ELEMENTALS
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ELEMENTALS (HP 152)
Every thought, emotion and desire creates and
transmits an elemental - also called thought-form - that carries on an
existence of its own. We create and regenerate two types of elementals. When
negative emotion prevails over thought, we have created emotional
thought-forms, or desire-thoughts. When our ideas, desires and emotions pass
through reason and love, we create reasoned thought-forms, or thought-desires.
An elemental can never be destroyed, only disenergized (when no longer fed with
etheric vitality). Elementals of a kind collect to form powerful group
elementals. If an individual, or a collection of individuals, are vibrating at
the same frequency, they will attract such group elementals. Archangels also
create elementals (e.g. nature spirits and angels) in the service of the Divine
Plan.
EP 162 Researchers of Truth understand the
triadic nature of their subconscious. One chamber of the subconscious contains
all the elementals composing our personality. The second chamber is the
storehouse of life-giving etheric vitality. The third, and most valued chamber,
is that of the Logos and the Holy Spirit.
ET 76 With appropriate training, we can project and direct etheric
vitality from the etheric doubles of the bodies and send it over vast
distances, and perform so-called miracles. To do this we can take part of the
Mind-substance of etheric vitality, give it form and project it as a mental
image, outside both our gross material body and our etheric double.
This happens consciously
when we form what we call "thought-desires", but unconsciously when
we form "desire-thoughts". Jesus Christ called the latter "deaf
and dumb spirits" (Mark 9:25). These two types of thought forms, because
they are both living forms, we call "elementals".
Etheric vitality is the
"Bread" which comes to us from Heaven. It is the means by which we
build, when rendered into elementals, the present day personality. It is also
the means of cleansing and purifying the character, which ultimately serves to
assimilate our personality into the Inner Self--our Self-aware Soul.
ET 145 CHAPTER FIFTEEN
"ELEMENTALS"
ET 145
In this chapter we will concern
ourselves with the way of using supersubstance of Mind in the creation of
psychonoetical images. Such images arise from the shaping of Mind into forms
that we call "elementals".
ET 146 our present personalities, that is to say the
vehicle through which most of us experience and interpret the worlds, are
compositions of various elementals born
either subconsciously, self-consciously or super-consciously. Elementals
having once been created and projected, gain a material existence of their own. Upon still closer examination,
we learn that each elemental owns a psychic and a noetical counterpart, which
inherits the intentions of its creator.
Life as we know it in gross
matter is how we ourselves fashion Mind supersubstance coupled with the
communal and global environments that have been pre-shaped around us.
In this way we create
different conditions in and around us, which can approach the likeness of
paradises or hells, or stand somewhere in between, which is what Catholics call
purgatory. We each live in a shell, more or less permeable, of our own design.
Just as the gross material
body consists of many cells, organised into a working whole, so our personality
consists of a network of interdependent psycho-noetical images. The cells of
our personality, as we might call them, are precisely, one by one, the
elementals which we create and project as a result of our desires and
weaknesses, strengths and virtues.
ET 146
With every thought, each glance,
idea, distraction or feeling we create elementals. Even as we sleep, we are
emitting elementals that will affect us and those around us.
The elementals are
emitted with an intensity corresponding to
the strength of the desires which gave birth to them. When they have reached
their goal and served their purpose, they return to their creator to be
projected once again with ever increasing power. This procedure is repeated
many times, creating within our personality, either a terrible environment
of darkness - -if the elementals are of low degree-- or a strong atmosphere of
love --if they are good thought-desires--.
ET 147 In the same way we can poison the
material body by consuming harmful food, or can cleanse it by improving the way
we care for it, so we poison or cleanse our personalities. This is how human character evolves.
But what is character and
what is its relationship with our personality? We have said that our material
body is something which is in constant state of change. Substance enters it
and other substance is discarded. Orthodox science tells us that with the
passing of every seven years, not a single cell remains from the body of the
seven years prior. We have the opportunity to shape our bodies and health in
this constant process of renewal.
ET 147 The same thing happens with our
personality. Substance is taken in and substance is discarded. With the
production and reproduction of elementals we build and rebuild our personality.
Here, too, we create health or illness, contentment or dissatisfaction, and sow
peace or unrest.
For most of us the
construction of our personality is performed subconsciously, as we let desires
and emotions dictate the character of the personality. Let us recognize the
gift we have, to create and to form the holy supersubstance Mind, into heavens
and hells. In a manner not unrelated to the Archangels, we have been given the
authority and the responsibility to shape Mind into form. They shape the
heavens without, we the heavens within.
