Working with Bathin: an oil for herbs, precious stones, and travel
Bathin, and what this oil is for
Bathin is a Duke in the Goetia, and the Grimoire Companion entry for him ties his work to nature and travel: he knows the virtues of herbs and precious stones, and carries the traveller swiftly across distances. That is a field with two halves that belong together. The first half is knowledge: what a herb or a stone is good for, in the old sense of its virtue, not merely its appearance or its price. The second half is movement: the traveller, and the road between one place and another, crossed swiftly and safely.
An oil for Bathin sits between those two halves. It is for anointing, not for show, and it is used in spirit work with Bathin, in the same way the other Goetia oils in this line are used: made in small batches when you order, of a quality the maker uses herself for magical work, for spirit work, for work for clients, and for her own spellwork. An oil does not carry you anywhere by itself. It marks a working as set apart, and it gives your attention a steady point while you think about the road, the herb, or the stone in front of you.
Herbs and precious stones, and the virtue in them
The virtues of herbs and precious stones, in the old language, are not decorations. A virtue is what a thing does, or is held to do, in a working: how it steadies, how it sharpens, how it protects, or how it opens a way. Learning those virtues is slow work, and it is best learned one herb or one stone at a time, with notes kept on each, rather than from a long list memorised in an afternoon. A list gives you names. A notebook, kept over months, gives you judgement.
Before you work with Bathin oil, be specific about which herb or stone you mean, and which virtue you are asking about, in one sentence. Are you studying a herb you have actually handled, or a stone you actually own, or are you working from a picture and a hope? Honesty here matters, because Bathin work, as the entry presents it, is knowledge work first. An oil anointed for a vague interest in herbs in general will give you a vague session. An oil anointed for one named herb, with one named question, gives the session something to work with.
The traveller, and the road between places
The traveller in the Bathin entry is not only a person on a literal road, though it includes that person. Travel, in magical work, also means a passage from one state to another: from confusion to clarity, from a stalled project to a moving one, from one home to another. In both cases, the question is the same: what are you leaving, what are you travelling towards, and what do you need to carry with you for the road?
Write that down before you anoint anything. Name the starting place and the destination, in plain language, and name one thing you will do yourself, in ordinary life, to make the crossing. A working that asks a spirit to carry you while you sit still is a wish, not a working. A working that pairs a clear road with a clear ordinary step is a practice, and it can be read afterwards: did the road open, did the step get taken, and what followed?
Anointing, and how oil is used in this work
Oil is used by anointing: a little on the skin, on a seal, on a tool, or on an object that belongs to the working, according to the working itself. Do not flood the thing you are anointing. A little oil, applied with attention, marks the working as set apart far better than a quantity applied carelessly. If you are working with a Bathin seal, oil on the seal before the working is the traditional way to dress a tool for this kind of work, and the matching incense can be burned alongside it.
Keep the oil for this work, and keep it apart from ordinary use. That is not fussiness for its own sake. It is a way of telling your own attention that, when this oil is in your hand, you are in a working, not in an ordinary moment. Over time, that association deepens, and settling into a session becomes easier, because the oil itself reminds you what you are there to do.
After the working, and knowing when to stop
Keep a short record for each working: the date, the purpose in one sentence, the oil and incense used, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. Travel, and learning the virtues of herbs and stones, both unfold over time, and a record lets you see whether the road is actually moving, or whether you are simply reliving the same hope with new details. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the purpose was unclear, the approach was wrong, or the situation needs a different kind of action altogether.
Do not repeat the same working 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 the right next step. Repetition without reflection is not persistence. It is noise, and a road walked in noise is a road walked without noticing where it goes.
Bathin Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil
If you are doing spirit work with Bathin, the oil is for anointing, not for show.
I hand make each batch of Bathin oil when you order it, unless I have just recently made some, and it is oil of a quality I use myself for magical work, for spirit work, for work for clients, and for my own spellwork. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made by hand, for this work, and not mass produced.
If you want the oil for that work, this is the one I offer: Goetia Bathin Goetia grimoire demon evocation oil, $44 CAD. View the product
I also make the incense to go with it, for the same work: Goetia Demon Bathin incense, $44 CAD.
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