The Trunk

With Mercury Retrograde I have been putting off buying tools and ingredients. However, whilst reading around Verum it says at the end of how to make a wand and staff "then sprinkle, fumigate and lock up in a trunk."

Now, this is the only mention in Verum that I have seen so far where a "trunk" is mentioned. However, in one of the KOS manuscripts it says: "It is very important to have a casket of olive or hazel wood, a foot and a half in length, and the height and width proportional to the length. You can use another wood , if you like, with no reservations, provided that it is new, lined with a piece of new white cloth and fitted with a little lock."

There are a couple of ideas around this trunk. The first is, well, it is good to keep your tools away from the eyes and fingers of those who are just curious. These tools should be only used when the purpose arises. The other being that many of the tools will have sigils on them, these sigils are meant to draw the spirit into that tool, so one could see the trunk as a Spirit House for you Spirit Tools.

To be honest, I am not using olive or hazel, or a new trunk. I picked up a bedside table at the Salvation Army and have spent several days now sanding it down. By the time I have finished sanding, staining, polishing, painting and decorating, not to mention lining the inside with white cloth, the trunk will be as new as if I bought a new one ;) Again, I feel that the work one puts into the tools, makes up for some tools being scavenged. That being said, with the cost of sandpaper alone I think I could have bought a new trunk. But in the end, this will be something that I have put much effort into for my tools to lay safe and sanctified :)