ET 148 We can identify various types of
elementals. Some spring from inside the personality, others are drawn from the
outside environment. We either create elementals with our desire-emotions and
thought-emotions; or our personality vibrates at a frequency common to a
collection of elementals of a like kind and then attracts these elementals. The
latter are the so-called "group elementals" that have been cultivated
over the centuries by the perpetuation of common beliefs and actions. They can
be either benign or malicious in intent. Our personality, whether weak and
ill-natured or strong and compassionate, will activate these group elementals. Once activated they will cling to the host
personality, affecting emotions, thoughts and actions.
ET 148 When such group elementals are
particularly aggressive they can control our energy centres in a phenomenon similar
to possession. Conversely, should they be benign and loving we might experience
a sensation of great inspiration or even ecstasy.
The majority of the
elementals we house are intelligent and demanding. They can force the
personality to act in a certain manner which creates the conditions for the
elemental to be satisfied and renewed.
If we are filled with elementals of greed, envy and hatred, these elementals
will dictate to our personality actions and behaviours that will lead to great
disagreements and brawls, not to mention hellish inner dissatisfaction. If we
are compassionate and peaceful in nature, our elementals will lead us into
situations where we can be of some help and service.
Consequently, in spite of it
being accepted that we do not have always full control over the condition of
our material body, in the case of our personality the responsibility is
ultimately exclusively our own.
ET 149 If we have constructed a weak
personality, we inevitably form centres of
attraction which draw to us the corresponding elementals that others
have created or are creating around us, which are hovering in the psycho-noetical atmosphere. But, even in this case, it is we who have the
responsibility, because we attract and assimilate only those vibrations which
resonate with ourselves. We cannot accuse other people, or the conditions which
prevail around us, because the acceptance and assimilation of these elementals
is purely our own choice and responsibility.
All around us there are
human beings who live in ignorance and darkness, as well as others who
make sensible use of Mind. There are, then, in our communal psycho-noetical
environment
good and bad elementals. There are angels - and demons too! It is for us to
create the magnetic pole which will attract the one and repel the other. No
demon can bother any human being who does not resonate with it.
On the other hand, someone
who is labouring under a particular guilt, can temporarily be helped by an
angelic being or through the meditation of other humans who pray for him, or by
the expression of Divine Mercy. Prayer is the process of shaping and emitting
loving elementals.
This help, however, is
relative, for if the person in question has not matured psycho-noetically, the
benefit derived will be temporarily. To be helped, the person must use this
beneficial intervention as the starting point for right-thinking and
development.
ET 149 Let us not cast blame on our
surroundings. There are many elementals around us. There are elementals, for
example, of those we call alcoholics, many of whom try to present themselves as
victims of society. Such people are responsible for their sorry state, since
they have created or drawn to themselves very strong elementals, which take
great will power to dis-energize. Yet the same elementals surround us all.
ET 150 A common misperception prevails these
days in popular psychology. Many psychotherapists believe that in order for a
patient to recover he must relive certain emotions and events, venting memories
and frustrations that have been plaguing the personality. In this process of
"letting the steam out" more often then not the elementals
surrounding a memory, rather then being weakened, are revitalized by the
attention with which they are served. This method is counterproductive - except
in a few cases - to the client's recovery as it lends only more energy to the
problems.
ET 150 Elementals cannot be destroyed. Once an
elemental has been created it will continue to exist in either an active state --when filled with etheric
vitality from a personality-- or in a dormant state --deprived of thought
power, lying in the waiting in the Cosmic Consciousness--. Inasmuch as our
personalities are composed both quantitatively and qualitatively of these
elementals, in order to rid ourselves of certain elementals we must be prepared
to replace elementals which are a nuisance, with more beneficial ones. When one
elemental is driven out a vacuum remains which can be occupied by a new
elemental of any nature. It is vital, therefore, to fill such voids with
elementals that serve a constructive purpose within the personality.
We see why it is difficult
for personalities to change too much, too quickly as each personality is
composed of a relatively balanced and interdependent network of elementals.
Suddenly to remove either large elementals, or a collection of elementals of a
like kind, can seriously de-stabilize an individual, leading even to madness.
The work of dis-energizing elementals must be slow and steady with much
resolve.
ET 151 Elementals can never be defeated in a
direct struggle. We believe that in order to move beyond the chains of the past
it is best to recognize their source - using reason - and then work to replace
and transcend them. We need to let go of, and not dwell on, past events. In
letting go of the past -- which is behind us and
unchangeable --, we dis-energize the elementals that weigh us down, depriving
them of their life-blood. We can then live unfettered in the present. Let today
belong to today, and not the pull of yesterday, nor the push of tomorrow.
ET 151 All of us move in a psycho-noetical
atmosphere which contains the entirety of the corruption of past epochs as well
as that of today. At the same time this atmosphere contains also the good which
is being done at the present time and which has been done by the human race
throughout all ages.
