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We mentioned in the previous lesson that we are constructing the shell of our personality piece by piece by the individual emotions, desires, feelings and thoughts, we express. We have also said these expressions create elementals. These elementals have their own life and influence our personality according to their nature. To begin to understand just exactly what an elemental is we must classify them according to their nature and purity. In the broadest sense there are two prime classifications. By far the most common type is the emotion-thought elemental or desire-thought forms. Human beings project thousands of this type daily. We even project these types of elementals when we sleep. This type is composed primarily of emotions - desires and feelings and very little thought. The quality of this type can range from most despicable to the most noble. Most of the elementals created or re-energized fall into this category. Individually these emotion-thought elementals are not as powerful as the other type unless they collect and form large group elementals, in which case they can come to dominate the personality they host on. The other classification is the thought-emotion type of elemental. This type is created by more thought than emotion. In these types thought is the dominant component and emotion becomes less dominant. These thought-desire elementals manifest results quicker and more effectively than do the emotional based ones. Elementals which are consciously created primarily with thought tend to have a greater longevity. The Hierophants of ancient Egypt new this and developed their ability of creating these living thought-forms into a powerful science. One time in Cyprus after Daskalos concluded his weekly lessons, a few students were going to visit the Great Pyramid in Egypt. At that time, you could bribe the night watchmen at the pyramid and they would open the locks and let you in to spend the night. Then once you made an awkward crawl/climb well up inside the mountain of stone blocks to the King’s chamber they locked the entrance, turned off the lights and left you alone overnight in absolute darkness. As we were leaving I mentioned to Daskalos that we were considering doing this. I asked him what he thought of the idea. He said softly, "You could do it..... But there are guardian elementals created by the Egyptian Hierophants still living in the pyramids. Then very seriously he added, "But sometimes they strike you!" And he made a striking motion like a snake with his hand. The thought of being "struck" in total darkness by a 4500 year old guardian elemental gave us second thoughts about the whole idea. Later Daskalos wrote in his Symbol of Life book: “Many Elementals created as guardians of monuments and graves of Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt – many centuries ago – are still actively guarding those monuments. Many Egyptologists and archeologists have had bitter experiences when attacked by those guardian Elementals.” So the life of certain elementals can be exceedingly long. This is true regarding the life of the elementals we create too. We will find them in the psycho-noetical worlds when we pass over and they can even travel with us into our next incarnation either to help or hinder our progress. So the advice is given: “Be careful what you wish for!” All our desires, weaknesses, strengths, habitual ways of thinking and behaving create or re-energize elementals. These come to form our personality and define our character. It is this personality full of conflicting ideas, feelings and thoughts that we sadly mistake as our real Self. This personality self is at best a weak shadow of our Real Self cast on the unequal ground of duality. But to really know and experience this truth, we must shift our sense of identity from our shadow-self to our Real Spirit-Soul Self. To do this means we must gain mastery over our thoughts and emotions - the elementals we create and re-energize. Mastering our undesirable emotions and weaknesses does not mean fighting against them and suppressing them with force. Mastering our emotions and desires means gaining control of them, becoming their master and not their slave. An elemental has an existence, a life and purpose of its own. For anything to exist it needs a form. When we have a desire for an object, for example a type of car, we are creating an elemental, which is getting a form. In this example, the form of the elemental takes the shape and color of the specific car we desire. It first forms on our etheric double at the location of the so-called third eye. At this point before it is projected it is very small in size – the size of the head of a pin. Yet imprinted in it are all the details we know about the car we desire. After we project it consciously or subconsciously it tends to take the full size of the object we desire. All this is visible to a well developed clairvoyant. These elementals are created through our etheric doubles. They are composed of etheric substance in varying degrees of purity, accuracy and strength. Once projected out from us they work to achieve their purpose - to bring about the conditions to manifest the desired object or effect we created them for. When we harbor and express negative emotions such as despair, jealousy, fear or hatred we create elementals which also get a form. What form are these destructive elementals getting? They get the shapes of snakes, beasts and other distressing forms. They get this form according to the quality of the desires and thought which created them. Their forms and their colors reveal their natures. It is really merciful that people can not see the forms of the destructive elementals as it would