elements

If I may...Thunder is 'sound' therefore a facet of air thru which the sound travels. Lightning is a facet of 'fire' albeit a much more powerful version of it (technically) Shadow and light are simply yin and yang. Not 'quite' elements as light is a facet of fire ( the suns nuclear fire which 'creates' the light to begin with) Shadow is the 'lack' of light and not truly an 'element'. You cannot have one without the other. Metal is a 'part' of earth not separate from it.

( these of course are 'opinions' before someone goes nuts about it. Things I learned thru my decades of practice)

Its not an element because of the energy in it also I'll explain more on why Shadow/Darkness isn't an element and more

Darkness isn't a real thing because its just a lack of light for example its only dark at night because of lack of the sun shining

For Shadow see Darkness

Ice isn't an element because cold is just a lack of heat

Thunder isn't an element because its based of sound which is a tone not a element

Everything else just think using logic

But heat is just lacking cold and cold is just lacking heat so each one would not exist without the other...

Just as light is just lack of light.

*darkness

And a tone is a sound but a sound is not a tone.

Uh earthgirl..Heat can exist 'independently' of cold, take our sun for instance there is no 'lack' of cold there. The sun exists thru the nuclear fission of the elements that make it up. Cold also can exist independently, out in the vastness of space there is a bone-chilling cold that exists and will always exist. Heat may come and go but there will always be cold in space. Tones and sounds are shades of grey.There are sounds that we also do not 'hear' such as ultrasonic that which dogs hear and we don't...just like light broken down into it's spectrum is a many hued rainbow including those which our eyes 'cannot' see such as the infrared and the ultraviolet.

All of these can be explained by the four basic elements (and spirit).

Lightning/thunder - A massive amount of built of up energy spawned from the stars, or artifical sources such as STEAM powered generators that leak electricity made from burning EARTH MATERIALS (coal) and producing FIRE to heat up WATER to make steam which pushes a turbine to generate electricity.

Metal - A simple combination of EARTH elements, and FIRE that formulates molecules in such a way to make the elements we know as metals.

Light - The existence and present existence of a light source (namely FIRE - the SUN is essentially a ball of FIRE more or less [more specifically, it is BURNING GASSES (WIND/AIR)] )

Darkness - The absence of light, as we know it. Which is a nearly impossible task considering the type of world we live in.


So that just about explains those, through the main elements.

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if you want to know, read Franz Bardon's book "initiation into hermetic."

Thanks yajra I try ( actually I know )