Goetia Daemon Oil
An oil for the Daemon of your choice
This oil is different, and that difference is its point. It is a Goetia Daemon oil for evocation or offerings, handmade for the Daemon of your choice. You do not pick it from a list of named spirits, because it is not tied to one name. You name the Daemon, and the oil is made for that Daemon, for your working, whether that working is evocation, or an offering, or both.
That flexibility is useful, and it is also demanding, because it puts the definition of the working back on you, where it belongs. With an oil for the Daemon of your choice, you must tell the maker, and yourself, what the oil is for, by naming the Daemon, and by knowing, before you order, what working you intend it for. If you cannot yet name the Daemon, or you cannot yet say what the working is, you are not ready to order this oil. Spend more time with the system first, and return when the choice is clear.
That is not a rebuke. It is a practical point. An oil made for a Daemon you have not yet chosen, for a working you have not yet defined, will arrive, and you will still have to do the defining, only now with a bottle in your hand, and a sense of urgency that was not there before. Do the defining first, and let the oil follow the definition, not precede it.
Evocation, and offerings: two different uses
Evocation and offerings are often spoken of together, as though they were one thing, but they are two different uses, and an oil for both should be understood in both senses, separately. In evocation, oil is used for anointing: on the hands, the forehead, or on a tool, seal, or candle that will be used in the working. The act is simple, and that simplicity is the point. You are touching the thing, naming the purpose, and doing it deliberately, and the oil, which stays where it is put, reminds you, through the whole working, of what you set out to do.
In offerings, oil is used differently. It is given, not applied for your own marking, but presented as part of an offering to the Daemon, whether on a candle, on a seal, or as an offering in its own right, according to your practice. That giving has its own logic: it is not about marking yourself, but about honouring the spirit you are approaching, with a material made for that purpose, by hand, in sacred space. The distinction matters, because an oil used as an offering should be treated as an offering from the moment it is opened, not as a general-purpose bottle to be dipped into casually, for any purpose that comes to hand.
Before you order, decide which use, or which combination of uses, you intend. If the oil is for evocation, prepare the working accordingly, with the seal or tool it will anoint, and the petition it will support. If it is for offerings, prepare the offering accordingly, with the place, the time, and the form of offering your practice requires. If it is for both, keep the two uses distinct in your mind, and in your record, so that you can tell, afterwards, which use produced which observation, rather than blurring them together into a single impression.
Handmade in sacred space
That short description carries a great deal, if it is read properly. Handmade means made by hand, in small batches, not mass produced, and not pulled from a warehouse shelf months in advance. In sacred space means made in a place and a state set aside for that purpose, not made casually, alongside ordinary work, without distinction. For the Daemon of your choice means made for a particular spirit, and a particular working, not made in general, for anyone, for anything.
Those three points, taken together, are what make this oil different from a bottle of scented oil bought for general use. A general oil may smell pleasant, and it may even be made from good materials, but it was not made for your Daemon, for your working, in a space set aside for that making. This oil, as described, was, and that making is part of its function, not an extra added to it. When you open it, and use it, you are continuing a making that began before you ordered, in a space set aside for it, and that continuity is worth respecting, by using the oil deliberately, for the working it was made for, and not casually, for other purposes.
I do not make a promise about what the oil will do for you, in terms of magical result. I make a promise about how it is made, by hand, in sacred space, for the Daemon of your choice. What follows from your practice is yours to observe, not mine to guarantee. That is about the work itself, not about delivery dates for physical items.
Choosing the Daemon, and preparing the working
Choosing a Daemon for this oil is not a matter of picking a name that sounds powerful, or interesting, or fashionable. It is a matter of knowing, from study and from your own practice, which spirit's offices fit the working you actually need to do, and which spirit you are prepared to approach properly, within the system you follow. Read the Companion entries, read the grimoire material, and, if you have a teacher, ask them, before you name a Daemon for an oil that will be made specifically for that name.
