{"product_id":"book-f9em","title":"The Elements and Their Inhabitants","description":"\u003cp\u003eFOR 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 \u003cem\u003eRoyal Secret\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAir is, therefore, twofold in nature-tangible atmosphere and an intangible, volatile substratum which may be termed \u003cem\u003espiritual air\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49425752850736,"sku":"BDf9em","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/f9em-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773370346","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-f9em","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}