![]() Perhaps there is a mental flash or perception about the true nature of this place, the genius loci.įire: Hidden deep under all these layers lies the “essential being” of the plant, the place or the person – that understanding which we know intuitively in our hearts.Īs Thornton Smith says, “All of these Elements woven together is what we recognize as the different levels of our own being as ‘landscape.’ We have then touched something so profound that our lives can be changed and our creativity transformed – for whatever we subsequently do there.” ![]() We then move on to connect ourselves with the fluidity of the place in this process of time and space.Īir: Here we connect with an inward process coloured by our likes and dislikes, our soul moods mixed with moods of whatever or whoever we meet. Water: Next we perceive the changes and flowing nature of the light, the sun, the time of day and year, of everything which grows and develops. #4 ELEMENTS OF NATURE SKIN#We meet this world of outer manifestation with the outer part of ourselves, our skin and our other sense organs. ![]() A brief summary of this adventure is as follows:Įarth: We begin with the rock and the earth which we meet outwardly with our senses. #4 ELEMENTS OF NATURE HOW TO#Richard Thornton Smith in his book Cosmos, Earth and Nutrition, the Biodynamic Approach to Agriculture, points out that Paracelsus (1493-1541) proposed the following the quality of physical manifestation is associated with the Element of Earth the Element of Water corresponds to the quality of life while the Element of Air is associated with the quality of space and the Fire Element corresponds with the quality of transformation.Īt one point in his book, Thornton Smith takes the reader on a guided journey to a landscape and shows us how to look at the layers of that landscape through the lens of the Four Elements. One way of identifying these formative forces is by way of capitalizing them Earth as an Element takes on a different value than earth as soil. Instead, we need to understand them in terms of their dynamic qualitative action. ![]() To better grasp these principles, it is helpful to overcome our habit of using these terms solely as they relate to nature. Ancient Greek tradition blended esoteric and practical matters into the idea that the universe hinges on four basic principles: Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. ![]()
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