Author: Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo
GAESEMA Publishing
This article proposes a philosophical, spiritual, and ethical approach to human production based on the conception of the Seven Elements — Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Decision, and Consequence — as systematized in the GAESEMA Philosophy. It argues that production is not merely a technical or economic process but a holistic practice that connects the human being to the cosmos and morality. Using a qualitative method of symbolic analysis, it demonstrates that these elements function as structuring categories of productive reality and human consciousness, forming a bridge between nature, spirit, and social responsibility.
Keywords: conscious production; symbolic philosophy; spirituality; GAESEMA; seven elements.
1. Introduction
The practice of production, commonly understood as the transformation of resources into goods or services, lacks an ethical and cosmological reframing in the face of current crises — environmental, social, and spiritual. GAESEMA philosophy offers an integral view of production as a moral and spiritual act, governed by natural elements and conscious principles. This article aims to present the Seven Elements of Production as a philosophical model for understanding and guiding productive activity in harmony with universal order. The hypothesis is that true sustainability is only possible if production is lived as a conscious, ethical, and sacred act.
2. Philosophical Foundations of Integral Production
Since ancient civilizations — such as African, Greek, Hindu, and Chinese traditions — the world has been interpreted as a great dance of natural elements. In these worldviews, production was not separated from spirituality or morality but seen as a continuation of universal creation. GAESEMA philosophy reclaims this ancestral wisdom, incorporating it into the present as a response to the fragmentation caused by modern technicism. The proposal is an ethic of production rooted in seven elemental principles — five related to nature and two to human consciousness.
2.1 The Wisdom of the Seven Elements: Production as Natural Order and Conscious Act
To produce is more than to transform resources into goods or services. To produce is to act in the world, to intervene in nature, to establish a relationship between the visible and the invisible. It is to touch time with one’s hands and imprint values upon matter. In GAESEMA philosophy, production is a profound, spiritual, and political act. It must be understood in light of seven essential elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Decision, and Consequence. These seven elements form the natural and moral structure of all true production.
2.1.2 The Natural Order of Production
Since ancient times, civilizations have known that the universe is governed by fundamental elements. In African, Greek, Hindu, and Chinese cultures, the production of life was always thought of as a dance among the forces of nature. There was no separation between the spiritual and the material, the cosmos and the economy. Production was part of the universal order.
Today, in a world fragmented by technicism, we have forgotten this truth. But nature still speaks. And it speaks through the elements. Understanding them is a return to the intelligence of creation. It is to align the act of producing with universal harmony. Production that denies this wisdom creates imbalance. Production that respects it — flourishes.
3. The Seven Elements of Conscious Production
3.1 Earth – The Storehouse of Life
Earth is the foundation, the structure, the solid matter of production. It represents territory, resources, property, and biological memory. Without Earth, there is no place to plant or to build. All production begins with respect for the soil, the environment, and history. Earth is the base, the sustenance, the first womb that welcomes the human body. Everything physical, dense, and visible has its origin and end in Earth. It represents food, shelter, the ground beneath our feet, and the body that stands. Earth teaches patience, for all that grows in it has its time, its season, and its process. For humanity, Earth is more than soil: it is the memory of footsteps, the record of falls, the mirror of traces. No spiritual consciousness begins without a relationship to Earth. What does not grow in the Earth, does not bloom in the spirit. What does not respect the Earth, does not understand itself.
Lesson of Earth: Respect the foundations. One who ignores the ground they walk on builds ruin.
3.2 Water – The Carrier of Life
Water is movement, transport, and circulation. It links distant points, connects producers and consumers, enables exchange and interaction. To produce is to allow life to flow — between sectors, between people, between times. Water is memory in motion. It is the flow of emotion, intuition, purity, and transformation. Water shapes what it touches, enters wherever there is space, and removes what is stagnant. It is the first mirror of the human face and the first sound heard before birth. Water washes, connects, renews. The soul learns from water to flow, to not resist change, and to respect the cycle of life. One who denies water within dries up inside. Without water, there is no tear, no compassion, no reconciliation. Water teaches that the strongest is often the one who bends most to avoid breaking.
Lesson of Water: Allow the flow. To accumulate without sharing is to suffocate life.
3.3 Fire – The Energy of Transformation
Fire is the energy that drives production. It represents creativity, labor, effort, transformation. Fire warms, illuminates, and propels. But if misused, it also destroys. Fire is the spark of will, passion, and creative energy. It is the light that guides, the heat that moves, and the pain that purifies. Fire can both warm and consume. It is the first breath of transformation: it burns the old for the new to be born. Anyone who wants to grow must pass through fire. Fire tests, reveals, separates the true from the false. It teaches that burning with passion can be both a blessing and a curse, and that intensity without wisdom becomes self-destruction. Awareness of fire is the basis of leadership, courage, and faith. It is the element of the expanding soul.
Lesson of Fire: Use energy consciously. Passion without wisdom becomes tragedy.
