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this is like invoking catalina, my question is why do it?

never bind to the stone, the holy grail must be free

never do this

this is how universes are formed

its dangerous and only certain esoteric kabbalists (age 60+)are qualified to do it… because they are nice and they do it in a cool manner and they have interesting rooms and stories anyways

Okay have a few minutes before hauling out the the island.  The formula is supposed to help with Clarvoyant sight. How much you'll see WHO you'lll see well  guess we just have to find that out for ourselves.

Here be the ingredients

glass bottle with a glass or wood stopper. DO NOT use metal.  it should be widemouthed makes it much easier and fairly large because some of the ingredients later on are fairly substantial in size.  You should have a couple for the variations we need.

Sallet oil  (  have some roast duck or goose save the fat make sure the fat doesn't contain other cooking ingredients like salt peper, garlic onion mmmmm getting hungry yet?  )  Vegetarians can try olive oil but I will say there's nothing vegetarian about old magical formulas.   The duck and goose    have water associations which since this is related to divination I believe is a better choice.  Variation 1 try one of duck one of goose.

Marygold water

Rose water. 

Step 1making the flowerwater

to make marygold and rose water you take the flowers put them in  a wide mouth glass container.  I would leave the flowers whole when doing this.  These flowers need to be growing in an area where  you think Sidhe  are hanging out.  When you gather the flower heads  you have to face east.

( Note:  you need to watch that you don't plant genetically altered plants for this.  Use single flowered once a year blooming roses. Thats closest to the wild variety.  If you live in the midatlantic to Maritimes Canada those sea roses are the original native rose.  Here's a picture. Use the pink ones not the white the white do not have much of a scent. Wild roses will grow true from seed.

http://www.serenebeautyphotos&…..es;768.jpg

Not sure if maryglold in Elizabethian times was Marygold or Calandula. Again its a plant that will grow from seed.  It would be a good idea to plant both Calandula and Marygold try the Marygold first maybe have a second bottle with the calandula.

Here's a picture of the right type of Marygold http://rlv.zcache.com/french_m…..cp_400.jpg

and Calandula

http://www.geswindt.co.za/imag…..nalis3.jpg

okay back to the process

making the flower water  this is the easy part. Take the flowers gathered from the east and put them in a wide mouth container ( separate of course) put clean water in Don't use city water with chorine and fluride in it well water is okay or rain water if you live in town. thow it in a cool place the fridge is good and let it sit for 24 to 48 hours or so.  filter out the flowers eh voila !!!! 

3 rinse the sallet oil Basically I believe this is trying to mix oil with water.  Turning the oil white is because duck and goose fat turn white when they solidify more of an indication of a drop in temperature.   This is another reason why I think it's animal fat. Olive oil won's solidify. I'd go first with the marygold then the rose water. mix it let it settle then separate the oil and water. This is messy.  Also kids don't do this in the sink. If the fat gets into the pipes it will create a problem  that your parents will be very unhappy about.

okay managed to separate most of the water out from the oil put it into the bottles with the glass stopper. Don't fill it up all the way because we have to add some more ingredients.

Here's a list of the plants you'll want to have. Again these have to grow in the fairy part of the garden.  I would follow the same gathering rule facing east. Watch your astrological timing too make sure conditions are favorable for divination.  Now here is the tough part and I can't help you much there because I will be the first to admit I suck at astrology. You should not use modern astrology for this. Use Ptolomy or Agrippa.  If you can find anything  classical and detailed on Roman, Celtic, or Nordic astrology use that   instead.  There is a copy of Tetrabiblios online this is the astrology manual I would use.  If you look for celtic or nordic make sure to check the sources. There's a lot of modern junk out there thats based on modern astrology. Tetrabiblios should give you an idea as  what your looking for. I can help check classical references. Okay back to the plants.

Here is a copy of Tetrabiblios  http://www.sacred-texts.com/as…../index.htm

Quantity of these plants should be approximately equal in weight. The wild thyme HAS to be grown near a fairy hangout.   put these into the oil and mix it well let it sit in the sun for 3 days.  This is not going to smell good let me tell you. once it's had 3 days in the sun refrigerate it before it gets worse.

1. Holly hock buds. The buds should just be starting to show color

2 Marygold flowers

3. Flowers of wild thyme ( time) okay this is creeping thyme and it has beautiful purple flowers… WATCH out for bees when your getting it.

4. buds of hazel.  For those in the south almond is interchangable with hazel. it only buds in the spring 

I hope this is a bit easier to follow than the Elizabethian English.

Okay I may have a clue as to the origin of this formula.  Went to the Cape this week to take posession of the new house and stayed next to the Scottish heritage museum. I went to the museum to find an album ( picking through hay to find a needle and of course all the titles are in Gaelic so I had to have someone help me because I don't read gaelic) Guess what the contents of their garden were…….. every single one of the plants mentioned was somewhere in that garden.  It was a traditional Highland flower garden.  Most of the Scots here came from the western Highlands namely the Hebredies. I would say this is a likely origin of the formula.  If this is the case duck and goose fat would be the base.  Olive oil would not have been used  or even known at that time. The ingredients appear to be common items found in the scotish highlands and readily available to the average person.  Olive oil if the common folk could get ahold of it would have been extrordinarily expensive. Likely available only to the very richest ….. the Hebridians were anything but weathy prior to or during Ashmoles time.  I think the next likely origin would have been Ireland and its the same story there as well only the richest would be able to afford it. The rest of the ingredients are common household or garden items.  

The possible cause for exception is that glass was probably not very readily available at that time. That might support a case  that this formula was available only to the rich and possibly contained olive oil which was an expensive rare import.   Queen Elizabeth I  was very interested in Ceremonial Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology.  Ashmole did have documents from her court in his posession ( what later became Cassaubon's True and Faithful relation and the  monas hieroglyphica) .  Ashmole was alive during the last part of her reign,and may have tried to preserve documents from that time, 

He would do so being an antiquarian and at the risk of his life because the king who reigned for most of his life was King James ( the one who had the bible translated into English) James was obsessed with demons and wrote a book on demonolgy probably as an abreviation or edition of  the infamous malias malificarum which was first published in the 1400's.  He mounted a brutal witchhunt in both England and Scotland.  The book is called the Demonolgy of King James.

Fairies were presumed to be a type of demon at that time. Neither the royal court nor the courtiers would have been interested in this formula  and probably would have killed or tortured anyone in known posession of Ashmole's document. Ashmole was a very courageous……. and careful antiquarian.

Okay so much for the update.