Abra Melin oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dress a purple candle to bend a person or situation to your will.
• Anoint your hands and throat before a meeting where you need to command respect.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint the brow and the top of the head at the start of a ritual, following the grimoire’s instructions.
• Consecrate the altar, lamen, wand and other tools.
• Dress the candles of a working of the holy guardian angel.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Anoint the magician before evocation, since the Abramelin system includes commanding spirits once the angel has been attained.
• Dress seals and talismans of spirits to be constrained.

A Simple Working

• Cleanse yourself with a bath or salt water before beginning.
• Dress a white or gold candle with Abra Melin oil from base to wick.
• Anoint your brow, crown and palms.
• Light the candle and pray or speak your aspiration toward your highest self or guardian angel.
• Anoint each tool on the altar, naming its purpose.
• Sit in silence until the candle has burned down.

Pairs Well With

• Frankincense, the classic incense of consecration.
• Myrrh, an ingredient of the original holy oil.
• A white or gold candle, for solar and divine work.
• Cinnamon, another ingredient of the grimoire’s oil.
• A lamen or talisman, to consecrate with the oil.

What You Receive

Abra Melin oil, in a 16 oz bottle.

Origin & Lore

Abramelin oil takes its name from The Book of Abramelin, a grimoire attributed to Abraham of Worms, which gives a recipe for a holy anointing oil based closely on the one in Exodus. In ceremonial magick it is used to consecrate the magician, the altar and tools; in hoodoo and spiritual-supply traditions it also came to be sold as a commanding oil, used to bend others to the worker’s will.

Few oils have a longer occult pedigree: the recipe comes from a grimoire that promised its reader conversation with their holy guardian angel and command over spirits.

The Book of Abramelin presents itself as a fifteenth-century manuscript in which Abraham of Worms passes on the system he learned from the Egyptian mage Abramelin. Its oil is described as a mix of myrrh, cinnamon and galangal in olive oil, and after its English translation was published in 1898 it became a central text for the Golden Dawn and later Thelema.