Corresponding with Nigredo
Going through all 4 elements and fully initiating into them and into becoming intimate with each one and activating it within you
The 4 Elements Fire Air Water Earth
The Four Ordeals The 5th Element The Elementals The Pentagram
“Working with the four elements is the foundation of practical magick. Learning to understand the qualities and powers of the four elements enables the magician to recognise their presence in the different parts of their being, from the physical to the emotional, mental and spiritual. This is followed by focusing the will to control and direct the power of the elements, a skill which develops through experience and understanding gained in practice.”
- PRACTICAL ELEMENTAL MAGIC: A practical guide to working with the four elements – Air, Fire, Water & Earth – in the Western Esoteric Tradition. By David Rankine & Sorita D’Este
“He who does not know them, / the elements, / their power / and properties, / would not be master / over the spirits”.
- Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe
“For he hath given me certain knowledge of the things that are, namely, to know how the world was made, and the operation of the elements.”
- The Wisdom of Solomon 7:17, C4th CE.
“Then out of this Chaos, the four elements were made: Heat and cold, moist and dry, in like wise, Which are the beginning of all creatures wide, That under the globe of Luna do abide.”
- Simon Forman’s sixteenth century alchemical work Of the Division of Chaos
The four elements exist as:
- spiritual essences
- philosophical concepts
- energy states
- a tangible physical reality.
“Working with the four elements is the foundation of practical magick. Learning to understand the qualities and powers of the four elements enables the magician to recognise their presence in the different parts of their being, from the physical to the emotional, mental and spiritual. This is followed by focusing the will to control and direct the power of the elements, a skill which develops through experience and understanding gained in practice.” - “Practical Elemental Magic” - Rankine & D’Este
Balancing the Elements
How imbalances or deficiencies in the elements affect your life and how to restore balance.
How to balance the elements in your body, mind and spirit for health