The 4 Elements – The Etheric Body and the Nature of Memory

Posted On September 11, 2015 / Written by Dr. Linda Gadbois

While there are many ways to look at what’s referred to as the 4 Elements, which ultimately represent the material realm we experience as reality, one of the most primary interpretations is that they form the very substance of what we think of as the material world as an experience produced by the mind that becomes the basis for shaping memory. Memory, which forms the basis for reality, has the full building blocks or interactive components of an actual reality even when it exists in it potential or unformed state (seed). The information it’s comprised of, along with a builders map and an active force that both constructs it and brings it to life, form the seed necessary to produce a living reality. A seed is formed as a dynamic collection of encoded information that contains strands of DNA that provide the basis for a generative process and the spatial blueprint for creating a living form.

The 4 Elements as we’ve come to know them represent Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. These seemingly 4 components are actually 2 elements, Fire and Water, which combine to produce Air, and the combination of Fire, Water, and Air form the element of Earth as a material reality. In its original depiction, Water and Earth were considered one element, forming the three primary elements (fire, water, and air) of the Triad or Trinity, which corresponds with the 3 aspects of the mind, which exist in unity and form an internal mental reality, symbolized by the element of Air, which was then reflected downward and outward to produce a denser, material equivalent, symbolized by the element of Earth and the number 4. Fire and Water are symbolic of the masculine and feminine aspects of the Mind and Soul which are unified by Spirit, producing Air as their offspring. Spirit is traditionally represented by Air (atmosphere) or breath, and contains both fire and water in a unified state.

All of Life as we know it is comprised of the 2 primary elements of Yin and Yang, and the 2 correspondences they form as their offspring which is the combination of them to produce material form. The 4 Elements also form what’s called the Tetragrammaton or sacred name of God, commonly spelled YHVH, or YOD-HE-VAU-HE, where Yod represents Fire or Will, He represents Air as Thought or Intellect, Vau represents Water as Feeling or Sensation, and the second He (H) represents Earth as the manifestation of thought-will. This spelling, where only two letters are different or unique, though similar in structure to each other (Y V), and two that are repeated as mirror images of each other (H H), is significant of the idea that only 2 true Elements exist as the single or unified constitution of the One- Spirit, and the other two are correspondences formed as its inner and outer reflection.

The 4 Elements can also be seen as representing idea, thought, feeling, and action, which are always unified in forming the foundation for creating reality, which forms the basis for experience. Reality, in the most basic sense, is the manifestation of our thoughts imbued with sensation. Reality originates as a thought process formed on the inner planes of the mind, forming our perceptual lens, which we look through to shape reality. Thought, which is the combination of Fire and Water, forms memory, and memory is both the basis form manifestation and formed out of what results from manifestation. Memory is both the beginning and the end of creation. It’s the creator, the outer experience as a reality and event, and the one having the experience. We create our present experiences out of the accumulated experiences of our past, translated into memory. Everything we learn is formed into a memory of some kind, as either as an imagined idea shaped as a possibility for reality, creating a virtual memory, or as an actual experience that contained a lesson and came about through some form of experimenting. Notice that experiment and experience are almost the same word.

When we contemplate an idea and begin thinking about it, we form it into an internal concept as a virtual reality that forms the basis for an experience. We form an internal representation that serves as a metaphor for producing a corresponding outer reality, forming the basis for acquiring a particular type of experience. Both of these are formed in our mind in much the same way we construct an actual memory, or replay it in our mind as a way of reliving it. There’s no actual difference between a memory created in the imagination of an idea, or one created through an actual event, outside of the fact that the actual event had significantly intense feelings and emotions associated with it. The only memories we attain in a detailed manner from our life experiences, are ones that had a significant emotional impact. The emotion is what forms the structure of the memory in terms of how we interpret it to form a story that we tell ourselves about why it happened and what it means.

Memories are formed out of a combination of feeling sensations, emotions, and thoughts which combine to produce distinct actions and behavioral dynamics. The memory, which is in reality a personalized interpretation of an outer neutral event, is activated by the emotion associated with it, or by the same sensory content, which then activates the behavioral pattern of the memory, setting into motion an automated pattern that repeats the past in the present, creating more of the same type of memories. This is why 5, as the pentagram or Pentad, symbolic of the etheric Element of mind over matter, operates by the principle of regeneration, further symbolized by the Fibonacci Sequence of reproduction in which the most recent past brought into the present produces the future; and the holographic affect also called fractal patterns, where the mind simply reproduces more patterns that are of the same nature (memory) as it is.

A memory can be thought of as a state of mind or frequency that contains a thematic pattern as an etheric blueprint for producing a corresponding reality in a completely unconscious and automatic fashion. We create our experiences out of our state of mind, which forms our soul’s mood. Memories are living thought-forms shaped by the mind out of the Elements of the Astral Plane that provide us with archetypal patterns of our own creation that can be readily referenced, accessed, viewed internally, and replayed indefinitely as a means of continuing to create more and more experiences of the same nature. When we replay memories in our imagination, they appear as translucent images or scenarios that are superimposed over our outer reality, forming a perceptual lens which we look through as a means of structuring our current reality to be of the same nature as our past. We use memory to make our current situation mean the same thing as our past situation did, forming how we experience ourselves.

