Here’s and interesting intersection of Biblical Religion and new Magick and all the traditions of, from Chaos to strict Catholic Theurgy.
The Anointing Oil the that (Fictional) Moses, poured on the (Fictional) Aaron to make him head of the priestly caste of Hebrews despite all his shenanigans, like fashioning the Golden Calf have held the recipe of Anointing Oil from Exodus in high regard. It ends up in occultism from the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage, or simply as the Anointing Oil of Abraham the Jew. If you translate Jesus the Christ as Yeshua the Anointed you can see the importance to earlier and later Biblical Sects.
The formula was encoded from the earliest times as to not be reproducible without the key, and current formularies completely disregard the Onycha in the recipe as untranslatable, and use both cinnamon and cassia, which is pure ignorance as they are two forms of the same spice, and Crowley’s formula via a mistranslation from French common to both Wescott and Mathers translates Calamus Root, available in the Middle East, as Galangal, which was very much not available.
Cinnamon comes from Ceylon, or known today Sri Lanka, and Cassia was the almost identical substitute that was readily available to the former slaves of post Babylonian Exile Jews. The difficulty and price of securing true Cinnamon was unlikely for the subjects of Exodus. Just read the stories of the characters. They would not have equated equal parts cinnamon and cassia as any kind of reasonable recipe. What we have is a place holder in one of those spices, and the lost ingredient Onycha. Now Onycha meant nails, particularly human nails, and can be seen as foreshadowing for the death of the anointed one, if either Cinnamon or Cassia is replaced with clove. Dried clove buds were regularly available and referred to as pegs or nails because you could use them to nail another seasoning to a food item the same way we use cloves to nail a bay leaf to an onion piquet for saucery today. In the second stating of this recipe there are also Stacte, Frankincense and Galbanum, also typically misleading as the Church equates Galbanum with Catholic Gum Benjamin or Benzoin, when it could equally be Storax, which smells nice when burned, Galbanum Resin when burned smells like shit. Needless to say, even apart from the double bind on Cinnamon and what nails means, and scholarly digressions on the kosherness of snail buttholes, this was meant to be understood only by a certain class of priest.
Now I’m giving this information out for free, because there are other pieces of this puzzle you are never going to figure out without direct support of the Kemetic church project. One secret of the ages, misread completely and badly translated by occult luminaries, much jockeying about meanings and intentions have been sold as the reason Exodus oil has has Cinnamon and Cassia and Golden Dawn/Crowley oil has Galangal. Symbolic jockeying 3 card monte and roundabout admission of error.
If you want the real deal, you will come to the Etsy store at https://senseworldfarms.com you’ll pay for the balm without haggling, and if you proceed in the grades you may get a full ingredient list one day. Until then, keep buttering your temple implements with toxic ginger, or double plus cheap cinnamon substitute.
Aside, (Note Ed.) if you’re into the Greeks or Homer you might remember that at one point one of Ulysses/Odysseus few surviving friends mentions, hey the reason you look like so much shit and keep getting your ass kicked everywhere you go is you haven’t oiled up you ashy bastard. We can agree on this importance of anointing thing.
