FIVE ELEMENTS QUINTESSENTIAL ARTS©

[Verse 1]

This most beautiful system of sun, planets and comets
Could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of
An intelligent and powerful being
Blind metaphysical necessity
Which is certainly the same always and everywhere
Could produce no variety of things
All that diversity of natural things
Which we find suited to different times and places
Could arise from nothing but the ideas
And will of a being necessarily existing

[Verse 2]

Here we find a universal method of checks and balancеs
Water promotes the еxistence of wood
Which promotes fire, which burns things to the earth
In the earth we find metals
Which through condensation promote
The formation of water
However, water douses or controls fire
Which melts or controls metal
Which cuts or controls wood, which plows or controls earth
Which soaks up or controls water
Harmony requires checks and balances
If any one element becomes too strong or too weak
Imbalance occurs, illness sets in
And harmony is lost