Just as Pagans, and those within the Magick Community, as well as other preponents of the supernatural hold that there is this elusisive extra sense, an invisable, non-tangeable sense, that is not recgonized or ranked among the known 5 senses, and so refered to as the Sixth Sense, it is the same with the elemants.
Among Pagans, there is a 5th elemental that is not widely known or regonized by those outside the community. Though most Pagans and Wiccans alike are quite famillar with this elemental. I am speaking of course of the elemant of Spirit as it is called. It is not tangeable or visable, and known in the physcial world as the 4 common elements are, but it is a pressence that is known to be there.
The 5th element makes up the top point of the start of the pentagram. This idea of spirit can include and refer to many different things. Spirit can indicate the Goddess and Gods themselves, or it can be the force or energy which connects all life and lives within all things. Spirit can be the very soul of the individual, the life force and power of the practioner. Or it can be the very power of the force of the magick itself.
It can be all these things in one. It can also be the combination of all for elements. The center point of unity. In fact in Aztec beleif they had a very simillar concept, thier compas held that there were 5 directions instead of four. For they considered the very center of the compass were all directions met as being the 5th direction.
Each person might interept, see, feel, and sense spirit in a different way, though neither is wrong or right. For spirit is however we choose to embody it.
Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:26 pm