For this reason Aristotle, with Plato, was more interested in the principle of order than in that of the material elements.
As archons, they rule over the material elements (fire, wind, earth, and water) and therefore also over the material bodies of future human beings.
In his eucharistic doctrines expressed in Determinatio (1304), John suggested an alternative to transubstantiation, namely, the proposition that the Person of Christ somehow enters into a kind of hypostatic, or essential, union with the material elements.
Sacrament, religious sign or symbol, especially associated with Christian churches, in which a sacred or spiritual power is believed to be transmitted through material elements viewed as channels of divine grace.
Agni and Soma were at the same time material elements of the ritual offering: Agni was the fire of the sun, of lightning, and of burning wood; Soma was the deified aspect of the liquid poured in the oblation.
The entire universe, therefore, can be said to have a sacramental significance in which the "inward" (or spiritual) and the "outward" (or material) elements meet in a higher unity that guarantees for the latter its full validity.
The reconstruction will maintain "the location and characteristics of the prior stair" and incorporate "similar material elements of steel and concrete," according to Phil Abramson, a spokesman for the Parks Department.
He seems to exemplify an overblown artistic subjectivity that apparently does not sit well with Ms. Rosenkranz, whose work, according to the news release, "collapses the potential meaning of an artwork to its meaningless material elements".
The material elements are said to possess some qualities naturally.
Atoms are the minutest units of the rūpa-skandha (collocation of material elements).
The collection of all deformed differential material elements is referred to as lattice configuration.
