The aspirant is tested to see if he is ready for excellerated evolution. This is the first of the Elemental Grades corresponding to solid matter, the material world, and Earth. Home, money, vocation, health, and other physical issues are dealt within this grade. Attention is directed to the physical body and material life. This is normal.
Attention is directed toward thoughts, beliefs, and automatic behaviors.
There may come a sense elevation and a feeling that the material world is just one room in the cosmic house in which we live. Attention is drawn to skillful means of achieving results in ones life. By the time this grade passes, the student may gather some sense of the power of perseverance inherent in Water. The relentlessness of water, flowing where it needs to flow without effort, is a force more powerful than brief outbursts of energy to which we are accustomed. The last of the Elemental grades corresponds to Fire.