in what order were the five elements created?
The book Practical Elemental Magick makes mention that it was Aether, Air, Water, Earth, and Fire. Meanwhile, Jewish Mysticism goes Aether, Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.
“When we reach the higher spheres of insight; we do use a specific order, to ground our ritual into manifestation– That is, we anchor to a specific arrangement and blossom in the consequences of anchoring or grounding ourselves into reality–
However; they exist simultaneously– Each way it can be looked at comes into a truth about our nature and comes into a shape about the circumstances of our being–
So there is a simultaneous non-linear emergence, that we ground into a linear experience which must understand something as coming “First” and something coming in “last” but this is not the case, only our ability to reflect so much in at a time and to realize the implications of that order of existence–“