Working with Sallos: a bath for love kept true and lasting

Sallos, and why this bath is specific to him

Sallos is not a general spirit for general love work. In the Grimoire Companion material, Sallos is a Duke who stirs love between the sexes and keeps affection true and lasting. That second half of the description is the part that makes this bath specific, and it is worth holding on to it, because it separates Sallos work from love work that is only about beginning something.

Stirring love is about beginning, or rekindling. Keeping affection true and lasting is about continuing. It is about a relationship that already exists, or that has begun, and that needs to be held steady over time, through ordinary difficulties, distance, misunderstanding, and the slow drift that happens when two people stop attending to each other. A bath for Sallos work, in those terms, is not only for the first meeting, or for the first spark. It is for the longer work of keeping affection true, in the sense of faithful and honest, and lasting, in the sense of enduring beyond a single evening.

Be specific with yourself about which part you mean. If you are working on a relationship that has already begun, say so, plainly, and say what true and lasting would look like in that relationship, in ordinary terms. If you are working on a new affection, say that, too, and be clear about the difference. A vague love wish, with no person, no relationship, and no sense of what lasting means in practice, is hard to read afterwards. A clear purpose, for a particular affection, is easier to work with and easier to recognise.

Love, in this context, is also not a single thing. Affection can mean warmth, loyalty, commitment, reconciliation, or a relationship held steady through difficulty. Those are different petitions, and they should not be blurred together. Before you bathe, be clear which one you mean, and be clear about who is involved, and what you are actually asking to change. Reflection about being specific in this way is part of the work, not a delay in it.

Why a bath, and why this bath

A bath is a different kind of preparation from incense or oil, and it is worth understanding that difference before you use one. Incense fills a room. Oil marks a person or a tool. A bath immerses you. It covers your body, it changes your state in a physical way, and it marks a clear before and after: before the bath, you were in ordinary life, and after it, you have prepared yourself, in your body, for the work ahead.

That immersion is part of why baths are used for love work in particular. Love, and affection, are not abstract. They are lived in the body, in presence, in touch, in the way you carry yourself around another person. A bath that prepares your body, as well as your attention, for that presence is therefore a fitting preparation. It is not a substitute for presence itself. It is a way of arriving at presence more deliberately, having already set aside time, attention, and care for the purpose.

The Sallos bath offered here is made from only 100% pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils. No synthetics are used. Real roots and herbs have texture, they have bits that need to be dealt with in the bath, and they have a scent that is not the same as a perfumed bath product. Those practical details are part of the preparation, not inconveniences added to it.

That is a useful reminder that a bath is chosen for a purpose, not bought at random. If Sallos, and keeping affection true and lasting, is the purpose you have clarified for yourself, then this is the bath for that purpose. If your purpose is different, a different bath, or a different kind of preparation altogether, may fit better. Choose according to purpose, not according to what happens to be listed first.

How to use the bath

To use any of these baths, you simply add them to a pot of water, approximately 1 litre or so. A pot of water, about a litre, with the bath preparation added to it, is the starting point. From there, the preparation is used in the bath itself, in the way you would use a magick bath preparation, with attention to the purpose you have clarified.

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. A strainer, a fish tank net, or a bird catching net will do the job. Choose whichever you have, and have it ready before you bathe, rather than discovering afterwards that you have no way to clear the bath.

It is best to take each bath each day for 3 days in a row. Three days in a row gives the work a shape: a beginning, a middle, and a completion, spread over more than one evening, so that the preparation is not a single moment, but a short practice in itself. It also gives you a record to keep: three days, each with its own bath, its own preparation, and its own observations, rather than a single bath whose effects are hard to separate from an ordinary good evening.

Take the three baths at a time when you can do so without rushing. A bath taken in a rush, on a day when you are already exhausted, will not give you the same preparation as a bath taken with time to spare. Clear the time for three evenings, if you can, and treat those three evenings as a single working, spread over three days, rather than as three unrelated baths.

Preparing yourself, before the bath

Preparation for a bath begins before the water. Clear the time you will need, so that you are not rushing from the bath to another obligation, still damp and hurried, with no time to settle. A bath taken in a rush does not prepare you. It only gets you wet. A bath taken with time to spare gives you the space to settle, to dress with care, and to carry the preparation into the rest of the evening, or into sleep, in a composed way.

Prepare the room as well. A bathroom that is cluttered, cold, or hurried will not give you the same preparation as a room set aside, even briefly, for this purpose. Clean it, warm it if you can, and set out what you will need before you begin: the bath preparation, the pot of water, a strainer or net for afterwards, a towel, and the clothes you will wear afterwards. Fumbling for a towel or a strainer after a bath breaks the very composure the bath is meant to give you.

