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To: alt.magick From: fenwick@sonic.net (Fenwick Rysen) Subject: Re: Elemental Magick Date: 28 Jun 1997 21:25:23 GMT lo eskis i Quoth Liquidburns (liquidburns@earthlink.net): > Does anyone know anything about elemental magick? Yes. I suppose this question is actually a petition for information... Well, the very basics: There are four elements, of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth (with the fifth element being spirit, void, god, brahman, love, or whatever it is that you decide to call it). The best way to learn to wirk with the elements is to expose yourself to them. If you want to learn about fire, make a big fire and get as close to it as you can. Picture yourself as the fire, see what it feels like. If you want to understand water, go throw yourself in an ocean (or if you're not near one a lake or river will suffice) and see what it feels like. Be one with the element. For earth, go walking barefoot in a local park, feel the earth, sense its energies. For Air, wear little clothing and expose your body to the wind, letting it whip through your hair. As you practice all this, when you meditatie, picture breathing in that element through your mouth and through your pores as you take each breath. Let it fill you, infusing you with its essence. Once you've got all of this down, figure out what you want to do with it. Lots of skill may allow you to calm or raise both wind and water, to sense the energies of powerpoints on the earth with ease, and to push a fire in a given direction or reduce it to embers or allow it to rise up from embers. Not that any of this is easy, mind you. Expect to spend 10-20 years to be able to do any great feats if any at all. The first things you'll notice is eprhaps an ability to make candleflames dance around a bit. And as with all magick, don't let other people tell you what to believe or do, and this includes the words that I've just written. To thine own self be true. In Life, Love, and Laughter ___ o | --Fenwick Rysen -- C H A O S M A T R I X -- / http://www.sonic.net/fenwick/ .__|__. | ___ | "The only prevalent characteristic of chaotes is their / ability to confuse you beyond all hope of rescue." | ---Mathias Karlsson Path: Supernews69!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mitre.org!mlynch From: mlynch@mitre.org (michael lynch) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Elemental Magick Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 13:39:38 -0500 Organization: mitre corp. Lines: 39 Distribution: world Message-ID:References: <5oph9n$n44@argentina.earthlink.net> <5p3vg3$8pe$2@ultra.sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mlynch.mitre.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Xref: Supernews69 alt.magick:106470 In article <5p3vg3$8pe$2@ultra.sonic.net>, fenwick@sonic.net (Fenwick Rysen) wrote: > lo eskis i > > Quoth Liquidburns (liquidburns@earthlink.net): > > Does anyone know anything about elemental magick? If you want to learn about fire, make a big fire and get as close > to it as you can. Picture yourself as the fire, see what it feels like. > > If you want to understand water, go throw yourself in an ocean (or if > you're not near one a lake or river will suffice) and see what it feels > like. Be one with the element. > > For earth, go walking barefoot in a local park, feel the earth, sense its > energies. > > For Air, wear little clothing and expose your body to the wind, letting it > whip through your hair. > > As you practice all this, when you meditatie, picture breathing in that > element through your mouth and through your pores as you take each breath. > Let it fill you, infusing you with its essence. A word of caution: This has been paraphrased (or could have been) from Franz Bardon's "Initiation Into Hermetics". His warnings have been truncated. Do not invoke the 'feeling' of the element endlessly. Start slowly and stop well before things get overwhelming. This is especially important when working with Fire, but can be applied to any and all of the elements. I recommend anyone who would work with elemental energy to look into Bardon. His is a quirky system in some respects, but it is sound and it works. Most will not have the will to work through all the exercises in order, but they will reward you if you do. Make no mistake. any magical system worth the paper it's printed on or the air with which it is breathed into your ear is *work*. You must do it personally and it ought to take a measure of time. "Quickie" or multiple initiations are useless and can be valued inversely with their cost. Nuff ranting! Those with ears to hear will hear. The rest will....learn.
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