The reality we form in our imagination is shaped initially out of the elements of the Astral Plane (Earth’s atmosphere), forming a matrix of organized light that serves as a etheric blueprint for shaping an equivalent reality. What we perceive as a material reality is formed out of highly organized light, which is the same substance we use to shape our thoughts into visual images in our imagination. Mental images and reality are comprised of the same substance, varying only in degrees of density. What we call light in the material world is actually invisible and only becomes illuminated when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere where it’s both absorbed and reflected by dust and water particles in the air. Likewise, the same light shaped into thought-forms on the inner plane of the mind, appear translucent in relation to the outer world, and becomes a visible form by being projected, where it’s both absorbed and reflected, producing an atmospheric effect that makes it visible and tangible. Ideas are shaped within our mind in the same way we shape memories, and when we shape them with sensory details that make them come alive, invoking an emotional response, they serve as a vibratory pattern for organizing the light of the atmosphere around us into a corresponding idea, allowing us to experience our own mental creation.

A thought that’s concentrated (made into a highly structured pattern) and vivified with sensation (made to vibrate) becomes an active memory. While our thoughts seem to be generated by our mind, our mind actually forms a mental state (mood) as a vibratory frequency that tunes us into thought-forms that exist in the space around us, where we absorb them and then reflect them internally on the inner sphere of our mind, allowing us to perceive them, first internally and then externally. Nature is a photo gallery of the subconscious mind, and is populated with symbolic images as various forms of memory that are accessed and acquired based on frequency. Ideas, formed as thoughts, “come to us” seemingly out of nowhere, and once conceived are gestated and developed into a unique version of itself. All light throughout the cosmos originates from “stars”, and in it’s primordial form is called Astral Light. Naturally our star, which illuminates the atmosphere of the Earth forming what we perceive as reality, is our Sun. Stars are the only living entities that are a true source of light. Everything else gets its material existence from light in its condensed form, by both absorbing and reflecting (ordering) certain aspects or rays within the light spectrum, which appears to us as translucent colors that shape material objects.

This natural ability to create artificial memory out of illusions born out of emotional states and fantasies, is what’s referred to as the collective unconscious of Nature, or mass consciousness of the group mind. We are always tuned into everything around us and can unknowingly draw into our mind the thoughts and feelings of those around us. Other peoples thoughts come to us the same way our own thoughts do, out of thin air, where they simply pop into our mind, as a feeling we get or something we just start thinking about that seems like our normal stream of thoughts. Most of the time we have no idea that we’re thinking someone else’s thoughts, because we only resonate – attract and act as a receiver for – those who have similar thoughts or are vibrating at a similar frequency as we are. Because they’re similar to our own thoughts, we mistake them for our own, and allow them to take hold by continuing to think about them. As we continue to think about them we modify and develop them by integrating them into our mental model, where they become a natural part of our perception. This energetic activity of the mind is what forms the basis for telepathy, as well as clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience, all of which come as transmitting and receiving the vibratory patterns of thought and memory imprinted in the Astral field around us.

To form a better idea of how this works, simply allow yourself to start recognizing the role memory plays in forming the very foundation for your thoughts, interpretations, and imagining. As you think about something, observe yourself in terms of what it means to think. What is thought? What internal process do you undergo to form thoughts into ideas as imagined concepts and living scenarios? How are your thoughts different or similar to how you first form and then think about actual memories? Allow yourself to realize that all knowledge learned comes through memory of some form, whether simply imagined, memorized through repetition, imagined or conceptualized, or as an actual experience.

Allow yourself to notice that what you’re thinking about today is very similar if not exactly the same as what you thought about yesterday, last week, or last year. Notice, that all you’re ever really doing, for the most part, is thinking the same type of thoughts born out of the same attitude, temperament, and handful of past memories consistently, evolving them into variations based on how you adapt them to different situations. Also notice that all the variations you form of the same memories our type of thoughts, all still hold true to the central theme that births them. Notice, especially as you get older, that even though your outer circumstances may be quite different today than they were five years ago, that inside, as a person, your nature has remained consistent, and in some cases unchanged. That all we’re ever really doing is growing ourselves by producing new variations of the same primary group of memories, expanding our memory base through its own offspring. While we tend to believe our thoughts and memories were acquired neutrally or objectively by the events of our life that happened to us beyond our ability to control them, and that we’re the way we are because of what happened to us along the way, the truth may be that our life is the way it is because it’s a direct reflection of how we think about it. That what we call our experiences and memories are actually our own creation, and are completely subjective in nature.

While we don’t control the outer events and circumstances of our life, especially as children, how we interpret them internally to create how we experience them, is something we do all by ourselves, to ourselves. It comes completely by how we use the elements to first create an internal experience formed out of feelings, emotion, thoughts, and the meaning we gave the events that shaped the story we told ourselves about what happened, and why, that forms how we remember it. Long after that events gone and no longer exists as real, and we’ve matured through the years, we still live out of and replay the same basic group of memories shaped by a common theme that we formed as a child, creating more of the same type of experiences, living out of the same story which became our life theme. Stories we told ourselves as a child form the reality we continue to live out of as an adult. We shaped our identity as our sense of self out of our own stories about things. We completely live and die through our own mental creation, which thinks and feels through our body, producing our experience of reality.

All reality is a product of memory.

 Dr. Linda Gadbois

Personal Transformation Coach and Integrative Mind-Body Health Consultant

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