The Bright-Eyed Sinner's Sanctum

In exploring the Necronomicon Project on ChaosMatrix, I have been adding to my grimoire regularly. These recipes are recently drawn from the Necronomicon and slightly modified for the sake of legality and safety. The Incense of Zkaiba, for instance, makes use of civet and musk, both of which are largely inaccessible.

I advise caution when making and using these recipes. Do not burn the incense or apply the ointment if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, and wear a mask while compounding the incense to avoid a dry cough. Without further ado:

The Incense of Zkaiba

This powdered incense, burnt on live coals, will produce a smoke that enchants and binds wicked spirits. It can be used to command them out, or cause them to appear before you in familiar and sightly forms. All rites to the Old Ones recorded on this site require the Incense of Zkaiba to be burning when the ritual area is set. Do not attempt to command higher orders of spirit, such as celestial, draconic, or deific forces, using this incense. It has power only over lesser elementals, shoggoths, daemons, and devils, and it may serve as a defense against thoughtforms conjured by enemy magi.

Use two parts each of:

Wormwood
Cedar chips
Comfrey
Frankincense resin

with one part each of:

Lavender
Cinnamon
Garlic powder
Onion Powder

Reduce all ingredients to a fine powder, sifting through a sieve regularly and returning the strained ingredients to the mortar or spice grinder you’re using. Store in a small tin or glass jar (the mad prophets recommend using green glass) and paint or draw the symbols of Saturn and Mars on the lid.

It will be necessary to bless the powder; to do so, wait for the waxing moon, on a day and hour of the moon, and turn to each cardinal direction, invoking the Tower, Beast, Wind, or similar spirit from each direction. They will be unable to disobey this command.

When you wish to use this powdered incense, place it on live charcoal in an iron dish. The scent it produces will be heady, acrid, and floral, with a sour pungency.

Powder or Candles of Materialization

A simpler recipe, used to reveal the true forms of spirits, as well as to make obvious to you the presence of spellwork. Remember to practice proper graveyard etiquette when making the powder.

For the powder:
3 parts dust from beneath the gate of a graveyard
2 parts powdered amaranth seed
1 part powdered ivy leaf
1 part fine salt

Combine in a mortar and pound together in the day and hour of Mercury, then store in a small ceramic container, especially one shaped like a casket if possible.

For the candles:
5 parts rendered tallow. The recipes strongly imply the use of corpse fat. Do not use corpse fat.
1 part powdered amaranth seed
1 part powdered ivy leaf
1 part fine salt.

Melt the tallow, add the powders, and stir; pour into candle molds with salted paper wicks.

Pray to your patron/matron deity, or achieve a gnostic trance, or invoke a spirit with whom you are friendly, and ask for a blessing upon the powder or candles. Wherever the powder falls, you will see the true form of all it touches; wherever the light of the candle falls, the same.

Prophet’s Ointment

Apply this ointment to your forehead when you wish to receive prophetic dreams.

One ounce of powdered mandrake root
A cup of olive oil
Six drops essential oil of lotus flower
One pinch of red clay
About a tablespoon of washing or baking soda
Four nodules of frankincense resin
A cup and a half of rendered goose or duck fat
About a teaspoon of goat’s blood or a drop of your own blood

On the day and hour of Saturn, in a clay or iron pot, combine the oils and mandrake root, and place over a medium flame. Pray or incant a personal blessing over the pot, and invoke Jupiter and the Moon for their powers. Stir the mixture only clockwise, and only with the forked twig of a blackberry, hawthorn, or rose plant. Add your powders one at a time, then a drop of blood, and finally the solid fat. Allow the ointment to cook until it thickens and dark, smoky vapor begins to rise from the pot. Store it in an opaque jar and keep it in a secret place.

Enjoy! Happy sinning!