3.4 Air – The Spirit of Production
Air is thought, intelligence, communication. It carries ideas, inspires innovation, organizes chaos. To produce without intelligence is to repeat mistakes. To produce with the air of the time is to be in tune with the present. Air is thought, the idea, the breath of life that connects us to the invisible. It is the first breath at birth and the last at death. It is the messenger of time, the vehicle of speech, and the guardian of freedom. Air is not seen, but felt; cannot be held, but shapes everything. One who does not hear the air lives deaf to life. It brings the wind of change, the silence of the heights, and the presence of what lies between beginning and end. Air teaches us to listen with the heart, to speak with wisdom, and to respect what cannot be controlled.
Lesson of Air: Create with lightness and intelligence. Silence, listening, and vision are part of making.
3.5 Ether – The Supreme Connection
Ether is meaning, purpose, the spirit behind production. It is invisible but present in everything. It transforms factories into temples and products into blessings. Producing without Ether is profiting without soul. Ether, the fifth element, is higher consciousness — the spiritual field that interconnects all others. It is the space where matter meets the invisible, time bends, and spirit awakens. Ether is where ideas dwell before taking form, where dreams are nourished, and eternity breathes. In Ether there is no weight, but presence. No form, but meaning. It is the house of divine intuition, where the soul converses with the universe. One who does not comprehend Ether is bound to earthly cycles, without ascension or higher purpose. Ether teaches that life goes beyond the visible, and that the invisible is the true source of reality.
Lesson of Ether: Produce with purpose. Without ethics, all results are empty.
4. The Two Elements of Human Consciousness
4.1 Decision – The Creative Choice
To produce is to choose. To decide how, why, for whom, and with what means to produce. Decision is the central moral act of production. It defines whether a resource will be used to build or destroy, to liberate or exploit, to heal or pollute. To decide is to place oneself at the center of creation. A well-made decision respects the five elements and listens to time. Unconscious decisions generate collapse.
For the thinker Gilson Guilherme Miguel Ângelo, Decision is the sixth essential element of existence. It is the point where all five others converge to generate movement. Decision is the portal where man reveals his freedom, molds destiny from awareness, or surrenders to repetition through lack of it. It is the first act that frees or imprisons, builds or destroys. What is decided today becomes the structure of tomorrow. All human transformation begins with a decision — even if unconscious. To decide is to give form to Ether, to choose frequency, path, and the weight of one’s actions. A person who does not learn to decide is decided for by others. Decision is the most sacred instrument of human freedom, for within it dwells the power to change all reality.
Productive Function:
- Direct energy (fire) ethically
- Manage territory (earth) justly
- Choose circulation channels (water) fairly
- Communicate (air) truthfully
- Connect to purpose (ether) spiritually
Lesson of Decision: The freedom to produce demands wisdom to choose. To decide is to plant: what is planted returns.
4.2 Consequence – The Inevitable Return
All production generates effects. Consequences are the visible or invisible fruits of the decisions made. An economy that deforests for profit reaps scarcity. A system that exploits workers reaps revolt. A society that produces with love reaps peace.
Consequence is the justice of nature. It neither punishes nor rewards — it simply returns what was sown. Irresponsible production is the root of environmental crisis, inequality, and war. Consequence is the seventh element — the mirror of Decision and the invisible judge of every action. Everything a person does, even by omission, generates a response from the universe. Consequence is return, echo, natural justice that corrects, teaches, and transforms. It reflects awareness, the result of chosen vibration. No one escapes consequence: it is the spiritual, emotional, physical, or existential return of what was decided or ignored. Misunderstood, consequence seems like punishment; accepted with wisdom, it becomes a teacher. A person becomes wise when they see every consequence as a lesson, not as punishment. Consequence is the endpoint of one cycle, and the beginning of a new decision. And it is within this eternal cycle that the soul evolves.
Productive Function:
- Reveal the impact of productive acts
- Measure material and immaterial returns
- Correct imbalance and guide the future
Lesson of Consequence: Every production is a promise to the future. What seems like profit today may be ruin — or salvation — tomorrow.
5. The Producer as Guardian of Harmony
The true producer, in GAESEMA Philosophy, is not merely one who transforms matter. He is a guardian of universal harmony, a priest of production. His role is to respect the order of the elements, make decisions with awareness, and accept consequences with humility.
Production thus becomes a sacred act. It is not only about productivity, but applied spirituality. Each product is an offering to time, the world, and future generations.
6. Conclusion: The Cycle of Sacred Production
The wisdom of the Seven Elements of Production reveals:
- Without Earth, no foundation.
- Without Water, no connection.
- Without Fire, no impulse.
- Without Air, no thought.
- Without Ether, no meaning.
- Without Decision, no direction.
- Without Consequence, no truth.
Any production that ignores this cycle is doomed to instability, unsustainability, and injustice. But production that respects this order becomes a bridge between the human and the divine.
To produce with the Seven Elements is, ultimately, to build not just a product — but a world.
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