Part 2 of a 2-Part Series

Copyright 2009 by Joseph Ben Hil-Meyer Research, Inc. 

Bruce Berkowsky, N.M.D., M.H., H.M.C. 

Like the majority of Americans, I was immensely relieved when Barack Obama won the presidential election. I believe in his integrity and remarkable intelligence and can sense that he is the right person to navigate this country out of the dire straits it is now moored in.

Thus, I became inspired to create a Spiritual PhytoEssencing essential oil blend formula named “Inauguration.” I believe this blend will enable those who use it correctly to project supportive soul-force on Inauguration Day (January 20th, 2009).In this article I will share the exact recipe for this formula with all of you in the hope that many of you will take the time to prepare this powerful blend and share it with like-minded individuals on Inauguration Day. This will also offer some readers your first opportunity to experience soul-level work with essential oils.

Please pass this issue on to anyone you know who may be interested in preparing this blend (and passing it along as well) while gaining invaluable knowledge in the art of deep soul-level work with essential oils.

The Power Of Collective Soul-Force

In Part 1 of this 2-part series of articles, I wrote: At this crucial moment in world history, the ship of state will be sailing through stormy, high seas, thus the captain at the helm can use help from all quarters. Certainly, most of this help must be in the form of tangible economic, political and diplomatic measures that derive from positive policy and institutional changes. Nevertheless, the intangibility of spiritual light does not diminish the value of its projection as a collective soul-force.

While this effort toward exertion of influence on a higher soul-level may seem to some as too esoteric to generate substantive change of conditions on the ground, the Kabbalah teaches that individual will is distilled from Divine Will: the engine of Creation. Creation, in turn, is viewed not as an historical event, but rather, as an ongoing, infinite process shaped in part by each person’s exertion of individual will. King Solomon wrote: “The light of God is the soul of the human being.” Accordingly, the human soul, via the transmission of positive intent, can strengthen communal will and thus the progression of the creational continuum.

The Blending Process

With the goal of synchronized transmission of soul force in mind, I wrote to my core group of Spiritual PhytoEssencing students and asked them to suggest essential oils for inclusion in the proposed Inauguration blend. The candidacy of a given essential oil had to be supported by excerpts from the relevant oil chapter in my Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis Of Essential Oils, one of two central reference works used in the art of Spiritual PhytoEssencing (the other being the Spiritual PhytoEssencing Repertory Of Essential Oils).

Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis Of Essential Oils, which I began writing over 10 years ago, currently consists of 105 chapters, each of which is devoted to a full elaboration of the inner soul-nature of a specific essential oil. Said elaboration is achieved via a dynamic interfacing of certain aspects of aromatherapy, doctrine of signatures, classical homeopathy, modern physiology, Kabbalah, philosophy, anthroposophical science, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and folklore, depth psychology, gemstone healing and color therapy.

Every living cell must be animated by a vital force, or “ensouled,” and it is this incarnation of higher forces into living tissue that lends each organism its tangible expression. Hence, when using essential oils for psycho-spiritual work, all of the images of the plant’s soul-nature such as its physical features, clinical properties and historical associations, etc. can be used to develop an understanding of an essential oil’s spiritual roots.

Once these spiritual roots are perceived, the blender can engage with an essential oil’s natural expression of being rather than relying solely on the material images (such as its chemical composition and physical therapeutic actions) of its soul-nature. In this way, the human soul can meet an essential oil on a soul-to-soul level.

The Kabbalah describes the soul as having five levels, the next to highest being the level of “collective souls” from which all individuated souls emerge and maintain their communication. Thus, an individual soul can exert a degree of influence upon collective soul consciousness.

Formulating the Inauguration Blend

I limited the number of oils in this blend to eleven oils. I chose this number because the Tree Of Life (the Kabbalah’s symbolic mechanism for the perpetual distribution of creative force from the spiritual realm into the material world) features eleven vessels.

Note: In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, for practical reasons, Daat-Knowledge is considered a fully operative vessel. Traditional kabbalists generally consider Daat to be a quasi-vessel, and so, view the Tree of Life as having only 10 vessels.

As a starting point for the formulation of the blend, I established lavender and Australian blue cypress as two of the eleven constituent oils. If you would like to read the detailed discussion concerning my choice of these two oils see Part 1 of this series.

I asked my students to make suggestions regarding the identity of the other nine oils. I reviewed all their suggestions and the detailed cases they made for specifc oils, and then finalized the ingredient list for the blend. Then, I finely balanced the proportions of the oils (based upon the soul-nature and scent quality and intensity of each oil) in the blend. Here is the formula.

I have already shared this formula with my core group of students. Last week, I personally blended it for my personal use. I find it to be a remarkable blend. Not only is it powerfully opening and connecting on a living soul level, it has a compellingly beautiful scent. I have already received a good deal of feedback from my students and others who have prepared the blend and it is definitely striking a very deep chord.

Inauguration Day Blend Formula

You can multiply these numbers by any factor you like in order to prepare large quanitites of the blend. However, I suggest you prepare the minimum quantity first and let the blend stand for a day to determine whether any adjustments are necessary. I had to adjust the blend two times to arrive at the final formula so I built the blend over a period of 3 days. Remember to shake well and store the blend in a cool, quiet place away from electronic equipment. Do not store on or in metal.Note regarding benzoin and lovage oils: These oils are quite viscous and need to be warmed in order to make them mobile enough to dispense as drops. Here’s my method of doing this.  1) Place 1″ of water in a glass pot and heat it until it is just about to come to a boil. 2) Remove the pot from the heat, wait a few seconds until the water is still, and then place my dispensing bottles of benzoin and lovage oil into the water. 3) Place the cover on pot and wait about 5 minutes. They are then ready to use. 4) Even after heating, the oils will be too thick to readily pass through the dropper inserts that plug into the top of the oil bottles. Thus, I use disposable droppers. If you don’t have these, you will need to use glass droppers. However, once you use a glass dropper for one oil you cannot reuse it with another oil.

To project the scent all day, add some of the blend to an essential oil diffusor. Do not use an essential oil nebulizer (a diffusor with an oblong glass attachment) because this blend contains thick oils that will clog up the fine tubing within the glass attachment.

For those of you who are planning to use the blend at Inauguration Day gatherings, the combination of diffusing the scent into the air and direct inhalation from the wrists will prove to be particularly dynamic in its impact.

About The Oils

My original plan was to publish an issue of this journal that discussed each of the 11 oils in the blend. The December 3rd issue presented an in-depth discussion of two of these: Australian blue cypress and lavender. However, over the course of the last 3 weeks, we have experienced severe weather that had kept me snowed in and caused us to lose power on two occassion and water for 4 days. This greatly interfered with my work schedule and I was not able to produce an issue discussing the remaining 9 oils.
I will compensate to a degree for this next week when I will present a brief discussion of the psycho-spiritual properties of myrtle and clary sage oils.

If you have any questions about making and/or using the blend, feel free to e-mail me.

Please pass this issue on to anyone you feel would be interested in collective soul-level projection of positive focus and intent via use of the Inauguration Day Blend.

Here is the link to this page.

Inauguration Day Essential Oil Blend Formula