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Alchemy Works Resins & Incense

These resins and balsams have historically played a role in Paganism, traditional witchcraft, Wicca, and ceremonial magic/k (sometimes known as black magic). Because they come from plants, they have a depth of scent and a connection to life and the Earth that fragrances made from petrochemicals can never have. My incense is handcrafted according to the apothecary's arte from all natural ingredients, never bought from a factory, and based either on my own recipes or on historically accurate formulae gathered from research in works like the Ebers papyrus or Dioscorides' Materia Medica. I go out of my way to provide the best instead of relying on what a franchise supplies because good ingredients potentiate magical works. I've gradually shifted my packaging for the incenses I make myself from jars to boxes, because they are lighter (which makes for cheaper shipping for you) and because they are compostable; they also seem to work fine for preserving the freshness. They are handmade in India and come with a nice stretchy thing to keep them securely closed.  Do you need an incense created for a specific ritual, deity, or festival, or are you looking for an incense ingredient not listed? Just ask. There are many more botanicals, including other fragrant woods like red and white sandalwood and cedar, that make excellent natural incense in the herb section. Chemical-free charcoal is in supplies.

Abramelin Incense - in Two Versions

Agrippa's Incense
based on his Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Aloeswood/Lignum aloes

Amber

Ambergris  

Angelic Incense (Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, & Uriel--Golden Dawn Style)

Asafoetida

Asphaltum (Carabe)  

Babalon Incense

Balsam

Baphomet Incense

Bat's Blood Incense

Bdellium  

Beloved Dead

Benzoin - Thai/Siam and Sumatra

Black Arts

Black Veil

Burgundy pitch

Cape Aloes

Charcoal

Church Incense

Civet, Vegetal

Colophony

 

Copal resin

Crowley's Tetragrammaton

Dammar

Dark Harvest Incense

Dragon's blood, Premium

Elemi

Evocation

Exu

The Fates Incense

Frankincense

Galbanum Resin

Gift Card

Gnostic Mass Incense

Green Man

Gum Ammoniac

Gum arabic

Gum mastic

Hekate Incense

Holiday Incense

Homunculus Incense

Ketoret

Kyphi, Dioscorides'  

Kyphi, Edfu

Kyphi, Galen's  

 

Labdanum

Lucifer Incense New

Lucrum Prosperity Incense New

Mary Magdalene Incense

Morning Star  New

Musk, Vegetal

Myrrh

New Moon

Olibanum

Onycha

Opoponax

Planetary Incense, House Blend  

Pomba Gira

Rose Resin Incense

Saffron Incense

Sandarac

Sanguis Draconis Incense

Satyr Incense New

Set Incense

Seven Roots Incense New

Storax

Tagriel Incense - Love & Affection

Temple Incense

Wisteria Incense

Zodiacal Incense  

 Nervous about using your credit card online? Give me a call at (607)737-9250 from 10:00-6:00 Eastern time Monday-Friday or use the shopping cart to figure your shipping and print or write out an order form you can mail in with credit-card info, money order, check, or even cash to Alchemy Works, 643 Newtown St., Elmira, NY 14904.


Mixing up your own incense? A Braun or Cuisinart coffeegrinder will work as a resin grinder (Mr. Coffee isn't strong enough). It will poop out eventually, but at $20-30 it is much cheaper than the larger herb grinders made for the task. Forget about using it to grind roots or woods, though. Sugar makes for extra smoke and sweetens incense; honey works well for this and as a binder (bees are a Mars insect). Bits of dried fruit soaked in a bit of wine to plump them and make them easier to mash are nice for binding powdered resins--they contain sugar as well as a scent of their own and are especially good for Venus blends. Wine is also Venus, although you might consider it Dionysian. When working with labdanum, heating it slightly will make it runny, and you can also try pouring it onto wax paper and putting it into the freezer. You can then take it out and crack it apart if you work quickly. To get labdanum or storax off your hands, try Orange Goop. You can get them off glass with any oil.

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