To the reader who knows little or nothing of the classical elements, a word of explanation may be helpful. Nearly every culture through-out time and across the world have had some form of teachings related to the symbology of the four elements. Namely; Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. It is widely acknowledged that the four elements make all life on earth possible.  The Ancient Essenes whom, Jesus had learned from in his 'silent years', had a sacred text called  "The Essene Book Of Creation" that was discovered amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls and also in the secret archives of the Vatican. In this text it is said: "Without beginning the Law creates thought and living matter."  

The word translated here as "Law" is the Hebrew Tetragrammaton; the 4-lettered-name-of God which is associated to the 4-elements. Aristotle is certainly respected by modern intellectuals and by many modern materialistic scientists. However, in these same circles the elements are often thought as primitive artifacts and unimportant for meditation although it was Aristotle himself who is the first known author to write about them in 450 BC.  More importantly, to our living minds today, meditation on them has the power, through metaphor, to transmute the perception of the seeker. When we allow the mind to be as Mercury; flowing and reflective, we use the Universal Picture Language of Spirit, alive in metaphor we transmute our understanding. Our labor begins in wonder, but when we have done our best, the wonder is not distilled out of us. Wonder (being of the most noblest substance of our souls) remains, but there has been added some grasp of the immensity of things --a purification of emotion created from our understanding. 

 

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