Classical element

Eish.

Ruach, mayim, ofor, fire, wind, water, and earth.

Fire, wind, and water are higher elements.

They're more spiritual elements.

Physiologists have had to take up the organic action, hitherto with not much success.

But so far as is known to me, the four elements have not been exhibited in their combination and their mutual relation by anyone.

Some may prefer to call by the name of aspect what I have called element, and to this I do not object.

The emotion is, after all, one, with four aspects determined by four elements.

Psychology, The Motive Powers by James McCosh.

Book one.

The four elements or aspects of emotion.

First element, appetences or motives.

Okay, welcome back, friends.

This is the Empowered Jewish Living Podcast, and this is part four of the book launch series for my new book, The Four Elements of Elevated Prayer.

Friends, I am so happy that you are here and that you are joining us for part four.

I'm imagining that if you're here, you've listened to the first three parts of the book launch series.

What is prayer? How do we define prayer? How do we define formal prayer versus informal prayer? We discussed in the second episode prayer as a state of mind, mochen de godless, expanded consciousness.

Last episode, we spoke about pretty much an overview of how the book is structured.

I read to you the table of contents and shared with you how the entire book revolves around the four elements principle, showing that the same four four stages of prayer, Birchas HaShachar, the morning blessings, stage two is Psuche De Zimra, verses of song, stage three is the Shema and its blessings, and stage four is the Amidah.

And we shared that the reason that our sages decided to structure the morning service into four parts is because all journeys of ascension or all journeys that help us get in touch with our inner world always present themselves in stages of four.

This, monks, is called the diversity of elements.

[chime] Two: The Four Elements.

Monks, there are these four elements.

What four? The earth element, the water element, the heat element, the air element.

But, monks, those ascetics and brahmans who understand as they really are the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these four elements, these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmans among brahmans.

And these venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahmanhood.

Those ascetics or brahmans, monks, who do not understand as they really are the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of the four elements, these I do not consider to be ascetics among ascetics.

But, monks, those ascetics and brahmans who understand these things, these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmans among brahmans.

So it wasn't actually in alignment with his, which means we couldn't carry on together doing it.

So that was what the four elements came out of.

And...

And it's still going in that structure.

I'm keep hearing that now.

It's a repeat.

So can you talk us through the four elements? Yeah.

Your program, if that's the right word or how you take people through that