We have the emotional thought
forms in various degrees of purity and that purity of the
elementals depends on the nature of the emotions and the amount
of thought in the emotions. But, if you find the thought a
slave of an emotion, then that elemental is the
elemental not desired to be built up! Now, the thought
emotional elementals are not that. The thought dominates. There
is only a slight feeling of emotion to know the truth about
thought. These are the constructive thought forms (elementals).
So, all these elementals,
emotional or thought elementals, get a form. And the form of it,
the color of the form, brown color, even what you call the black
color, are the thought forms of passions, weaknesses, hatreds,
envy. You can see elementals with very dark yellow color (which
you wouldn’t like to see). Especially elementals of envy have
this color.
So, though those who create
elementals do not see them, they are under their influence,
because they are in their sub-consciousness. If people could see
the elementals they are projecting, they would be frightened!
So, our whole life, day and night (and during the night you are
creating elementals, because you continue vibrating with the
vibrations of your emotions), a Present- Day-Personality, a
human being, creates elementals. Our work is to know the nature
of the whole Present-Day-Personality we express.
The Christ was the first who
clearly spoke about the elementals, calling them the
evil spirits. He not only described them but also said
how they are created and how they behave. He said that an evil
spirit, coming out of the human body, from the human mind, goes
to “waterless places” (He described those surroundings), and
then, returns back home, comes back to the man,
carrying with it seven other spirits worse than it,
though finding its home clean (it means that at that moment
there were no more evil thoughts). Yet, it finds the way back
through the seven gates - the seven centers of
energy in the etheric double. Seven. He even described
the number. And then, when it enters, what happens? What we call
possession - being influenced and possessed by the
evil spirits (people throwing themselves down, showing signs
of epilepsy and all other things). You can find everything in
the Bible, in the New Testament. These evil spirits, that we
call bad elementals, have their own
intelligence, the intelligence of the fellow who had
projected them.
In one case He met a fellow on
the ground showing fits of epilepsy. When He approached him,
that man started speaking, expressing the elementals in him who
took over, “Yes, we know you. You are the Son of God and you
came to torture us.” That means that even these elementals have
ill feelings. They knew that feeling of being tortured because
they were torturing the fellow who accepted them. They even had
suggestions, “Don’t cast us to the darkness, but allow us to go
to this herd of swine.” It is stated in the Bible. “All right,”
He said, “yet, who are you?” They said, “We are many. We are a
legion.” A legion torturing that fellow. He ordered them to
leave that man and they entered the herd of swine. The swine
didn’t accepted them and threw their material bodies into the
sea where they drowned. Even the swine did not like to accept
them.
So, it is well described - the
elementals and what they do. Now, what do we know? Don’t
think that things have changed! There are many amongst
us, around us, who are possessed by these elementals.
They think they are devils. No. These are their own
elementals and they are responsible either for their
creation or for their revitalization (from the slumbering
elementals of the kind in their group elemental). Like seeks
like. No evil elemental can torture and enter an innocent and
clean person! You must have that in mind. Vibrating in
the rates and frequencies of the vibrations of these elementals
we attract them, just like a magnet, and allow them to come and
find entrance through the centers of vitality of our etheric
double. That’s clear.
We won’t protect ourselves from
these elementals by being afraid of them, but by being clean
ourselves. Clean - not attracting them. I assure you no bad
elemental can influence anyone who is not vibrating at
the same frequency of vibration with them. Vibrating - how?
Feeling certain desires, emotions, which are not clean in
reality. We are responsible, because evil elementals (there
are good elementals also) are attracted by the rate and the
frequency of vibrations of the etheric double of our
psychical body. So, we have to work on the psychical
body to keep it clean.
Now, can we meet these
elementals on a higher level, what we call the noetical plane?
Yes, in the noetical plane we can find them, but not in the
higher planes. Usually, these elementals have as their main body
the emotion (desire) of the fellow who is creating
them and very little mind (I call it cunningness - how to
carry out its aims) - Very, very little mind and much emotion.
Creating elementals with
reasoning, their only emotional part is to create them
and make them do some service to humanity. I call them
angelic elementals, constructive elementals, real
thought forms and not emotion thought-forms. So, we
classify their quality (let us use more plain words now) as good
and bad elementals. In the same way we can create, revitalize or
give life to a bad elemental, we can to a good one. Why not make
a good, positive, constructive elemental instead of a bad one,
torturing us and the others (who are vibrating at the same rate
of vibration with those elementals).
Where are these elementals
stored up in our personality? Now, first of all, our
personality is the sum-total of the elementals, good or bad.
These elementals are composing our Present-Day
Personality - the personality of Mary, Helen, George or
Peter. So, where are these elementals, good and bad, stored up
in our personality? In the etheric double of our material
body, in the etheric double of our psychical body (which
coincides in space), and mainly there, and in the etheric
double of our noetical body (in the lower parts of the
noetical body), all coinciding in place. Place? Where is that
place? - The personality of a man.
And what do we call that
storehouse which is in the personality? Sub-consciousness.
We’ll call it the subconscious Mind, which is in every
personality, in every person. And I would rather say that it is
the three fourths of the personality, because a human
being now is living subconsciously, thinking and believing
that he is living consciously, being all the time under the
influence of the subconscious Mind.
When will one
live consciously? When one develops the real
self-consciousness. ~ DASKALOS
