… In this day and age people think spirituality is about me and spirituality and religion have become all about me and myself and people who want spiritual growth really just want to adorn themselves, to dress in robes and in different garments. Psychologically to give off a certain appearance or to feel certain things they want to feel comforted or feel secure because they are as they say “spiritual”. The real spiritual person is in connection in dialogue with their inner being this is not something vague or invented or fantasized it is experienced. True spirituality is the direct connection between the terrestrial person and the spiritual man. Ātman, our inner Buddha real spirituality begins when that connection is established so spiritual growth can be defined in that way.
First accessing and acquiring that connection so that we no longer believe in God or theorize about our inner self or inner spirit we know it. We can experience it, we can taste it, we can touch it, we can talk to it, we can get information from it, we know what it is. Through our experience that is the beginning of real spiritual growth so we need to know the elements that cause that to occur the reason we don’t have spiritual growth now and the reason, we don’t know our innermost now because we don’t know the elements and we don’t know the spirit we’re in a deep state of ignorance.
In the ancient scriptures of Hinduism, we find a quote that explains the elements for spiritual growth, and this is in the Taittirīya Upanishad which is very ancient writing this Upanishad States:
“From Ātman did space come into being;
from space, air;
from air, fire;
from fire, the waters;
from the waters, the earth;
from the earth, plants;
from plants, food;
and from the food, man…” - Taittirīya Upanishad
this is outlining the unfolding of elements in the spiritual sense.
This scripture explains that from Ātman did space come into being… Ātman is a Sanskrit word that literally translated means self it means our spiritual self what some people call our real self we can say it is our real being, we can say it is our innermost or in Christian terms are in her father.
space comes into being, space here is not physical space it isn’t the space outside of this planet, it is a psychological and spiritual space this phrase from Ātman did space come into encompassing the first few lines of the book of Genesis [Genesis 1:2] Wherein the beginning the earth was formless and void that formless and void is absolute.
What in Hebrew is called the Ain the Ain soph (Ein Sof) and the aim soph aur or in Sanskrit terms this is Śūnyatā in Buddhist terms it is called Samantabhadra or adi-buddha it’s the level of existence or level of beingness that is empty that is ultimate that is the repository of all potential it is not nothing but it is also not something that is this space and as it comes into being it becomes what we call Akash in Sanskrit terms.
Akash is the root vibration of the pure potentiality that’s entering into manifestation it is the root energy or root substance of everything we can call it mullah Prakriti the seed root of all things the root energy.
so from this space came air;
from the air came fire;
from the fire came the waters;
from the waters the earth;
These four elements we find in every major tradition in the world they were known in Babylonia Khalidiya amongst the Greeks and Romans amongst the ancient Chinese the Daoists amongst the Hindus and the Buddhists in every tradition in the world. These four elements have been described in varying ways, but they’re not talking about physical elements they’re talking about subtle energies psychological spiritual forces.
In nature in everything in every level from the absolute down the space the absolute comes into being that is the
manifestation in the four worlds of Kabbalah this is the movement from Atziluth into Briah where the archetypes move into creation. That process of creation is where the space becomes air, fire, water, earth. Everything that exists emerges out of the space so all the way to the top of the Tree of Life we see Kether, the crown, the Father, the Adi-Buddha. That Adi-Buddha the Ancient of Days comes into being through air, fire, water, earth but in the level of Kether.
SO where this affects us is how we have come into being our inner consciousness our true nature enters in a manifestation in the way that’s described here at the ultimate root of our self is space inside that space is Atman the true self. That is the Ain soph and what emerges out of that Ain soph is array of light the Ain soph aur or the ray of okidanokh, the rate of creation it passes through that space. that space and Hinduism is called at the highest level Prakriti it becomes Akash. that Akash is space which becomes “air, fire, water, earth.”
Gradually, after many aeons of development, we became more knowledgeable and experienced with the inner relationship between consciousness, matter, and energy, so we then entered into the humanoid kingdom. That is, we are elementals who are in humanoid bodies. We are animals who have intellect. Now we find ourselves in a mess, because being in the humanoid kingdom for a while, we have made a lot of mistakes, and we have forgotten where we have come from. We have forgotten who we are. We need to learn.
The Fifth Element
Here are the five elements outlined in that scripture.
space: akash, vyom, shunya
air: vayu, marut, pavan
fire: tejas, Agni
water: apas, ap, jala
earth: prithvi, kshiti, bhūmi
Space is the first element to emerge out of the being. In Sanskrit it is called Akash, vyom, and Shunya, which related to Shunyata (the Absolute).
the fifth is the secret the fifth
so in most written scriptures and documents about the secret tradition, the fifth is left undefined the fifth is left unspoken or hidden.
space represents the attributes of the absolute so psychologically and spiritually it means expansiveness
In Chinese Taoism it’s all about the fifth element space the way of the dao is the way of being expensive
all-embracing all awareness all-encompassing unreactive capable of receiving anything and not being disturbed because there’s so much room in oneself.
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