The Oil of Abramelin 'Crowley'
A blend of five aromatic botanical ingredients, the Oil of Abramelin is a consecrated anointing oil that was and still is used in ceremonial magic. It is named after a medieval grimoire called The Book of Abramelin, which tells the story of an Egyptian mage named Abraham, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a German Jew, presumed to have lived from 1362 - 1458 CE.
The recipe described in Abramelin is clearly an adaptation of the Jewish holy anointing oil recipe of the Tanakh, named after the Canon, and is described in the 3,000-year-old Book of Exodus (30:22-25), attributed to Moses, a Jewish Egyptian trained in the temples.
No coincidence, Ta-n-Akh means "offering to the Spirit" in the Egyptian language, used to describe the act of funerary anointing in the Coffin Texts. The "Akh" or "magically effective spirit" was a concept of the dead that varied little over the long history of Egyptian belief. Relative to the afterlife, the Akh represented the deceased who was transfigured into an effective being of light.
The ingredients of the Jewish Tanakh and Abraham's Oil of Abramelin are identical: Cinnamon, Myrrh, Calamus, and Cassia in an Olive Oil carrier. But there is some discussion about the ingredient Calamus as it appears that it may have been a blind or a mistranslation of Cannabis (more on this in the linked article below).
Aleister Crowley specifies Galangal instead of Calamus for his version of the Abramelin formula. This gives a more exotic less floral olfactory note, but more importantly for his Sacraments, it is ingestible, Calamus being toxic and rather hard on the stomach. Crowley also used much higher amounts of Cinnamon for his recipe.
Our Oil of Abramelin 'Crowley' doubles the Cinnamon and uses Galangal essential oil instead of Calamus.
30 ml Bottle (photo inset shows 30ml, 12ml, and 2ml bottle sizes)
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Ta-n-Akh Oil