Those of the Fourth Round have added Earth as a state of matter to their stock, as well as the three other Elements in their present transformation. In short, none of the so‐called Elements were, in the three preceding Rounds, as they are now. For all we know, FIRE may have been _pure_ Âkâsha, the First Matter of the “Magnum Opus” of the Creators and Builders, that Astral Light which the paradoxical Éliphas Lévi calls in one breath the “Body of the Holy Ghost,” and in the next “Baphomet,” the “Androgyne Goat of Mendes”; AIR, simply Nitrogen, the “Breath of the Supporters of the Heavenly Dome,” as the Mahometan Mystics call it; WATER, that primordial fluid which was required, according to Moses, to make a “Living Soul.” And this may account for the flagrant discrepancies and unscientific statements found in _Genesis_. Separate the first from the second chapter; read the former as a scripture of the Elohists, and the latter as that of the far later Jehovists; still one finds, if one reads between the lines, the same order in which created things appear; namely, Fire (Light), Air, Water, and Man (or Earth). For the sentence of the first chapter (the Elohistic), “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” is a mistranslation; it is not “the heaven and the earth,” but the duplex, or dual, Heaven, the _upper_ and the _lower_ Heavens, or the separation of Primordial Substance that was light in its upper, and dark in its lower portions (the manifested Universe), in its duality of the _invisible_ (to the senses), and the _visible_ to our perceptions. “God divided the light from the darkness”; and then made the firmament (Air). “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters,” _i.e._, “the waters which were under the firmament [our manifested visible Universe] from the waters which were _above_ the firmament [the (to us) invisible planes of being].” In the second chapter (the Jehovistic), plants and herbs are created before water, just as in the first, _light_ is produced before the _sun_. “God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field _before it was in the earth_, and every herb of the field _before it grew_; for the Lord God [Elohim] had not caused it to rain upon the earth, etc.”—an absurdity unless the esoteric explanation is accepted. The plants _were_ created before they were in the earth—_for there was no earth then such as it is now_; and the herb of the field was in existence before it grew as it does now, in the Fourth Round.