Insights To The Invisible World Of Elemental Forces
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Insights to the invisible world of Elemental Forces
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
language: en
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Release Date: 2018-04-30
The Christian Fathers applied the sacred name Daimonia of the Greeks (the divine Egos of man) to their “devils,” a fiction of diseased brains, and thus dishonoured the anthropomorphized symbols of wise antiquity, and made them all loathsome in the sight of the ignorant and the unlearned. Daimonium was ascribed by the ancients to all kinds of spirits, whether good or bad, human or otherwise, but the term was often synonymous with gods or angels. The Indian Daimonia and Deities are thirty-three millions. The two most important Elemental classes, as well as the least understood by the Orientalists, are the Devas (Shinning Ones) and the Pitris (Ancestors). Deva Yonis such as gnomes, sylphs, fairies, djinns, etc., belong to the three lower kingdoms of elementals and pertain to the Mysteries on account of their dangerous nature. The Pitris or Lunar Ancestors are not the forefathers of the present living men but those of the first human race. Pitris are Devas, Lunar and Solar. It is the Lunar Pitris who gave images of their astral body (chhayas) as models of the first race in the Fourth Round, while the Solar Pitris informed and endowed man with intellect — a Great Sacrifice! The Pitris have naught to do with juggling, tricks, and other phenomena, nor are the “spirits of the departed” concerned in them. There are three main classes of Elementaries: (1) of the spiritually dead; (2) of the spiritually poor but materially rich; and (3) of those whose bodies perished by violence. The ancients taught that while man is a septenary trinity of body, astral spirit, and immortal soul, the animal has only five instead of seven principles in him. Apes have as much intelligence as some men. Why, then, should these men who are no way superior to the apes, have Immortal Spirits and the apes none? One may search for months and never find the demarcation in the “Comte de Gabalis” between the spirits of the séance-rooms and the Sylphs and Undines of the French satire. Theosophists believe in spirits no less than Spiritualists do, but as dissimilar in their variety as are the feathered tribes in the air. Countless generations of buffoons, appointed to amuse Majesties and Highnesses, had the inestimable privilege of speaking truth at the Courts, yet those truths have always been laughed at. A strict rule, common to both Right and Left Paths, is the renunciation of carnal commerce with male or female Elementals. Certain mediums boast of Spirit husbands and wives. Consultation and deliberation with “spirits” spells the end of wisdom. The truthfulness of Spiritualists is always tempered by enthusiasm. The only character of Truth, is its capability of enduring the test of universal experience, and coming unchanged out of every possible form of fair discussion. Spiritualism is a philosophy of yesterday. But the philosophy of the East comes to us from an immense antiquity. Theosophists share only the product of corroborated experience, hoary with age; Spiritualists hold to their own views, that are based on their unflinching enthusiasm and emotionalism. Holy spirits will not visit promiscuous séance rooms, nor will they intermarry with living men and women. Monotheism, proclaiming in one place God, whom “no man shall see and live,” shows him at the same time so petty a god as to concern himself with the breeches of his chosen people. Polytheism is based upon a fact of nature. Spirits mistaken for gods, have been seen in every age by men — hence the universal belief in many and various gods, who are the personified powers of nature. Man is made up of a spiritual and of a fleshly body; Angels are pure spirits but are created and finite in all respects, whereas God is infinite and uncreated. Therefore the masses are well justified in believing in a plurality of gods. While Pagans are sincere in calling their religion Polytheism, the Churches put a mask on theirs by claiming for it the title of a monotheistic Church. Christian angel-worship is plainly idolatrous. The Devas are the embodied powers of states of matter. Every Deva has a direct connection with its bodily fabric, in invisible atoms and visible molecules, and also physical and chemical particles. Although gods are superior to man in some respects, it must not be concluded that the latent potencies of the human spirit are inferior to those of the Devas. Their angelic faculties are more expanded than those of ordinary men; but with the ultimate effect of prescribing a limit to their expansion, to which the human spirit is not subjected. There are high Devas and lower ones, higher Elementals and those far below man and even animals. But all these have been or will be men, and the former will again be reborn on higher planets and in future manvantaras. Dugpas are the “Brothers of Shadow,” possessed by earth-bound Elementaries. A highly developed Intellectual Soul (manas) is quite compatible with the absence of Spiritual Soul (Buddhi). The Sorcerer, who always performs his rites on the day of the new moon, when the benign influence of the Pitris is at its lowest ebb, crystallizes some of the satanic energy of his predecessors in evil; while the Brahman pursues a corresponding benevolent course with the energy bequeathed him by his Pitris. The only difference between the spirits of other Societies and ours lies in their names, and in dogmatic assertions with regard to their natures. In those whom the Spiritualists call the “Spirits of the Dead,” and in whom the Roman Church sees the Devils of the Host of Satan, we see neither. We call them, Dhyani-Chohans, Devas, Pitris, Elementals — imperfect at times, but never wholly imperfect. With a 36-page extended conversation about Elementals and Elementaries with a Student of Occultism.
