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    The Elements and Their Inhabitants
    The Elements and Their Inhabitants
    The Elements and Their Inhabitants
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    The Elements and Their Inhabitants

    Written by Manly Palmer Hall

    Narrated by Dennis Logan

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    FOR the most comprehensive and lucid exposition of occult pneumatology (the branch of philosophy dealing with spiritual substances) extant, mankind is indebted to Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), prince of alchemists and Hermetic philosophers and true possessor of the Royal Secret (the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life). Paracelsus believed that each of the four primary elements known to the ancients (earth, fire, air, and water) consisted of a subtle, vaporous principle and a gross corporeal substance.

    Air is, therefore, twofold in nature-tangible atmosphere and an intangible, volatile substratum which may be termed spiritual air. Fire is visible and invisible, discernible and indiscernible--a spiritual, ethereal flame manifesting through a material, substantial flame. Carrying the analogy further, water consists of a dense fluid and a potential essence of a fluidic nature. Earth has likewise two essential parts--the lower being fixed, terreous, immobile; the higher, rarefied, mobile, and virtual. The general term elements has been applied to the lower, or physical, phases of these four primary principles, and the name elemental essences to their corresponding invisible, spiritual constitutions. Minerals, plants, animals, and men live in a world composed of the gross side of these four elements, and from various combinations of them construct their living organisms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRolled Scroll Publishing
    Release dateFeb 18, 2021
    ISBN9781664972063

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    • 5/5
      Wondefully narrated! Looking forward to get squinted with more of Hall’s rich scholarship . Thank you for making this possible!!!

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    • 4/5
      An excellent preview of the elements and those beings that inhabit each kingdom. I definitely recommend this if you are a novice looking to deepen your innerstanding of the great wheel.