The Elements

[Nau7ik]

There are different ways of looking st the elements. (I recommended looking through my previous thread “Book of Thoth - Tarot”. There we had a discussion of the elements and the philosophy behind their activity. There are a few different perspectives, all Illuminating.)

The elements can be seen as the physical elements; earth, water, fire, air. examples of these are obvious.

Then there is what we call the “elements of the wise” or types of activity.
Which can be further classified under “force” and “form”. Fire as unconditioned force, air as conditioned force; earth as totally inert form and water as an active type of form.

“Elemental fire, however, is a kind of over-state of matter with which only the most advanced physics has any acquaintance. It might best be called a state of relationships rather than a thing in itself. Elemental Air might be described as a capacity to achieve these relationships, and as such is the vital principle of physical life; for it is only in so far as matter has a capacity for organization that organic substance is possible. Elemental Water, the Water of the Wise, is just plain protoplasm; and Elemental Earth is inorganic matter.” - The Mystical Qabalah