Elementals
These are the spirits of the Elements, evolved in the four kingdoms or Elements of earth, air, fire, and water and have been called Gnomes (of the Earth), Sylphs (of the air), Salamanders (of the fire), and Undines (of water).
Except a few of the higher kinds, and their rulers, they are rather forces of nature than ethereal men and women ... All the lower invisible beings generated on the 5th, 6th, and 7th planes of our terrestrial atmosphere, are called Elementals: Peris, Devas, Djinns, Sylvans, Satyrs, Fauns, Elves, Dwarfs, Trolls, Kobolds, Brownies, Pixies, Goblins, Pinkies, Banshies, Moss People ... etc. (TG)
I consider that the miracle of the nature-spirits can be explained. Their main property is elasticity. Their form depends on the aspiratory conditions. Falling into the focus of human sight, they are sucked into human form. Men will see them in human shape and animals will see them as animals, because they have no shell.
I attest that whether the forms are fearful or beautiful depends upon the reflex of the nerves. The potentiality of the elements is such that it is always ready to respond to nerve reflexion and thus to doubly reinforce Our sending in a definite direction.
One should not think that the elemental spirits are Our brood ...
The spirits of elements strive toward union with man. They undergo the development of consciousness in lower forms of elements, and rarely possible are cases of their growth up to the consciousness of man...
The elements are spatial substance, imponderable and immeasurable—semi-amorphous crystals in the aspect of the so-called elemental manifestations. The essence of the unmanifested spirit permeates the substance of space.
It is said of man that he is born and he dies. About the elemental spirit it can be said that it flashes and becomes extinct. Like an arrow, the consciousness of the manifested spirit pierces into the substance of the elements, and like a magnet it gathers the molten substance. The birth of an elemental spirit is conditioned by the contact of a manifested consciousness.
The quality, appearance and dynamic force of the spirit depends upon the spirit of the creator. Therefore, evil thinking is condemned as the begetter of monstrosity. The force of the consciousness produces a corresponding reflex in the substance of space. (LMG II, pp 137-142)
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