The cycle of awareness; associated with red ray; the foundation for all that is to come, traversed largely in timelessness until space/time is realized. It consists of the elements of earth, wind, fire, water.
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11.4, 13.15-18, 16.21, 28.6, 28.15, 29.11, 30.5, 40.3, 41.7-8, 41.10, 76.13, 76.16, 78.29, 90.11