Making Magickal Incenses & Ritual Perfumes
By Keith Morgan
Paperback 86 pages
First published 1993 by Pentacle Enterprises, London.
| ISBN-10 | 1872189024 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1872189024 |
I’m continuing my look at the books of Keith / Kimberley Morgan ( check out my bio on her ) with another of their mini guides from the 1990s.
Also styled with slight variations in punctuation) is a short, practical self-published guide from 1993 by Keith Morgan, a practicing witch and Wiccan author.
The images shown are of my own First Edition.
It runs about 84–88 pages in a compact paperback format (roughly 5.75 x 8.25 inches) and was originally issued by Pentacle Enterprises (or later Mandrake Pr). The full subtitle is something like A Wealth of Information & Accurate Recipes for Producing Your Own Ritual Incenses & Perfumes. It focuses on hands-on instructions for creating granular ritual incenses and magickally charged perfumed oils for use in Wiccan, pagan, and ceremonial magic practices. The text is clear and concise with only a couple of basic illustrations by Elizabeth Taylor ( a common feature of Morgan’s early works) .
The book emphasises that incense and oils are powerful magickal tools that should be made with pure, natural ingredients (resins, herbs, essential oils, gums, roots) to align with ritual intentions and correspondences.
Morgan stresses avoiding cheap commercial substitutes like joss sticks, which lack magickal charge, and instead advocates making your own for better results in meditation, pathworking, spellwork, and circle casting.
Key sections include:
• Introduction and basics: What incense is, obtaining ingredients, choosing burners, and how to consecrate/charge your creations.
• A directory of recipes organized by tradition or purpose:
• Wiccan incenses & perfumes.
• Sabbat (seasonal festival) blends.
• Deity-specific ones.
• Zodiacal (astrological sign) incenses.
• Elemental.
• Planetary.
• Egyptian.
• Cabbalistic (including Tree of Life correspondences, which reviewers often highlight positively).
• Specialist blends (e.g., for protection, love/sexual attractants like “Lord Wywewood,” “Lady Wywewood,” “Sappho,” or “Ganymede”).
• Instructions for making ritual perfumed oils (worn on the body, alcohol-free bases, safe for skin with patch-testing advised).
• Appendix on casting a magickal circle.
Recipes involve grinding ingredients in a mortar and pestle, blending at specific planetary hours/days (e.g., Hour of Venus on day of Mars), aging mixtures (often 28 days to 3 months in sealed jars), and consecrating them. The tone is straightforward, experience-based, and encouraging for beginners, demystifying the process while stressing intent and correspondences.
It has a modest but positive reputation in occult circles as a useful, no-nonsense recipe book.Many like myself praise the practical recipes, the author’s evident experience, and sections on Kabbalistic and zodiacal blends. Like all their books I appreciate it as a compact reference for compounding incenses and oils. Some note it feels like a foundational or introductory booklet rather than an exhaustive tome. I would agree with that.
Copies are somewhat scarce and can be pricey in the used market.
It’s a niche title aimed at Wiccans, pagans, and magickal practitioners interested in crafting their own tools rather than a general history or theory book. PDFs and scans circulate online, but physical copies are the authentic way to own it. If you’re into herbalism, aromatherapy, or ritual crafting, it’s a straightforward resource with tested formulas.
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