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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
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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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