the four elements

"Tradition points to a grotto, a vast cave in the deserts of Central Asia, whereinto light pours through its four seemingly natural apertures or clefts placed crossways at the four cardinal points of the place.   From noon till an hour before sunset that light streams in, of four different colors, as averred - red, [...]

the four elements

"Whence came the four elements? Their origin is identical with that of the Cosmic gods of all other nations.   Their symbols, whether born on the shores of the Oxus, on the burning sands of Upper Egypt, or in the wild forests, weird and glacial, which cover the slopes and peaks of the sacred snowy [...]

the four elements

"Metaphysically and esoterically there is but ONE ELEMENT in nature, and at the root of it is the Deity; and the so-called seven elements, of which five have already manifested and asserted their existence, are the garment, the veil, of that deity;   direct from the essence whereof comes MAN, whether physically, psychically, mentally or [...]