“_When there appeared on earth men endowed with a superior intelligence, they allowed this supreme power (the divine spark) to have full and uncontrolled action, and from it they learnt their first lessons. All that they had to do was to imitate it. But in order to reproduce the same effects by an effort of individual will, they were obliged to develop in their human constitution a (creative) power called_ KRIYASAKTI _in occult phraseology_.” We should be extremely happy to make the acquaintance of a modern man of science who obeys divine law to such an extent as to let the power of God (the Holy Ghost) have full control over his thoughts, will, and desires. Such a person without selfish desires, without ambition or vanity, without any greed for money or fame, acting as an instrument of divine love, would be a rare specimen of humanity; but unfortunately such a saint and sage will hardly be found in our present generation; for a thousand links tie the human animal to the region of his desires, and how could he who is bound by a thousand chains to the _Moon_ employ the energy of the _Sun_, whose influence he will not permit to enter his nature, and which therefore cannot nourish his body and grow into a power in him. Gold and silver may form an alloy; but they never become identical with each other. Thus their spiritual representatives, Divine Wisdom and the carnal intellect, will never be one and the same, although the light of wisdom will throw its reflection upon the terrestrial mind. As stated before, there are three aspects of Alchemy:— _Terrestrial Alchemy._ This in its lower aspect includes the whole science of chemistry with all the discoveries that may be made in the future. This alchemy still recognizes four _elements_[21], and the fifth, the one element, from which the four take their origin; in other words four states of matter and a fifth one (partly recognised by science); namely, the solid (substantial), liquid, fluidic, and ethereal state[22]. These are described as follows:— _a._ {symbol} (_Earth._) That which gives substantiality to all things, whether solid, liquid, gaseous, ethereal or spiritual. (_Solidity_ or _Stability_.) _b._ {symbol} (_Water._) That state which moves and renders things liquid on either plane of existence. (_Motion_). _c._ {symbol} (_Air._) That which enables things to assume a gaseous form. (_Extension._) _d._ {symbol} (_Fire._) That which endows them with force. (_Energy._) _e._ {symbol} (_Ether._) This fifth element, in which the attributes of all the other states have their basis, will be the principal object for scientific research in the coming centuries, and is in fact the first and the _one_ element. These elements represent themselves as the _Tattwas_ enumerated in the preceding chapter, and correspond to them as follows, if we adopt the above line of order:— _a._ _Prithivi._ Solidity. (Earth.) _b._ _Apas._ Movement. Bulk. (Water.)