THIS IS THE FIFTH BLOG ON THE FOUR ELEMENTS AND BEINGS

All the Beings are made of the same "stuff' - we are all stardust but each Being has a different purpose and vibration and is animated by a different "Wind" or breath.

As above so below, as is the microcosm so is the macrocosm, as is the DNA molecule so is the human body. Leaving the Four Directions behind for now ... 

Just as DNA forms a spiral, so do the sun and moon channels spiral up the central channel in chakra energy anatomy. The spiral is an ancient archetypal figure - it has no bottom or top and can also represent infinity.

As the vibration increases from earth to water, water to fire, fire to air and air to ether so does the vibration change as we travel upward through our chakras (as well as it does with the various Beings of the Four Directions.) 

THE STILL BEINGS AND EARTH ELEMENT

The value of the elements to the talking beings can best be appreciated by understanding how they can help us. 

The earth and the Still Beings (also stars and planets) can not only ground us but provide precious and semi-precious objects not just for consumerism but for meaning especially when it comes to crystals and spiritually charged gem stones. Various metals can also have different vibrations and meanings. We must find those properties some may have for our own individual wholeness and healing. Gold and silver were admired for spiritual reasons but now have become more identified with wealth, power and ego. 
Silver is a powerful antibacterial and is still used in burns today. Holy water was stored in silver containers as was milk to prevent it from going sour.  Silver has also been used to protect, and counter dark forces. The moon energy of silver can be said to represent the yoga moon, feminine, blue, cool, restrictive channel spiraling up the spine. It can open the sixth chakra or Third Eye of intuition. Silver settings for precious and semiprecious stones can enhance their power.
Gold on the other hand has the sun, masculine, red, hot, expansive energy of the sun channel and is said to help open the Crown chakra. The Anunakim or fallen angels came down to earth not only to consort with women but to find and mine gold. The Bahai faith has many meanings for the spiritual effects of gold. Monoatomic gold is said to have mysterious properties.
The Still Beings in Kabbalah represent the West, the bear and the archangel Gabriel who represents strength and courage but also maybe the grounding effect of the earth element.
The San Bushmen hunter gatherers of the Kalahari are intimately connected with all the elements and their Beings. They sleep on the earth (around the fire for protection) connecting with it on many levels with their digging sticks which provide more than 60% of their food. This they find mostly as roots and tubers deep underground where they have enough water to sustain themselves. All these connections help them glean intuitive wisdom beyond their five senses which they need to survive in a hostile environment.

THE GROWING BEINGS AND WATER ELEMENT

Water is the element of the Growing Beings of the North and can cleanse and purify especially when converted to steam. Water is an amazing shape shifter. 
Check out also the miracles (PROVEN by the Vatican Medical Commission) of spontaneous remissions of incurable diseases at Lourdes by devotees bathing in her waters. There are other places where powerful healing waters are encountered.

The Growing Beings apart from providing food, shelter and tools have been a source of powerful allopathic medicine for eons; digitalis (foxglove,) curare, morphine and opiates, cocaine (local anesthetic and hemostatic) no longer used because of abuse, periwinkle  (chemotherapy - vincristine and vinblastine) and I could go on... Indigenous peoples could also not have survived  without their many medicinal and spiritual benefits.

The spiritual merits of plants are grossly underestimated because of Western cognitive beliefs which maintain that if you cannot show a proven benefit it cannot exist. 
Even Einstein said; 
"not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts." 
Anything with aroma can protect and call spirit guides especially if the scent is enhanced when burnt as incense.  A red colored plant can protect - red is the universal color of protection in many spiritual belief systems. 

THE FIRE ELEMENT

Fire is the element of the Talking Beings in the South, maybe because just as fire can inspire and transform, it can also destroy. Of all the Beings we are the most destructive. It is also the element of the third "power" chakra in the solar plexus below the rib cage or the way we make our way in the world regarding our survival needs. However, too frequently this occurs at the expense of the survival of the other three Beings.

The Native American sweat lodge incorporates all of the elemental, "Being" and directional ingredients for a powerful spiritual experience. 
Fire is used to transform water into steam by pouring it onto red hot rocks (Still Beings) as well as transforming aromatic spiritual plants (Growing Beings) into incense. There is also the Coherent ("Maharishi") effect of the participators, meditating, praying and chanting together associate with heat driven purification. The Wild Beings are represented as power animals and are spiritually present as are the Talking Ancestors.

THE AIR ELEMENT

Air is the element of the wild beings of the East. When we go above the diaphragm we leave behind our survival needs below when we open the fourth heart chakra of love represented by the air element. This is the most difficult chakra to manage and is the gateway to the higher chakras above; fifth - creative expression, sixth (Third eye) - our intuitive and paranormal abilities and Crown (seventh) - our connection with the God head, ether or AYIN Nothingness, the cosmos and the breath of the Creator. 
Hence the power of pranayama that can be a driving force in moving energy from the lower three survival chakras into the four higher ones above the diaphragm.

Air, the highest vibration, is the element of the Wild beings who are doing exactly what the Creator planned for them, unlike most of us. Credo Mutwa, the powerful Zulu seer states that the birds or winged beings have the highest vibration of all maybe because they have mastered the air element and also sing and chant to "enchant" the planet and other Beings. 

Sacred sound, song, chanting, gongs, drums, rattles, Tibetan and crystal bowls etc as well as incense which have extremely high 

(or low vibrations depending on their nature and our intention e.g.  some rap, heavy metal...) 

can greatly assist us in our healing, wholeness and meditative practices.

Possibly we do too much damage as a whole to earn the air vibration unless we choose to do so through spiritual transformation. 
The elements, their chakras and their affects are represented below.

If we extrapolate these principles to the Caduceus of healing we also can appreciate its literal replication of the chakras, the Kundalini serpent like feminine power and the wings of the transcendent Crown.
Perfected or enlightened beings have mastered even the ether vibration of Nothingness and the Crown and can recognize the Creator's breath within us. 
Kabir says; 
"What is God, the breath within the breath."

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Next week we will focus on plant power.