Historical Ritual Archive
The Power Being Addressed
Cimeies is approached as Sixty-sixth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a Great Marquis commanding twenty legions.
Cimeies is martial, eloquent and disciplined. He teaches grammar, logic, rhetoric and the arts of warfare while revealing buried or lost treasure. His intelligence is direct, strategic and intolerant of confusion.
Daemonology profile: Read the complete Daemonology profile of Cimeies
Why the Rite Exists
The rite creates a controlled threshold between ordinary life and the domain attributed to Cimeies. 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
Cimeies is martial, eloquent and disciplined. He teaches grammar, logic, rhetoric and the arts of warfare while revealing buried or lost treasure. His intelligence is direct, strategic and intolerant of confusion.
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
The sound of hooves may seem to cross the room. Black-horse imagery, polished weapons, clipped speech and the sense of a mounted warrior waiting for an order 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 Cimeies
Sigil of Cimeies. 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.
Cimeies (also spelled Cimejes, Cimex, or Kimaris) is the 66th spirit described in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the 17th-century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon. He is depicted as a warrior riding a black horse, often portrayed as a valiant Marquis of Hell commanding 20 legions of spirits. According to the text, Cimeies specializes in teaching grammar, logic, rhetoric, and the liberal sciences; revealing lost treasures; providing familiars; and granting the ability to make one a skilled warrior or horseman. He is said to be more obedient to the summoner than other demons and speaks with a clear, eloquent voice.
Preparation
Purification and Fasting: Fast for 24-48 hours beforehand, abstaining from meat, alcohol, and sexual activity. Bathe in salt water or herbal infusions (e.g., hyssop, rosemary) to cleanse yourself spiritually. This aligns with Solomonic traditions to create a "pure vessel."
Timing and Astrology: Perform the ritual during a waxing moon (for manifestation) on a Tuesday (Mars day, fitting for a warrior spirit). Check astrological alignments: Cimeies is associated with the zodiac sign Aquarius and the planet Venus—avoid if afflicted (e.g., retrograde Venus).
Tools and Circle
Protective Circle: Draw a nine-foot diameter circle on the ground using chalk, flour, or salt. Inside, inscribe a triangle of art (an equilateral triangle pointing east) for the spirit to appear. Surround with names of power: Tetragrammaton, Adonai, Elohim, and the Seal of Solomon.
Items Needed
Black-handled knife or wand (for tracing signs).
Incense: Frankincense and myrrh (for purification and invocation).
Candles: Two black (for banishing) and one white (for illumination), placed at circle points.
Robes: White linen for purity.
Cimeies' Seal: Draw or engrave his sigil (a complex geometric design resembling a crowned lion on a horse—search for "Cimeies sigil" for visuals) on virgin parchment with red ink. Place it in the triangle.
Offerings: Bread, wine, or blood (symbolic, like red ink) as tribute.
Mental State: Meditate on your intent (e.g., "Grant me knowledge of rhetoric"). Ground yourself with breathing exercises to avoid fear or delusion.
The Ritual
Perform in a quiet, undisturbed space at midnight. All actions occur within the circle—never step out until dismissal.
Opening and Invocation
Enter the circle clockwise, facing east. Light candles and incense.
Recite the Preliminary Invocation (from The Lesser Key of Solomon) or a general call
"I do invocate and conjure thee, O Spirit Cimeies; 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…"
Specific Conjuration of Cimeies
Hold his seal aloft and chant his description three times
"Cimeies, great Marquis of the Infernal Regions, who commandeth thirty legions of spirits, appear thou now before this circle in a fair and comely shape, without deformity or horror, to answer truly and without falsehood all my demands. By the power of the Seal which I hold, and by the name of the Most High, come thou peaceably and without terror, Cimeies!"
Visualize him manifesting in the triangle: a crowned warrior on a black horse, armed with a sword.
Communication
Once present (via vision, sensation, or voice), state your request clearly and concisely. Offer tribute: "I offer thee this [item] in exchange for thy service."
Ask questions or command tasks. He may respond audibly, through signs (e.g., animal appearances), or intuition. Take notes.
Duration: Limit to 20-30 minutes to avoid exhaustion.
Closing and Banishing
Dismissal
Thank him: "I thank thee, Cimeies, for thy presence and aid. Depart in peace to thy abodes."
Recite the License to Depart
"O thou Spirit Cimeies, because thou hast diligently answered unto my demands, and hast been very ready and willing to come at my call, I do hereby license thee to depart unto thy proper place; without causing harm or danger unto myself or any creature. Go in peace, and return not unless called."
Banishing: Extinguish candles counterclockwise. Walk the circle widdershins (counterclockwise) while sprinkling salt. Recite Psalm 91 or a personal banishing prayer.
Aftercare: Journal the experience. Ground with food and rest. If disturbances occur (e.g., nightmares), repeat a lesser banishing ritual like the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (from Golden Dawn traditions).
Warnings and Notes
Risks: Traditional texts warn of possession, madness, or backlash if protections fail. Modern occultists (e.g., in Chaos Magick) adapt this as psychological theater—use at your own risk.
Ethics: Consent is key; frame as self-empowerment, not coercion.
Sources: This draws from The Lesser Key of Solomon (Mathers translation, 1904) and commentaries like those by Aleister Crowley in The Book of Thoth.
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 Cimeies. 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 Cimeies 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 Cimeies 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
Cimeies can turn thought into campaign. Eloquence may become manipulation, discipline may become militarization and treasure-seeking may become conquest.
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 Cimeies 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
Cimeies can turn thought into campaign. Eloquence may become manipulation, discipline may become militarization and treasure-seeking may become conquest.
Do not leave the altar active indefinitely. Do not continue chanting after dismissal. Do not add a second petition during closure.