Baphomet oil

How to Use It

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Invocation: anoint the brow and the heart before meditating on Lévi’s image, working through its pairs of opposites one by one.
• Thelemic work: dress a candle on the altar during rites drawing on Crowley’s use of the name, or anoint the lamen before ritual.

Demonology & Black Magick

• Devotional altar: anoint a statue or printed image of Baphomet weekly and set a black and a white candle on either side of it.
• Pact and dedication work: dress the candle and the signed petition when formally dedicating oneself to a left-hand path current.
• Sex magick: a touch on the body before rites that use desire as a ritual force, in keeping with the figure’s union of male and female.

A Simple Working

• Set a black candle on the left of your altar and a white candle on the right.
• Place an image of Baphomet between them.
• Anoint both candles from the middle outward with Baphomet oil.
• Light the black candle and say “Solve”, then the white and say “Coagula”.
• Write one habit or belief you want dissolved, and one you want built, on a slip of paper.
• Burn the paper in a cast iron cauldron and sit with the image until the candles burn down.

Pairs Well With

• A black and white candle pair: to mirror the light and dark moons of Lévi’s drawing.
• A Baphomet statue: a focus for the altar.
• Dragon’s blood resin: a strong incense for left-hand path rites.
• A cast iron cauldron: for burning petitions.

What You Receive

Baphomet oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz sizes.

Origin & Lore

The name Baphomet first appears in the early fourteenth century, when the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping an idol of that name; most historians read it as an Old French corruption of “Mahomet”. In 1854 to 1856 Éliphas Lévi gave the name its now-famous form, a winged, goat-headed androgyne he called the Sabbatic Goat, meant as a symbol of the balance of opposites and of the astral light. The oil is a modern devotional blend named for that figure.

Baphomet sits cross-legged with one arm raised to a white moon and the other lowered to a black one, the words SOLVE and COAGULA written on his forearms. Few images in occultism are as recognisable.

The Templar charges included spitting on the cross and adoring a head or idol, confessions largely extracted under torture before the order was dissolved in 1312. Lévi’s engraving appeared in Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie and reshaped the figure entirely. The Church of Satan’s Sigil of Baphomet, a goat’s head inside an inverted pentagram, dates from the 1960s, and The Satanic Temple unveiled its bronze Baphomet statue in 2015. The oil is a modern blend; the figure’s lore is what is old.