The question of what is a human being is better understood by allowing for awareness at the four levels of life around us through our four bodies developed at those levels, which are the physical, emotional levels, mental and purposive levels. These levels correspond to the elements of Earth, Water, Air and Fire respectively. These levels also correspond respectively to the levels of the four Quantum Forces: Strong, Weak, Electro-Magnetic and Gravity.  Strength and capabilities on any level depend on developing the potential of the body at that level by conditioning it through education, training and practice.

The subjective viewpoint of the astrological man includes awareness of the Earth element in its three formats of manifestation through having a physical body. The body is composed of light matter, distinct from dark matter which composes over 80 percent of the universe. Ongoing conditions give it the appearance of continuity even as it changes and grows over time. Some think the Earth element has all of the potential of All, by which is meant that evolution of spirit can occur only when man has a physical body. The physical body has the five senses, or six, if mind is included. The subjective sense of the body is about measuring physical energy levels, following physical instincts, working the muscles and measuring objective sensory phenomena. There is a realization that the physical body is part of a larger material world on which it depends.

While the physical body of the Earth element has the nerve-based senses and sensations,  the Water element is a level for the emotional body of the Astrological man. Sometimes called the aura, this body of light is composed of emotions, feelings and desires. Some people are ruled by their emotions. The Water element is also called the astral plane, where all desires exist. There is both the crude and primitive identified as lower desires, and the refined and spiritual, called higher emotions. These distinctions among emotions are not based on religion, but on appearances and consequences. Psychics have often mentioned about the darker, murkier and grainier auras of people, and the consequences bring suffering. Lower emotions include anger, lust, greed, fear and brutishness, which cause behaviors including drunkenness, idleness, foolishness, black magic, and adultery.  The lower desires are centered in the solar plexus of the emotional body from which they are projected.  The lower emotions are common to all humans, regardless of birth. Emotional improvement means learning to hold the baser desires in abeyance and to cultivate the higher feelings. The higher emotions are centered in the heart to the throat of the astral body of the Astrological man. Examples of higher emotions include compassion, empathy, friendship, self-sacrifice and non-physical love. The higher emotions are more stable, calm, clear and serene, and which are reflected in an aura that is clear and lightly colored, and not cloudy, murky or grainy. When one is not caught up in feelings, it is possible to perceive the difference between emotions self-projected and emotions incoming from others.

Just as there is a larger material world for the physical body, so there is a larger astral world in which the emotional body exists. There are Beings on the astral plane that are not based in living humans and they have bodies of light composed of stored emotional charges, not unlike batteries. Some are the emotional bodies of humans who have died, but whose emotional body has not yet dissipated. Some are deliberately and consciously made by ritual and ceremony and prayer.  Also, there are much larger constructs, called egregores, which compose the emotional body of nations past and present.

There is a squishy area on the boundary between the level of the Water element and the level of the Air element, just as there is a squishy area in quantum physics on the boundary between the Weak force and the Electro-Magnetic force. For example color, which is emotional and of the Water level, can make an outline of a form, which is on the Air level of existence. Another example is classical music, which is based on mathematics and structure, but which can affect the emotions.

The element of Air is associated with the mental body in the existence of the Astrological man. Two kinds of mentality distinguish the Air element: form and formless. Neither has emotional content. Examples of form on the mental level include corporations, codified laws, objective mathematics, architecture, names and objective concepts. There are static, mutable and dynamic manifestations of forms.  Examples of the formless mental plane include principles of law on which codified law is based, and imaginary numbers. The Mental plane is not subject to the laws of the emotional or physical plane where physical forms and feelings come and go. Corporations do not die, and neither do concepts, mathematics, ideas or laws.  The man who rules himself from this level uses advanced concepts, logic and words.

Elemental Fire composes the highest and most refined body of light in the subjective awareness of the Astrological man. In quantum physics, at the level of gravity, this is the focus point that starts the manifestation into form. This level is the purposive or spiritual body that is non-material and formless. When a body of light is developed at this level, it enables awareness and purpose that is beyond the human form and higher than a physical, emotional or mental level.  It manifests as a dynamic spark, or a constant sun, or a dancing flame. For example, the urge for freedom as a spiritual purpose finds expression through all levels of being in the Astrological man. A man who rules himself from this level brings elemental Fire into being.  He has civilized personal behavior and recognizes the rights of others, takes personal responsibility and acts in support of the principles of justice and democratic government for the ultimate purpose of freedom of spirit. For the Astrological Man at this level of being, awareness is formless, non-physical and emotionless. The Beings with bodies of light in the Fire element world are of the “clear white light”, attuned to the same vibration, and with a self-realized purpose.