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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Are the Elements? | |
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| The Qualities of the Elements | |
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| Air | |
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| Fire | |
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| Water | |
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| Earth | |
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| Air-Fire-Water-Earth | |
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| The Origins of Elemental Thinking | |
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| The Three Worlds | |
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| The Elements in Hinduism | |
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| We Arrive in Greece | |
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| Aristotle Adds One | |
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| Elemental Beings | |
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| Elementals | |
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| Guardians | |
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| The Elements in Nature | |
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| Air in Nature: Exercises | |
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| Sky and Breath | |
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| Sky and Cloud | |
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| Sky and Bird | |
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| Up and Down | |
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| Wind and Skin | |
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| Fire in Nature: Exercises | |
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| Fire Gazing | |
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| The Devouring Fire | |
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| In Fire's Wake | |
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| Water in Nature: Exercises | |
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| Walkin' in the Rain | |
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| Water Gazing, in Motion | |
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| Water Gazing Still | |
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| Earth in Nature: Exercises | |
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| Plant Yourself | |
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| Gathering Stones | |
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| Points of Power | |
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| A Small Cairn | |
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| The Elements in Us | |
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| Your Astrological Elements | |
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| Elemental Qualities of the Self | |
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| Your Personal Element Quiz | |
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| Determining Your Elemental Makeup | |
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| The Four Elemental Personalities | |
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| Elemental Pairings | |
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| The Sixteen Basic Personality Types | |
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| The Jung at Heart | |
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| Myers-Briggs | |
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| Your Elemental Life Role Quiz | |
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| Determining Your Current Life Role | |
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| Life Roles in the Tarot | |
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| Determining Your Basic Elemental Character Type | |
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| The Court Cards as Life Roles | |
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| The Sixteen Basic Elemental Character Types | |
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| Becoming Balanced | |
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| Balance: A Pagan Essential | |
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| Balance Is Addition | |
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| The Way of Four | |
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| Positive Elemental Qualities | |
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| Things I Like About Myself Quiz | |
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| Negative Elemental Qualities | |
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| How to Use the Balance Chart and Balance Worksheet | |
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| Balance Chart | |
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| Balance Worksheet | |
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| Elemental Strength Balancing Exercise | |
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| Preparation | |
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| The Meditation | |
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| General Elemental Meditations | |
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| How to Do These Meditations | |
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| The Meditation of Air | |
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| The Meditation of Fire | |
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| The Meditation of Water | |
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| The Meditation of Earth | |
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| Automatic Writing and Speaking Exercises | |
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| Automatic Writing and Speaking Pointers | |
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| Incorporating Automatic Writing/Speaking into the Meditations | |
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| The Elements in Daily Life | |
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| The Elements at Home | |
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| Air in the Home | |
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| Fire in the Home | |
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| Water in the Home | |
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| Earth in the Home | |
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| Household Elements Quiz | |
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| What About Everything Else? | |
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| Bringing Elements into Your Home on Air | |
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| Aromatherapy in the Home | |
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| The Elements and Your Body | |
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| Elemental Attire: The Air, Fire, Water, and Earth of Clothing and Accessories | |
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| Who Is Wearing What? Quiz | |
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| Elemental Attire | |
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| Elemental Perfumes | |
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| Elemental Beauty Treatments | |
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| Beautifying Your Coven or Group | |
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| Elemental Eating | |
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| The Elements at Work and in Love | |
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| The Elements at Work | |
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| Your Work Element Quiz | |
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| Air at Work | |
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| Fire at Work | |
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| Water at Work | |
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| Earth at Work | |
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| Working Elements in Combination | |
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| Bringing the Elements to Work | |
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| Bringing Air to Work | |
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| Bringing Fire to Work | |
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| Bringing Water to Work | |
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| Bringing Earth to Work | |
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| The Elements in Love | |
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| Elements in Relationship | |
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| Air in Relationship | |
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| Fire in Relationship | |
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| Water in Relationship | |
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| Earth in Relationship | |
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| Why Do You Give Your Ladylove Flowers? | |
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| Elemental Love Songs | |
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| Four Dates | |
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| An Air Date | |
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| A Fire Date | |
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| A Water Date | |
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| An Earth Date | |
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| The Elements in Ritual and Spellcraft | |
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| The Elements in Ritual | |
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| The Elements as Building Blocks | |
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| The Elements as Symbols | |
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| The Elements on the Altar and as Tools | |
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| The Elements as Themselves | |
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| Using the Elements in Ritual | |
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| Using the Elements as Symbols or Tools | |
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| The Elements at the Quarters | |
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| Summoning the Power of the Directions | |
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| Summoning Elementals at the Quarters | |
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| Summoning Guardians at the Quarters | |
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| The Four Elements Working | |
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| Beginning the Ritual | |
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| Raising the Power | |
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| Speaking the Elements | |
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| Balancing and Centering | |
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| The Elements in Spells | |
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| Elemental Purpose and Focus in Spells | |
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| The Elemental Purpose of a Spell | |
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| Some Differences Between People and Spells | |
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| Using the Four Elements in a Spell | |
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| Using Air in a Spell | |
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| Using Fire in a Spell | |
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| Using Water in a Spell | |
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| Using Earth in a Spell | |
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| Four Spells | |
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| The Air Spell: Improving School Performance | |
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| The Fire Spell: Freedom from Obsession | |
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| The Water Spell: Finding Love | |
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| The Earth Spell: Bringing Money | |
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| Preparation for Meditation or Magic | |
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| Your Magical Room | |
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| The Room | |
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| Meditation Checklist | |
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| Grounding and Centering | |
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| Grounding and Centering Meditation | |
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| Merging | |
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| Generic Invocations | |
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| Invocations in Sets of Four | |
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| Four Formal Invocations | |
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| Four Informal Invocations | |
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| Musical Accompaniment for Each Element | |
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| Air Music | |
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| Fire Music | |
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| Water Music | |
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| Earth Music | |
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| The Way of Four Balancing Exercises | |
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| The Way of Four Meditation | |
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| The Way of Four Ritual | |
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| Charts | |
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| Color Groupings | |
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| Elemental Herbs, Flowers, and Other Plants | |
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| Herbs of Air | |
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| Herbs of Fire | |
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| Herbs of Water | |
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| Herbs of Earth | |
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| Elemental Gems and Stones | |
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| Stones of Air | |
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| Stones of Fire | |
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| Stones of Water | |
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| Stones of Earth | |
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| Magical Alphabets | |
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| Runic and Theban | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |