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	The Four Elements - Lesson Eight: Modes and Elements - Introduction - Astrodienst
		Clare: The fifth element is known as the ‘quintessence’, the force itself which holds all of the four elements together in a living being.
		The four elements in alchemy are portrayed in Johann Daniel Mylius’ Philosophia reformata (1622) as representing the four stages of the alchemical opus.
		Four as the minimal number by which order can be created represents the pluralistic state of the man who has not yet attained inner unity, hence the state of bondage and disunion, of disintegration, and of being torn in different directions - an agonizing, unredeemed state which longs for union, reconciliation, redemption, healing and wholeness.
	www.astro.com /mtp/mtp82_e.htm?cid=kjsfile1Ttjbx-u1007719683 (2266 words)

	THE GREEK, INDIAN, & CHINESE ELEMENTS
		With a theory based on that of the four elements, by the Middle Ages health was though to depend on a balance of four fluids, or humors, in the human body: fire corresponded to blood; air to yellow bile; water to phlegm; and earth to fl bile.
		The five Buddhist elements in the Far East thus should not be confused with the original five elements of Chinese philosophy.
		In the association with the elements, however, the archetypal Chinese dragon is associated with the East, and with the element Wood.
	www.friesian.com /elements.htm (5015 words)

	Four Worlds \| telshemesh.org
		There are four corners on the ritual garment called the tallit, four species of plants gathered together for the ritual bundle called the lulav, and four poles to hold up the Jewish wedding canopy known as the chuppah.
		Fourness reflects the ages of human experience: youth, maturity and generativity, reaching one's full power in mid-life, and the challenges and joys of old age.
		Fourness is like a table: for the table to stand, each of its four corners must be equally strong.
	telshemesh.org /four (641 words)

	Four Elements - AskTheBrain.com
		The four elements and three realms are taken from the elemental energy related to the zodiac sign in which the moon rises.
		Four Tc6 elements or partial elements have been cloned and the DNA sequences of three were determined.
		In the four ferromagnetic elements the magnetic effects are caused by the electrons in the inner orbits.
	www.askthebrain.com /element_four-.html (359 words)

	Astrology and The Four Elements
		He stated that these four elements were all equal, of the same age, that each rules its own province, and each posseses its own individual character.
		Most philosophers and alchemists also believed that the four elements exhibited itself in man as four varying natures and that one was more prevalent in each individual than the other three.
		It is the elemental quality of the sign the Sun resides in at the moment of birth.
	www.accessnewage.com /articles/astro/HIGELEMS.HTM (2008 words)

	The Four Elements
		This concept of element with heat and cold as two opposite types of energy and dryness and moisture as two opposite qualities of matter is the fundamental hypothesis which proceeds to explain the complicated phenomenon of human biology and psychology in physical terms.
		The four elements are earth and water (heavy), and fire and air (light).
		The four elements are sometimes referred to as "primary matter;" which, when admixed, gives rise to the various forms such as mountains and rivers.
	www.unani.com /four_elements.htm (930 words)

	Elemental: The Four Elements
		It divided the four elements, which ever since combine and separate under the opposing actions of Love and Strife to produce the changing world with its manifold objects and qualities.
		As a consequence, the four elements were unified into a sphere and segregated according to their type-- a quarter of the sphere was water, a quarter was air, and the remaining half was divided equally by earth and fire.
		The four personality variables of the Meyers-Briggs test (and its offshoots, the Keirsey test and the DDLI) (2) also appear to be a further development of this psychological philosophy.
	www.webwinds.com /thalassa/elemental.htm (1389 words)

	Astrology: The four elements: fire, air, earth ad water;
		Many astrologers consider the element of each of the planets when determining which of the elements may be more significant in a horoscope.
		The heavy concentration of the Earth element in your horoscope suggests that you are cautious, premeditative, conventional, and dependable.
		The limited presence of the Earth element in your horoscope suggests that you may have some difficulties dealing with practical and mundane issues; in fact it may be said that you are not really at home on the planet Earth.
	www.astrology-numerology.com /elements.html (3285 words)

	Four Element Theory of Temperaments: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water
		The common denominator of the different interpretations of the elements is that the elements are the substance out of which the form world is built.
		The elemental theory was associated with the humors and hence also with psychosomatic theories of illness and astrology.
		The crux of the elemental theory is that for health to exist, the elements must be in balance or adequately managed.
	www.cancerchecklist.com /inner_life/four_elements.html (863 words)

