Historical Ritual Archive
The Power Being Addressed
Valac is approached as Sixty-second spirit of the Ars Goetia, a President commanding thirty legions.
Valac appears deceptively innocent and speaks with disturbing clarity. He is direct, observant and associated with serpents, hidden treasure and the exposure of what lies beneath the ground.
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Why the Rite Exists
The rite creates a controlled threshold between ordinary life and the domain attributed to Valac. 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
Valac appears deceptively innocent and speaks with disturbing clarity. He is direct, observant and associated with serpents, hidden treasure and the exposure of what lies beneath the ground.
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 chamber may feel watched by a youthful presence while lower shadows move like coiling bodies. Dragon imagery, clear childlike speech and sudden attention to hidden compartments or buried places may occur.
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 Valac
Sigil of Valac. 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 Valac?
Valac (also spelled Valak or Valu) is a demon described in medieval grimoires, particularly the Lesser Key of Solomon (Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis), a 17th-century grimoire of demonology. He is ranked as the 62nd spirit in the Ars Goetia section and is depicted as a child with angel wings, riding a two-headed dragon. According to the text, Valac reveals hidden treasures, locates serpents, and provides knowledge of astrology and herbalism. He commands 30 legions of spirits and speaks in a clear, childlike voice. These descriptions stem from Renaissance-era occult traditions blending Jewish, Christian, and pagan elements, but Valac has no basis in verifiable historical or religious canon—it's folklore.
Traditional Method to Summon Valac (From the Ars Goetia)
The Ars Goetia outlines a structured evocation ritual requiring preparation, tools, and invocations. This is a direct adaptation from the original text (translated editions like those by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, 1904). It's not a step-by-step "how-to" but a ceremonial framework. Perform at your own discretion—historically, these were done by trained magicians in protected circles.
Preparation
Timing and Location: Conduct during the hour of Mercury (Wednesday, dawn or dusk) or when the moon is in Virgo. Choose a secluded, purified space (e.g., a room consecrated with salt and incense). Fast for 24 hours prior to attune your mind.
Tools Required
Magic Circle: Draw a 9-foot diameter circle on the ground using chalk or flour, divided into quadrants with Hebrew names of God (e.g., Adonai, Elohim) inscribed around it. Inside, place a triangle of art (equilateral, 3 feet per side) pointed away from you.
Lamen (Pentacle): A metal or parchment talisman with Valac's seal (a horned child on a dragon; see description below). Wear it on a chain.
Incense and Offerings: Burn frankincense and myrrh. Prepare a small offering like wine or bread (never blood, per the grimoire's warnings).
Robes and Weapons: Wear white linen robes. Have a black-handled knife (athame) for tracing signs.
Grimoire: The Lesser Key of Solomon open to Valac's entry.
Valac's Seal (for visualization or engraving)
A central circle with a winged child's head, flanked by two dragon heads. Inscribe with: "VALAC LEXICON REGIS AMEN" (Latin for "Valac, King of Words, Amen").
The Ritual
Purification: Bathe in salt water. Recite Psalm 51 for cleansing. Enter the circle clockwise, facing east.
Conjuration: Stand in the circle, knife in hand. Recite the First Conjuration (adapted from the Goetia):
"I do invocate and conjure thee, O Spirit Valac; and being with power armed from the Supreme Majesty, I do strongly command thee, by Beralanensis, Baldachiensis, Paumachia, and Apologiae Sedes… [continue with full divine names: Adonai, El, Elohim, etc.]… that thou dost forthwith appear unto me here before this Circle in a fair human shape, without any deformity or tortuosity. And by this ineffable name, Tetragrammaton IEDOVA, do I conjure thee, and being conjured, thou shalt appear unto me visibly, and affably speak unto me… Come thou, in the name of the most high God, and fulfill my desires!"
Repeat up to three times if no manifestation occurs, escalating tone.
Binding and Command: Once "appearing" (via trance, vision, or auditory hallucination), trace his seal in the air with the knife. Command:
"O thou Valac, most puissant and obedient spirit, I command thee by the power of the Most High to reveal unto me [state your query, e.g., 'the location of hidden treasures' or 'secrets of the stars']. Thou shalt not depart until I dismiss thee."
He is said to appear as a boy on a dragon—do not step outside the circle.
Dismissal: Thank him, then recite
"O thou Valac, I license thee to depart unto thy proper place, without causing harm or noise. Go in peace, by the power of Adonai."
Erase the circle counterclockwise.
Variations in Other Sources
Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Johann Weyer, 1577): Similar, but emphasizes Valac's serpent-finding ability; add snake imagery to the triangle.
Modern Adaptations: Chaos magicians (e.g., in Phil Hine's works) simplify to meditation on the seal with sigil visualization, skipping the circle for psychological evocation.
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 Valac. 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 Valac 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 Valac 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
The innocent form can lower caution. Treasure-seeking may become obsession, and serpent knowledge may draw the seeker toward dangerous places or creatures.
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 Valac 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
The innocent form can lower caution. Treasure-seeking may become obsession, and serpent knowledge may draw the seeker toward dangerous places or creatures.
Do not leave the altar active indefinitely. Do not continue chanting after dismissal. Do not add a second petition during closure.
When the Rite Is Truly Complete
A ritual is not complete because the candles have burned down. It is complete when the petition has reached a defined result, the promised exchange has been honored and ordinary life is no longer suspended around the operation.
If no result arrives, the record must still be closed. An unanswered petition should not become a permanent altar.
The Weight of the Name
The name of Valac is repeated because repetition changes the relation between sound and meaning. At first it is a word. Later it becomes an atmosphere, then a pressure, then a point around which expectation gathers.
The rite becomes dangerous when that point remains active after dismissal. This is why the final acts of extinguishing, washing, recording and leaving the room are part of the operation rather than an afterthought.