The Four Elements

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Ra mentioned the Ezekiel's vision of the chariot (Merkabah/Merkavah/Mirkevet). This text became an important starting point in the Jewish mysticism (later Kabbalah). In this vision there were four divine beings and later in Christianity their faces were used as the symbols of the four gospels.

... As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces...

Maybe these faces could also correspond to the four elements. Man - earth, eagle - air, lion - fire, ox - water.

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Cherubim

‘The cherubim are winged creatures, but the form of them does not resemble that of any living creature seen by man’ (Josephus).

They signify presence of divinity and are guardians of the sacred and of the threshold.

As tetramorphs cherubim are the quaternary of elemental powers guarding the centre of Paradise which is inaccessible to the unregenerate man.

They combine the bull (Taurus), lion (Leo), eagle (Scorpio), and man (Aquarius), symbolizing the four elements, the four corners of the earth and, in Christianity, the four Evangelists.

After the Seraphim they are the highest of the nine orders of angels.

In heraldry a cherub is depicted as a child’s head (purity and innocence) between a pair of wings (spiritual nature).

Yahweh is 'enthroned’ upon the cherbuim’ (I Sam. 4,4).

The throne of the Temple of Jerusalem in the Holy of Holies was flanked by two cherubim and the throne was formed by their wings.

In certain occult conventions they are considered to be the ruling intelligences of the Four Elements of Malkuth. Note the Zodiacal associations are all Fixed.