	The Alchemist's Ether: Quintessence of the Elements.
		The meaning of this phrase is the intermingling of the four elements within the Ether structure, i.e., the interactions of the four elements within an ethereal space-datum produced the Sulfur, Salt and Spirit.
		The four elements are present in each of the three 2-dimensional systems, which means there are three sets of four elements in operation, the Sulfur set, Salt set, and Spirit set.
		The two I or elemental forms, yin and yang, correspond to the active and inactive elements of a binary line, and the four Hsiang (emblematic symbols), to the four elements of the alchemists.
	www.alchemylab.com /quantum2.htm (1461 words)

	Rotation of the Elements
		The rotation of the elements is a key alchemical procedure, the principal means by which the purified essence of a substance is extracted and raised to its most sublime state.
		The four qualities are the key to understanding the rotation of the elements and many other applications of the symbology of the four elements.
		The four elements must be combined in a special way, for the Quintessence is not simply a chaotic mixture of the elements.
	www.meta-religion.com /Esoterism/Alchemy/rotation_of_the_elements.htm (3539 words)

	Golden Dawn Research Center - The Four Elements in the Western Tradition
		Sets of four, like the four directions, are common all over the world, but not the Western Four Elements, the four roots, as Empedocles called them, of the Western world's view.
		Water might rather fill the role of lowest element for it is as deep as depth itself: sea-level is the bottom line from which we measure all geographical altitude.
		The four Elements, said by Empedocles to form the constitution of human beings, became identified by one of his followers, Philistion, with four qualities.
	www.golden-dawn.org /four_elements.html (3164 words)

	The Elements: Introduction
		The Elements also represent the stages in various processes of growth and transformation (embodied, for example, in the alchemical Rotation of the Elements), such as the stages in the Ascent of the Soul in Chaldean Theurgy (Divine Invocation), also discussed later.
		The elemental signs of Earth and Water have in common the pubic triangle, because these Elements are traditionally feminine and more passive, since they have in common the contracting, uniting Cool Power (see below on Coolness); the downward triangle also shows these elements are descending (Water and Earth fall).
		Finally, in the elemental signs for Air and Earth, the crossbar represents a denser or grosser (less subtle) form of the Element, as Earth is of Water, and Air of Fire.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/OM/BA/AGEDE/Intro.html (1994 words)

	Four Elements Renga: An Introduction and A Definition
		In the fifth century BCE, Empedocles, a Greek philosopher, developed a theory that the universe was composed of four basic elements: fire, earth, air and water.
		The body, he theorized, was composed of four "humours" corresponding to each of the elements.
		He believed the elements to be equal in importance and age; each possessed its own individuality and ruled its own province.
	thewordshop.tripod.com /asian/Japan/4elrenga.html (272 words)

	The Four (or Five) Elements
		The Four Elements - based on a diagram from Isidore of Seville, Liber de responsione mundi (Augsburg, 1472).
		identified four fundamental elements: earth, air, fire, and water (see diagram at top of page), which became the basis for western thinking about the natural (especially inanimate) world right up untill the rise of chemistry in the 18th centry.
		None of these are the same as the Atomic Elements of modern science, but rather represent the basic symbolic correspondences of the universe
	www.kheper.net /topics/cosmology/elements.html (225 words)

	§27. "Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements". III. The Early Religious Drama. Vol. 5. The Drama to 1642, ...
		Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements.
		But, besides these, there are other moralities extant, where, as in Skelton’s Magnyfycence, the old form is animated by new matter.
		The most remarkable among these plays is the Interlude of the Nature of the Four Elements by John Rastell (d.
	www.bartleby.com /215/0327.html (402 words)

	GameDev.net - Contests - Four Elements V
		Four Elements (or "4E," as many of us call it) is GameDev.net's biggest annual competition, running for about half a year.
		We give you four "elements," and you go off and make a game based around them.
		If you've seen Four Elements before, then you'll be pleased to hear that this year brings refinements to the structure we established last year.
	www.gamedev.net /community/contest/4e5 (265 words)

