Before I start, no one laugh at me please?
Last night, I attempted my first contact with Aphtiph, an elemental king of fire listed in Bardon's Practice of Magical Evocation. I drew his sigil in red on paper.
I first meditated on the sigil, performed a LBRP and then a LIRP invoking fire. The room seemed to take on a different, reddish glow and I (or the room, I'm not sure) became hot. Next, I sat and gazed upon the sigil while vibrating the name Aphtiph.
I did this for maybe 10 minutes before I started to feel something in the room, and I stopped vibrating when I swore I heard footsteps (No one was upstairs that night and the footsteps were coming from the part of the room I had performed the LBRP and LIRP).
The footsteps continued for a few seconds and then quit, so I resumed vibrating the name. Soon, I began feeling a bit lightheaded and started seeing something black against the ceiling of my room. It was large and circular and encompassed most of the ceiling. I'm not sure if it was some sort of hallucination, or if I was just overexcited, or what I was seeing.
I must have passed out, because after that I only remember waking up on the floor in the morning. No cramps, which surprised me.
I told Aphtiph to appear before me and talk to me once I started hearing the footsteps, and again when I saw the black mass. Do you guys think I was just crazy, or had I actually contacted something... ?
I'm thinking I'll try again tonight if everything goes as planned. Or, if you guys have other advice for me, I might alter my approach or try a different entity.
