Malphas: a Goetia bath for building, enemies' thoughts, and familiars

A bath is a working, not a soak

A magick bath is easy to misunderstand, because it looks like an ordinary bath. It is not. An ordinary bath cleans the body. A magick bath prepares the practitioner: it marks a boundary between ordinary time and working time, it puts the practitioner into a particular condition for the work that follows, and it does so with materials chosen for the spirit and the purpose, not for fragrance alone. That preparation is the work, and the bath that follows it — the petition, the evocation, the spellwork — is built on it.

The baths offered here are made from only one hundred percent pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils. No synthetics are used. Roots, herbs, and essential oils are the substance of the bath, not its scent, and a bath that contains them is a different object from a bath that merely smells herbal.

Malphas, and what a bath for this spirit is for

A bath for Malphas is therefore not a general cleansing bath. It is a bath for work with this particular spirit, for the matters this spirit governs, and it should be used when the work that follows is work with Malphas, not as a routine bath for any purpose that happens to come up.

That specificity is the reason to be clear about your purpose before you take the bath. What work with this spirit are you preparing for? What matter, stated in one clear sentence, is the bath meant to prepare you for? A bath taken without that clarity will still clean you, but it will not have prepared you for anything in particular, and the record you keep afterwards will show it: a vague preparation tends to produce a vague working.

How to use the bath, as listed

To use the bath, you simply add it to a pot of water, approximately one litre or so. If you do pour everything in, including the bits of herbs, just use either a strainer to get the chunks out after your bath, or one of those fish tank nets, or a bird catching net. Those are practical instructions, and they matter: herb matter in bath water needs to be dealt with, or it will clog a drain, cling to skin, and distract from the working that follows. A strainer or a net is not an afterthought. It is part of using a herb bath properly.

It is best to take each bath each day for three days in a row. That three-day rhythm is part of the preparation, not a suggestion to take one bath and hope it suffices. Three days in a row gives the preparation a shape: a beginning, a middle, and a completion, with the working that follows built on all three, not on a single hurried preparation. If you cannot take the bath three days in a row, say so plainly to yourself, and consider whether the working that follows should wait until you can, rather than proceeding on a preparation you know is incomplete.

Preparing yourself, and the working that follows

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, in your own words, before you begin. The bath itself is part of that preparation, not a substitute for it. After the bath, dress for the working, set out the tools you will use — including, if your practice calls for it, the seal of the spirit — and proceed to the working itself with the purpose you stated before the first bath, not with a new purpose invented on the third day.

If your practice includes anointing or fumigating a seal, do that as part of the working that follows the bath, deliberately, naming the purpose in your own words. Hold the seal, put it under a candle if your practice calls for that, put oil on it, and carry it or wear it as a pendant when the working calls for the seal to travel with you. The bath prepares you; the seal focuses the working; neither replaces the petition, the attention, and the closing that make a working complete.

Malphas also has a matching incense, at $44 CAD, for spirit work and spellwork with Malphas, made in small batches when you order. A bath prepares you; incense fumigates the working that follows. Knowing that companion exists helps you plan the working as a whole, rather than as a bath alone.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for the work: the dates of the three baths, the purpose in one sentence, the working that followed, and what you noticed afterwards over days and weeks, not only on the night itself. If nothing changes, that is information too. It may mean the purpose was unclear, the timing was wrong, or the situation needs a different approach. 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.

A bath does not replace ordinary prudence, and it does not replace ordinary care for your body. If you have skin sensitivities, allergies to particular herbs, or a condition that makes hot baths unwise, take ordinary advice first, in the ordinary world, and do not use a herb bath that you know will harm you. The work supports ordinary life; it does not excuse you from caring for it.

Malphas Goetia bath

I make magick baths from only one hundred percent pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics. This one is for work with Malphas, a Mighty President and Powerful, who builds houses and high towers, reveals the thoughts of enemies, and grants familiars. It is best taken each day for three days in a row, as listed. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made with pure plant material, for this work. This is the one I offer: Malphas Goetia bath,

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