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title: "Elements of Earth-Air World — Sage's Path of Balance (PK003)"
heading: "Elements of Earth-Air World — Sage's Path of Balance (PK003)"
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updated: "2025-11-12T11:05:00+00:00"
words: 843
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description: "Translated from Finnish source material. We speak of earth-air and fire-water. Human in between. Odd babblings for the modern man. Breakfast for Väinämöinen. We investigate these elements of life to their deeper births. These be the structures of being and states of awareness."
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 Translated from Finnish source material. 🧙🏻‍♂️ We speak of earth-air and fire-water. Human in between. Odd babblings for the modern man. Breakfast for Väinämöinen. We investigate these elements of life to their deeper births. These be the structures of being and states of awareness.

 🪨 Earth the base structures and the perimeters. 🌊 Water the reflective stream of adaptations. 🔥 Fire the friction and reactions of interaction. 💨 Air the dome of conscious sky and the big picture.

 🌐 Of the yields of these, a balanced attitude is born. Goings and comings of the world settle into coherent streams. Will not take you by surprise nor overflow. — "Into earth-air, fire water. Human ponders in between."

Little human in the big world. Why so totally drunk? All tangled up with its own thoughts. That's our onion. In tears yet? Will be when you grasp that depth of folly. In the end you'll laugh then too. Onward with humor, say.

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**Ponder the ongoings of the world.** But how about we let the goings be for now? Let's just ponder the world on its own. We have a marvelous word in Finnish. Maailma. (World.) Below is earth (Maa), Above is air (Ilma). Much better than the English "World". "What's wrong with the world?" – "Bwöööld". That's what's bwrlööö with the world.

So we return to these basic elements of nature. Below we have earth. All that has been, become. Base structures, basis, bedrock atop which we are, that sets our constraints. Above, air, dome of sky, ways of the winds. All that may yet come to being, possibilities. Earth and air, constraints and possibilities.

If we venture to the spirit world, we do also have the heavens and the nethers. From the nethers, trolls of earth be howling. In the heavens, some Grandpa Lord hustling with his pals. These are all born of, not earth and air in themselves, but of the middle-world wanderer, of the little human, of the little human's cognition, of its hopes and fears.

Our birth then, from mother earth. Setting our perimeter, the heaven's dome. What might this dome be, Smith Aerial whoever for its forger. The dome is of course the field of your cognition itself, how far its reach, where you've restricted yourself. There be your world (maa-ilma).

If below be earth and above be air, in between then be fire-water. Here we speak not of the vodka bottle, but of liquid and reactive states. In the abstract – water, ever-flowing, holding its base form, ever-adapting. We too are like that. If we attend to this, we learn to better adapt to all that calls for adaptation. Don't have to go counter current, no need for too thin or thick, dry or wet. We move along as just proportional.

Then on the other side, fire, or interaction, reaction. Fire is a reaction right, not a state of being in itself. We also have the fire. We come and go, encounter, handle our business, change the world. Such is our fire. And in our can, if we carry water and fire, in good proportion, in wielding them the outcome is also well-proportioned. Won't be excessive, won't be lacking.

So below, earth, bedrock, limitations, parameters. Water, there we flow, adapting to things. Fire, interaction, we transform things. And air, dome of cognitive sky, the big picture of our matters. Such basic elements if we ponder, in weighing the goings of the world, then the out-goings and in-comings will not get to stress you, because all these particular goings and comings afterall operate on top of such basic roots and elemental pillars.

And if basic elements are mastered as a part of your cognition, these comings and goings from many directions won't surprise you much, nor will they overflow. Matters all stay in their due forms. For a short mnemonic formula, Water-Fire to Earth-Air. (Water Came to World.) 

In between, the human wonders. Little human, in the big world, Typically rather blind drunk, entangled with its own thoughts. But it doesn't have to be that way for your whole life. You can take more precise, deeper bearings. Investigate the causes, deeper causes, and origins of things. Of these, lucidity spawns to your cognition.

Not that the clarity of thought should come from anywhere else. It's there all ready inside of you, but one hell of a coating you've laid over it, and by condition of will, you hold them in place. For sure leads to a spectrum of hallucinations in life, perhaps fascinating for a moment, but in the long term quite limiting and constricting.

Then onward to peeling the onion. Are you crying, not yet? At some point for sure you'll be sobbing for a while, when you realize the depths of stupidity of which your life's troubles are born. After that you'll be laughing. Onward with humor. Tale-bearer concludes here. Howdy. (Terve!)