Cake of Light
The Cake of Light is the eucharistic host ↗ found within Thelema, the religion founded by British author and occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904 and some neo-Gnostic ↗ religions. A common "cake of light" contains kamut flour, honey, a few drops of Abramelin oil ↗, olive oil, beeswing, ash, and sometimes particular bodily fluids such as semen, menstrual blood, vaginal fluids, or a mix therein (blood is frowned upon by most Gnostics), and is usually cooked in the shape of a small, flat wafer. It appears by name in two important Thelemic rituals: the Gnostic Mass ↗ and the Mass of the Phoenix ↗.'
Symbolism
The overall significance of the cakes is that it is considered to be a eucharist, a symbolic union between the microcosm ↗, Man, and the macrocosm ↗, the Divine; and the consumption of which completes a sacred circle, affirming an intimate connection between the two, which strengthens with each sacrament.
The Cakes of Light, traditionally composed of meal, honey, leavings of red wine lees, oil of Abramelin, olive oil and fresh blood as per the instructions in The Book of the Law is a perfume or incense but also a cake when baked.[Source 1]
Olive oil ↗ is considered a sacred oil by many cultures and religions of the world. It is also an ingredient in the making of Oil of Abramelin, and the olive noted by Aleister Crowley himself as "traditionally, the gift of Minerva, the Wisdom of God, the Logos".
Abramelin Oil was considered by Crowley to be representative of the "whole Tree of Life ↗. The ten Sephiroth ↗ are blended into the perfect gold". Abramelin Oil is thus also a symbol of the Philosopher's Stone ↗ of the Alchemists.
- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Cake_of_Light ]
Sources
 • Allen H. Greenfield • Lady Frieda Harris • Leah Hirsig • Christopher Hyatt • William Breeze (Hymenaeus Beta) • Augustus Sol Invictus • Charles Stansfeld Jones • George Cecil Jones • Richard Kaczynski • Carl Kellner (mystic) • Rose Edith Kelly • James Lees (English magician) (James Lees) • Grady Louis McMurtry • Marcelo Ramos Motta • Nema Andahadna • Victor Benjamin Neuburg • Jack Parsons • Israel Regardie • Theodor Reuss • C.F. Russell • Wilfred Talbot Smith • Leila Waddell (Leila Waddel (Laylah) • James Wasserman • Sam Webster (writer) (Sam Webster) • Jane Wolfe • Gerald Yorke
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