Agrippa Studies B1C6 — The Essential Natures of Water and Air

Envato Elements Item ID: MZMSK87, altered by author.

Agrippa expands on the nature of Water and Air, completing the introduction of the Four Classical Elements. He assembles the wisdom of the Ancients in his Renaissance opus, Three Books of Occult Wisdom, preserving and passing along the lore of the lands and minds long gone.

Here’s the lore about the Nature of Water and Air, below.

Water

Thales of Miletus and Hesiod from the Ancient World held that Water was the origin or beginning point for all things, so essential is that Element to Life. This places Water first of all the Classical Elements. It quenches Fire, erodes Earth, and splits the Air of the heavens with clouds, thus it is said to have Dominion over the other Elements.

Air

Per the Ancient Hebrew lore, because Air passes through all things and fills living creatures through respiration, it was considered a medium, not an Element proper, though other historical Europeans disagreed. Being able to fly above the clouds, Air receives the impressions of the Astral World, and as it is drawn in as breath, it imparts dreams, visions, and powers to the breathers respective of the influences of the stars.

Specific to the Air, when it is in motion, it forms the Four Cardinal Winds of Classical Greece — Eurus from the East, Notus from the South, Zephyrus from the West, and Boreas from the North, stirred into motion by the Astral Powers of Starlight with specific qualities that Magicians can work with, if they study the nature of these winds.

These are several of the qualities of the Nature of Air and Water attributed by the learned scholars and magi of the Ancients, preserved for posterity by Agrippa in the late 1400s and passed to modern humanity today.

Source: Agrippa of Nettesheim, H. C. (2009). Three Books of Occult Philosophy (D. Tyson, Ed.; J. Freake, Trans.; First Edition, Eleventh Printing). Llewellyn Publications.