Historical Ritual Archive
The Power Being Addressed
Malphas is approached as Thirty-ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a Great President commanding forty legions.
Malphas is strategic, hoarse-voiced and deeply concerned with construction, defense, enemies and hidden intention. He builds quickly but is equally capable of undermining what others have built.
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Why the Rite Exists
The rite creates a controlled threshold between ordinary life and the domain attributed to Malphas. Preparation separates the practitioner from ordinary noise. The sigil and name establish the centre. The petition directs the encounter. The offering defines exchange. Dismissal restores the chamber to ordinary time.
A rite without preparation is only demand. A rite without closure is pressure without a boundary.
Personality and Ritual Conduct
Malphas is strategic, hoarse-voiced and deeply concerned with construction, defense, enemies and hidden intention. He builds quickly but is equally capable of undermining what others have built.
The practitioner should enter with one clear purpose and avoid contradictory requests. The entity's rank and temperament determine the tone. Respect does not mean submission, and command does not mean theatrical aggression.
The Atmosphere of Manifestation
Raven calls, tapping within walls, architectural dreams and the sense that invisible labor is occurring around the room may precede manifestation.
Manifestation may begin before any full figure is seen. Sound, temperature, dream, bodily pressure, altered flame, animal imagery or a complete inner sentence may mark the transition from preparation into contact.
Historical Image and Ritual Figure
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Sigil of Malphas
Sigil of Malphas. Traditionally drawn on parchment and placed at the centre of the rite as the principal visual focus for the invocation.
The Rite: Full Ceremonial Sequence
The following material preserves the original SatanWorld article's ritual content without omitting its operative details.
Who is Malphas?
Malphas is the 39th spirit described in the Ars Goetia, a section of the 17th-century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon. He is depicted as a powerful Great President (or Earl in some editions) of Hell, commanding 40 legions of demons. Malphas appears as a crow or raven, speaking with a hoarse voice, and can transform into a human form upon request. His abilities include:
Quickly building houses, towers, and high walls using demon labor.
Revealing enemies' thoughts and desires.
Granting familiars (demonic servants) and providing good or bad familiars.
Bestowing high offices, dignities, and promotions, often through cunning means.
Preparation for the Ritual
Based on the Ars Goetia and related grimoires like the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum by Johann Weyer (1577), preparation emphasizes purity, protection, and intent. Here's a step-by-step outline:
Gather Materials
A protective circle: Draw it with chalk, salt, or flour on the ground (9 feet in diameter). Include a triangle of art outside the circle for the spirit to manifest.
Incense: Frankincense or myrrh to purify the space.
Tools: A black-handled knife (athame) for tracing symbols; a wand or staff; parchment with Malphas's sigil (seal) drawn in black ink.
Offerings: Gold, silver, or blood (symbolic, like red wine) to honor his rank.
Clothing: Loose white robes to symbolize purity.
Time: Perform at night during a waxing moon, ideally on a Wednesday (associated with Mercury, fitting his cunning nature).
Mental and Physical Purification
Fast for 24 hours beforehand to heighten focus.
Bathe in salt water while reciting a banishing prayer, such as the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (from the Golden Dawn tradition).
Meditate on your intent: Be precise—e.g., "I seek Malphas to reveal hidden enemies" rather than vague wishes. Malphas is said to be truthful but can be deceitful if not commanded firmly.
Protection Measures
Invoke divine names like Adonai, Elohim, or Tetragrammaton around the circle for safeguarding.
Have a banishing tool ready, like a bell or sword, to end the ritual if needed.
Never step outside the circle during the evocation.
The Summoning Ritual
This is a condensed adaptation from the Ars Goetia. Perform in a quiet, dimly lit room. Speak commands aloud with authority.
Open the Space
Face east, trace the circle clockwise with your athame while vibrating: "I conjure thee, O Circle of Art, that thou mayest be a fortress against the malice of all spirits."
Light incense and say: "By the power of [divine names], I purify this place."
Invoke the Spirit
Stand in the circle, hold the sigil, and recite the conjuration three times (escalating in intensity):
"I do invocate and conjure thee, O Spirit Malphas; and being with power armed from the Supreme Majesty, I do strongly command thee, by Beralanensis, Baldachiensis, Paumachia, and Apologiae Sedes; by the most Powerful Princes, Genii, Liachidae, and Ministers of the Tartarean Abode; and by the Chief Prince of the Seat of Apologia in the Ninth Legion, I do invoke thee, and by invocating conjure thee. And being armed with power from the Supreme Majesty, I do strongly command thee, by Him Who spake and it was done, and unto whom all creatures be obedient… Appear thou now before this Circle in a fair human shape, without any deformity or torture. Come thou! In the Name Adonai, Elohim, Elohi, Ehieh, Asher Eheieh, Tetragrammaton, and all the Names of God… Come thou! From the power of the Name of God, come thou!"
Manifestation and Command
If successful (signs include crow-like sounds, cold winds, or visions), command: "O thou powerful Prince Malphas, I command thee to appear visible and affable, and to fulfill my requests without deceit."
