A Guide to the Elementals - The first in a Magical Series from Andre Consciencia

A Magical Study Series

This is Volume 1 of the forthcoming ‘A Magical Series’. These books are truly special as they are the fruit of a true magician. An individual who has built relationships with beings not of this earthly world and through this relationship new knowledge, understanding and inspiration has been birthed. As you will see from the small sample provided in this post, not only are the contents of these books extremely precious for a genuine practitioner but each book has been designed to be more than functional to instead, be beautiful to look at, to read and to work with. There will be more posts coming exploring each book more deeply but right now we are focusing on A Guide to The Elementals: Volume1.

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An Introduction from the Author

It is unexpected that I should write this book, or the occult books that I have been publishing of late. In my younger years, I took the ordeal to portray all esoteric ideas through art and literature alone in order to polish the stones of the earth, so that occultism could not find itself veiled by its own idea, for that which is truly occult must be of a quality that transcends everywhere alike. In time, a new door opened, and I was invited in, consciously drawn by the current.

Not, nevertheless, without some hesitation: the reader must be warned that this book is to
be, like any work of art, a source of inspiration. My contact with the beings of the elements cannot substitute your own, nor should it ever (all these words here contained can only portray the tip of the iceberg). As to my theory, it might highlight your own wisdom, and if so, all the better. But have it obstruct your insight instead, and be damned by this tome.

Such is especially important in a work of this particular nature, where direct contact with
invisible beings will be exposed. Contacts like these are always of an intimate light, and if the magician falls entirely for my own filter, the translation of my own mind, soul, and senses, he will be influenced by the author and not the beings he seeks. The author has failed and will fail again, he is the same as you, but so are the beings in question.

This leads us yet to another subject: worship not the beings, for the heart can only truly worship its own mystery. These beings, too, are art to be contemplated, listened to and even danced to, so that the beholder might explore himself and the universe. There are no priests, and the God that abides has no Church.

A Small Sample of Chapter 1

This book will explore the nature of the mind, soul and body, the nature of the four philosophical elements, the four elemental kingdoms, the life of the four elemental kingdoms and that which animates them. A magician following on the Bardon tradition will feel at home reading it, for it explores aspects of Initiation Into Hermetics, The Practice of Magical Evocation and The Key to True Quabbalah, by Franz Bardon.

The practitioner is expected to be a magician of some experience, maturity and equilibrium, else nothing will happen with the practices or, if it does, the reader will most likely fall prey to all kinds of tricks and mischief.

When exposing myself directly to the beings that animate the four elemental kingdoms (the same beings revealed in the Practice of Magical Evocation together with some of their unmentioned subordinates) the thoughts of the elementals are being translated by the nature of my evocations unto human thought, then unto human language, and specifically the English verbal language, which is not my native language. Although it is not the only method and surely not the simplest, it was used, put together with clairaudience, for practical reasons: the w7riting of this work. I have previously written a fiction, named The Gem of Silence that, on the other hand, seeks to approximate human thought to elemental thought. It can be of a complementary nature.

Elementals & Elementaries

We should start by highlighting, on a short note, the difference between an elemental and an elementary, as there has often been confusion between the two. An elemental is a natural being composed of one of the four elements, while an elementary is a being made of vitality and psychic saturation, a thought-form usually fed with astral components by the conscious effort of the magician or by the obsessions of any person. Elementaries of erotic desire can give form to the so- called succubi or incubus, elementaries of urge and survival can become vampires, and many other phantoms come from this sort of obsessive phenomenon. Paracelsus mentions elementaries and so does Franz Bardon; both also mention the elementals. The focus of this book is the elementals.

Elementals or beings of the fire are the salamanders, beings of expertise in faith and on the reality of the now as expressed with the best clarity and splendour possible. They hold the courage that opens the way to experience, to integration and to depth. One can feel them vibrating like a spider string in every spark of intent. The elementals or beings of the air are the sylphs. Their harmonious nature makes it possible for them to create free associations that have no qualitative or quantitative distortion. One can feel them tapping behind the electric flow of thoughts. The beings of the water element are called undines, they can swim behind the pulse of emotions. The beings of the earth element are gnomes and they work in a realm similar to that of our sensory experience, our senses being the microcosmic seeds from where material reality grows in the macrocosm and vibration becomes objective. The fiery kingdom is one of creative intent and warmth. The aerial kingdom is one of thought, light, shape and weightlessness. The watery kingdom is one of rhythm, emotion, form and coolness. And the earthly kingdom is one of sensation and weight. In all four kingdoms, there is will, intellect, feeling and consciousness, and in all four kingdoms intelligence is subject to form and duration.

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