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Hello does anyone know how to get started with elemental magick.
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What are the basics of elemental magick?
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Formal, European-style elemental magick?
I'd say study ceremonial magick.
They evoke and conjure elemental beings, don't they?
Medicine Way engages in devotional practice and communion with natural spirits and Guides through spirit journeying, the use of offerings and effigies, etc, as well.
I imagine a non-Indigenous practitioner of shamanism could do so too.
I'd say study ceremonial magick.
They evoke and conjure elemental beings, don't they?
Medicine Way engages in devotional practice and communion with natural spirits and Guides through spirit journeying, the use of offerings and effigies, etc, as well.
I imagine a non-Indigenous practitioner of shamanism could do so too.
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I have shared an article on Elemental Magic that may get you started in the 'Occult Tutorials, News and Articles' section.
If Fire, Water, Earth, Air is acceptable; many occult books will offer an immense number of ways to work with these four primary elements. Paracelsus, Agrippa, Alchemy and modern Wicca are good places to start. As is the Turba Philosophorum, a treatise in which multiple of the Pythagoreans discuss them in detail.
The first task, however, in my view, is determining what you believe the Elements to be -or- choosing which viewpoint(s) on them you accept as valid in order to decide how to venerate or work with them. Because then you can decide on the goal you intend to achieve with them and how best to achieve it with which method.
For instance, many people say 'sunset' when in practice the Earth turns creating the illusion of sunset - So which element do you accept as your point of reference? Do you ignore science/astronomy in favour of the spectacle and common understanding of a sunset and treat it as exactly that, a sun setting? For me either direction works - and you can venerate both sunset and earth turn and more besides if you wish since you are in control - but people's resistance and acceptance of ideas is governed by their weltanschauung or world-view. Often such straddles a paradox of the belief in a ready-constructed not reconstructable universe, yet the malleability of which is the essential premise of magic: Change.
The same may be said of fire - are you worshipping the phenomenon of flame, the excitement of atoms that generate it, its heat, light? Do you simply accept the visible flame as being the 'Element', or do you acknowledge the various underlying theories of its existence including quantum? Is Light an Element? Blood? Consciousness? I've always found magic to be philosophical in nature, and it's why we name things the way we do to limit what they are so as to be manageable. It can be very simplistic if you wish, or reach the complexity of alchemists like Fulcanelli in the creation of the Philosopher's Stone.
We had to reorient Widdershins and Deosil (suns path/anti-path) to suit the Southern Hemisphere for instance, because it is assumed that Northern Astrology (including the Zodiac) is applicable to the South -and it's not. Not at all, not for us, at least. But therein things get tricky as some see no problem with overlaying that model in southern climes or accepting the direction of stars and sun's turn as applicable to both hemispheres. In our view, to mimic or flow or sync with these Elemental Forces means understanding them as they appear to us in the South - which required a revolution. But in the back of my mind I'm also aware of the biases I am making as a human being to interpret these elements the way they appear to me because of my size, distance, front-facing eyes, reversed image faculty, colour-spectrum limits, trust in science, social programming, economy of mental energy and so on.
If Fire, Water, Earth, Air is acceptable; many occult books will offer an immense number of ways to work with these four primary elements. Paracelsus, Agrippa, Alchemy and modern Wicca are good places to start. As is the Turba Philosophorum, a treatise in which multiple of the Pythagoreans discuss them in detail.
The first task, however, in my view, is determining what you believe the Elements to be -or- choosing which viewpoint(s) on them you accept as valid in order to decide how to venerate or work with them. Because then you can decide on the goal you intend to achieve with them and how best to achieve it with which method.
For instance, many people say 'sunset' when in practice the Earth turns creating the illusion of sunset - So which element do you accept as your point of reference? Do you ignore science/astronomy in favour of the spectacle and common understanding of a sunset and treat it as exactly that, a sun setting? For me either direction works - and you can venerate both sunset and earth turn and more besides if you wish since you are in control - but people's resistance and acceptance of ideas is governed by their weltanschauung or world-view. Often such straddles a paradox of the belief in a ready-constructed not reconstructable universe, yet the malleability of which is the essential premise of magic: Change.
The same may be said of fire - are you worshipping the phenomenon of flame, the excitement of atoms that generate it, its heat, light? Do you simply accept the visible flame as being the 'Element', or do you acknowledge the various underlying theories of its existence including quantum? Is Light an Element? Blood? Consciousness? I've always found magic to be philosophical in nature, and it's why we name things the way we do to limit what they are so as to be manageable. It can be very simplistic if you wish, or reach the complexity of alchemists like Fulcanelli in the creation of the Philosopher's Stone.
We had to reorient Widdershins and Deosil (suns path/anti-path) to suit the Southern Hemisphere for instance, because it is assumed that Northern Astrology (including the Zodiac) is applicable to the South -and it's not. Not at all, not for us, at least. But therein things get tricky as some see no problem with overlaying that model in southern climes or accepting the direction of stars and sun's turn as applicable to both hemispheres. In our view, to mimic or flow or sync with these Elemental Forces means understanding them as they appear to us in the South - which required a revolution. But in the back of my mind I'm also aware of the biases I am making as a human being to interpret these elements the way they appear to me because of my size, distance, front-facing eyes, reversed image faculty, colour-spectrum limits, trust in science, social programming, economy of mental energy and so on.
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