The ancients who founded the Elemental Legacies had a very different understanding of the way the universe works. To them, abstract concepts could not be divorced from material being. It wasn’t that elemental fire, for example, symbolized inspiration and courage. Fire literally was inspiration and courage. They were the same thing. If you saw a fire, you weren’t looking at an embodiment of courage and inspiration, anger and destruction, you were looking directly at those things. It wasn’t that elemental stone symbolized fertility, craftsmanship and creation. Stone was those things. The Elemental Legacies still teach this. By extension, they say, all things were all other things. Everything is part of a vast unity, a totality. Everything, every person, animal, object, thought and concept is