Clauneck

CLAUNECK

The spirit of worth. He does not care what you sell, only what it is worth and whether it moves. Obey him, and he will obey thee.

Who Clauneck is to practitioners today

Clauneck is the spirit of riches in the Grimorium Verum, the first of the eighteen spirits who serve under Syrach, well loved by Lucifer, with power over goods and riches, the discovery of hidden treasure, great wealth and money brought from a distance; today he is one of the most trusted spirits in the whole tradition for money that is owed, stuck or slow.

In practice he works by moving money and opportunity that already exist toward you: the stalled deal, the late payment, the door that went quiet. He is not one of the seventy-two spirits of the Goetia, and he is not a giver of free gifts. He works by exchange.

As a spirit of acquisition, commerce and wealth, Clauneck is “free market” in the most extreme sense. Like the market, he has no moral objections. He cares nothing for the product itself, only its worth. That frankness unnerves people, and it is also what makes his counsel so valuable: it is unbiased.

This page starts with how people actually work with him now, the prayers they use, what our own clients have reported and the questions people ask, and ends with what the grimoire says.

Why people work with Clauneck

People come to the right spirit for the right purpose. These are the reasons practitioners come to Clauneck, from his oldest offices to what people actually bring him today.

Classic reasons

• Goods and riches: power over material wealth
• Hidden treasure: discovering it for the one who makes a pact with him
• Great wealth: bestowed because he is well loved by Lucifer
• Money from a distance: bringing it from far away

Modern reasons

• Money owed, delayed or stuck: a debt, a half-closed deal, a payment that has not landed
• Negotiations and contracts: people work with Clauneck to get deals signed
• Hidden or forgotten resources: money and assets brought to light, true to his office of discovering treasure
• Distant income: overseas clients, distant buyers, online sales, income from places you do not physically reach
• Wealth built over time: a long-term working relationship for growth
• Honest valuation: cold, unbiased counsel on what something, or someone, is really worth
• Pricing: asking him what to charge, and finding the nerve to charge it
• Business at large: clients with substantial businesses keep altars to him in the workplace
• Health: he is regularly called for wellbeing as well as wealth, and clients have credited him with both

Traditional, for reference

What the grimoire assigns him. This is historical background, not modern practice.

• Grimorium Verum (18th century): first of the eighteen spirits under Syrach, in the hierarchy of Lucifer, Beelzebuth and Astaroth
• His offices: goods and riches, hidden treasure, great wealth, money from a distance
• A day spirit
• A. E. Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts (1898): “Obey him, and he will obey thee.”

Clauneck at a glance

• Source: the Grimorium Verum, not the Ars Goetia, so he has no Goetic number
• Rank: first of the eighteen spirits under Syrach, in the hierarchy of Lucifer, Beelzebuth and Astaroth
• Offices: goods and riches, hidden treasure, great wealth, money brought from far away
• Time: a day spirit
• Other spellings: Claunth, Claunt, Claunekh
• Enn: Ahvalen esen Clauneck kiar (see our demonic enns page)

Correspondences

Used in Black Witch Coven (from our own practice):

• Offerings: red wine and other alcohol, candles, coins, and pork
• Candles: red or green, or gold if you work him under Mercury
• Incense: dragon’s blood, or another resin
• Timing: by day, or in a Mercury hour for trade and deals

Also used by other practitioners (these come from later systems, not the Grimorium Verum itself, and they vary):

• Planet and day: Mars and Tuesday; others use Mercury, the planet of trade
• Colours: red and light green; yellow or gold under Mercury
• Stones: garnet, bloodstone, carnelian, ruby
• Metals: bronze and brass
• Plants: pennyroyal, mugwort, basil, cardamom
• Incense: dragon’s blood; frankincense under Mercury
• Elements: Fire and Water
• Numbers: 4 and 16

Working with Clauneck today

The Grimorium Verum asks for preparation first, fasting, washing and a short period of abstinence, then follows its chain of command: superior spirits first, then the named spirit by his seal, then a pact, then a formal dismissal. Greater spirits open the door, the named spirit steps through, and the pact binds both sides. The structure below keeps that order in a form most people can carry out, and it is how we work with him in Black Witch Coven.

