Your Very Own Pure Wax Sigillum Dei Aemeth, how to Options

How to make your own Sigillum Dei Aemeth

from beeswax

You will need:

One: Double boiler (pan with slightly boiling water and jug inside it)

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Two: 1,2 kg of pure beeswas blocks (not big solid ring) - you can buy them on ebay, there are good deals.
Three: New baking tin for cakes 25 cm in diameter (the reason behind that the diameter is more than 9 inches is the wax will shrink and you always can cut the wax out) and more than 3 cm tall (again, height is more than 1.5 inch for easy removal)
Four: Optional: jam thermometer, but not essential as you will see if it’s melting or not

Bring pan with water to boil (do not put too much water otherwise the jug will float), reduce the fire and place the metal jug (of you can use big metal coffee jar) inside.
Add blocks of wax one by one, wait them to melt. It took me about 40 minutes to melt 1 kg. But do not leave it unattended. Make sure the water is slightly bubbling, but not hard boiling.

Oil the baking form tin with sunflower oil. Mark the 3,3 cm level height.

When all wax is melted pour liquid into the tin up to your mark.

Let it set – it will take about 3 hours or more. When chilled place the tin in the fridge for night. It will shrink a bit there and the removal should be easy.

Now time to carve on it.

I have used knife with the thin blade and the sewing machine needles in different thicknesses. You can purchase proper wax carving tools but if you are not interested in mass production you do not need them.

Print the Sigillum up to the size of your disk and apply to the disk. Cut all lines through the paper in order from the outside to inside with the knife. Use the metal ruler for straight lines (they are not really straight as you will find out). Remove the paper and carve all the necessary names and symbols by needles.

I did separate my carving activity: one section per evening due to main factor – job.

You will be truly delighted when you will hold the disk in your hands. I hope.

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Good luck. Please ask if you have more questions.

Regards, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/witch.gif)

P.S. be careful with the wax, do not overheat it and try not to get any on your skin (unless it is your favorite sex play (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) )
P.P.S If you have some wax left in the jug reheat/ reuse it for candles… and this is another story.

Haha, thanks for motivation and calmness (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
I won't do that in the near time. When I've finished my studies in all that stuff like enochian magic, hermetic magic and kabbalah I'll make that sigillum.

Haha, thanks for motivation and calmness (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
I won't do that in the near time. When I've finished my studies in all that stuff like enochian magic, hermetic magic and kabbalah I'll make that sigillum.

I made one of these years ago, and never finished carving the details.

One of the main concerns was whether to use English characters or Enochian, and how it might be arranged correctly since Enochian is written right-to-left. So I left it blank except for the geometric figures.

I used the oven to melt the wax in a metal pan.

To get the shape correct, I used a piece of aluminum foil. First I put a small rounded lump of clay on a board so the central depression would exist for holding the sphere. I laid the foil over that, and set the lid of a jar over it, wrapping the foil up the sides a few inches. It took longer than expected to dry the whole thing.

I used a coarse sandpaper wrapped around a stick to file off the edges. I set the thing on a board with a little hanging over the edge, and used the file up and down against it at a 90 degree angle. It took a while, and I had to peel off layers of waxed sandpaper, but eventually I had the whole thing turned around. The back side also needed sanding before the "AGLA" was engraved, but I only engraved the cross.

For carving the five and seven-pointed figures, I used a compass and a ruler to mark the places, and a steel file to excavate a trench. The most difficult part was keeping the wax debris out of the channel and off the surface, especially at the corners of the figures. It started shallow, and went deep gradually.

I've never used the thing. It might be interesting to see what someone else could do with it, if it ever gets finished.

It would also be nice to see a large latex mould made so that these could be produced by wax injection, saving a lot of time and effort. Maybe they could be sold cheaply that way, or considered disposable. It is a relatively fragile piece of ceremonial equipment.