Air

in #air4 years ago

AIR.

One of the four primary elements, masculine quality, is the spiritual principle, breath, breath, wind, vital energy - prana for the Hindus, qi for the Chinese. Breathing and breathing are associated with creation, hence the concept of the soul as breathing ("last breath"). The Egyptian air god Shu created heaven and earth; the exhalation of Indian Brahma is the creation of the world, and the inhalation is its destruction.
The concept of ether, the divine luminous substance that fills the universe, is associated with air as the primary element; the supreme god is clothed in this substance. In ancient and medieval natural philosophy and medicine, there was an idea of ​​​​pneuma - a substance that occupied an intermediate position between bodily and
spiritual; arising from the inhaled air, "thin
fumes" of blood, digested food, etc. In many
ancient authors pneuma approached the ether (ether new body) or thought of as a special kind of heat, different from the heat of fire. Ideas about pneuma were systematized by Galen;
he argued that there are three common pneuma corresponding to three systems of mental forces and chiming different levels human functioning chesky organism, naturenaya pneuma is formed in the furnace.

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