Are sexual ordeals symbolized by the element water or is it fire, just because both of this elements can symbolize the sexual force, one as the sexual fires and the other the sexual fluid?
“Now, regarding poisonous Sulfur, this resides within the lower animal depths of any living being. Thus, if we do not liminate that poisonous or arsenic Sulfur, we do not progress... Arsenic Sulfur is the poisonous animal sexual fire, which everyone carries in their atomic hells, a beastly, unclean, abominable fire. Every human being carries it. In that type of animal fire, there are many living psychic aggregates; their type, we can say, belongs to the world of ninety-six laws or infernal world. How do we eliminate that poisonous or arsenic Sulfur? Well, this is eliminated by working in a pure and clean manner eliminating the same dry Mercury; likewise, the poison Sulfur is eliminated. When the dry Mercury is eliminated, the poisonous Sulfur is in fact also eliminated.”
—Samael Aun Weor
“Firstly, there is brute Mercury, which means the Exiohehari, or sacred sperm.
“Second, there is the metallic soul of the sperm, which is the result of the transmutation of the sexual libido (the sperm). Therefore, this metallic soul is creative energy that ascends through the ganglionic spinal cords to the brain.
“The third Mercury is the most elevated. It is the Mercury that has been fertilized by Sulfur. In Alchemy, Sulfur is the sacred fire.” —Samael Aun Weor, from the lecture “Archeus”
“Whosoever possesses the Mercury of the wise will attain Final Liberation... The Mercury results from the transformation of the Exohehari or Brute Azoth. The Brute Azoth represents the sacred sperm.” —Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic
Fire: the student faces the "fire" of criticism and must respond with love, patience, equanimity, etc. "The candidate is exposed to this ordeal in order to examine his serenity and sweetness. The wrathful and choleric inevitably fail this ordeal. The candidate experiences being persecuted, insulted, wronged etc."
—Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony
Water: tests the disciple’s altruism and philanthropy. "The candidate is thrown into the ocean and believes himself to be drowning. Those who do not know how to adapt themselves to the various social conditions of life, those who do not know how to live among the poor, those who after being shipwrecked in the ocean of life reject the struggle and prefer to die, they, the weak ones, inevitably fail in the ordeal of water."
—Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony