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Magickal Properties of Incense

(by Raven and Crone)

The spiritual meanings of fragrances and magickal properties of incense will help focus your mind on achieving specific goals. Burning incense has a symbolic meaning that helps pagans and witches focus their attention on the purpose of a ritual or magickal working. ACACIA: Burned with sandalwood to stimulate the psychic powers. AFRICAN VIOLET: Burned for protection and to promote spirituality within the home. ALLSPICE: Burned to attract both good luck and money. ALOES: Burned to attract good fortune, love, spiritual vibrations, and strength. ALTHEA: Burned for protection and to stimulate the psychic powers. AMBER: Burned for love, comfort, happiness and healing AMBERGRIS: Burn for dreams and aphrodisiac ANGELICA: Burn for protection, harmony, integration, insight and understanding, stability and meditation ANISE SEEDS: Burned as a meditation and emotional balance incense. BASIL: Burned to exorcise and protect against evil entities such as demons and unfriendly ghosts, and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy, and wealth. This is also an excellent incense to use when performing love divinations. Also burn for concentration, assertiveness, decisiveness, trust, integrity, enthusiasm, mental clarity, cheerfulness, confidence and courage BAY: Burned to facilitate the psychic powers, and to induce prophectic dream-visions. BAYBERRY: Burned mainly to attract money and also burned for protection, happiness and control BENZOIN: Burned for purification, astral projection, clears negative energy, emotional balance, eases sadness, depression, weariness, grief, anger, anxiety and to attract prosperity. BERGAMONT: Burn for money, prosperity, uplifting of spirits, joy, protection, concentration, alertness, confidence, balance, strength, courage, motivation and assertiveness BISTORT: Burned often with frankincense as a powerful incense to aid divination. BRACKEN: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. CARDAMOM: Burn for mental clarity, concentration, confidence, courage, enthusiasm and motivation CARNATION: Burn for protection, strength, healing, love and lust CEDAR: Burned for purification, to stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, attract love, prevent nightmares, and heal various ailments, including head colds. CEDARWOOD: Burn for healing, purification, protection, money, balance, grounding, clarity, insight and wisdom CHAMOMILE: Burn for harmony, peace, calm, spiritual and inner peace CINNAMON: Burned for protection and to attract money, wealth, prosperity, business success, stimulate or strengthen the psychic powers, and aid in healing. Also burned for stimulation, strength and lust CITRON: Burned in rituals to aid healing and also to strengthen the psychic powers. CITRONELLA: Burn for cleansing, warding off, healing and exorcism CLOVE: Burned to dispel negativity, purify sacred and magickal spaces, attract money, and stop or prevent the spread of gossip. Also burn for pain relief, intellectual stimulation, business success, wealth, prosperity, divination, exorcism, protection, eases fears, improves memory and focus COCONUT: Burned for protection. COPAL: Burned for purification, uplifting spirits, protection, exorcism, spirituality and to attract love. CYPRESS: Burn for strength, comfort, healing, eases anxiety, stress, self-assurance, confidence, physical vitality, willpower and concentration DAMIANA: Burned to facilitate psychic visions. DITTANY OF CRETE: Burned to conjure spirits and to aid in divination, astral projection, especially when mixed with equal parts of benzoin, sandalwood, and vanilla. DRAGONS BLOOD: Burned to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, courage, purification, attract love, and restore male potency. Many Witches also burn dragon’s blood for protection when spell casting and invoking. When added to other incenses, dragon’s blood makes their magickal powers all the stronger. ELECAMPANE: Burned to strengthen the clairvoyant powers and scrying abilities-divination by gazing. EUCALYPTUS: Burn for healing, purification and protection FERN: Burned in outdoor fires to magickally produce rain. Also used to exorcise evil supernatural entities. FRANKINCENSE: Burned to dispel negativity, spirituality, purify magickal spaces, consecration, protect against evil, exorcism, aid meditation, astral strength, induce psychic visions, courage, protection, attract good luck, and honor Pagan deities. FUMITORY: Burned to exorcise demons, poltergeists, and evil supernatural entities. GALANGAL: Burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers. GARDENIA: Burn for peace, love and healing GINGER: Burn for wealth, lust, love and magical power GINSENG ROOT: Burned to keep wicked spirits at bay, and for protection against all forms of evil. GOTU KOLA: Burned