![]() ![]() Yet the belief everything in nature has consciousness and the belief in fairies predates occult societies such as these by thousands of years. The Golden Dawn’s belief in elementals trickled down to more modern religions like Wicca and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. This was a Masonic-inspired secret society, if you will, of occultists who studied and practiced high magick, metaphysics, and the paranormal. Namely the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. If you ask a Wiccan today, you’ll hear it’s a Wiccan belief but truly we see elementals being invoked in nineteenth century ceremonial magick. Paracelsus being one of the first alchemists to study and use the four main elements in his practice. The first wink of elemental belief originates in the Medieval Ages with alchemy. Where Did the Belief in Elementals Originate? There are four elementals to correspond with the four elements: Gnomes are earth elementals, Undines are water elementals, Sylphs are air elementals and Salamanders are fire elementals. The element itself (air, for example) is the physical manifestation of the elemental, while the sylph is the spirit of air. Just as humans have bodies AND a soul, so do elementals. An elemental is the spirit of an element. But what is an elemental? And are the elementals the same as the guardians of the watchtowers? First, What is an Elemental?įirst we answer the question, what is an elemental? You’ve heard of the four elements, right? Earth, air, fire and water are the four core elements according to Western magical tradition. And casting a circle before ritual and invoking the elementals was a popular practice among practitioners. Before modern witchcraft, Wicca and ceremonial magic sort of ruled the occult community.
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