‘There are Four Wands of elemental power. These are The Wand of Air, The Wand of Fire, The Wand of Water, and the Wand of the Earth’.
From The Magic of the Wand, by Erasmus of Salisbury, a seventeenth century occultist, alchemist and member of the Grand Illuminate of the Grail.
These Wands are faithful reproductions of some of the Virga Magicus that were said to have belonged to Erasmus of Salisbury. The originals were once in the possession of the great antiquarian and occult scholar, Mr Jeremiah Blacklock (1820 – 1886) who left them to the British Historical & Philosophical Society of London. They have been faithfully copied in style and form, but without any of the mystical sigils and signs that were inscribed on the original artefacts.
They are therefore for decoration only and have no magical properties.
The Wands we have currently on offer are:
The Hooded Wand, or Wand of the Earth
This wand represents the hooded form of the spirit of things hidden under the earth: efferre signa occulte. Its original use was the finding of treasure, corpses and other items buried under turned earth.
The Hooded Wand measures approximately 41cm in length.
The Wand of Odin
This ancient wand is carved in the likeness of the Norse God Odin, and is believed to have been used for the purposes of divination especially in the context of forthcoming battles or trading and commercial ventures entailing a physical risk.
The Wand of Odin measures approximately 41cm in length.
The Dragon Wand
The oldest wand of the entire collection; a wand of fire. It was once described as ‘the fulcrum by which time itself can be moved
‘. Only to be used by the most powerful adept, one who was capable of balancing the forces of nature.
The Dragon Wand measures approximately 40cm in length.
The Adept’s Wand
As the Entered Apprentice became a Journeyman, part of the ritual was the forging of their Athame. On attaining the rank of Master, then an Adept’s wand was to be fashioned and ordained. This is one such, and was used to find the true path over treacherous landscape and hidden fording points across rivers.
The Adept’s Wand measures approximately 49cm in length.
The Finger of Destiny
This ancient bone was used as a wand, although its origins are lost in the mist of time. A wand such as this was described in Malacheo Virgil’s Grimoire, written in 1660, and was used, we are told, for divination.
The Finger of Destiny measures approximately 35cm in length.
Each wand comes with a document commensurate with its style, age and antecedents, but as with all items discovered in our Cabinet of Curiosities, ‘non semper ea sunt quae videntur’.
Upon purchase, each wand will be packaged with utmost caution in a stout cardboard tube for despatch to all parts of the known - and unknown - world.