By the definition of Plato, elements represent what are they made and what complex bodies break up into.. In other words, the elements are simple, primordial substances, which, according to the esoteric traditions of all ancient civilizations, underlie both the Cosmos and the human.

  These elements are Fire, Air, Water and Earth, Ether and .....

  The word "universe" makes us feel something enormous, infinite, not amenable to either awareness or estimate so much that it seems to elude us. We prefer don't think about it, all the proposed explanations seem to us fantastic, devoid of logic, more likely the result of imagination than anything else. This is precisely the secret of the Cosmos: according to ancient traditions, it is the third step of a complex process, which was usually presented in the form of a triangle. The first stage of this process is Chaos; but chaos is not like a mess, but like an infinity, like something that could potentially manifest one day. Infinite Chaos is followed by Theos. This second stage comprises the sum of schemes, ideas and concepts that contribute to the transformation of the original Chaos, its organization and systematization. And, finally, the third phase of the process is Cosmos, which arises and is formed on the basis of both previous elements: Chaos, which gives infinity, and Theos, which gives shape and order.

   Universe, using the terminology of ancient teachings, begins to unfold, materialize, or, in other words, sequentially takes on more specific forms, passing through the seven stages, or elements, of this process.

   The 5 stages are close to us and are known ...

  The lowest, most concrete, material element is Earth. This is followed by the finer element - Water, the finer - Air and the thinnest - Fire. Behind them comes the fifth element, which is called Ether.
  The earth corresponds with matter, with everything that has dimensions that can be weighed, measured, moved. Earth is something that has a specific shape, weight, not only on the scale of Cosmos (the shape of planets and stars), but also as applied to a person (that is, his body, in the artist’s fantasies, is the body of a woman).
  Water symbolizes life permeating matter. This is the energy washing it, the force that prompts matter to act, so that it does not remain inert. This is why we can walk, talk, have a temperature, we can say that we are alive. This gives life to everything that moves in the Space, obeying immutable and mathematically impeccable laws. Thus, water is the life energy, the "blood" of the Earth, its life power.

  Air is the soul, a combination of our emotions and feelings; this is what determines our attitude to things - positive or negative, that drives us in terms of feelings. This is the essence of Air: the expression of feelings, the world of emotions.
  Fire is a world of thoughts, ideas. Moreover, the process takes place on an abstract plane and can only be perceived as an abstract tool, which is our thinking. Such is the nature of Fire in the Universe.

  We are talking about universe elements, but we are also talking about human elements: that which is the primary substances in the space, inconceivable for us, is embodied in matter, in man - Fire as mind, Air as feeling, Water as vital energy, Earth as body.

  There was always something deeper, unknown not only in relation of elements, elements (in the sense that they are revealed to us in Nature), but also in relation to the riddle of man, combining all four elements. The myths that have come down to us from the depths of even more ancient times tell us that, just as we are now in a state of people, once before we went through a state of minerals, as if being an element of the Earth.