Historical Ritual Archive
A royal rite of lawlessness, favor, rank and the beautiful voice that conceals refusal.
This ceremonial dossier presents the rite as a single complete operation organized around the nature of Belial, the purpose of the petition, the atmosphere of manifestation and the conditions required for a decisive closure. Its tools, timings, purifications, offerings, formulas, signs, petitions and warnings form one continuous ritual architecture.
The Power Being Addressed
Belial is approached here as Sixty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a mighty king commanding eighty legions. The rite does not treat this presence as a decorative symbol or an interchangeable spirit. Every object, color, timing and spoken demand is intended to align the chamber with a distinct intelligence.
Belial is elegant, defiant and politically intelligent. He speaks beautifully, offers status and tests whether the seeker can distinguish dignity from vanity. He is notorious for resistance, deception and the demand for offerings.
Why This Rite Exists
The operation creates a controlled passage from ordinary consciousness into the domain attributed to Belial. Preparation separates the practitioner from distraction. The central rite gives the force a name, image and point of concentration. The petition defines the desired exchange. Closure prevents the atmosphere of the operation from spreading without limit into ordinary life.
The rite should be read as one complete structure. Removing the preparatory discipline while retaining the demand weakens the threshold. Repeating the invocation without closure prolongs pressure without giving it a boundary.
The Atmosphere of Manifestation
The space acquires the feeling of a court before judgment. Heat flickers without visible flame, two luminous forms may seem to stand together, and a persuasive voice can arise inside the seeker's own reasoning. Manifestation is traditionally linked to two beautiful angels seated in a chariot of fire.
Manifestation does not need to be theatrical to be powerful. A shift in temperature, sound, dream, internal speech, posture or emotional pressure may become the first indication that the operation has crossed from preparation into contact. The traditional record expects attention rather than panic.
Sigil of Belial
Sigil of Belial. Traditionally drawn on parchment and placed at the centre of the rite as the principal visual focus for the invocation.
Personality and Ritual Conduct
Belial is elegant, defiant and politically intelligent. He speaks beautifully, offers status and tests whether the seeker can distinguish dignity from vanity. He is notorious for resistance, deception and the demand for offerings.
The correct ritual posture is neither pleading nor empty aggression. The practitioner enters with a defined purpose, speaks without contradiction and does not improvise new promises under emotional pressure. The entity's personality shapes the ordeal: Belial is not expected to respond like another king, prince or adversarial power.
The Rite: Full Ceremonial Sequence
The rite proceeds through the following sequence of preparation, construction, address, petition, recognition, exchange and dismissal.
Belial (also spelled Beliar or Belialus) is a demon described in ancient grimoires like the Lesser Key of Solomon (Lemegeton, 17th century), where he ranks as the 68th spirit, a powerful king commanding 80 legions of demons. He appears as two beautiful angels in a chariot of fire, speaks with a comely voice, and grants honors, favors from friends and foes, and invisibility. In Judeo-Christian texts like the Dead Sea Scrolls and Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Belial symbolizes lawlessness and rebellion against God, often equated with Satan or a prince of darkness. Summoning rituals draw from these traditions, emphasizing protection, precise timing, and offerings to avoid backlash—occult lore warns Belial can be defiant or deceptive if not commanded firmly.
Preparation for Summoning
Based on traditional Solomonic evocation methods
Purification and Mindset: Fast for 24 hours beforehand. Bathe in salt water infused with hyssop or rosemary for cleansing. Meditate to clear doubts—Belial demands confidence, as he tests the summoner's will.
Tools and Circle
A consecrated magic circle (9 feet diameter) drawn with chalk or flour, inscribed with protective seals (e.g., the Triangle of Art from the Lemegeton).
Black-handled knife (athame) for tracing pentagrams.
Incense: Frankincense and myrrh (Belial's planetary association is Saturn, favoring dark, earthy scents).
Offerings: Gold coins, a black candle, or wine poured into the earth—Belial covets wealth and earthly indulgences.
Grimoire or sigil: Draw Belial's seal (a complex emblem resembling a crowned ram's head with serpentine lines; replicas are available in public domain texts like those by S.L. MacGregor Mathers).
Timing: Best during Saturn's hour (e.g., Saturday at midnight) under a waning moon for commanding dark forces. Avoid Sundays or full moons.
Step-by-Step Ritual
This is adapted from the Ars Goetia section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. Perform in isolation, ideally outdoors or in a dimly lit room.
Cast the Circle
Stand facing east. Trace the circle clockwise with your athame, reciting: "I conjure thee, O Circle of Protection, by the power of the Most High, that no evil may enter herein."
At each quarter (E, S, W, N), draw a banishing pentagram and invoke archangels: Michael (fire/east), Raphael (air/west), Gabriel (water/north), Uriel (earth/south).
Invoke the Elements
Light the black candle in the center. Burn incense and state: "By earth, air, fire, and water, I call the forces unbound."
Conjure Belial
Hold his sigil before you. Recite the conjuration three times, building intensity
"I do invocate and conjure thee, O Spirit Belial, 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, Belial, appear thou here before this Circle in a fair human shape, without any deformity or tortuosity. Come thou peaceably, visibly, and affably, now and without delay, manifesting that which I shall desire. For thou art conjured by the Name of the Living and True God, Helioren, wherefore fulfill thou my commands, and persist thou therein unto the end, and according to mine interest, visibly and affably speaking unto me with a voice clear and intelligible, without any ambiguity."
Visualize a fiery chariot descending, bearing two angelic figures.
Command and Communicate
Once manifested (signs include sudden wind, heat, or auditory whispers), state your request firmly: "Belial, King of the East, I command thee by the power vested in me to [specific desire, e.g., 'grant me favor in my endeavors']."
Offer the prepared gifts. Ask questions directly; Belial reportedly speaks truth if bound properly but may bargain for more offerings.
Dismissal and Banishment
Thank him: "I thank thee, Belial, for thy presence and service. Depart in peace."
Recite the License to Depart: "O thou Spirit Belial, because thou hast diligently answered unto my demands, and hast been very ready and willing to come at my call, I do here license thee to depart unto thy proper place; without causing harm or danger unto man or beast. Depart, then, I say, and be thou very ready to come at my call, being conjured by the Name of the Eternal. Amen."
Extinguish the candle counterclockwise. Erase the circle, then banish with the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Potential Variations and Warnings
Modern Adaptations: In chaos magic (e.g., from authors like Peter J. Carroll), simplify by focusing on sigil meditation—no circle needed, just intense visualization during altered states (e.g., via drumming or breathwork).
Risks in Lore: Grimoires note Belial may ignore weak summoners, cause misfortune, or possess if protections fail. Historical accounts (e.g., in John Dee's diaries) describe evocations leading to madness.
Ritual Architecture
Separation
The preliminary phase cuts the practitioner away from ordinary communication, appetite, noise or emotional scattering. Fasting, bathing, isolation, abstinence, darkness or concentrated candle work function as signs that the rite has begun before the central invocation is spoken.
Construction of the Chamber
Candles, incense, sigil, water, salt, metals, stones, offerings and directional placement transform an ordinary room into a field organized around one power. The chamber should feel deliberate. Random decoration weakens the sense that every object has been placed for a reason.
Establishing the Point of Contact
The sigil, name, chant, enn, prayer or written petition supplies a fixed centre. Repetition is not mere volume. It narrows attention until the name ceases to feel like ordinary language and becomes the axis of the chamber.
The Petition
A petition should state one principal objective. It should avoid contradictory demands and avoid promises that cannot be kept. Wealth, knowledge, movement, revenge, protection, revelation or influence each create different consequences. The requested result should therefore include its boundaries.
Recognition of Presence
The rite enters its central phase when one or more of the expected signs becomes sustained: pressure, temperature change, altered candle behavior, internal speech, dreamlike imagery, animal symbolism, unusual sound or a sudden certainty that the chamber is no longer psychologically empty.
