The distinguishing features of the style are swiftness and elusiveness, agility, and the ability to react quickly. The style stands out as offering the ability to control probabilities — say, to direct your spit to a fly’s left or right eye, whichever necessary.

5. Dragon Style is, as a rule, a conglomeration of all the previous styles, borrowing all their strengths while avoiding their weaknesses. Generally, the style is learned as a continuation of the four previous styles and involves special initiation ceremonies and trance techniques.The style focuses on void and the Vishuddha chakra, and its main features are omnipotence and diversity — for instance, the ability to fly, swim, go through stone and fire, and breathe the cosmic void, all with equal success.Sooner or later the dragon becomes a space traveler.

6. Spider Style (I deliberately don’t name the school) quenches the conscious to awaken the subconscious. It’s like turning into a kind of flawless machine (the style’s types include necromancy and the Scorpion and Mantis schools). Normally, the style focuses on nonhuman energy and chakras. The color of the style’s energy is usually black. The style’s distinguishing features are signal sensitivity, great patience, vitality, and error-free motions as well as knowing how to drop out of one world into another.

7. Various “higher” styles such as Taekwondo, Tao, Cloud Arm, and Buddha’s Arm, focusing on the state of meditation and trance on “higher,” or paradise worlds (as a rule, their individual representatives or parts of their bodies). One type (the foundation, actually) of them is the true art of sword and chakra combat.

So, why this kung fu panopticon? The reason I’m dwelling on it is because the styles of martial arts are categorized according to their primary source energy, just as the entire world is.

There’s a similar classification in magic: the magic of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Void (Metal), Death, and Life.

That is, the whole world consists of these basic types of energy.

The fifth of them — Void (Metal) — is evidently composed of the four others. Here, the magic of Death and the magic of Life are, as it were, the flip side of the Void Magic coin.

Thus, as far as energy goes, the world falls into these projections of a six-faced cube:

1) Four projections onto vertical walls: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air,

2) limited by Life on top

3) and by Death at the bottom.

4) The mid space of the cube is occupied by Dao, ether, metal, or void (the name depends on the individual school or philosophy).

Therefore, it’s safe to say that the whole world — and any object — consists of four energy elements (for the sake of simplicity, the energy of life and death is not considered as an extreme boundary case), something described by the main philosophies.Christianity, for example, where the cross symbolizes the world view.

Chapter 10. Nesting doll one nesting doll two — some more on the astral for you…

The previous chapter described how all objects generally consist of four elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. To understand where these elements come from, let us look at the manifestation of each, one by one.

Earth Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), the muscle fields

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like confidence, equanimity, and calmness

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), thoughts such as axioms, basic notions, alphabets, and the multiplication table

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), sociability, or capability

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), talent

6. At the level of Ajna, intuition

7. At the level of Sahasrara, reasonableness

Water Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), the lymph and blood fields

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like attention and amicability

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), thoughts such as collocations and steady sentences

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), tolerance

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), craftsmanship

6. At the level of Ajna, memory

7. At the level of Sahasrara, religiousness

Fire Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), sinew fields

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like perseverance

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), thoughts such as analysis and self-analysis

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), optimism

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), trial

6. At the level of Ajna, rethinking and enlightenment

7. At the level of Sahasrara, transformation

Air Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), the structures of the blood-vessel network and the bones

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like reticence, elusiveness, and eagerness for novelty

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), hypnosis and autotraining

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), mentoring

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), training

6. At the level of Ajna, mysticism 7) At the level of Sahasrara, channeling

Metal Element:

It’s a conglomeration of the four previous elements and depending on how much of everything it contains, it can be anything (on the related level, I mean):

1. Ethereal field

2. Emotions

3. Thoughts

4. Love (as the conversation of souls)

5. Fate-karma

6. Mutual understanding

7. Faith as a dialogue with God

These explanations serve as an example, just a few of the many facets of the crystal.

If you look at the manifestation of the elements’ energy in the world, it looks like the shadows of multicolored Russian nesting dolls projected on the wall from four variously colored suns, shining perpendicularly to one another.

Chapter 11. Coming tounderstandit all

As noted earlier, we assume, for ease of understanding, that everything in the world consists of four primal energy elements — Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Each of them manifests itself differently at different levels (from the physical to the divine).

Let’s look at the manifestations of numerals. In the decimal numeral system, these are the numerals from 1 to 10. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll consider the five basic levels (Ajna and Sahasrara are way too specific and make little sense to nonmysticists).