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7
- Making and Consecrating your Elemental Weapons
The Elemental Weapons are the four basic instruments of the magician and are representative of the
Four Alchemical Elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. The attributions of the Weapons to the
Elements has for a long time laboured under the ascriptions given by the Golden Dawn which
associated them as follows:
Wand - Fire
Dagger - Air
Cup - Water
Pentacle - Earth
However this incorporates a blind, and in fact if these attributions are considered in depth it will be
seen that for some reason the two active weapons, the dagger and the wand, have been interchanged.
(1) The weapons may be characterized as follows:
1
. The Dagger (Fire) is a weapon made of iron or steel, forged under heat, sharp and incisive like
flame. As it is a weapon, it is associated with Mars whose colour is red, the colour of fire. Additionally
the Golden Dawn attribution of the Elemental Weapons to the Sephiroth incorporated the same blind,
so that despite hitherto published ascriptions, the Dagger is in fact a Weapon of Tiphareth, symbolic of
sacrifice and the death and resurrection themes associated with this Sphere.
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[1] This does not mean that your weapons will not work if the above ascription is used: of course they
will if they have been properly consecrated, but using them will be somewhat like trying to batter
someone to death with a dagger or stab them with a staff. Hard work.
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2
. The Wand (Air) like the Caduceus is part of the insignia of Mercury, the winged messenger of the
gods. Mercury is traditionally associated with Air, and his patronage of travellers further confirms the
attribution of the Staff or Wand to Air. The wand is the Weapon of Hod, Sephirah of Mercury and
magic.
3
. The Cup (Water) is obviously ascribed to Water because of its very function. On the Tree of Life the
Cup fits on Netzach where its Venusian associations support its emotional receptive and watery nature.
4
. The Pentacle (Earth) is the most solid of the weapons and provides a base, the ground for the
operation of the other three elements. It is akin to the shield and it is basically a passive and defensive
weapon. The pentagram, which is often used as a motif on the Pentacle sums up the union of the four
Elements, just as earth is the union and physical manifestation of the other three Elements.
Manufacture of the Elemental Weapons
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