1. Define the goal

Write it in one clear sentence before you build the altar. A vague request gets a vague result. Know what money you want, from where, and by when.

2. Prepare the sigil

Draw it in black ink on good parchment. Older manuscripts call for blood in the ink; use it if that is part of your practice. Consecrate it a few days before the working and spend time with it daily. A sigil charged in advance holds steadier than one rushed together on the night.

3. Prepare yourself and the space

A short fast or a period of silence in the hours before. Set the sigil at the centre of the altar with candles either side, red or green, or gold if you work with him under Mercury. Burn dragon’s blood or another resin, and have your offering ready. Work by day, or in a Mercury hour for trade and deals. Salt the boundary of your space if you like a clear line between the working and the rest of the house.

4. Call his superiors

Following the grimoire, address Lucifer first, and through him Syrach. Many in our tradition use a petition such as:

Lord Lucifer, by your grace, grant me the power to conceive in my mind and to carry out that which I desire, the end I would reach by your help. I ask you to command Syrach to send Clauneck before me, that he may give me a true and faithful answer and help me reach my desired end, provided it is proper to his office. This I ask in your name, Lord Lucifer.

5. Call Clauneck

Present the sigil and speak his enn, Ahvalen esen Clauneck kiar, repeating it until you feel the room change: a shift in temperature, a sense of presence, sudden clarity. State your goal in your one sentence.

6. Make the pact

Write and sign the terms: what you ask, what you will give, and what you will do in the physical world. A drop of your own blood on the signature seals it, since blood is life force and nearly every faith speaks of it as life itself. Expect to pull your own weight. Clauneck helps the goal manifest; he does not carry you. The application has to be sent, the pitch made, the call picked up.

7. Close properly

Thank him, leave the offering until it decays naturally or you choose to remove it, and dismiss him. In the grimoire the dismissal is required, not a courtesy: it closes what the invocation opened. Something plain works: “Go now in peace, our business concluded.” Store the sigil and pact with care rather than throwing them away.

8. Keep a record

Note the date, moon phase and hour, what you offered and what you felt, then the results over the next 30 to 60 days. Results tend to show as movement rather than a sudden windfall. If nothing has moved in 60 days, work again with sharper wording rather than repeating the same rite word for word.

Why call him through his superiors?

Because he is not one of Solomon’s seventy-two, there is no Goetic seal for Clauneck in the ringed form used in the Lemegeton. The sigil above is the one used for him in the Grimorium Verum tradition. The ring around Solomon’s seals marks a spirit bound by Solomon; Clauneck’s sigil carries no such binding, which is one reason many in our tradition prefer to call him through Lucifer and Syrach.

Reading his sigil

One modern reading of his sigil sees in it a brain, an eye, a heart and a phallus (the function is the same for female genitalia). These are four scales on which merit is weighed: the brain through knowledge and experience, the eye through appearance and contour, the heart through emotional response, and the phallus through sexual charge or interest. The sigil shows how we judge the worth of whom and what we deal with.

Offerings

• Pork: a favourite of our clients, and the offering behind one of the most remarkable reports we have
• Red wine and other alcohol
• Coins: kept on the altar or left where money moves
• Candles, burned in his name
• Blood: a drop in the ink of the sigil, on the pact or on the candle
• Praise: public thanks when the money moves

Praising Clauneck

You can show a spirit gratitude through public praise, in any form you can. One of our Working with Demons students who connected with Clauneck painted his portrait. Clauneck instructed her on how he wanted to be portrayed, and she was told he was very pleased with the result. She has already felt the benefits of the relationship. Another praise offering can be seen on video.

Student portrait of Clauneck, May 2016.