Prepare yourself in the ordinary sense, too. Eat simply beforehand if you can, and avoid starting a preparation when you are exhausted, drunk, or already agitated. A clear head, and a body that is not exhausted, are part of how you carry affection well. No bath preparation will make up for arriving at a loved person exhausted and agitated, and expecting it to do so is a misunderstanding of what preparation is for.

Know what you are going to do, and what affection you are working to keep true and lasting, before you bathe. Write it down, if it helps, in one clear sentence. That sentence is not a petition to be recited in the bath, unless your own practice calls for that. It is a way of clarifying, for yourself, what you are preparing for, so that the bath, and the days that follow it, all point in the same direction.

Taking the bath, day by day

Take each bath deliberately, not hurriedly. Attend to the water, to the preparation in it, and to your own body in it, rather than planning the relationship in detail while you are still in the bath. Planning has its place, but it is not in the bath. The bath is for settling, for letting the preparation do its work, and for letting your own attention settle on the affection you are working to keep, in a general, composed way, rather than in a detailed, anxious rehearsal of every conversation you might have.

After each bath, note what you noticed, in a short record, before the next day's bath. That daily note is important, because three days in a row will blur together if you do not write them down separately. Note the day, the purpose in one sentence, how you took the bath, and what you noticed afterwards, in ordinary terms: how you felt, how you carried yourself, how the other person responded, if they did, and whether anything in the relationship felt steadier, truer, or more lasting, in a way you can describe plainly.

Do not use a magick bath preparation on broken skin, and do not use it internally. It is made for bathing, from roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, not as a food, a medicine, or a skin treatment. If you have sensitivities to roots, herbs, or essential oils, test a small amount first, or do not use it on skin at all. That is a practical point, and it is also a working point: a preparation that irritates your skin will not help you carry affection with ease, whatever else it does.

Between baths, carry the purpose in ordinary life as well. A bath for keeping affection true and lasting does not do its work only in the bathroom. It does its work in the days between baths, in how you speak, how you listen, and how you attend to the other person. Listen as well as speak. Attend to what the other person is actually saying, and respond to it, rather than waiting for your turn to speak. That ordinary attention, practised over three days, is itself part of the working, and it is the part that will still be there after the three baths are done.

When this is not the right work

Sometimes the right answer is not a Sallos bath at all. If the situation is a legal matter, a safety matter, or a medical matter, deal with that matter in the ordinary world first, or at the same time. Ritual work is not a substitute for a lawyer, a doctor, or for leaving a dangerous situation. If you are unsure whether a working is appropriate, wait, ask a teacher you trust, or choose a simpler practice first and see how that sits.

It is also worth asking, honestly, whether the affection in question is one that should be kept, in the form you are imagining, or whether the work needed is of a different kind: a conversation, a change in circumstances, or a parting handled well, rather than a keeping. A bath for keeping affection true and lasting is for affection that you have clarified, for yourself, as worth keeping. If that clarification has not happened, do it first, on paper, in private, before you bathe. A bath taken without that clarity will be hard to read, and hard to close properly.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for the three days: date, purpose in one sentence, bath taken, what you did, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks after the three baths, not just on the nights themselves. If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the petition was unclear, the timing was wrong, the work was not appropriate, or simply that the situation needs a different approach.

Do not repeat the same three days endlessly, in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, over three days, 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. In affection work, that point matters, because endless repetition can itself become a strain on a relationship, if it replaces ordinary attention with constant ritual effort.

This article makes no promise about the magical result of Sallos work, or about any relationship outcome. That wording is about the magical result, not about delivery dates for physical items. What is offered is a bath, made from pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics, to be taken each day for three days in a row, for work with Sallos, to stir love and to keep affection true and lasting.

Sallos Goetia bath

A bath for Sallos work is for love kept true and lasting, not only for love begun.

I make these baths from only 100% pure roots, herbs, and sometimes essential oils, with no synthetics. To use this bath, add it to a pot of water, approximately 1 litre or so, and it is best to take each bath each day for 3 days in a row. If you pour everything in, including the bits of herbs, use a strainer, a fish tank net, or a bird catching net to get the chunks out afterwards. I make no promise about any relationship outcome; that wording is about the magical result, not about delivery dates.

If you want that bath, this is the one I offer: Sallos Goetia bath, $44 CAD. View the product

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