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Incense is a wonderful thing. It can lift your spirit, aid in Meditation and Astral Travel as well as help in Spellworkings. There are four main types of Incense; 1) The Loose type (usually purchased in jars) or if you are a bit of a kitchen witch and a dab hand with the pestle and mortor make your own from your own dried herbs. This would also require a charcoal burner and charcoal. 2) The Stick, or perhaps some of you may call them joss sticks, excellant and easy to use for smudging as you can just wave the stick around and over without fear of loosing any as you might with the loose variety and charcoal burner. This is the preferred method in use at my home on a daily basis. 3) The Cone, this comes in different sizes and just reqpuires a surface to burn on, something like a small saucer, or perhaps an ashtray would be ideal. 4) Resin, which can come in a block or ready crumbled. For this you would light your charcoal burner and place a piece of the resin on it. Before I go on to the list of Incense just a word about charcoal burning. If you have not tried this before, a word or warning. This should be done in a well ventilated room or even better outside as charcoal can smoke profusly depending on what you are burning. You should light the charcoal and stand back and wait for the tablet to go grey before adding your loose incense. If you bear this in mind using loose incense will be a pleasurable experience. Ok now on to an alphabetical list of incense and its magickal properties. Acacia burned with Sandalwood to stimulate the psychic powers African Violet for protection and to promote spirituality with the home Allspice to attract both good luck and money Anise seeds as a meditation incense Basil to exorcise and protect against evil entities and to attract fidelity, love, good luck, sympathy and wealth. Bay to facilitate the psychic powers and to induce prophetic dream visions Bayberry mainly to attract money Benzoin for purification and to attract prosperity Bistort burned with Frankincense to aid divination Coconut for protection Dragons Blood (a personal favourite) to dispel negativity, exorcise evil supernatural entities, attract love, enhance psychic awareness, restore male potency. Makes all other incenses stronger when added at the same time. Frankincense to dispel negativity, purify magical spaces, protect against evil, aid meditation, induce psychic visions, attract good luck Galanga burned to break the curses cast by sorcerers Ginseng Root to keep wicked spirits at bay, for protection against all forms of evil Heather to conjure beneficial spirits and to magickally produce rain Hibiscus Flowers to attract love Jasmine to attract love and money, and to induce dreams of a prophetic nature Juniper to stimulate or increase the psychic powers, to also break a curse and hexes cast by evil sorcerers Lavander to induce sleep to attract the love of a man Lilac to stimulate or increase the psychic powers and to attract harmony into one's life Mace to stimulate or increase the psychic powers Mint to increase sexual desire, exorcise evil entities, conjour beneficial spirits and attract money. Mint incense also possesses strong healing vibrations and protective powers Myrrh burned (most commonly with Frankincense) for purification, consecration, healing, exorcism, and banishing evil. Myrrh also aids meditation rituals and was commonly burned on alters in ancient Egypt as an offering to the deities Isis and Ra. Nutmeg to aid meditation, stimulate or increase the psychic powers and attract prosperity |
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