05-20-2016, 03:57 PM
(05-20-2016, 03:41 PM)anagogy Wrote: I'm familiar with the idea as it is portrayed in magical literature. I have no particular objection to it (nor attraction to it). The four elements arise out of being, which is commonly considered by many practitioners to be the fifth element (especially in relation to the formation of the pentagram). My philosophy is: if it is functional and useful to you in your rituals, visualization, and magical practices and you are getting good results from them, there is no reason to exclude it. I can certainly see the logic of it, and honestly it's interesting you brought that up because the "fifth element" as been on my mind a lot as of late, which is usually an indication to me that there is something there to be "decoded" about it that is being confused in popular literature. I'm just not entirely sure what yet. More research is needed. What are your thoughts in regards to it?
Well, I have considered this quite a bit and I've seen the elements laid over the centers in all sorts of ways. At first I was in to this idea and the ideas that different levels would correspond with different elements, but the numbers have been continuously elusive. As I'm sure you have surmised there is no really easy way to fit them in without some creative license (such as you combining the elements for 'transitional' centers) and that is something I can get behind, but like you I still have this lingering sense that things are not quite understood and the story isn't quite complete.
I would say that the easiest way for me to approach it is from a 12 center system, a full octave, rather than a system of 7 in which case the elements would actually be associated with the major movements in the octave. For example:
Root - Red-Ray
Root to Sacral - Earth
Sacral - Orange-Ray
Sacral to Solar Plexus - Water
Solar Plexus - Yellow-Ray
Solar Plexus to Heart - Fire
Heart - Green-Ray
Throat - Blue-Ray
Throat to Third Eye - Air
Third Eye - Indigo-Ray
Third Eye to Crown - Spirit
Crown - Violet-Ray
As you can see, I've followed the note structure of C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B.
Thus, as you can see, in my conception the elements are more a mixture of light which occurs between rays, rather than being correlated with the rays themselves.