A Treatise on Cosmology

The Five

States of Energy / Mass

From the beginning, early man looked around in wonder.  What will feed, what will kill, what will intoxicate?  What can we kill and eat, what wants to kill and eat us?  Where is up, and down, and just where are we in the middle?

How, plainly said, do things work?   

One of the earliest, systematic approaches to The Cosmos, a working theory attempting to explain Everything, said that the entire cosmos was made of exactly 5 Elements or Essences:

Earth - The rocks, mountains, soil.

Water - The streams, rivers and oceans

Air - The wind and what we breathe.

Fire - The heat, smell, and power that clears the forests and allows raw food to become palatable

Quintessence - The Fifth hidden, secret Essence.  It was the one Essence out of which all the others were somehow made.  Note that from the very beginning humanity has Quested for the Unified Field, the ONE in Uni-verse that somehow ties it together.

These 5 Essences were arranged in a specific hierarchy.  From highest to lowest:

Quintessence

Fire

Air

Water

Earth

Earth (rocks) dropped in Water fall to the bottom of the pond.  Water (in streams, rivers, and ponds) rests or moves on top of Earth.  Hold your breath under Water, and the released bubbles of Air rise above the water.  The flames and smoke from Fire rise into the highest regions of the Air.

And they had a remarkable balancing ability, each having dominion over others, like the classic scissors/paper/rock game.  Fire can evaporate water, but water can extinguish fire.  Air can blow the Earth away in dust, but too much Earth in the Air and one cannot breathe.  With all the combinations of the visible Four (Quintessence was never seen, only theorized) the complexities of the universe existed.

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