Truth descends like dew from heaven into the pure heart
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Éliphas Lévi
language: en
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Release Date: 2022-01-13
The rational part of man, being divine, knows. The irrational part, so-called reason, speculates. Swedenborg was natural-born seer, not an initiated adept. But his interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis is the same as that of the Hermetic philosophers. Eugenius Philalethes had never attained “the highest pyrotechny,” but he defined the “philosopher’s stone” spiritually, as Triune Unity. Man is also a “stone,” physically, the effect of Divine Cause which is the Universal Solvent. The great sages of antiquity, those of the mediæval ages, and the mystical writers of our more recent times, were all Hermetists. Truth is known but to the few; the rest, unwilling to withdraw the veil from their own hearts, imagine it blinding the eyes of their neighbour. Instead of saying that God “made” man after His own image, we ought in truth to say that man anthropomorphises God, i.e., he imagines “God” after his own image. The subject of the Hermetic art is man, and the object of the art is the perfection of man. Sympathy is the offspring of light, and antipathy is a shadow from the abyss of darkness, says the Paracelsian physician. Elementals are the spirits of the four elements of the terrestrial world. Forms come and pass but the ideas that created them and the material which gave them objective existence remain. Privation is not considered in Aristotelean philosophy as a principle in the composition of bodies, but as an external property in their production; for production is a change by which the matter passes from the shape it has not, to that which it assumes.
Pages from Isis Unveiled
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
language: en
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Release Date: 2025-02-07
Part 1. The “Fiery Waters” of Aether is Divine Substance expanding from within without the “Garment of God,” woven from its own Essence. The Fiery Waters of Aether is Divine Substance expanding from within without, the Garment of God (veil and cloak of Truth) woven from its own Essence. There is nothing new except what is forgotten. Miracles are perfectly natural acts, always in accordance with natural law. Kurios is Mercury, Divine Wisdom, and Mercury is the Sun, from whom Thoth-Hermes received his divine wisdom. Hercules is also the Sun, the celestial storehouse of Universal Magnetism. Æther is the Celestial Virgin, the spiritual mother of every existing form and being, from whose bosom, as soon vivified and fructified by the Divine Spirit, are called into existence Matter and Life, Force and Action. All ancient legends begin with that period when nascent vapours and Cimmerian darkness lay brooding over a fluid mass, ready to start on its journey of activity at the first flutter of the breath of Him, who is the Unrevealed One. Him they felt, yet they saw Him not. From the boundless expansion of cosmic matter, which had formed itself under God’s Breath or Will, this creative, evolving principle, by setting in motion the potencies latent in it, formed suns, stars, and satellites. The serpent of the gospel myth is a magnetic current formed by a chain of pernicious wills. That is how base natures can be driven headlong by the blind forces set in motion by greed, lust, and sin. Man, master thyself before attempting to exercise magical power! The “evil eye” is nothing but the direction of silent will, an invisible fluid charged with malicious desire and hatred, and sent out from one person to another with the intention of harming him. Will may be employed for a good or evil purpose. The one is magic or theurgia; the other, sorcery or goëtia. Mind wills; matter obeys. The mysterious effects of attraction and repulsion are the unconscious agents of will; fascination, such as exercised by some animals, and by serpents over birds, for example, is a conscious action of it, and the result of thought. In-depth knowledge of Cosmogony is an imperative prerequisite for Inner Wisdom. As the reptile, upon casting his coat, becomes freed from a casing of gross matter and resumes its existence with renewed activity, so man, by casting off the gross material body, enters upon the next stage of his existence with greater powers and quickened vitality. Lofty mountains, eggs, trees, snakes, and pillars, they all embody scientifically demonstrated truths of natural philosophy. Mountains are allegories of primal cosmogony; trees, of the simultaneous evolution of spirit and matter; snakes and pillars, are symbolical memorials of various attributes of the parallel evolution of two opposing forces, eternally reacting upon each other. The mundane tree of the Hindus is the Ashvattha, with branches extending downward and roots upward. Comparative study of ancient cosmogonies demonstrates that in those ages, which are shut out from our sight by the impenetrable mist of tradition, religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe. The Egyptian Pyramid is another symbol of Universal Life. Archaic double-sexed deities in dual cosmogonic myths, representing the physico-chemical principle of primordial creation, loudly proclaim their hidden meaning. Mithras is the son of Bordj, the Persian mundane mountain. Shiva is personated by Meru (Himalaya), the mundane mountain of the Hindus. Christianity metamorphosed the ingenious myth of the Serpent into Satan, the Prince of Darkness. Part 2. On the Invisible World of Elements, Elementals, and