Exchange and Offering
An offering confirms that the operation is reciprocal. It may symbolize wealth, pleasure, fragrance, flame, blood-red color, water, metal, food, art, discipline or continued devotion. The meaning matters more than display. An offering should never be promised casually.
Dismissal and Return
The rite is incomplete until Belial is formally thanked or dismissed according to the method preserved above. Candles are extinguished safely, windows opened where appropriate, remains removed, hands and face washed, and the result written before sleep or distraction changes memory.
Instruments and Their Symbolism
The sigil functions as the visual body of the named presence. The candle establishes color, rank, heat and duration. Incense gives the atmosphere a physical density and marks the transition from ordinary air into ritual air. Salt or the circle defines a limit. Water absorbs, reflects or carries emotional force. Metal, coin, stone or herb embodies the office of the entity.
The instrument is complete when it performs its role in the structure. More objects do not automatically produce greater power. A crowded altar can weaken the central image by dividing attention.
Timing and Threshold
The rite may specify midnight, planetary hours, a lunar phase, a zodiacal season or a sequence of preparatory days. Timing is not an ornament. It makes the operation feel as though the practitioner has entered an existing current rather than demanded that the current appear at convenience.
Where several timings appear in the original record, the practitioner should choose one coherent system and keep it throughout the operation rather than combining every correspondence into a single confused night.
Manifestation Signs
The signs attributed to Belial include:
- a stable alteration of the room's emotional pressure;
- dreams or internal images repeating the entity's traditional form;
- unusual candle movement without a corresponding draft;
- sounds, animal motifs, smells or bodily sensations consistent with the entity's office;
- a response arising as a complete phrase rather than ordinary wandering thought;
- external events beginning to mirror the petition after the rite;
- resistance, fear or fascination intensifying at the exact point of contact.
One isolated sign may be meaningless. A pattern that repeats through the ritual, dream and aftermath carries greater weight inside the legend of the operation.
The Frightening Edge of the Rite
Belial grants favors, titles and influence while attacking dependence upon external approval. The seeker may become manipulative, contemptuous of law or convinced that every obstacle proves superior destiny. Closure must reject any unagreed obligation.
The danger is not limited to a hostile apparition. The deeper danger is transformation that feels useful while it is occurring. The practitioner may begin to imitate the spirit's temperament, reorganize life around the petition or interpret every event as part of the operation. That is why the dismissal and written closure are essential.
Failure Patterns
A rite is weakened when the practitioner changes the request repeatedly, abandons preparation, substitutes random symbols, recites without attention, continues after panic, promises impossible payment or refuses to close because no dramatic apparition appeared.
Failure can also appear as excess success: the requested current enters ordinary life faster or more strongly than expected. The record should therefore define what outcome counts as completion before the rite begins.
Completion and Aftermath
The operation is complete when the petition has been stated, the exchange acknowledged, the presence dismissed and the chamber returned to ordinary order. The practitioner should record:
- date and exact timing;
- preparatory discipline completed;
- tools and offerings used;
- words spoken;
- signs observed;
- dreams during the following nights;
- first external movement connected with the petition;
- any emotional or behavioral change;
- whether the promised offering or action was completed.
The aftermath belongs to the ritual. Results may arrive as opportunity, conflict, dream, warning, sudden knowledge, disappearance of an obstacle or an intensification that forces the seeker to confront the real shape of the request.
Final Warning
Belial grants favors, titles and influence while attacking dependence upon external approval. The seeker may become manipulative, contemptuous of law or convinced that every obstacle proves superior destiny. Closure must reject any unagreed obligation.
Do not leave the altar active indefinitely. Do not continue chanting after formal dismissal. Do not make a second petition simply because silence feels uncomfortable. The chamber must be returned to darkness, ordinary air and ordinary time.
Sources and Ritual Lineage
- Dead Sea Scroll and Solomonic traditions together with the complete Goetic-style rite preserved in the ritual source.
- Original SatanWorld draft post ID: 339
- Original title: How to summon Belial
- Original featured image: https://satanworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/BELIAL-SIGIL.png
- Complete ceremonial sequence, correspondences, manifestations and closure record.