General comments on Elements

“It seems hardly possible to define these terms [i.e. Earth, Water, Air, Fire] in such a way as to make their meaning clear to the student. He must discover for himself by constant practice what they mean to him. It does not even follow that he will arrive at the same ideas. This will not mean that one mind is right and the other is wrong, because each one of us has his own universe all to himself, and it is not the same as anybody else’s universe…. There is no right and wrong about any matter whatsoever. This is true, even in matters of the strictest science. The scientific description of an object is universally true; and yet it is not completely true for any single observer.” (Thoth, 17–18).