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Five Elements

Space

Air

Fire

Water

Earth

Akash, vyom, shunya

Vayu, marut, pavan

Tejas, Agni

Apas, ap, jala

Prithvi, kshiti, bhmi

Element Sanskrit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C5%ABmihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C5%ABmi


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Five Elements

Space

Air

Fire

Water

Earth

Expansiveness

Mobility

Temperature

Fluidity

Solidity

Element Quality


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Tattva Akash Vayu Tejas Apas Prithvi

Element Ether Air Fire Water Earth

Color Black Blue Red White Yellow

Mantra Ha Ya Ra Va La

Planet Saturn Mercury Mars Venus, Moon Sun

Regent Sudashiva Ishwara Rudra Narayana Brahma

Element A.Z.F. Grape juice Red meat Fish Grains

Elemental Punctas Sylphs, fairies Salamanders Ondines, mermaids Gnomes, pygmies


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The Mother Letters

Aleph

Air1

Mem

Water13

Shin

Fire21


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The four ordeals, from Atalanta fugiens, by Michael Maier, 1618.


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Ordeals of Air

We face the loss of what we love, whatevergives us material or personal security, etc.

Tests our psychological mobility, attachments,capacity for withstanding great adversities,and detachment from material things

Signs in dreams and visions: of falling, or onthe edge of a cliff, or in a high place


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Ordeals of Fire

We will be persecuted, wronged, criticized,

blocked, obstructed, betrayed, etc., in order toarouse our anger.

Tests our temperature, serenity, sweetness.

Signs in dreams and visions: of flames, fires


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Ordeals of Water

Our circumstances will change radically.

Tests our fluidity, adaptability, altruism,philanthropy

Signs in dreams and visions: drowning,raging waves or seas, floods


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Ordeals of Earth

We will be obstructed, have no way to proceedwith our goals, be restrained or weighed

down. Tests our solidity, perseverance, ability to deal

with inconveniences.

Signs in dreams and visions: of being crushedbetween boulders or mountains, buried alive,climbing a mountain, rolling down a mountain


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Astrology Air: Gemini, Libra

and Aquarius

Fire: Aries, Leo andSagittarius

Water: Cancer,

Scorpio, and Pisces Earth: Taurus, Virgo

and Capricorn


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Five Elements

Space

Air

Fire

Water

Earth

Expansiveness

Mobility

Temperature

Fluidity

Solidity

Element Quality


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Fifth Element

Literally quintessence fromLatinquinta,quintus "fifth" +essentia (essence) "being, essence,"abstract noun formed in imitationof Greekousia "being, essence,"from ontos, einai "to be", fromessent-, esse "to be".


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Space, ther,Ether, Akash

THER, in esotericism, is thevery quintessence of all possibleenergy, and it is certainly to thisuniversal agent (composed of many

agents) that all the manifestationsof energy in the material, psychicand spiritual worlds are due.

- Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Ah

Ha


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