FREE MODERN MAGICK SCHOOL LESSON, Elemental Magick: Cosmic Universal Powers with Joshua Free

Apprenticeship: Merlyn’s School of Magick & Wizardry — First appearing in “New Babylon Rising” (Issue #4, April 2012) — this ‘apprenticeship lesson’ is part of a progressive curriculum adaptation series drawn from the work of ‘Merlyn Stone‘ and the “Arcanum” notebooks.

LESSON 5 – ELEMENTAL MAGICK & NATURE POWER

As we perceive them in the fragmented physical world, there appear to be four primary elements (plus a fifth of quintessence).

EARTH provides the sorcerer with structure, substance and foundation. They are the keys to abundance.

AIR offers communication, illumination, focus and clarity; the codes of intellect.

FIRE gives strength, courage, vitality and faith, offering personal and external protection.

WATER brings transformation, healing and purity, the means to inner wisdom.

Sounds pretty good, eh?
So HOW does one go about tapping into this awesome spectrum of elemental powers?

ANSWER: The sorcerer employs Elvish and Druidic practices.

ELEMENTALISM

The basic foundation of all practical Nature/Earth-oriented systems of magick operating under the premise that knowledge of the “composition” of energy enables it to be used and transformed constructively.

Although traditions vary concerning the quantity of elements and the divisions of the attributes, most of the non-chemical paradigms are based on the four basic currents: air, earth, fire and water. These forces, as well as metallic elements interpreted in the form of planetary energy, became the focus of ancient alchemy.

The material elements, earth and air, divide the basic interpretive division into solids and gasses. Water was later discovered to be composed of more elements and fire was rejected from the model as a “process” of combustion, not a standalone element.

QUANTUM METAPHYSICS & ELEMENTALISM

In the elemental model proposed by Joshua Free in ARCANUM, earth and air correspond to the first two forms of manifestation that modern science becomes familiar with: gravity-G and electromagnetism-EM.

The discovery of the other two sub-atomic nuclear forces completes the fourfold “standard model” of Western Elementalism.

In this model, fire corresponds to the W-weak (nuclear) force responsible for radiation, fusion and heat. The qualities found in the water element correspond to the S-strong (nuclear) force that bonds and unites particles together all across the fabric of space. This model has never before been presented in New Age literature.

ELEMENTAL MAGICK

Elemental magick is the basis for all practical systems used in the New Age. Every facet of virtually any philosophical, scientific or magickal model can be reduced to an elemental relationship.

Wizards and magical practitioners who use such models in their interpretation of energy and existence are called “Elementalists.”

Elementalists have already gained a sense of this unifying force in their own models, calling it Akasha, the essence of all things both manifest and invisible. It suggests a new vision for the “aether” as an inter-dimensional shroud or brane by which the elemental forces are able to vibrate their existence. This “fifth element” or spiritual dimension would in fact hold the sum of the other elements in it as well. This is why Akasha has the peculiar attribute of being a fifth “encompassing” element and yet the product of all four at the same time. This type of metaphysics is only discernible by adopting “dimensional theories.”

ELEMENTAL POWER

For novices, elementalism can be a quite individual path of exploration. It requires that the student work with and understand the energy of each of the elements. Not only are physical manifestations of the elements employed, astral journeys and visualizations into the elemental realms or “domains” are also observed.

When calling elementals to the ritual nemeton, these beings or conscious personifications of the energetic current, are visualized as coming to the edge of the circle.

The wizard invites their energy into the nemeton via intention. Elemental tablets and candles (of an appropriate color) are set out at each of the four directions, each corresponding to a specific element.

In traditional interpretations they are:
NORTH = earth
EAST = air
SOUTH = fire
WEST = water

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