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     All in the universe is formed from three major elements. That is to say, there is nothing that is not generated and developed as a consequence of the energy of these three major elements. These three elements are sun, moon, and earth. Sun is the origin of the element, the spirit if you will, of fire; moon, the spirit of water; and earth, the spirit of soil. The three elements of fire, water, and earth flow, mix, and fuse both vertically and horizontally. The vertical, warp if you will, consists of three levels, of the sun, the moon, the planet earth, from heaven to earth, as is obvious during a solar eclipse when the sun, moon, and earth align on three levels. To wit, the heavenly plane is the world of fire centered on the sun. The middle, intermediate plane is the world of water centered on the moon, and the planet earth is the world of soil.
     The horizontal, or woof, is the actual planet earth that we human beings inhabit. Our physical world on the planet earth is the existence of matter and the space around matter. Human beings can perceive the existence of matter with their five senses, but for the greater part of human history, space around the earth was taken to be nothing. In the progress of civilization, we have learned that the space in which we live is not nothing but is composed of air, which I categorize as half-substance. I have further learned that within the space around us, which until now was thought to consist only of air, exists another element. I refer to this element as a form of “reiki,” or spirit. In some religions, the world of spirit is said to be made up of living spirits, dead spirits, and possessing spirits. Ascetics and mediums speak of “the spirit,” and in the West, the development of spiritual science has spurred great progress into research of the spirit and the spiritual world. Books such as Sir Oliver Lodge’s The Survival of Man, and J. S. M. Ward’s Gone West can be given great credence, but the sphere and aim of the research that I present here differs completely.
     Essentially, the basic element of substance is earth. All substance, the material, comes from earth and returns to earth, as is well known. Next, the basic element of water, which is half substance, emanates from the moon and infuses the air. Reiki, or spirit, radiating from the sun is neither substance nor half-substance but non-substance, until today, undiscovered. Stated most simply, earth is substance; water, half-substance; and fire, non-substance.
     As described above, these three elements, the element of substance which is soil, the element of air which is water, and the element of spirit which is fire, fuse and in this fusion, energy is generated. In scientific terms, you could call these three elements which are particles of unimaginably infinitesimal size that fuse and activate, the very essence of the universe. Therefore, that the air we breathe is of a suitable temperature, dryness, and humidity for living beings results from the harmonious fusion of the spirit of fire and the spirit of water. If the spirit of fire did not exist and the world was only spirit of water, all would congeal instantly, and conversely, if there were no spirit of water and only spirit of fire, all would instantly burn and become nothing. The elements of fire and water fuse with the spirit of earth, and earth generates energy from which all is brought forth and develops. It is their nature that fire burns vertically, longitudinally, along the woof, and that water flows horizontally, latitudinally, with the warp. Fire burns with the help of water and water flows assisted by fire. This concept is expressed in graph form below [graph omitted].
     Since antiquity, the human being has been referred to as a small cosmos and the principles outlined above apply to the human body as well. Fire, water, earth correspond in the human body to the heart, lungs, stomach, respectively. The stomach ingests that which is produced from the soil; the lungs absorb oxygen, the spirit of water; and the heart absorbs the spirit of fire. Hence, the heart, lungs, and stomach function to absorb within the human body the three basic elements of fire, water, earth. The principle described here can be understood by observing the important role these three functions occupy in the constitution of the human body. Because the existence of the spirit of fire was completely unknown until now, the heart was simply thought to be an organ for the blood, only used to send impure blood to the lungs and circulate blood purified with oxygen throughout the body.
     To summarize, the stomach absorbs food, that is, the spirit of earth, which has been taken in through the mouth and the throat, the lungs absorb the spirit of water through breathing, and the spirit of fire is absorbed through the beating of the heart.
     Consequently, one gets sick or becomes feverish because fever arises in order to dissolve toxins solidified in an affected region of the body, for which the necessary amount of fever, that is, spirit of fire, is absorbed by the heart from the spiritual world. The beating of the heart acts as a pump to draw in from the spiritual world the spirit of fire. In advance of fever generation, the beating of the heart, that is, the pulse, increases and absorption of the spirit of fire grows in frequency. The chills one feels during illness arise because the amount of the spirit of fire available for body temperature is temporarily reduced as is being consumed the heat necessary for fever during the purification process. The reduction of fever means that the process of dissolving the toxins in the affected region has come to a close.
     Throughout the process of absorbing the spirit of fire from the spiritual world, the heart does not rest for a moment. This absorption process maintains body temperature. The lungs continually absorb the spirit of water through breathing air, so the moisture taken into the body, in addition to that which is ingested through the mouth, amounts to quite a great deal.
     Conversely, when the human being dies, the body temperature drops and chills, moisture disappears, the blood coagulates, and the corpse starts to dry out. To fully explain the death process, the living spirit leaves the physical body at the time of death and enters the spiritual world. Because the spirit of fire of the living spirit disappears, moisture condenses. In other words, the living spirit which is the spirit of fire, returns to the spiritual world, moisture returns to the air, and the physical body returns to the soil.

Divine Writings: Volume on Religion, page 121, March 25, 1954
translated by cynndd

“The Elements of Fire, Water and Soil,” Foundation of Paradise, 1984, page 53.

“The Elements of Fire, Water and Soil,” Teachings of Meishu-sama Volume Five, 2008, page 7 (approximately half this fragment is excepted).

“Of Fire, Water, and Soil,” Meishu and His Teachings, page 85, no date given but estimated to be late 1956 or early 1957.

“The Spirit of Fire, The Spirit of Water, The Spirit of Earth,” A Hundred Teachings of Meishusama, page 61, no date.