• History
  • Pagen History
  • Craft History - The Burning Times
  • The Pentagram
  • The Salem Witch Trials
  • The Legend Of Stonehenge
  • The Halloween Witch
• Holidays/Sabbats
  • Sabbats
  • Imbolc
  • Ostara
  • Beltane
  • Litha
  • Lammas
  • Mabon
  • Samhaim
  • Yule
• What You Need To Know To Start
  • The Beginning
  • Circle Etiquette
  • The Wiccan Rede
  • Witches Pyramid
  • General Ritual Outline
  • Calling The Quarters
  • Casting Of The Circle
  • Charge Of The Goddess
  • Charge Of The Horned One
  • Circle Dance
• Elements
  • The Elements
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Fire
  • Water
• Moon Information
  • Moon Magick
  • The Esbats
  • Phases of the Moon
  • Moon Lore
  • Moon Names
  • Moons Of The Wheel
• Candle Information
  • Candle Magick
  • Colors for Candles
  • Type Of Candles
  • Colors Quick Reference Guide
• Chakra Information
  • Chakra
  • The Chakra's
  • First Chakra
  • Second Chakra
  • Third Chakra
  • Fourth Chakra
  • Fifth Chakra
  • Sixth Chakra
  • Seventh Chakra
• Colors Information
  • The Colors
  • Black Magick
  • Blue Magick
  • Brown Magick
  • Gold Magick
  • Green Magick
  • Grey Magick
  • Orange Magick
  • Pink Magick
  • Purple Magick
  • Red Magick
  • Silver Magick
  • White Magick
  • Yellow Magick
• Cord Information
  • Cord Magick
• Zodiac Information
  • Zodiac
  • Moon In Zodiac Sign Meanings
  • Moon Conjunctions
  • Moon Sextiles and Trines
  • Moon Square or Opposite 
  • Zodiac Signs & Colors

Elements

The Ancients divided the world into four basic principles or elements-- earth, water, fire, and air. That viewpoint has mostly changed with advances of science, but the four elements are still accepted in magick, for they are more closely linked with emotions, the human psyche, and with nature than are modern explanations of the world.

These magical elements are also of some importance in astrology. Many occultists think of the magical elements as forces, or as qualities of energy; especially within the astral world. Each element has a symbol and color. (Common symbols are -- fire: a triangle pointing up; air: a triangle pointing up and with a horizontal line through the middle of it; water: a triangle pointing down; earth: a triangle pointing down and with a horizontal line through the middle of it.)

Colors of the elements are -- earth: brown and green; water: blue; fire: red; air: yellow...The Eastern tattvic system uses different symbols and colors. (The tattvic symbols are briefly described later on in this course.) The elements are often used in magick ritual.

Magick sees relationships between things. These relationships are called 'correspondences'. Although magical correspondences are not literally equal to one another, you can think of them that way (such as gold equals sun). Tables of these relationships, called 'Correspondence Tables', are available (an important one is Crowley's '777'). Thus one thing or symbol can be used to suggest another. This is important in magick, for the magician may surround himself with as many appropriate correspondences as he can to vividly affect the senses; thus making his magical contact with the inner planes more lucid.

Elementals are usually only visible to those with clairvoyant sight and are more likely to be seen at night in the mountains or country away from cities -- especially if you are tired or sleepy. Although elementals exist naturally, it is also possible to create one which will exist for a limited time -- no elemental has immortality. A created elemental is called an 'artificial elemental'.

To the Ancients, elementals were the physical explanation of the universe. However, some contemporary occultists see them only as symbols for forces and otherwise not 'real' at all.  Another word sometimes used for elemental is 'familiar' (usually in medieval witchcraft); the term is ambiguous, as it might merely be an ordinary household pet such as a dog or cat.