Baalberith and the Oil of Evocation

An oil for evocation, not for general use

Some oils are made for general purposes: dressing a candle, scenting a room, anointing a tool for any working. This oil is not one of those. That specificity is the point. An evocation oil is made for a particular spirit, for a particular kind of working, and it should be used in that working, rather than poured into every working that comes along.

Evocation, in the traditional sense, is the calling of a spirit to presence, in a prepared place, under prepared conditions, for a prepared purpose. It is not a casual act, and it is not a way of trying out a name to see what happens. A practitioner who evokes should know why they are calling, what they intend to ask, and how they intend to close the working, before the oil is ever opened.

That preparation is where an oil earns its place. Anointing — of skin, of a seal, of a candle, or of a tool, as your practice calls for — marks the practitioner and the working for that spirit and that purpose. It is a deliberate act, done once and well, not a habit performed without attention.

Working with a named spirit

Baalberith is named in the Goetia tradition, and this oil belongs to work with Baalberith in that tradition. If you work with Baalberith, work from the sources you trust, in the system you have been taught, and let those sources supply the detail this general article deliberately does not.

That restraint is itself good practice. If your own sources give Baalberith a province you can name, use that province, and judge this oil by whether it serves work in that province. If they do not, study further before evoking, rather than evoking in order to find out.

Being specific about what you want applies here as it does in all spirit work. Before an evocation, write the matter in one sentence: what you seek from Baalberith, why Baalberith rather than another spirit, and what you will do yourself towards the matter, apart from the working. A sentence you cannot write is a working you are not yet ready to do.

How the oil is made, and how it is used

Athena hand makes all of her own perfumes, colognes, and oils from only pure essential oils, roots, and herbs, with the odd gemstone sometimes thrown in as well. She does not use extraneous ingredients or fillers, and she does not use synthetics. All colognes, perfumes, and oils are in a half-ounce bottle, about twice as large as those little health food store essential oil bottles, unless otherwise stated.

Use such an oil sparingly and deliberately. Anoint what your practice calls for — skin, seal, candle, or tool — naming the purpose in your own words, and do not anoint everything in the room. A small amount, applied with intention, is the working. A large amount, applied without thought, is a mess, and it will distract you from the evocation itself with its own strong scent.

Test any oil on a small area of skin first, if you have not used it before, and do not use it on broken skin or in a way your own practice or common sense would warn against. Prepare the room and yourself in the same way you would for any Goetia working: clear the space, set it aside for this purpose, bathe or wash, change into clothes you do not wear for ordinary errands, and know what you are going to say before you begin.

Oil, incense, and the evocation together

Baalberith also has a matching incense in the shop, for spirit work and spellwork with Baalberith, hand made in small batches when you order. Oil and incense are companions in an evocation. Oil marks the practitioner or the tool. Incense marks the room and the time of the working, and fumigates the tools and talismans that will be used in it. Used together, in a simple order — prepare yourself, anoint what needs anointing, light incense as your practice calls for, speak your petition plainly, close properly — they cover the practitioner, the tool, and the place.

This article is about the oil, so it does not become a second article about incense. It is worth knowing the incense exists, because an evocation that prepares the practitioner but never prepares the room is a working that has done half its preparation.

Do not use an evocation oil as a substitute for the rest of the working. Anointing and then doing nothing else, with no petition, no attention, and no closing, is not spirit work. The oil supports the work. It does not replace it.

After the evocation

Afterwards, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and write down what you did: date, purpose in one sentence, oil and any incense used, what you said, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not only on the night itself. Evocation, like other spirit work, shows itself in behaviour and circumstance over time, not only in feelings during the working.

If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the petition was unclear, the timing was wrong, the work was not appropriate, or the situation needs a different approach. Do not repeat the same evocation endlessly in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, once, observe, and then decide calmly whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is right.

Keep the oil for its purpose. An evocation oil kept for Baalberith, and used only for Baalberith work, stays potent in the mind of the practitioner, because each use recalls the intention. An oil used for everything soon means nothing in particular, and a spirit evoked with a tool that means nothing in particular is a spirit evoked carelessly.

Evocation and the closing

The closing of an evocation deserves as much attention as the opening, and it is the part most often rushed. A spirit called to presence should be dismissed properly, in the forms of your system, with thanks or licence to depart as your practice requires, and the working space should be returned to ordinary use, cleanly, rather than left half-set for the next working. Tools should be put away, oil capped and stored, incense extinguished, and the record written while the working is still fresh. That closing is not a formality. It is how you tell yourself, and the spirit, that the working has an end, and that ordinary life resumes. Practitioners who skip the closing often find that the working follows them, not in any dramatic sense, but as a lingering sense that something is unfinished, which distracts from sleep, work, and the next working. Close properly, write the record, and then live ordinarily, and let the working show itself, if it does, in ordinary outcomes over time.

Baalberith Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil

This is an oil for anointing and spirit work with Baalberith, hand made from only pure essential oils, roots, and herbs, with no synthetics or fillers, in a half-ounce bottle unless otherwise stated. Anoint deliberately, for an evocation you have prepared properly, and then do the working itself in your own system. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made in the way described here, for this work.

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