Jupiter qualities

While the personification of the four elements as deities may well have been in Egyptian mythology earlier than Aristotle, yet the description of qualities of the elements are manifestly Aristotelian, though inadequately reproduced. That religious beliefs of oriental origin in which the elements are personified are older than Aristotle, and even than Empedocles, the earliest proponent of the four elements as constituents of matter, is evident because Herodotus (484 424 B.C.), a writer contemporaneous with Empedocles, in discussing the customs of the Persians, states that they make sacrifices to Jupiter which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament, and also to the sun, moon, to earth, fire, water and wind. 

THUNDERBOLT OF JUPITER — The Fire of the Philosophers, which by its dissolving property reduces the imperfect bodies of the Work into a state of solution, and after by its fixing quality converts them into a powder or ash which can suffer nothing further from the assault of the most potent fire. 

Polarity Positive Quality Mutable Element Fire Symbol The Centaur Ruling Planet Jupiter Opposite Sign Gemini... 

The extraordinary quality of the ISO spectra is demonstrated by the disk spectra of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune shown in Fig. 6.3.6. On Jupiter, emission from the... 

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