What our clients have reported

A client with several large “just legalized” style businesses shared this image after his first offering to Clauneck, a pork chop: “Look at the bite marks in the pork, I couldn’t believe it.” He then set up an altar to Clauneck in his workplace, with three sigils, one painted with his own blood mixed into the paint, everything done in odd numbers, overlooking the barn.

Another client offered red wine on a Tuesday and saw Clauneck’s image behind him: “In my visualization I see only his big legs, but I know he will soon appear to me in full.”

Max A. wrote to our community while preparing his ritual. He had suffered for months with a herniated disc. The day he rehearsed his petition to Clauneck, an inversion on his table brought a pop in his spine, and with it relief: the numbness faded, the leg spasms stopped, the circulation returned. “The Great King Clauneck has gifted me this. I thank Him and openly proclaim his gift to me for all to hear!”

Prayers and invocations to Clauneck

Clauneck is spoken to as a business partner with Lucifer’s ear: plainly, with the terms on the table. The pieces below are written by Black Witch Coven for your own use.

How people pray to him

• Through his superiors: Lucifer first, then Syrach, then Clauneck
• By day, or in a Mercury hour
• With the enn repeated until the room changes
• With the goal in one sentence, figure and date included
• Candle colours: red and green, or gold for trade

His enn

Ahvalen esen Clauneck kiar

Opening invocation

Clauneck, first of the spirits of Syrach,
well loved by Lucifer,
lord of goods and riches, finder of hidden treasure,
I call you by your sign and your name.
Ahvalen esen Clauneck kiar.
Come before me and hear my terms.

Prayer for money owed or stuck

Clauneck, you who bring money from a distance,
move what is owed to me.
Let the payment land, the debtor pay,
the stalled deal close and the quiet door open again.
What is mine, bring to my hand.

Said with the invoice, contract or name written beneath the sigil.

Prayer for the deal

Clauneck, spirit of worth,
show me what this is really worth
and give me the nerve to ask it.
Let the contract be signed on good terms,
and let both sides keep them.

Said the morning of a negotiation or a pitch.

Prayer for health and wellbeing

Clauneck, who has eased pain before,
look on this body as you look on treasure.
Restore what is worth keeping.
Let the pain loosen and the strength return,
and I will proclaim your gift.

Dismissal

Clauneck, I thank you for coming and for hearing me.
Our terms stand, and I will keep mine.
Go now in peace, our business concluded.

Never skipped. In the grimoire the dismissal closes what the invocation opened.

Questions people actually ask

Is Clauneck one of the Goetic demons?

No. He comes from the Grimorium Verum, not the Ars Goetia, so he has no Goetic number and no ringed Solomonic seal. That is one reason many in our tradition call him through his superiors, Lucifer and Syrach.

Who is Syrach?

A duke in the Grimorium Verum who commands eighteen working spirits: Clauneck, Musisin, Bechaud, Frimost, Klepoth, Khil, Mersilde, Clisthert, Sirchade, Segal, Hicpacth, Humots, Frucissiere, Guland, Surgat, Morail, Frutimiere and Huictiigaras. Beyond that command, the grimoire says little about him.

Why is it significant that Clauneck is listed first?

Being first marks his standing within Syrach’s company and the regard Lucifer holds for him. There is a neat symbolism in it too: one is the first unit of value, the step from nothing to something. Through Clauneck the operation moves from unmanifested to manifested, from “0” to “1.”

Is Clauneck dangerous?

No grimoire describes him as hostile. Most trouble comes from vague or contradictory requests, a skipped dismissal, or a promise left unkept.

Does he only do money?

Money is his office, but he is regularly called for health as well as wealth, and our clients have credited him with both. He is also asked for honest counsel on what things and people are worth.

Will he advise on anything, however dark?

Yes, and people find that unnerving. He will give advice on trafficking human beings as dispassionately as he would on selling cupcakes. He cares nothing for the product, only its worth. That is exactly why his counsel is so useful: it carries no bias at all.

How long does Clauneck take?

