All Elements
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Musical works Elelments
Long before psychology developed its endlessly entertaining pastime of dividing human beings into types. Renaissance philosophy posited four basic temperaments based on the theory of the "humors" in the blood. These were the melancholic (earthy), the phlegmatic (watery), the sanguine (airy) and the choleric (fiery). George Herbert, in one of his lighter moods, wrote in 1640: The Choleric drinks, the Melancholic eats. the Phlegmatic sleeps.?, What the Sanguine does is left to the imagination, but as he is "ethereal" or airy, we may assume that he probably philosophizes.
Relating - Air, Water, Earth, Fire - The Psychological Types
Many sources were pilfered for this material. (Anything in parenthesis is either made up, channelled information by Cedar or is in disagreement with magickal authorities or people older, smarter and wiser than her.) PLANTS: Celtic trees - Aspen, Alder, Birch. Herbs - Anise, Lavender, Lemongrass.
Elemental Correspondences: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Spirit
5. Elemental Magic: Fire Water Earth Air / Wind Correspondences Chart Table and Element Symbols North-South-East-West, Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter
Indian tradition uses 5 elements, Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Ether, with variations between Hinduism and Ayurveda, and variable elemental deities and correspondences before and after the Aryan invasion, ... Note a very important difference between Plato and the other systems: the progression is linear , from fire to earth, from spirit to matter: therefore, Plato correspondences are suitable for linear events, but not for circular ones, just like seasons, ... the other approaches are better in this case. Aristotle claims :
Another mythological relationship which, like the music of the spheres has persisted, is the concept that pitch and colour are in some mysterious way related. Theories have been postulated by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872 -1915), the Rosicrucian Order and many others. Some of the synaesthetic correlations between colour and particular keys, chords, and pieces of music may be caused by the association of auras, or subjective ideas, but the intent here is to explore the possibilities of a connection through mathematics and physics, and to extend our knowledge about sound. Note: Colours displayed from this website may vary with equipment used. Scriabin 's theory was that each note in the octave could be associated with a specific colour, and in Prometheus, the Poem of Fire , he wrote the colours and music to match. His arrangement was:
LucyTuning - LucyScaleDevelopments - Colour, Pi and musical tuning
That file could not be found. This site underwent a massive reorganization in March 2011, but no articles were taken offline. The shrines and a few other things have been moved to NorthernPaganism.org . You might also check RavenKaldera.org .
Mastering the Elements
I Ching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The I Ching ( Wade-Giles ) or "Yì Jīng" ( pinyin ), also known as the Classic of Changes , Book of Changes and Zhouyi , is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts . [ 1 ] The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá system; in Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose. Traditionally, the I Ching and its hexagrams were thought to pre-date recorded history, [ 2 ] and based on traditional Chinese accounts, its origins trace back to the 3rd to the 2nd millennium BC. [ 3 ] Modern scholarship suggests that the earliest layer of the text may date from the end of the 2nd millennium BC, [ 4 ] but place doubts on the mythological aspects in the traditional accounts. [ 4 ] Some consider the I Ching' as the oldest extant book of divination, dating from 1,000 BC and before. [ 5 ] The oldest manuscript that has been found, albeit incomplete, dates back to the Warring States Period (around 475-221 BC). [ 6 ]Numerous astrological and metaphysical books give the impression that the Elements are more fundamental than the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, because the Signs can be broken down into groups of four elements. Identification of the Triplicities with the four Elements appears, however, relatively recent: the Twelve-Sign Zodiac existed more than 1,500 years before Aries, Leo and Sagittarius became the Fire Signs. Ptolemy makes no reference to the Elements in his writings on Astrology. He speaks of the trigons, or triplicites, but does not connect them with the Elements. He describes the planets in terms of the qualities hot. cold, moist and dry. Mars for example, is hot and dry, which, in the traditional system of correlation (see figure 1) , would correspond to Fire.
Golden Dawn Research Center - The Four Elements in the Western Tradition
The four classical elements were independently proposed by early Presocratic philosophers: water ( Thales ), air ( Anaximenes ), earth ( Xenophanes ), and fire ( Heraclitus ). Empedocles proposed that they all existed together in fixed quantities from the beginning, mixed and unmixed by Love and Hate.
THE GREEK, INDIAN, & CHINESE ELEMENTS -- SEVEN ELEMENT THEORY
The 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. Indeed, the rotation symbolizes an important transformative process, which manifests throughout the spiritual and material worlds, but to understand it we must review the symbolic structure of the four elements. The elements have been rich symbols for at least 2500 years, for they resonate with our deepest experience of the world. Empedocles, who first identified the four elements, compared them with gods: Through the ensuing millennia the familiar structure of the elements has enriched our understanding of many quaternities, but the correspondences have usually been established intuitively, and differences in emphasis have led to differing assignments.
The Wu Xing , ( 五 行 wŭ xíng) also known as the Five Phases , the Five Agents , the Five Movements , and the Five Steps/Stages , are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields. Within Chinese medicine texts the Wu Xing are also referred to as Wu Yun (五運 wŭ yùn) or a combination of the two chracters (Wu Xing-Yun) these emphasise the corresondence of five elements to five 'seasons' (four seasons plus one). Another tradition refers to the wu xing as wu de 五德, the Five Virtues ( zh:五德終始說 ).
Wu Xing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acupuncture & the 5 elements - Practice L. Spring-Taylor, Bern
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) of which acupuncture and the 5 Elements is a part, recognises that health is more than the absence of disease and it has a unique capacity to maintain and enhance our potential for well-being and happiness. Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest systems of medicine dating back almost 5000 years. The Taoist philosophers of that time were astute observers of nature and realised that the fundamental processes of the universe were a good basis for understanding life. Acupuncture is the most well known therapy of oriental medicine.For other uses of 4 elements, see Four elements (disambiguation). For other uses of 5 elements, see Five elements (disambiguation). Many philosophies and worldviews have a set of classical elements believed to reflect the simplest essential parts and principles of which anything consists or upon which the constitution and fundamental powers of anything are based. Most frequently, classical elements refer to ancient beliefs inspired by natural observation of the phases of matter. Historians trace the evolution of modern theory pertaining to the chemical elements , as well as chemical compounds and mixtures of natural substances to medieval , Islamic and Greek models. Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing , are now understood more figuratively.