Editing Elemental (section)

====Comparison with Jainism====
In [[Jainism]], there is a superficially similar concept within its general [[Jain terms and concepts#Jīvas (souls)|cosmology]], the ''[[Ekendriya|ekendriya jiva]]'', "one-sensed beings" with bodies (''kaya'') that are composed of a single element, albeit with a 5-element system (earth, water, air, fire, and plant), but these beings are actual physical objects and phenomena such as rocks, rain, fires and so on which are endowed with souls (''jiva'').<ref>[http://www.iep.utm.edu/jain/ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ] Plants, various one-celled animals, and 'elemental' beings (beings made of one of the four elements—earth, air, fire, or water) have only one sense, the sense of touch. Worms and many insects have the senses of touch and taste.  -</ref> In the Paracelsian concept, elementals are conceived more as supernatural humanoid beings which are much like human beings except for lacking souls. This is quite the opposite from the Jain conception which rather than positing soulless elementals is positing that physical objects have some type of soul and that what are commonly considered inanimate objects have this particular type of soul.