Most people see movement within 30 to 60 days: a stuck negotiation resolving, a late payment arriving, an opportunity coming back. If nothing has moved in 60 days, work again with sharper wording.

What works, what doesn’t

What practitioners report works

• One clear sentence. What money, from where, by when.
• A sigil charged in advance. Days, not minutes.
• Calling through Lucifer and Syrach.
• Pork, red wine and coins.
• Doing the work. The application sent, the call picked up.
• Public praise when the money moves.

What practitioners say doesn’t work

• Treating him as a wishing well.
• Vague or contradictory requests.
• Skipping the dismissal.
• Breaking the terms.
• Repeating a failed rite word for word instead of sharpening it.

The darker work: the debtor and the competitor

Clauneck has no moral objections, and people know it. They bring him the debtor who will not pay, the client who disappeared, and the competitor who is taking their market.

What the grimoire says

The entry

The Grimorium Verum gives Clauneck a short, direct entry. He has power over goods and riches. He can discover hidden treasures to the one who makes a pact with him. He can bestow great wealth, because he is well loved by Lucifer. He brings money from a distance. A. E. Waite’s English version ends with a line every magician should take to heart: “Obey him, and he will obey thee.”

That last line tells you how the relationship runs. Clauneck is described as obedient to the one who calls him, but only within an arrangement both sides keep. The grimoire’s whole method rests on the pact.

Where Clauneck comes from

The Grimorium Verum, the “True Grimoire,” claims to be translated from Hebrew by one Plaingière and printed in Memphis in 1517, and is attributed to “Alibeck the Egyptian.” Scholars date it to the eighteenth century. It circulated in French and Italian before Waite summarised it in English in The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts (1898).

It sets out a clear chain of command. Lucifer, Beelzebuth and Astaroth stand at the top. Below them are their officers, and below those the working spirits. Duke Syrach commands eighteen of these, and Clauneck is listed first.

How this differs from how he is worked today

• Method: the grimoire’s chain of command kept, with modern correspondences added
• Offerings: pork, wine and praise alongside the pact
• Range: health as well as wealth

Black Witch Coven’s view

Clauneck is the spirit of worth. He does not care what you sell, only what it is worth and whether it moves, and he expects the same honesty from you. Approach him through his superiors, make your terms plain, put in the work yourself, and keep your side of the bargain. Treat him as a business partner with Lucifer’s ear, not as a wishing well, and he can be one of the most generous spirits you will ever work with.

Work with Clauneck through Black Witch Coven

• Clauneck’s Oleum: to dress your candle and sigil
• Millionaire Oil: for general money work
• Daemonic Prosperity Magick: the working done for you
• VIP Money Magick: our three-month program
• Money Magick Membership
• Demonic Pact with Savannah: to bind the relationship properly
• Not sure which fits? Book a consultation, or browse all our daemonic spell casting

As with all magick, results are never guaranteed.

Further reading

• A Pact with Clauneck
• Black Magick Money Spell using the Demon Clauneck
• Grimorium Verum demons
• Demons for money, business and gambling

Related spirits

• Lucifer: Clauneck’s patron, at the head of the Grimorium Verum hierarchy
• Bune: gives riches and makes people wise and eloquent
• Lucifuge Rofocale: keeper of the treasury of Hell
• Mammon: the old god of money itself
• Amy: reveals treasures kept by spirits
• Andromalius: recovers stolen goods and uncovers hidden treasure
• Zagan: turns metal into coin and skill into value

Sources

Grimorium Verum (18th century; attributed to “Alibeck the Egyptian”)	Lists Clauneck first among the eighteen spirits under Syrach
A. E. Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts (1898)	“Obey him, and he will obey thee.”
Morino Ravenberg, Working with Clauneck (2016)	Modern practice
Specchi nel Buio, Clauneck (Claunekh), Spirit of Wealth	Modern correspondences

• Clauneck, Wikipedia
• Working with Clauneck, Morino Ravenberg
• Claunekh correspondences, Specchi nel Buio