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Elemental Spirits covers the Salamander of Western esoteric and alchemical tradition, a being of living fire drawn from the classical four element scheme of earth, air, fire and water. The category is reserved for spirits defined chiefly by the element they embody.
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Whose Classification This IsThe scheme is Paracelsus's: nymphs to water, sylphs to air, pygmies (gnomes) to earth and salamanders to fire, set out in the Liber de nymphis (written c. 1537, printed 1566). Later Western occultism took the four-fold order from there. 3Tradition: Paracelsus, Liber de Nymphis, Sylphis, Pygmaeis et Salamandris Overview
What Defines This GroupingBeings assigned one to each of the four classical elements. This is a specific Western esoteric scheme rather than a general folk belief: the four-fold order is Paracelsus's, and later occultism took it from him. 2Tradition: Paracelsus, Liber de Nymphis, Sylphis, Pygmaeis et Salamandris Learn More
The elemental spirits
This small group holds an elemental spirit, a being bound to one of the classical elements of earth, water, air or fire, a conception developed especially in Western esoteric tradition, where each element has its own order of spirits.
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