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The rituals of summoning spirits ar known as "necromancy," an English word derived from ancient Greek. It consists of two parts: nekros meaning "dead" and manteia meaning "divination." The word as a whole means "divination through the dead." Its roots trace back to ancient beliefs in the ability to communicate with spirits and predict the future by summoning the dead. The word transitioned into Latin as necromantia and then into French and English. Originally, it referred to divination through communication with spirits to obtain information and knowledge. Over time, the term became associated with black magic and sorcery due to its inclusion of dark magical rituals. These practices aim to summon the spirit of the deceased to extract information. But the question remains: is it truly the spirit being summoned in these rituals?
The spirit, as we have defined it, is an abstract faculty for tracing symbols. After the body's death, spirits rarely return to the material world except in exceptional cases. However, in necromancy, what is summoned is not the spirit but rather ethereal entities, often the qarin (spiritual double) of the deceased.
Summoning Spirits and Its Connection to the Qarin and Magic:
The qarin represents a person’s imagination or aura. The aura is the layer on the human skin that separates the body from the self. This is why we say that the jinn or the imaginative layer is a gap or void between two things. The aura clings to everything a person comes into contact with, from their clothes to their surroundings, extending to the places they inhabit. After a person's death, their aura remains linked to their belongings and the locations they frequented.
In rituals for summoning the spirits of the dead, practitioners often require an item belonging to the deceased to communicate with their trace. Therefore, what is being summoned is not the spirit but the qarin of the deceased.
Most magical rituals require a trace of the person being targeted because the trace carries that person’s aura, and thus a part of their imaginative self. Since magic is connected to the qarin or human aura, it does not occur in the physical world but in the imaginative realm, also known as the world of jinn. In this realm, the qarin is affected by the magical act, and the symptoms of this influence reflect on the physical body, as the qarin controls the nerves and hormones. Consequently, the afflicted person exhibits disorders because, as the qarin suffers, so does the individual. In some cases, the qarin overpowers and transforms into a demon, with the ego reflecting the demonic qarin
The qarin can also be summoned for interrogation about the targeted person’s information. Another indication of the qarin’s link to magic is the magician’s request for the person’s name and their mother’s name rather than their father’s. This is because the qarin, or the imaginative layer, is inherited from the mother through the mitochondria, which are transmitted to the fetus exclusively via the mother.