to aid meditation. HEATHER: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, and to magickally produce rain. HIBISCUS FLOWERS: Burned to attract love, lust and also for divination. HONEYSUCKLE: Burn to attract money, happiness, friendship and healing HOREHOUND: Burned as an offertory incense to the ancient Egyptian god Horus. HYACINTH: Burn for happiness and protection JASMINE: Burned to attract love and money, and also to induce dreams of a prophectic nature, purification, wisdom and astral projection JUNIPER: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and also to break curses, exorcism and hexes cast by evil sorcerers. It is also burned for calming, protection and healing. LAVENDER: Burned to induce rest and sleep, and to attract love-especially of a man. Also burned for cleansing, healing, happiness and relaxation LEMON: Burn for healing, love and purification LEMONGRASS: Burn for mental clarity LILAC: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract harmony into ones life. LOTUS: Burn to elevate mood, protection, spirituality, healing and meditation MACE: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. MASTIC: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and intensify sexual desires. The magickal powers of other incenses are greatly increased when a bit of mastic is added. MESQUITE: The magickal powers of all healing incenses are greatly increased when mesquite is added. MINT: Burned to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil supernatural entities, conjure beneficial spirits, and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong healing vibrations and protective powers. MUSK: Burn for aphrodisiac, prosperity, courage MYRRH: Burned (often with frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh is also aids meditation rituals, and was commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to deities Isis and Ra. NUTMEG: Burned to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers, and to attract prosperity. OAKMOSS: Burned for money and attraction ORANGE: Burned for divination, love, luck and money PATCHOULI: Burned to attract money, love, growth, mastery, sensuality and also to promote fertility. PEPPERMINT: Burned for energy, mental stimulant, exorcism and healing PINE: Burned for purification, and to banish negative energies, exorcise evil supernatural entities, and attract money, as well as to break hexes and return them to their senders. Also burned for grounding, strength, cleansing and healing POPPY SEEDS: Burned to promote female fertility, and to attract love, good luck, and money. ROSE: Burned to increase courage, induce prophetic dreams, house blessing, fertility, healing and attract love. Rose incense is used in all forms of love enchantment and possesses the strongest love vibration of any magickal incense. ROSE GERANIUM: Burned for courage and protection ROSEMARY: Burned to purify, aid in healing, prevent nightmares, preserve youthfulness, dispel depression, attract fairy folk, and promote restful sleep and pleasant dreams. RUE: Burned to help restore health. SAGE: Burned for protection against all forms of evil. It is also burned to purify sacred spaces and ritual tools. Plus it is great for promoting wisdom, clarity, attract money, and aid in the healing the body, mind, and soul. SAGEBRUSH: Burned to aid healing, and to banish negative energies and evil supernatural entities. SANDALWOOD: Burned to exorcise demons and evil ghosts, conjure beneficial spirits, and promote spiritual awareness. Sandalwood incense is also used by many Witches for protection, astral projection, healing rituals and in wish-magick. SOLOMONS SEAL: Burned mainly as an offertory incense to ancient Pagan deities. STAR ANISE SEEDS: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. STRAWBERRY: Burned to attract love and for luck. SWEETGRASS: Burned to conjure beneficial spirits prior to spell casting. SWEET PEA: Burned for friendship, love and courage THYME: Burned for the purification of magickal spaces prior to rituals, to aid in healing, and to attract good health. VANILLA: Burned to attract love, increase sexual desire, and improve the powers of the mind. VERVAIN: Burned to exorcise evil supernatural entities. VETIVERT: Burned to break curses, exorcism, for protection against black magick and thieves, money, peace and love. VIOLET: Burn for wisdom, luck, love, protection and healing WILLOW: Burned to avert evil, attract love, and promote healing. It is also used by many Witches as an offertory incense for Pagan lunar deities. WISTERIA: Burned for protection against all forms of evil. WORMWOOD: Burned to stimulate or increase the psychic powers. When mixed with sandalwood and burned at night in a cemetery, wormwood is said to be able to conjure spirits from their graves. YARROW: Burned to arrow courage, exorcism YLANG-YLANG: Burned for love, harmony and euphoria

