The Four Elements

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OCCUIT PHILOSOPHY OE MAGIC
BY THE FAMOUS MYSTIC
HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA

https://ia802904.us.archive.org/12/items...00agri.pdf

found interesting insight into the 4 elements if anyone is interested.....

Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions.
There are four Elements, and original grounds of all
corporeal things—Fire, Earth, Water, Air—of which
all elemented inferior bodies are compounded; not by
way of heaping them up together, but by transmutation
and union; and when they are destroyed they are
resolved into Elements. For there is none of the
sensible Elements that is pure, but they are more or
the rest of the Elements are changed, as into this, so
into one another successively. But it is the opinion of
the subtler sort of Philosophers, that Earth is not
changed, but relented and mixed with other Elements,
which do dissolve it, and that it returns back into
itself again.* Now, every one of the Elements hath
two specifical qualities—the former whereof it retains
as proper to itself; in the other, as a mean, it agrees
with that which comes next after it. For Fire is hot
and dry, the Earth dry and cold, the Water cold and
moist, the Air moist and hot. f And so after this manner
the Elements, according to two contrary qualities,
are contrary one to the other, as Fire to Water, and
Earth to Air.
less mixed, and apt to be changed one into the other:
Even as Earth becoming dirty, and being dissolved,
becomes Water, and the same being made thick and
hard, becometh Earth again; but being evaporated
through heat, passeth into Air, and that being kindled,
passeth into Fire ; and this being extinguished, returns
back again into Air; but being cooled again after its
burning, becomes Earth, or Stone, or Sulphur, and this
is manifested by Lightning. Plato also was of that
opinion, that Earth was wholly changeable, and that

Agrippa is a particularly close life to me. This is an alchemical approach to understanding of the Elements but Agrippa covered a lot of ground so doesn't have a lot of context on its own, however there is some very key information in this passage.