Lovely new batches

[trystinn]

Put up two batches of Abramelin Oil, one with Calamus and the other with Galangal. Galangal is the Samuels Mathers mistranslation, which Crowley worked with. Calamus is the original, the Jewish Ambramelin oil from the bible. I don't add enough cinnamon to overwhelm the senses. Cinnamon is perfectly nice, of course, but I can't see the point of filling the temple with it.

For those unfamiliar with these two ingredients - Galangal has a spicy scent, with a touch of ginger. Calamus has a floral sweetness with just a tinge of yeast. Quite a difference, that. I'm working with masticated ingredients in an Extra Virgin Olive Oil Base. I'll shake them weekly for about a month and see what we come up with.

Caveat: Calamus is toxic and so inedible. While safe on the skin, one must not sprinkle on cakes or the host and ingest.

For the curious: Exodus 30:22-33:

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels], And of cassia five hundred [shekels], after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compounded after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

Now, if I could just get the website transfered to the new domain host. Grrrr.

Comments

[wild-heart.livejournal.com]

Calamus smells like rotting flesh to me . . .

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Josh thinks Burdock Root smells like cat poop, I think it smells like loamy earth.

The differences among the human understanding of scent always amazes me.