. If you both benefit from the arrangement, and you both mutually enjoy said arrangement, then there is a much lower chance that either of you is going to do any form of harm (psychological, physical, or otherwise) to the other.
It's the same with demons, spirits, and immortals. If you have an arrangement that doesn't interest them, they'll likely just ignore you. Maybe they'll mess with you a little if they find you particularly laughable, depending on the entity. But if you have an arrangement counter to their interests in any way? If you do something that obstructs their own needs, plans, or desires? They may very well cause you harm, just as if you refuse to feed a dog for awhile it will eventually turn on you and take its pound of flesh for the insult.
Does this mean you can't have an excellent working relationship with a spirit or deity? Of course not. But does this mean that said spirit or deity with whom you have a great relationship can't cause you harm? Absolutely not.
Even human best friends hurt one another sometimes, because everyone ultimately pursues their own needs and interests, and sometimes that runs counter to what someone else needs or desires. There are arguments. Sometimes, there are outright fights. Sometimes, relationships break down, and whatever trust, respect, and care you did have for one another goes out the window entirely, and this person you once called friend now actively works against you.
Spirits, whatever their 'category' for our community, are not immune to this behavior. We may not exactly comprehend their motives, nor particularly understand where they're coming from as their viewpoint is so distant from ours in so many cases. But this just means that, in any relationship we form with them, we work with caution, and make sure to peaceably break an arrangement if we find it is no longer suitable to our personal needs--or prepare to fight (in this case, banish/ward/shield/etc. or even engage in magical warfare with) said entity. Will it happen often that you have to have all-out war with a being like a demon or a god? Probably not! They have better things to do. But if you antagonize them? If you hand over all your power to them and expect them to do the work for you? If you ask them to have ONLY your best interests at heart, and not their own wants/needs/desires?
It's going to end badly for you, just as if you yank a cat's tail.