Elementaries. God or the infinite and uncreated spirit, a divine substance of the highest virtue and excellency, produced everything else by emanative causality. The world is underpinned by magnetic sympathy or attraction between men, animals, plants, and even minerals. More! Each planet is inhabited by spiritual beings, who exercise influences over other beings inhabiting more gross and material spheres than their own, and especially over our earth. There is only one magnet in the universe, and this is the Central Spiritual Sun. From It proceeds the magnetization of everything else. There are two kinds of magnetic attraction, sympathy and fascination; the one is holy and natural; the other, unholy and unnatural. The magnetism of pure love is the originator of every created thing. In its ordinary sense, love between the sexes is electricity. Athanasius Kircher calls sensual love the fever of species; Éliphas Lévi, an intoxication of the astral light. Man is a little world inside the great universe. Like a fœtus, he is suspended by three spirits in the matrix of the Macrocosmos. The Pythagorean Monas, which lives “in solitude and darkness,” may remain on this earth forever invisible and impalpable. When, by successive transformations throughout the ages, this once impalpable Atom finds itself reclothed in that primordial essence, which is identical with that of its Creator, then the Sons of God will once more “shout for joy” at the return of the Pilgrim. Man possesses a double celestial power, and his triple nature stands in relationship to all things. Being the mirror of the universe, man is allied to heaven. Music exercises a singular therapeutic power over certain diseases, especially those of the nervous class. Dire are the consequences of abusing magnetic powers. Only the pure in heart can heal the ills of the body. Magical powers are never possessed by those addicted to vicious indulgences. It is not always the minds which are the most “scientifically trained” that are the best in matters of simple common sense and honest truth. Have they not, these Titans of thought, dragged down God from His hiding-place, and given us instead a protoplasm? A presumptuous scepticism that rejects facts without examination of their truth is, in some respects, more injurious than unquestioning credulity. The perpetual lamps of alchemy stand for the incorruptible and immortal spirit. The Egyptians, more than any other people, hoped that their ever-burning lamp would help the material soul to part with its earthly dwelling, and unite forever with its divine counterpart. A Cypriote knight had both flax and linen made out of asbestos, which were cleaned by simply throwing them in the fire. A similarly made gown, such as the Buddhist monks wear, thrown into a large pit full of glowing coals and taken out two hours afterward, was as clear as if it had been washed with soap and water. Magic in prehistoric periods had a part in the mysteries. The greatest phenomena, the so-called miracles, rested on the arcane knowledge of the ancient priests of physics and all the branches of chemistry, or rather alchemy. The twins brothers, Castor and Pollux, are personifications of the twin polarity of electricity and magnetism. The Dioscouroi constantly die and return to life together for it is absolutely necessary that one should die that the other may live. In their unbounded glorification of matter, our physicists proclaim matter the sole and autocratic sovereign of a Boundless Universe. If they could, they would forcibly divorce matter from her consort, and place the widowed queen on the great throne of nature made vacant by the exiled spirit. The Platonic philosophy was one of order, system, and proportion. It embraced the evolution of worlds and species, the correlation and conservation of energy, the transmutation of material form, and the indestructibility of matter and of spirit. Plato’s method, like that of geometry, was to descend from universals to particulars. In the same manner as lovers gradually advance from that beauty, which is apparent, to that which is divine; so the ancient priests attributed the alliance and sympathy between natural things to the underlying interconnectedness of all things. The Divine Proclus pointed out certain mysterious peculiarities of plants, minerals, and animals, all of which are well known to our naturalists, but none of which are explained. Proclus, who combined Theosophy and Theurgy, also advocated a divine science that is firmly and solely based on the mysterious affinities between organic and inorganic bodies, the visible productions of the four kingdoms, and the invisible powers of the universe. Persons have been known to fall sick simultaneously with the uprooting of a tree planted upon their natal day, and dying when the tree died. Alas! The divine intellect is veiled in man; his animal brain alone philosophises. In spiritually fertile periods the occult powers of plants, animals, and minerals magically sympathize with the “superior natures,” and the divine soul of man is in perfect rapport with these “inferior” ones. Formerly, magic was a universal science, entirely in the hands of the sacerdotal savant. Though the focus was jealously guarded in the sanctuaries, its rays illuminated the whole of mankind. There is nothing new under the Sun. Yet, modern scientists have reaped more palms and laurels for their great “discoveries” than Lucretius, Cicero, Plutarch, and Seneca had hairs on their heads. Plutarch said that an idea has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form to shapeless matter and becomes the cause of its manifestation.