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Angels, demons, and spirits of all kinds are summoned by calling their true name. Supposedly they can’t resist the call. Much summoning magic depends upon this premise.

Of course, there is a caveat; this information was once transmitted orally: to be effective the names are supposed to be pronounced correctly. One has only to observe the conflict between historians, magical practitioners, and scholars of all kinds over how the names of relatively famous Greek and Egyptian deities are pronounced to appreciate the inherent problem.

There is a style of spell-casting that incorporates reeling off series of magical names. The Magical Papyri have some of these spells: there’s nothing to indicate that the practitioners of their time recognized these names any more than we do. They don’t figure in surviving mythology; these names completely lack context.

Call me cautious, but I’m not comfortable summoning someone to enter my home (and life) if I’m not personally familiar with them, or at least have a little background information. Something about not talking to strangers. I wouldn’t recommend it to you either. Where the original version of a spell veers off on a tangent of reciting a long list of Names of Power, I’ve indicated this but omitted the names. My recommendation is to insert your own Names of Power—those Spirits whom you trust, ancestral spirits, even perhaps living people whose assistance would be appreciated and whom you feel you can trust.