Cardinal Elements
The four cardinal elements in the west are air, earth, fire and water. The Chinese have five, or fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and how is that? Water generates wood, and wood generates fire. So it's fire, earth, metal, water and wood. India has earth, water, fire, wind and space. Japan has earth, water, fire, wind, and void, near same as the Indians. So it could be said, the West has four and the East has five cardinal elements. What is the difference between four and five? Four is company, five is a crowd. Even and odd numbers, where even is finished, complete, and odd is left over and at odds with the evens. The I Ching as odds, one, three, five as heaven, and even numbers two, four and six as earth. Change and no change. So it could be conjectured that the bipolar antithetical opposites of Monotheism, the two's of heaven and hell, God and the devil and so on are evens. Whereas Polytheism of any number of other-dimensional spirit forces would equate to the fifth element as open, allowing of change and anything goes future.
Time
The universe would seem to be timeless, and the further out into space they look, meaning the further back in time, since light is assigned a specific speed called light years, or travel in a year, the galaxies are fully formed, unlike the theory of the big band would posture, that they would arrive at the just formed, immediately big bang post. There is no big bang, but they can't stand timelessness, because progressive time, meaning evolution, or specifically superior evolutionary evolvement, really means, they get to exploit the less evolved, and of less consequence, is all it is, and they get to have more, stolen from have less. If we were always of no time, we would all be equal, which is why some, perhaps true conservatives, didn't like the speed of light theory, but preferred the instantaneous, it was always this way.
Gender
Other dimensionally, would there be a gender difference? Male and female spirits? Personally, always felt my other-dimensionalness was female, which would be a balance to my physical maleness. But now I would guess not, since if one were to reincarnate into the physical dimension, any number of times, those incarnations may be either as female or as male, unless one would be eternally stranded with one gender or another. Thus, the Metaphysical gender would be assumed to be neither, as Androgynous or bi-gender and able to assume either one in physical animation. Would these genderless spirits have no genitalia and no need of a toilet? No sex and no offspring? Which of course would mean, permanent coming in or going out of being, would be other than other-dimensional as physical for one. And would these spirits look like we earth people, which is a pretty good structure for intelligent being, one would think?
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