The holy supersubstance Mind
is all around and within us. It is in the hands of our temporary personality as
a gift for its development. But this personality very often abuses it, instead
of using it, and changes the purity of Mind into a foul swamp of egoism,
malice, hatred, lies and harmful fantasies. Does anyone pause to consider... 1'All
right you can deceive others, but how can you deceive yourself"?
ET 151 Human beings must first of all be honest
with themselves and in the second place they must love the truth. Humans have
their consciousness in a sea of falsehood, and often like to make others
suffer, not understanding that by doing so they harm themselves twice as much
as their victims.
The Cosmic Consciousness is
teeming with elementals of every grade and design. As co-creators with the Holy
Logos and the Holy Spirit, we contribute to the quality of the Cosmic
Consciousness according to thoughts, desires and emotions we generate and
regenerate. This is part of the interdependence of everything and everybody.
When we first begin to understand how we contribute to the welfare of humanity
- and far greater - Creation, by the construction of productive, life giving
elementals, we have indeed made a great step in our development.
ET 152 Instead of hatred and conflict, we must
cultivate love and harmony. We must look upon ourselves as healers and on all
those around us as friends who may need help. We must approach them, seek to
recognize their psychic wounds and help to return them to wholeness. This is the only way to create good elementals
around us, which will heal and cleanse the environment. The struggle for
development takes place in this environment and the quality of it is of great
importance.
Many people suffer from the
defect of hurrying and thinking that they understand everything, even in
situations where they have already been led astray. Others are so egotistical
to think that they are entitled to judge everything and everybody. They are
driven onwards by unworthy motives. People in these categories should at some
time be taught the value of silence. Silence is basic. It is the mother of
rational thought. Before we speak we must think in silence. What we say will
then carry more weight.
ET 152 There are two ways in which we create
elementals. Both have their starting point in some stimulus from the world of
matter.
In the first way, we allow
our fantasy free rein when it is centered upon some attractive material form,
to run unbridled and create an unlimited number of strong elementals, whose aim
is to satisfy the particular desire or emotion.
ET 153 Elementals in this category we call
DESIRE-THOUGHT elementals and the pattern of their creation is as follows:
Material object---Excitation
of some response---Generation of desire---Creation of conditions for
satisfaction.
ET 154 The other way is for thought to be
controlled and to precede the formation of a desire. Humanity learns, little by
little, lifetime by lifetime, to react more slowly to whatever the stimulus may
be... The elementals created in the second way we call THOUGHT-DESIRE
elementals. They lead man safely down the straight path and purify the
environment, producing helpful conditions for general development.
FH 65 Demonic
elementals can be attached to an object
FH 80 How
to help people by depositing a benign elemental
FH 114 Elementals and maya (illusions)
FH 125 Elementals and evil
FH 128
Why it is
easier to dissolve negative elementals during exomatosis is
FH 129 Human beings rewrite the future every
moment through the elementals which they create.
FH 253 There are dangers when buried elementals
are awakened.
HS 34 Evil elementals
HS 162 In the gross material universe, there exist
all the elements in different combinations; but the earth
element is dominant.
In the psychic world the dominant element is
water and in the lower noetic world the dominant element
is fire, and in the higher noetic world ether. It is for
this reason that we call thought forms
"elementals". They are made from elements.
HS 183 Overcoming evil elementals
HS 195 Patriotism & nationalism
HS 217 Fantasies creating elementals
MS 23
Autosuggestion is a
self-conscious construction of elementals for a particular purpose.
MS 29 CHAPTER THREE
"ELEMENTALS"
MS 32 Creating elementals
MS 34 Basics of elementals
MS 34 Evil elemental
MS 36
How elementals are formed
(e.g. desire to have a necklace).
MS 36 Concentration & desire leads to the
construction of noetic matter (elementals).
MS 37 How is an elemental perceived by a
clairvoyant person
MS 38 The elementals of egotism, anger, hatred,
feeling of being hurt
MS 39 How to close the door of unwanted
perception before sleep
MS 40 The best way to overcome an elemental is by
ignoring it - by being indifferent toward it.
MS 42 The effect of elementals directed toward
others
MS 42 The generation of elementals during sleep
MS 43 During sleep a person is affected by his
own elementals. It is for this reason advisable to do a
self-analysis before falling asleep.
MS 43 overcoming the fear of an animal e.g. a
snake (exercise)
MS 46 How to create an elemental which helps
during an operation
MS 163 Young men in Cyprus end up in asylum after
creating powerful elemental from obsessive masturbation over
the image of a woman
PA 13 Unclean spirits are elementals (Matt 12:
43-45)
PA 95 Elementals can only be de-energized, they
can not be killed.
PA 96 The study of elementals is a most important
one in our life on the planet (earth).