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Almond

Prunus dulcis

Almond appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: moderate
Books: 74
Contexts: 5
Mentions: 412

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: almond
Latin name: Prunus dulcis(candidate)
Identity note: Archive material may include almond oil, rods, biblical symbolism, or bitter almond.

Safety

moderate

Sweet almond food use differs from bitter almond, which can contain cyanogenic compounds.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

Kew POWO: Sweet almond food use differs from bitter almond, which can contain cyanogenic compounds.

Aliases

almondalmondsbitter almondPrunus dulcis

Almond in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Almond (Prunus dulcis) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 1 preparation or ritual-use entry. The strongest recurring contexts are ritual uses and symbolism. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Symbolism

high

Liber 777 preserves a Qabalistic almond-rod thread by identifying Moses' wand as a rod of almond within a numerical and path-symbolism scheme.

Liber 777 | Aleister Crowley | 1909

Page 51

Ritual

high

Spence's magical rod instructions call for a straight almond or hazel branch, cut before blossoming and consecrated at the new moon.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

Page 312

Symbolism

medium

Frazer's Attis material makes almond symbolic rather than medicinal: Nana conceives by placing a ripe almond or pomegranate in her bosom, and Phrygian cosmogony treats almond as a generative image.

The Golden Bough | James George Frazer | 1890

XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis

Preparations and ritual uses

Consecrated almond rod

high

Spence's magical rod is made from a straight almond or hazel branch cut before blossoming, fitted with a magnetized needle, and consecrated at the new moon.

Encyclopaedia of Occultism | Lewis Spence | 1920

Page 312

Almond Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Astrology

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Encyclopaedia of Occultism.

Matched as almond; high confidence.

Folk magic

1 passage across 1 book; strongest source: Three Books of Occult Philosophy.

Matched as almond; high confidence.

Preparation

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Family Herbal.

Matched as almonds; high confidence.

Ritual

3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Liber 777.

Matched as almond; high confidence.

Safety

4 passages across 4 books; strongest source: Culpeper's Complete Herbal.

Matched as almonds; high confidence.

Almond Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

5 shown

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Lewis Spence

1920

"...d must be specially fashioned of certain woods and then consecrated to its magical uses. A perfectly straight branch of almond or hazel was {o be chosen. This was cut before the tree blossomed, and cut with a golden sickle in the early dawn. Throughout its length must be run a long needle of magnetized iron ; at one end there should be affixed a triangular prism, to the other, one of black resin, and rings of copper and zinc bound about it. At the new moon it must be consecrated by a magician who already possesses a consecrated rod. The secret of the construct..."

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Astrologyalias: almondhigh confidence

Liber 777

Aleister Crowley

1909

"...1 × 21. 21 is AHIH, the God of Kether, whose Will is Truth. - ThN, the great dragon. - MTH HShQD, Moses' Wand, a rod of Almond. 3 + 60 + 400, the paths of the middle pillar. - DVTh, Knowledge, the Sephira that is not a Sephira. In one aspect the child of Chokmah and Binah; in another the Eighth Head of the Stooping Dragon, raised up when the Tree of Life was shattered, and Macroposopus set cherubim against Microposopus. See 4=7 ritual *supra*. Also, and very specially, Liber 418. It is the demon that purely intellectual or rational religions take as their God...."

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Ritualalias: almondhigh confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1890

"... of many other heroes, is said to have been miraculous. His mother, Nana, was a virgin, who conceived by putting a ripe almond or a pomegranate in her bosom. Indeed in the Phrygian cosmogony an almond figured as the father of all things, perhaps because its delicate lilac blossom is one of the first heralds of the spring, appearing on the bare boughs before the leaves have opened. Such tales of virgin mothers are relics of an age of childish ignorance when men had not yet recognized the intercourse of the sexes as the true cause of offspring. Two different acc..."

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Archive mentionalias: almondmedium confidence

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

1533

"...ey fold themselves into mutual embraces ; neither doth the female palm-tree bring forth fruit without the male. And the almond tree, when \* Sometimes given as Heracleitus, a Greek philosopher who lived ahout 600 B. C. He was known as the " weeping philosopher," so impressed was he by the weaknesses of mankind. Only fragments of his philosophical work, "Peri Physeos" (On Nature), remain. These fragments go to show that Heraclitus held " fire to be the first principle of all phenomena, and the original substance out of which they have all been evolved." Agrippa..."

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Folk magicalias: almondhigh confidence

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

1913

"...tion (three thousand feet or more) above the level of the sea. 780 Throughout Italy mistletoe now grows on fruit-trees, almond-trees, hawthorn, limes, willows, black poplars, and firs, but never, it is said, on oaks. 781 In England seven authentic cases of mistletoe growing on oaks are said to be reported. 782 In Gloucestershire mistletoe grows on the Badham Court oak, Sedbury Park, Chepstow, and on the Frampton-on-Severn oak. 783 Branches of oak with mistletoe growing on them were exhibited to more than one learned society in France during the nineteenth cent..."

IV. The Mistletoe and the Golden Bough.Open in Reader

Archive mentionalias: almondmedium confidence

Books Mentioning Almond

Complete public source inventory, placed after the interpretive reading so the page opens with the most useful synthesis first.

74 books

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter | 1854

almondalmondsbitter almond

112 mentions

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

almondsalmond

86 mentions

Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton | 1621

almondsalmond

13 mentions

Transcendental Magic

Eliphas Levi | 1854

almondsalmondbitter almond

10 mentions

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

E. Cobham Brewer | 1870

almondalmonds

9 mentions

The Family Herbal

John Hill | 1755

almondsalmond

8 mentions

Encyclopaedia of Antiquities

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | 1825

almondsalmond

7 mentions

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers | 1895

almondalmonds

6 mentions

Philosophumena (Vol 1)

Hippolytus of Rome | 222

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Almond in Historical Sources

Symbolism

Ritual

Symbolism

Preparations and ritual uses

Consecrated almond rod

Almond Archive Contexts

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Ritual

Safety

Almond Cited Excerpts

Encyclopaedia of Occultism

Liber 777

The Golden Bough

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

The Golden Bough

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