I was bored today so I began thinking about the compass, the four elements, and the known map of the round planet earth. I think you'll enjoy my insanity. :)
First of all is the West, home of the element of water and on earth the location of North and South America, the fabled lands that shouldn't exist, only oceanic water dumping into the void, and dragons and serpents and other nasties as here is the end of the map, back in the days of the Old World and the flat earth. To the Celts the west was the direction of the Otherworld. The people who lived as far west as possible on the old continent, said that indeed thar be dragons and demons at the end of the map. Only the dead went west. The North American Indians and the South American Indians, lived on the western continent, but they were still later arrivals, and crossed thousands of years before, on the ice bridge, from Asia. Just like Water is the last element and so represents (the beginning of) the Future, these peoples, arrived here late. They also had red skin, the property of devils. Futher indication of being "otherworldly," or from the underworld, West. The actual cities of the Native Americans, reflected almost every culture within them in their building designs, and what they tried as government. The natives were no savages, although maybe they were being from the plane of darkness. None the less, their technology shows a bit of everything, a master of none.
When the Old World peoples came to these lands, they came bearing the Cross, a symbol of the sun god, Christ, and the warrior light, which is also a sacrificer. They wiped out alot of the Indians, giving death to the death element, but brought about the most advanced civilization in the world, and a true technology to the element of the Kali Yuga and the Future, the USA. The USA would go on to police and so kind of rule, the whole world.
Then there is the North, the element of Earth. Greedy civilizations, like Europe, and the barren wastes of North Asia. Representing the two halves of the Earth element, Dark and Light, but under Dark, and so as chaos and the higher as rulers over the lesser malevolently, instead of giving and gracefully. The Norse were wild believers in a Universe, light and good, but ultimately ruled and fated by Darkness. Thus the legend of Ragnarok, and how souls unless dying fiercely in battle, were all destined to rot in the underworld, a few even burn in the goddess and realm, Hel. The natives of the Siberian Peninsula, were avid demon worshipers and the only real peoples to worship the powers of darkness as a culture. They represented the lower half of Earth.
Thirdly there is the East, Air. Asia is the land of the East, there is also the Middle East, but this is a split of lower Earth, North, and Higher South, Fire, with only the more eastern East as Asia and the true Air element region. In the east technology is existant, and great Imperialship exists, as there is both the one (Light) and the many (Darkness), and the great eastern king rules over them, but later is sacrified by them, to rule themselves. Knowlege, and esoteric teachings, prevade the east, and the peoples commonly look like monkies, the yellow man, as the monkey is a symbol of the Air element. The East would rule the world, through information, and majority, like the USA rules through might and Ellesian Underworld, freedom and unity, but secretly out of darker agendas.
Lastly comes the South, the Fire element. Kept the least civilized, a thing of the Future, the South is home to many "primitive," peoples, like the earliest days of North, the first half of West, and never really the East. Their skins are black, a color of Water, but is it? Black light is black, but black matter is white, as all the colors are absorbed, instead of reflected. The secret of the beings of Fire, to be black to absorb the intense heat and light, instead of white and reflect it, thus burning. Thus when white man said the negro was of the lower and the Devil, he had it upside down. The peaceful mostly blacks, were easily partilly conquered by the Earthly whites, the upper earth, the ruler gone bad. But this only happened to a few blacks in regard to all of them in the South, and so Africa mostly. Besides Africa there is also Antarctica, a stange small land for being in the Element of Fire, South. But not when you realize the Ultimate is also a Void, but not a rough void like in Water, but a smooth and short void. Plus snow and ice is the color white, a crystal like sustainance, unlike restrictive matter which blocks light. It's also the secret to Yin and Yang, an eye or dot of the both exists in the center of each.
Akasha, the center of the compass. Some can be said of Akasha or Spirit, too in relation to the planet earth. The great holy land of the Middle east, other than India, which isn't too far East, but more Aerial none the less, is home to not only the oldest civilizations, but the homeland of the dawn of man, both in the creationist and evolutionist theories. The center of the compass, where Akasha meets the 4 elements. Not a 5th element as Akasha represents the holistic, and so the whole, where as the elements represent the part, or pieces.
So is the planet earth merely a planet in a vast Cosmos, or is the Cosmos the planet earth? Or is this just another reflection of the hermetic As Above, So Below, or the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, the man to the cosmos, or a planet to the cosmos. Or have I just invented a bunch of pseudotheory crap, which can happen in over intellectualizing any symbolic system? You decide, but I hope you enjoyed something new and unique, none the less. :)
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?12833-Weird-pseudoscience-planet-earth-and-the-4-elements&goto=newpost
