The Truth About Anointing

The Universal Role of Essential Oils

 For thousands of years, essential oils have played crucial roles in rituals conducted worldwide for both material and spiritual elevation. Societies East and West have viewed the process of anointing or unction as forging definitive passage between mundane and celestial realms. I could cite countless examples: the Bible makes more than 180 references to essential oils, always carrying emphasis on the intrinsically precious character of such substances. The term “Christ” itself is usually translated as “the anointed one.” No European monarch would think of being crowned without undergoing visible anointing into a state of acknowledged sovereignty via essential oil.

Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain societies regard unction in a similar light. Specifically, the practice of abhisheka, the exact equivalent of anointing, has traditionally solidified the notion of transcendent empowerment. In many Asian esoteric sects, essential oil is believed to convey the very essence of initiatory power from teacher to student. Thus, the nucleus of all such rituals must include first blessing and then touching sacred oil. Newly elevated rulers and high officials also receive full cultural sanction only through formal unction.

The Special Quality of Essential Oils

When a belief retains currency through an incredibly diverse array of peoples and thought patterns, I believe more than mere coincidence is at work. This is certainly the case with ideas surrounding - and actively promulgating - the anointing process. In addition, we find each type of essential oil consistently associated with particular permissions and powers: each embodied the concentrated essence of certain energies. For example, at Lucky Six Farms we are intimately familiar with the profoundly purifying and cleansing properties of White Sage, properties that have been venerated and utilized by indigenous Tribes for longer than anyone can remember.

Our Commitment to Lucky Six Farms White Sage Essential Oil,

Although our White Sage essential oil has a wide variety of uses, from aromatherapy diffusion to dilution for liniments and salves, we never lose sight of its fundamentally sacred character. This is why we insist on growing every plant organically with love and respect for the remarkable energy channeled through it. Those who try our White Sage essential oil are therefore taking part in a universal earth-centered tradition whose meaning is as vital today as it was at the dawn of history.

By Alan Beck

 

Odors of Sanctity

Forging A Ritual Of Purity

Why have Lucky Six Farms' organic, ultra-pure White Sage products been so consistently sought after for authentic Native American and other serious ritual purposes? Often imitated but never duplicated, Lucky Six Farms’ essential oil, hydrosol, smudge bundles, proprietary formula cones, and whole leaves have established a reputation for unsurpassed quality not only in the Southwest but throughout the entire world. We know that rare aromatics like White Sage have enjoyed a uniquely exalted status in virtually all of the world's diverse spiritual traditions. In particular, earth-centered faiths like Wicca have turned to Lucky Six Farms White Sage for ready purification of people, objects, places, and situations. Frequently, our ultra-pure products have been held to forge open, mediating channels between Heaven and Earth, clearly conveying heartfelt prayers to those Higher Powers most capable of lending assistance to the ritual.

Ritual Is Based On Purity Of Heart

While materialist paradigms may dismiss such ideas as naive, they neglect the true basis for such ancient wisdom. Ritual may be mocked as empty show by shallow reductionists today, but it was not so in the past. Ceremony was originally intended as a vehicle to intensely concentrate group thought and visualization. Humanity's moment-to-moment connection to sustaining and enlightening cosmic forces transcends sterile boundaries set by narrow, contrived protocols, but the strictures imposed by ceremony kept superfluous ideas well out of bounds. Above all: we are and always have been aware beings who create through deliberative choice. Mindless accident has never defined who we are or where we are going. Biographies - even of the most cynical reductionists! - invariably read like narratives rather than lab manuals.

Ritual Can Link Us To Truth

Saints, seers, and mystics of all stripes know Heaven's living powers remain ever-accessible to our psyches, but disadvantageous circumstance or destructive thought may block our path to those life-affirming resources. In fact, this is why unique aromatic plants such as White Sage have appeared to lend us a helping hand even via the simplest sincere ritual. Lucky Six Farms is proud to play a vital role in fostering this positive energetic process throughout the planet.

By Alan Beck