And naturally so, because they are concerned with the building up of the lower kingdoms, these elementals of form, the Rupa Devas; and to them man is a really hateful creature, because of his destructive properties.
But when the elementals find you are not destructive, not an embodiment of ruin, they become as friendly to you as they were before hostile.
Men live in the exterior elements and the Elementals live in the interior elements.
An apparition of this character may be regarded as belonging to the familiars or elementals rather than to the animal-ghosts.
Of this character are the spirits or elementals called up in strange, and sometimes even gruesome, animal form by magicians when at work casting spells.
Animal elementals or thought-forms were employed by magicians in the remote ages, and believed to be created entities which persisted throughout time and might be sent forth, somewhat in the nature of a familiar, to wreak harm on others.
I have no doubt that genuine phantasms of the earth-bound or elementals do occasionally show themselves, but I am quite sure in nine cases out of ten the manifestations are manifestations of living flesh and blood.
They have invariably proved themselves to be superphysical danger signals, the sure indicators of the presence of those grey, inscrutable, inhuman cerebrums to which I have alluded; of phantasms of the dead and of elementals of all kinds.
They may, I think, be classified with pixies, nymphs, and sylphs, and other pleasant types of elementals that ceased to fraternise with man when he became more plentiful and forsook the simple mode of living for the artificial.
Such elementals are formed out of the elemental essence lying behind the mineral kingdom.
There are also Elementals of a high type who occasionally communicate with very gifted mediums, "Shining Ones" from other spheres.
Supernatural presences that could not be imaged on the boards may be represented in the novel or story, as Blackwood's Elementals or Psychic Invasions.
These I include among Vice-Elementals and Vagrarians.
Footnote 10: Types of Elementals still to be met with in certain localities (vide Byeways of Ghostland, published by Rider & Son).
Vice Elementals pretty Give ear unto our ditty We are ready for you--Come!
The crawling things, then, which reeked abominably might be Elementals (so Dr.
Victims of delirium tremens, opium smokers, and other debauchees, artificially open that finer, latent power of vision; and the horrors which surround them are not imaginary but are Elementals attracted to the victim by his peculiar excesses.
I have not made any more mistakes, that is, not any bad ones, since I went to the Astoria alone for lunch, and the elementals were so very disagreeable just because I had no money.
Tuck never came at all; either he realizes how honest people must regard him and his opera, or else the elementals at the Astoria are still detaining him.
Elementals are a genus of a large order, and include innumerable species.
Vice Elementals and Vagrarians, vampires and ghouls; no region in Russia boasted so many, and for this reason it was scrupulously avoided by all sensible people after sunset.
The elementals that began life in this Kalpa from the spiritual plane, have hardly any idea of separate existence.
We have left the Devas (not the elementals that pass through the life kingdoms of this earth) out of consideration.
The Adityas who guided the early elementals had to be crushed, so that separateness might grow.
The Vinayaka are elementals who are supposed to cause obstacles to all good works).
Yet it does possess a marvellous adaptability which often seems to come very near it, and it is no doubt this property that caused elementals to be described in one of our early books as "the semi-intelligent creatures of the astral light".
Most people's thoughts are so fleeting and indecisive that the elementals created by them last only a few minutes or a few hours, but an often-repeated thought or an earnest wish will form an elemental whose existence may extend to many days.
First comes the broad division which has given the elementals their name--the classification according to the kind of matter which they inhabit.
A very curious and instructive instance of the extreme persistence of these artificial elementals under favourable circumstances came under the notice of one of our investigators quite recently.
Many writers have included these spirits among the elementals, and indeed they are the elementals (or perhaps, to speak more accurately, the animals) of a higher evolution.
The art of manufacturing artificial elementals of extreme virulence and power seems to have been one of the specialities of the magicians of Atlantis--"the lords of the dark face".
All the higher nature-spirits and hosts of artificial elementals act as their agents in the stupendous work they carry out, yet all the threads are in their hands, and the whole responsibility rests upon them alone.
By some of the more advanced processes of black magic, also, artificial elementals of great power may be called into existence, and much evil has been worked in various ways by such entities.
When men shall cultivate feelings of brotherly affection for each other, and of sympathy with nature, the elementals will change their present hostile attitude for one of helpfulness.
Formerly, when men were less selfish and more spiritual, the elementals were friendly.
Elementals guard hidden treasures; they obey the adepts, however, who could command the use of untold wealth if they cared to draw upon these hidden deposits.
A good deal of highly interesting information on the subject of elementals and elementaries is to be found in numbers of The Path.
The elementals have no higher principles; they are therefore not immortal, and when they die they perish like animals.
In the present state of universal selfishness and self-seeking, the elementals would be employed to work evil, as they are in themselves colorless, taking their character from those who employ them.
Those Elementals probably resent the rescue of their would-be victims, and use the latter as a means of wreaking their vengeance on the rescuer!
These Elementals would seem to be Neutrals, or spirit properties, employed alike by the Benevolent and Antagonistic Forces.
I think Impersonating Elementals sometimes manifest themselves at Spiritualistic seances, when they appear as relatives and friends of the sitters, and are pronounced to be such by the "controls.
I think I have elsewhere stated in my definition of Benevolent Elementals that they would seem to be identical with the good fairies of our childhood's days, and with the angels in the Bible.
In this case the amount of blood spilt on the site of the bungalow would in itself be a sufficient cause for the hauntings, and my only surprise is that it did not attract many more Elementals of this species.
But since these messages cannot be relied upon, owing to the fact that it is impossible to tell by what order of Elementals they are suggested, I think automatic writing is sheer waste of time.
The former species of insanity would be the work of Vice Elementalsand Morbas, and the latter of Morbas only.
Vice Elementals and Clanogrians, or Family Ghosts, are confined to certain families and houses.
Occasionally a person was found of sufficient saintliness to exorcise them as Elementals are said to have been exorcised during the last half of the present century.
Bjerregaard entitled, "The Elementalsand the Elementary Spirits.
Elementals had brought about their union; and when these elementals shrank with habit, as elementals will, they found themselves without a tie of sympathy or common interest to link them each to the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elementals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
