The overall significance of the cakes is that it is considered to be a eucharist: a symbolic union between the microcosm, Man, and the macrocosm, the Divine, the consumption of which affirms a connection between the two which strengthens with each sacrament.
[citation needed] The Cake of Light, traditionally composed of meal, honey, leavings of red wine lees, oil of Abramelin, olive oil and fresh blood as per the instructions in The Book of the Law is a perfume or incense but also a cake when baked.
The olive is noted by Aleister Crowley as "traditionally, the gift of Minerva, the Wisdom of God, the Logos".
[citation needed] Although Cakes of Light are never mentioned by name in The Book of the Law, Crowley interpreted the following passages as being instructions for their creation: For perfume mix meal & honey & thick leavings of red wine: then oil of Abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften & smooth down with rich fresh blood.
[1] Aleister Crowley described the Cakes of Light in his book Magick in Theory and Practice: The Cakes of Light are universally applicable; they contain meal, honey, and oil (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, the three necessaries of human nutrition): also the perfume of the three essential types of magical and curative virtue; the subtle principle of animal life itself is fixed in them by the introduction of fresh living blood.
The whole of the force expended is completely re-absorbed; yet the virtue is that vast gain represented by the abyss between Man and God.