State your desire clearly, e.g., "Grant me a familiar to aid in [specific task]."
Offer thanks and a token gift.
License to Depart and Close
Say: "O thou Spirit Malphas, I license thee to depart unto thy proper place, without harm to myself or any creature. Go in peace, by the power of [divine names]."
Erase the circle counterclockwise, thanking the guardians.
Malphas's Sigil
For visualization or drawing, his seal is a complex geometric design resembling a crowned bird with interlocking lines. Search for "Malphas sigil Ars Goetia" in occult resources for an accurate image—it's essential for focus.
Warnings and Modern Perspectives
Risks: Grimoires warn of backlash if commands are weak—Malphas may ignore, deceive, or cause misfortune. Psychologically, this can induce paranoia or hallucinations.
Ethics: Intent matters; using for harm invites karmic or psychological rebound.
Alternatives: Today, many view this as Jungian shadow work or chaos magic—use visualization without tools for safer exploration.
Ritual Architecture
Separation
Bathing, silence, fasting, abstinence, darkness or isolation signal that ordinary time has been left behind. The preparation should be coherent rather than assembled from random gestures.
Construction of the Chamber
Candles, incense, circle, salt, water, metals, herbs, stones and offerings organize the room around the office of Malphas. Each item should perform one function.
Establishing Contact
The sigil, name, chant or enn becomes the visual and verbal axis of the operation. Repetition narrows attention until the chamber feels organized around one intelligence.
The Petition
The petition should contain one principal request, one boundary and one completion condition. Ambiguous wishes invite expansion.
Recognition of Presence
The central phase begins when the atmosphere changes in a sustained way. Pressure, heat, cold, altered flame, internal speech, animal forms or dreamlike imagery may mark the crossing.
Offering and Exchange
The offering represents reciprocity. It may carry the entity's color, office, appetite or symbolic domain. A promise should never be made casually.
Dismissal and Return
The operation ends only when Malphas is thanked or dismissed according to the preserved method. Candles are extinguished safely, the chamber aired where appropriate and the result written before sleep or distraction changes memory.
Instruments and Their Symbolism
The sigil acts as the visual body of the name. The candle establishes color, rank and duration. Incense gives density to the air. Salt or the circle defines limits. Water reflects and carries emotional force. Metal, stone, herb or coin embodies office.
More objects do not automatically create more power. A crowded altar can divide attention.
Timing and Correspondence
Where several systems appear, one coherent system should govern the operation.
Manifestation Signs
Signs associated with Malphas include:
- a sustained shift in the chamber's emotional pressure;
- dreams repeating the spirit's form or office;
- unusual candle movement without a matching draft;
- sounds, smells or bodily sensations consistent with the entity;
- a complete phrase arising inside thought;
- external events beginning to mirror the petition;
- fear, attraction or resistance intensifying at the moment of contact.
A repeated pattern across chamber, dream and aftermath carries greater weight than one isolated sign.
The Frightening Edge of the Rite
Malphas can make every relationship feel like a siege. Protection becomes paranoia, architecture becomes control and knowledge of enemies becomes obsession.
The deepest danger is transformation that feels useful. The practitioner may begin to imitate the spirit's temperament, organize life around the petition or interpret every event as part of the operation.
Failure Patterns
Failure appears when preparation is abandoned, the request changes repeatedly, symbols are mixed without purpose, panic replaces attention, impossible offerings are promised or the practitioner refuses to close because no dramatic apparition appeared.
Failure can also appear as excess success: the requested current enters ordinary life faster than expected.
Boundaries of the Petition
The petition should state what is requested, where the result may operate, what form the result may take and what event marks completion. Knowledge can destroy innocence. Protection can become isolation. Transformation can become instability. Treasure can become obsession.
The wording is therefore part of the danger.
Completion and Aftermath
The rite is complete when the petition has been spoken, the exchange acknowledged, the presence dismissed and the chamber returned to ordinary order.
Record the date, timing, preparation, tools, words, signs, dreams, first external movement, emotional changes and fulfillment of any promised offering.
The aftermath belongs to the rite. Results may arrive as opportunity, conflict, warning, sudden knowledge, disappearance of an obstacle or an intensification that reveals the true shape of the request.
The Inner Ordeal
The rite of Malphas is also an ordeal of resemblance. The chamber reveals where the spirit's office already exists inside the seeker's life.
The frightening moment is often recognition rather than apparition. The seeker discovers that the request has already shaped behavior before the first candle was lit.
The Return to Ordinary Life
After closure, eat, drink, wash, change clothing, step outside or speak with another person. These acts declare that ritual time has ended.
Do not repeat the operation immediately because silence feels uncomfortable.
Final Warning
Malphas can make every relationship feel like a siege. Protection becomes paranoia, architecture becomes control and knowledge of enemies becomes obsession.
Do not leave the altar active indefinitely. Do not continue chanting after dismissal. Do not add a second petition during closure.