Barbara Walker - The Double-Triadic Hexagram, “The I Ching of the Goddess”, 1986. The original Triangle stood for the Goddess’s Trinity of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer, she of a thousand names, such as Maya the birth-giving Virgin, Durga the preserving Mother, and Kali Ma the Death-dealing Crone. Her primary symbol was a downward-pointing Triangle, the Yoni Yantra, sometimes called Kali Yantra. This represented a Vulva (Sanskrit yoni), and femaleness in general: by extension, a womb, motherhood, female sexuality, the Life Spirit embodied in menstrual blood, or the world-activating power of the Goddess herself. The same symbol stood for ‘woman’ and ‘Goddess’ among ancient Egyptians, pre-Hellenic Greeks, Tantric Buddhists, and the gypsies who migrated westward from Hindustan. The primordial female Triangle became a male-female Hexagram by eight stages, graphically represented as follows. Figure 1 - At first there was only the Goddess alone, containing within herself all the elements in a fluid, unformed state. Figure 2 - With the passage of ages and by her will, eventually a spark of Life was formed within her core, represented by a dot. Tantric sages called this spark the Bindu, and one of the Goddess’s titles was Bindumati, Mother of the Bindu. Among Cabalists it became Bina, the Womb of Earth. Figure 3 - The Bindu grew and slowly became a separate being within the Mother, though it still lay wholly inside her borders. At this early stage of the Divine Creation, Darkness (the God) was still enveloped in a greater Darkness (his Mother). The God was still one with the author of his being, Maha-Kali, the Great Power. Figure 4 - At the fourth stage, the God was Born. Represented by an upward-pointing Triangle - which often symbolized the masculine principle of Fire - the God broke through the boundaries of the Primordial maternal Triangle. Here, at the moment of ‘Birth,’ the idea of the male Deity was conveyed by three solid lines, while that of the female Deity became three broken lines. Thus was the design taken apart, and its components utilized as Trigrams and Hexagrams in the I Ching. Figure 5 - Male and female Triangles, one separated, came together again in a very ancient figure that later rounded off to the Mathematical Symbol of Infinity in so-called Arabic Numerals, which were actually Hindu in origin. The two Tangential Circles or teardrop shapes of this sign meant the same as two Tangential Triangles: the two sexes in contact. The female Triangle above now took on the aspect of a nourishing breast, while the male received her nourishment. Figure 6 - Tantric yogis continued to hold that sexual union in true love was an intimation of Divinity, giving the partners a sense of merging ‘like pouring of water into water’. Similarly in Egypt, the Goddess and her God were represented by vessels of water, their conjunction by a combination of the two waters, as in the Sacred Talisman known as Menat. In the Middle East, a Sacrificial God was preceded by a vessel of water in procession to his place of Execution, a tradition that was followed even in the story of Jesus. Like Shiva, the Christian God also was born of the same Mother on whom, as a Divine spouse, he begot himself. Figure 7 - By penetrating each other to the farthest boundary, God and Goddess formed between them the ancient Tantric Symbol of the World, a Diamond, flanked by four new Triangles that were assimilated to the Elements, the four directions, the four corners of the Earth (when the Earth was supposed to be square), the four winds, the four divisions of the Zodiac, the four Sons of Horus, or the Norsemen’s related Spirits of north, east, south, and west that upheld the Heavens. All these ideas could be expressed in a simple glyph of six lines. Figure 8 - Finally, the ultimate interpenetration was shown by the full Hexagram. Male and female principles extended even beyond each other’s boundaries, becoming ‘One’ in sixfold Symmetry. This was the Union proposed by Cabalists as well as Tantric sages: the symbol of Eeternal Conception and Re-Creation. This was the hidden reason for the Rabbinic traditions claiming that the Ark of the Covenant contained male and female images sexually joined, ‘in the form of a Hexagram,’ and that the triple six of Solomon’s golden talents represented the king’s sexual union with his goddess, who gave him his great Wisdom. This explains also the early Christian’s horror of the sixfold symbol of Aphrodite, similarly united with Hermes as the first ‘Hermaphrodite,’ and their insistence that three sixes made a Devilish Number (666) and six was the ‘Number of Sin’.  The ultimate absorption of the God into the Yoni Yantra (Goddess) was his Immolation, usually conceived as a voluntary Sacrifice of his Life for Salvation of the Earthly World, which needed the Life-Force inherent in Divine Blood. As Kali the Destroyer, the Goddess devoured her consort and returned to the original solitary female form of the Yantra (Fig. 1). Thus the Cycles of Creation and Destruction were carried on throughout the Life of the Universe.

Domestic Witch Tip

Write sigils on the bottom of your doormat so that whenever guests wipe their feet or step over the threshold the magic takes effect. A protection sigil or even one for a clean and happy home would be great here. 

If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like.

Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God.

But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?

Hermes Trismegistus;- „Hermetica :The greek corpus Hermeticum and the latin Asclepius“

i genuinely don’t understand why mary shelley’s writing style is so underappreciated because the first page of matilda just left me speechless

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