Invocation
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This article is about religious and spiritual invocation. For the term meaning starting computer software, see Execution (computing). For other uses, see Invocation (disambiguation).
In Western ritual magic, invocations (from the Latin verb invocare "to call on, invoke, to give") are a field involving communicating or interacting with certain incorporeal, supernatural spirits. Invocation may take the form of:
- Supplication, prayer or spell.
- A form of possession.
- Command or conjuration.
- Self-identification with certain spirits.
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These forms are described below, but are not mutually exclusive. See also Theurgy.