	Tarot of the Four Elements Review
		The Fool is surrounded by representations of the four elements of nature, and wears a traditional antler headdress, aligning himself with the shaman medicine healer.
		The Four of Water doubles the feeling of the two and, according to the book, could mean two couples combining their efforts, being fully engaged in an endeavour.
		However, I don’t think Tarot of the Four Elements is a good first deck for beginners, simply because Lerner introduces each card describing the traditional imagery and symbolism—but then proceeds to give her interpretation of the cards in light of Ericksen’s artwork.
	www.aeclectic.net /tarot/cards/tarot-four-elements/review.shtml (3617 words)

	Recycling Bin 50 - The Fantastic Four and the Four Elements (Jun 2001)
		The Arab alchemist Geber elaborated somewhat on the classical theory of four humors by postulating that these elements essentially boiled down to combinations of two properties, a kind of reasoning superficially similar to the notion that all particles of an atom, in their variety, derive from combinations of only a few minimal subatomic components.
		Perhaps one of the more dubious derivative theories connected with the four elements attempted to ascribe to four bodily fluids the responsibility for defining personality or, by their imbalances, creating sickness.
		Sets of four seem to have a kind of psychological appeal, including, but not limited to, the theory of four elements.
	www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/niven/142/recycleb/rb50.html (1709 words)

	The Four Elements in Astrology - Achernar
		Since it is possibly easier to relate four, rather than twelve, types to a more familiar conceptual model, I started with an attempt to fit the four elements into a diagram with Stability/Neuroticism on the X axis and Extraversion/Introversion on the Y axis.
		One can start at any of the four points in the cycle, indeed you may well be able to notice at which point you normally enter the cycle by looking at your horoscope and finding which element is most strongly represented.
		While it is not too difficult to treat the four elements to this type of analysis, some difficulties arise when trying to extend the model to include the twelve methods of expression represented by the twelve Signs of the Zodiac.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/jekyll/75/geometry.html (1389 words)

	The Four Elements
		According to the Empedocles, a Greek philosopher, scientist and healer who lived in Sicily in the fifth century B.C., all matter is comprised of four elements of earth, air, fire and water.
		He associated these elements with four gods and goddesses - air with Zeus, earth with Hera, fire with Hades, and water with Nestis (believed to be Persephone).
		The element water provides sensitivity and nurturing to the sometimes cold reserved earthly approach to matters, thereby laying the groundwork for future growth in the relationship At the same time remember in a fire/ water relationship balance can be achieved by realizing that water can inject needed sensitivity and patience into the fire sign.
	goldencupcafe.tripod.com /html/the_four_elements.html (1447 words)

	Elements and Elementals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The four elements of nature: Earth, Air, Fire and Water are the very foundations of creation and the basis of life itself.
		As the rays of their celestial bodies made contact with the crystallized influences of the lower world, they became the four elements linking humankind to nature, the heavens and the Divine.
		Our world is viewed of in terms of four physical elements - earth, water, air and fire (which roughly correspond to the four scientific forms of matter: solid, liquid, gas and plasma) - plus spirit.
	www.bewitchingways.com /wicca/elements/element.htm (246 words)

	Four Elements of a Successful Government Waste Commission
		Element #2: Examine All Agencies and Programs: A commission must be allowed to examine all federal agencies and programs.
		Element #3: Clear and Concise Criteria: A short and targeted list of criteria should be used to evaluate programs in order to allow a commission to be quick yet scientific in their analysis.
		Element #4: Expedited Legislative Action: A commission’s program termination and reduction proposals have the most likelihood of being implemented if Congress is required to vote up-or-down on the entire package of recommendations without any amendments.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Budget/wm1147.cfm (1535 words)

	Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn ® - The 4 Elements in the Western Mystery Tradition
		Elsewhere a fifth element sometime transcends, unites, or gives birth to the usual four "Hindu aether" or the "alchemist's quintessence" in China all five Elements rank equal.
		By the 6th Century BC the pre-Socratic philosophers of Greece were defining the nature of the physical universe, although earlier mythological connotations echo through their theories, with the Elements inspiring almost religious awe.
		Alchemy similarly implied that Air was the supreme element, connecting it with the final, most spiritual of the four phases of the opus, the sublimatio, the stage of the hieros gamos the holy marriage or ultimate conjuctio.
	www.esotericgoldendawn.com /mysteries_fourelements.htm (3185 words)

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