The Four Elements

[zvonimir]

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excerpt from the book.....

2. The Principle of Fire ~
As it has been said before, akasa or the etheric principle is the cause of the origin of the
elements. According to the oriental scriptures, the first element born from akasa is believed
to be Tejas, the principle of fire. This element as well as all the others manifest their
influence not only in our roughly material plane but also in everything created. The basic
qualities of the fiery principle are heat and expansion. In the beginning of all things created
therefore must have been fire and light, and in the Bible we read: “Fiat Lux” – There shall be
light. The origin of the light, of course, is to be sought in the fire. Each element and therefore
that of fire, too, has two polarities, i.e., the active and the passive one, which means positive
(+) and negative (-). Plus will always signify the constructive, the creative, the productive
sources whereas minus stands for all that is destructive or dissecting. There are always two
basic qualities, which must be clearly distinguished in each element. Religions have always
imputed the good to the active and the evil to the passive side. But fundamentally spoken,
there are no such things as good or bad; they are nothing but human conceptions. In the
Universe there is neither good nor evil, because everything has been created according to
immutable rules, wherein the Divine Principle is reflected and only by knowing these rules,
shall we be able to come near to the Divinity.