Description
Mastic Absolute Essential Oil
5ml
Artisan Handcrafted
Pistacia lentiscus
Resin from Mastic Tree
This Oil is Artisan Hancrafted Sugar Cane Etraction in a Pro Vacuum Crucible
Resin from from Greek Island of Chios and is Holy Land Charged
Mastic Absolute is a fragrant bright yellow liquid darker yellow light amber, thick viscous but pourable, a honey-like liquid which contains the aromatic resin and essential oil of Mastic Chios. It is extracted from fresh Mastic resins using food grade sugar cane alcohol. No harsh chemical or solvents were used in the vacuum extraction process.
Grows in dry and rocky areas in Mediterranean Europe and Greek Island of Chios. It resists mild to heavy frosts but prefers milder winters and grows on all types of soils, and can grow well in limestone areas and even in salty or saline environments, making it more abundant near the sea. Mastic trees mainly grow in the Lower Galilee region in Hurbat Mamlach and are protected much like the Cedars of lebanon that grow in Israel.
Mastic Resinoid is an excellent and perfect aromatic fixative in natural perfumes and complex incense blends. It has a sweet yet dry, crisp, slightly citrus, and elevating aroma which is slightly woody, softly green notes, with hints at carmel confections. Simply gorgeous!
Blends well with Frankincense, Myrrh, Clove, Lavender, etrog, Jaffa Orange, Grapefruit, Bergamot, Lemon, Grand Fir, Rose, Rosewood, Sandalwood, HoWood, Palo Santo, Helichrysum Immortelle and Inula essential oils.
Found in Biblical Text:
The mastic tree is mentioned in the writings of the Book of Daniel as a elder of the people where he rescue a righteous woman named Susanna from those who unjustly accuses her of wrong doing.
There is much dispute why the 13th chapter is not included in the Tanak and some version of the Bible. But we thought we mention this story since mastic trees do grow in the Holy Land. The story has merit a virtue in why one must judge others righteously what happens when false accusation are made ie comitting “loshan hora” against someone who is righteous.
This story is known as “the Devout Woman and the Two Wicked Elders”. Although omitted from current Jewish scriptural texts, the story of Susanna is acknowledged to have been part of Jewish tradition in the Second Temple period. Read more here
The story starts in Daniel 13:47-49 he says while “taking his stand among them he said, “Are you such fools, O’ Israelites, as to condemn a daughter of Israel without examination and without learning the facts? Return to court, for these men have given false evidence against her.”
Then he asks and says to one these accusers in verse 53-54 where Daniel says “pronouncing unjust judgments, condemning the innocent and acquitting the guilty, though the Lord said, ‘You shall not put an innocent and righteous person to death.’ Now then, if you really saw this woman, tell me this: Under what tree did you see them being intimate with each other?” He answered, Under a mastic tree.“ Daniel then says he had “lied”. Mastic means “gnashing of teeth” the two false accusers are put to death, and virtue triumphs after all.
You shall do to him just as he meant to do to the other ועשיתם לו כאשר זמם לעשות לאחיו. According to the Torah, if witnesses lie, they will suffer the punishment that the accused would have suffered had their testimony been upheld (Deut 19:18-19). An interesting note that mastic resin is chewed to perserve the teeth.
The word mastic in greek is “schinos” meaning teeth. Teeth in hebrew is noted as the word “shen” which is very similar in words and the the word also means to guard and because the two elder chose not perserve their teeth to protect or hold their tongue from telling lies. In Jewish tradition it is said we have teeth to guard our tongues which can create either life or death by words spoken according to Proverbs.
