Those who have escaped the dark and terrible aspects of life will find my brutality, my flash of rage in our final tragedy, easy enough to blame; for they know what is wrong as well as any, but not what is possible to tortured men. But those who have been under the shadow, who have gone down at last toelemental things, will have a wider charity.
The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the moreelemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.
1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page216:
Seth is the embodiment of mother-right, warfare, terror, human sacrifice; he is anelemental deity who deals in the fundamental reality of blood.
(mysticism,fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.
1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page115:
Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they areelementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.
