Category: The Four Elements

"No one will deny that the human being is possessed of various forces; magnetic, sympathetic, antipathetic, nervous, dynamical, occult, mechanical, mental, - every kind of force; and that the physical forces are all biological in their essence, seeing that they intermingle with, and often merge into, those forces that we have named intellectual and moral [...]

"Let us close by reminding the reader that, without the smallest shadow of superstition, one may believe in the dual nature of every object on Earth - in the spiritual and the material, the visible and the invisible nature, and that science virtually proves this, while denying its own demonstration.   For if, Sir William [...]

"The ancients knew these powers so well, that, while concealing their true nature under various allegories, for the benefit (or the detriment) of the uneducated rabble, they never departed from the multiple objects in view, while inverting them.   They contrived to throw a thick veil over the nucleus of truth concealed by the symbol, [...]

"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, [...]

"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 [...]

"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 [...]