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| title =Nature Spirits and Elementals | |||
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This is an intricate subject but I will attempt briefly to answer the questions “Student” asks in {{Style S-Small capitals| “Light.”}} | |||
In {{Style S-Small capitals| “Light,”}} 3rd September, I attempted to shew that when the Occultist says the ''imagination creates, ''he is not speaking of the imagination in the ordinary sense, but of the imagination or image-creating faculty of the Spirit. | |||
The ordinary imagination cannot create objective forms, visible to ordinary vision, although a strong will can “biologise” weak wills, and compel such weaker wills to see the ideas of the operator objectively. | |||
When a man of imaginative nature indulges in reverie he creates forms in his mind which he can describe in writing, or exhibit in drawings and paintings, and if a man of very sensitive imagination dwells long on these ideas, they will so ''impress ''his brain that he will sometimes see these ideas as if they were objective facts. | |||
The insane, or at least I am persuaded a large portion of insane beings, are only those who have indulged in favourite ideas until these have, by impressing their brains, assumed objective forms in their minds; and other insanities are the result of objective visions, created in the mind by the “biologising” of evil Spirits, just as the phenomena of so-called electro-biology, as produced by foolish itinerant mesmerists, are temporary manifestations of insanity. | |||
Those who indulge in day dreaming or reverie, if their thoughts take selfish or impure directions, may become more or less “biologised” and imagine themselves to possess great wealth, or great powers, or Spiritual wives, or to be magicians. | |||
But it is only the delusion of the imagination, and if not checked may end in monomania or an asylum. | |||
The air, the earth, the water, the furnace fire are four forms of matter, and the imagination dwelling on these forms may create subjectively forms in harmony with these, such as fairies in the air, Undines in the water, gnomes in the dark earth, and salamanders in the living fire. Moreover, if long dwelt on these subjective forms may become to the individual objective substantialities. | |||
Making all allowance for innumerable frauds, yet of the creation of materialisations at dark stances there exists no doubt in the mind of the laborious observer. | |||
These forms may sometimes represent the identities they say they are; at other times they represent assumed names, and at other times they may be the forms taken by the will, or desire, or belief of the Spirit of the medium. | |||
They are not the less solid bodies, and if so it is conceivable that ''Nature Spirits ''may sometimes take form, not only in the imagination of the day dreamer but objectively; not only to the dreamer but to those in his company at the time. | |||
As to ''Elementals, ''or Forces of Nature, I conceive these have no individual existence ''per se, ''although I can conceive that Elemental forms may be also objectively evolved by means of the forces of Nature controlled by the power of the Spiritual Will. | |||
The two great physical forces in Nature are attraction and repulsion, or positive and negative electricity, and all Spirits we interrogate say that they work by controlling these forces; and thus the Spiritual imagination might not only subjectively see forms as presiding Elemental beings, but realise such objectively to itself and by win realise their appearance to others. | |||
Spirit being the ultimate one force, all subsidiary forces and forms are at its command, and hence, as Swedenborg says, “In the Spirit world we surround ourselves by ''the forms ''of our affections,” and as we at death carry our affections with us, it must be of immeasurable importance to set our affections aright here. | |||
Day dreaming as a cultivation of the imagination is so far good, but if persisted in as an habitual ''indulgence, ''it weakens the will and is in danger of breaking that odylic sphere which protects us from the invasion of evil Spirits. | |||
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Nature Spirits and Elementals
This is an intricate subject but I will attempt briefly to answer the questions “Student” asks in “Light.”
In “Light,” 3rd September, I attempted to shew that when the Occultist says the imagination creates, he is not speaking of the imagination in the ordinary sense, but of the imagination or image-creating faculty of the Spirit.
The ordinary imagination cannot create objective forms, visible to ordinary vision, although a strong will can “biologise” weak wills, and compel such weaker wills to see the ideas of the operator objectively.
When a man of imaginative nature indulges in reverie he creates forms in his mind which he can describe in writing, or exhibit in drawings and paintings, and if a man of very sensitive imagination dwells long on these ideas, they will so impress his brain that he will sometimes see these ideas as if they were objective facts.
The insane, or at least I am persuaded a large portion of insane beings, are only those who have indulged in favourite ideas until these have, by impressing their brains, assumed objective forms in their minds; and other insanities are the result of objective visions, created in the mind by the “biologising” of evil Spirits, just as the phenomena of so-called electro-biology, as produced by foolish itinerant mesmerists, are temporary manifestations of insanity.
Those who indulge in day dreaming or reverie, if their thoughts take selfish or impure directions, may become more or less “biologised” and imagine themselves to possess great wealth, or great powers, or Spiritual wives, or to be magicians.
But it is only the delusion of the imagination, and if not checked may end in monomania or an asylum.
The air, the earth, the water, the furnace fire are four forms of matter, and the imagination dwelling on these forms may create subjectively forms in harmony with these, such as fairies in the air, Undines in the water, gnomes in the dark earth, and salamanders in the living fire. Moreover, if long dwelt on these subjective forms may become to the individual objective substantialities.
Making all allowance for innumerable frauds, yet of the creation of materialisations at dark stances there exists no doubt in the mind of the laborious observer.
These forms may sometimes represent the identities they say they are; at other times they represent assumed names, and at other times they may be the forms taken by the will, or desire, or belief of the Spirit of the medium.
They are not the less solid bodies, and if so it is conceivable that Nature Spirits may sometimes take form, not only in the imagination of the day dreamer but objectively; not only to the dreamer but to those in his company at the time.
As to Elementals, or Forces of Nature, I conceive these have no individual existence per se, although I can conceive that Elemental forms may be also objectively evolved by means of the forces of Nature controlled by the power of the Spiritual Will.
The two great physical forces in Nature are attraction and repulsion, or positive and negative electricity, and all Spirits we interrogate say that they work by controlling these forces; and thus the Spiritual imagination might not only subjectively see forms as presiding Elemental beings, but realise such objectively to itself and by win realise their appearance to others.
Spirit being the ultimate one force, all subsidiary forces and forms are at its command, and hence, as Swedenborg says, “In the Spirit world we surround ourselves by the forms of our affections,” and as we at death carry our affections with us, it must be of immeasurable importance to set our affections aright here.
Day dreaming as a cultivation of the imagination is so far good, but if persisted in as an habitual indulgence, it weakens the will and is in danger of breaking that odylic sphere which protects us from the invasion of evil Spirits.
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Light, v. 1, No. 47, November 26, 1881, p. 377