Once the Daemon is chosen, prepare the working as you would for any Goetia oil working: prepare the room, prepare yourself, prepare the words, in your own words, within your system, and set out the seal, tool, or candle that will be anointed, or the offering that will be made, before you begin. Do not improvise the whole petition on the spot, if you can avoid it. Know what you are going to say, and what you are not going to say, and keep the petition direct, honest, and to the matter at hand.
Anoint deliberately, naming the purpose, if the oil is for anointing. Offer deliberately, in the form your practice requires, if the oil is for offerings. In either case, do not rush from opening the bottle to speaking, or from speaking to closing. Give the room a moment to settle, give yourself a moment to notice that settling, and then proceed, steadily, through the working, to a proper close.
A simple working order, to adapt to your own practice
The following is a general order, not a fixed script. Adapt it to the system you already work in, and to the instructions you already follow for Goetia work. Do not treat a general article as a substitute for proper teaching in the system.
First, prepare the room and yourself, and settle on one clear petition, for one Daemon, for one working. Second, set out the seal, tool, or candle you will use, and the oil, and the incense, if any, for the same Daemon. Third, anoint, deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words, or make the offering, deliberately, in the form your practice requires. Fourth, speak your petition, clearly and once, rather than repeating it until it loses its shape. Fifth, sit quietly for a time and listen, rather than filling every moment with more words. Sixth, close the working properly, in whatever way your practice requires, and put the tools away in their proper place.
Afterwards, write down what you did, when you did it, which Daemon it was for, and what you noticed, in plain language. Not what you hoped would happen, but what actually happened, over days and weeks, not just on the night itself. That record, kept per Daemon, per working, is what lets you build, over time, a real knowledge of which spirits you work well with, and which workings repay the effort, rather than a collection of vague impressions.
Oil and incense together, for the same Daemon
Oil and incense are often used together in Goetia work, and a working for a Daemon of your choice is no exception. They do different jobs in the room. The oil marks and anoints, or is offered. The incense fills the space and sets the atmosphere for the working itself. If you are doing a full working, rather than a single anointing or offering, use both, for the same Daemon, so that the room, the tool, and the practitioner are all marked for the same purpose, and not for three different purposes at once.
A matching incense for this use exists in the shop: Goetia Daemon demon incense for evocation or offerings, made for the Daemon of your choice, in the same way as this oil. If you order both, order them for the same Daemon, and use them together, in the same working, so that the working has one focus, not two. An oil for one Daemon and an incense for another, used in the same rite, will not clarify anything, and will leave you, afterwards, unable to say what the working was for.
If you are only anointing a seal or a candle for later use, you can still use the incense to fumigate that item at the time you prepare it. That is a common use for incense in this kind of work: to start a working, and for fumigating the tools and talismans that will be used in it. Do that preparation deliberately, and record it, as you would record a full working, because preparation done well is part of the working, not separate from it.
When this is not the right oil
Sometimes the right answer is not this oil at all. Compare the two, before you order, and choose the one that fits the working you are actually doing.
If you do not yet know the Daemon, or you do not yet know the working, wait. Study first, and return when the choice is clear. An oil ordered in uncertainty will not resolve the uncertainty. It will only add a bottle to it.
Do not use the oil internally, and do not use it on broken skin. It is made for anointing, evocation, and offerings, as a ritual oil, not as a food, a medicine, or a skin treatment. If you have sensitivities to essential oils, test a small amount first, or do not use it on skin at all, and anoint a tool or candle instead.
Goetia Daemon deamon oil for evocation or offerings
If you are doing Goetia work, and you want an oil made for the Daemon of your choice, this is the one I offer: a handmade oil in sacred space, for evocation or offerings, for the Daemon you name.
Goetia Daemon deamon oil for evocation or offerings, $44 CAD. View the product
The matching incense for the same use also exists in the shop: Goetia Daemon demon incense for evocation or offerings, $54 CAD. View the product
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