terrify them. It may take a clairvoyant to see these forms but anyone can feel them. If you approach a person you know well and they are having strong negative emotions and thoughts for you it is not difficult to feel this. Likewise when we are around a loving friend or companion we truly can feel their love for us. So our good or bad thoughts and emotions are continually creating, or more commonly, re-energizing pre-existing elementals. It is our choice which ones we attend to and give expression. Thus we are responsible for our own unique set of elementals and their effect on ourselves and those around us. When an elemental is created it forms on our etheric doubles and is projected out into the common environment. We literally live in a sea of these etheric sub-spirits. Joshua Immanuel the Christ gave a perfect description of what happens when we project negative elementals in his parable the “Unclean Spirit.” Christ was using the terms Unclean Spirits, Evil Spirits, and Spirits mute and meaningless to describe the elementals and he often referred to the personality of man as a house. Christ said: “When an evil [unclean] spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid [waterless] places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation." [1] So Joshua stated that this unclean spirit or elemental goes out of man, which means that he or she are giving it expression by their feelings, thoughts or actions. It goes out into the common psychical environment - the “arid” or waterless places. That means places without nourishment for it. The Elemental does not find the energy it needs to sustain its life. It then returns “home” to the personality of the one who gave it expression. When the negative elemental returns, it finds the house unoccupied, which means the personality is open and un-protected. Then the elemental enters bringing with it seven other similar elementals more dangerous than itself. These elementals enter through the centers (charkas) in our etheric double and collect as one in our sub-consciousness. Each cycle of expression and re-absorption of negative elementals increases their numbers and degrades the personality. Repetitive expression over time can form large group elementals so powerful that they can come to dominate the personality leading to phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders and in extreme cases insanity. However this very same process can also work to our benefit when we send out loving and positive life affirming elementals. We are thus strengthened and edified by our repeated noble expressions. The Law of Repetition in the creation of elementals can be one of our strongest allies or our worst enemies. Our elementals gather within and compose our sub-consciousness, which is within the personality. The personality is our emotional body and mental (noetical) body and our material body. Since most of our elementals are primarily composed of emotion, most of our elementals are associated with our psychical body and are very active within its etheric double. All elementals have a psychical component - our desire. All elementals have a noetical component – our intent. We will find our elementals manifesting more easily and more intensely in the psychical worlds and in the noetical worlds. But these elementals can not reach into the Noetic World. Our elementals, good or bad, are stored within one of the three chambers of our sub-consciousness and exert an influence on our personality. Under certain circumstances they rise to our conscious mind and seek expression. Every time we allow them expression, we strengthen them. Every time we struggle against them we strengthen them. But every time we remove our attention from them and do not allow them expression, we weaken them. Herein is the secret to freeing ourselves or all kinds of undesirable habits, weaknesses, and behaviors corrupting our personality and veiling the light of our own true nature. To be continued. . . . In the next lesson we will describe more about the elementals.
Love to all,
Daniel 10.30.02 An Introspection exercise regarding elementals by Daskalos from a Stoa Lesson
Now, sitting alone, these elementals
come to the surface of your consciousness, which you call remembering or
memory. (We have to study this phenomenon of memory or remembering
concerning our time-and-place personality.) And then what happens?
Immediately re-energized these elementals will create in you the same
kinds of feelings and desires. Which means - elementals are living
entities in the personality. They are in our personality's plurality. We
should be very careful about that !
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So, we should be very, very careful in creating
elementals. It is the group elementals but also the family elementals, the
society elementals, and the national elementals. And all human beings now
are slaves of these elementals of their own creation. And they are
suffering due to that. The whole life of a man or a woman is such as to be
influenced and depending on these group elementals (good, bad, or mixed)
they have created.
So,
looking in our sub-consciousness, in our Present-Day-Personality (it's
just the same), we must find out these groups of elementals. They may be
of our own creation or we may have revitalized the already existing
elementals in the psychical atmosphere of the planet. They always existed,
creating group elementals of the same nature. Adultery, always existed,
and created group elementals of that kind. Drunkenness, always existed,
having its group elementals in the psychic plane and the material plane
(because the material plane is inside the psychic plane). All kinds of
vices are group elementals, which already exist and we are in them.
Because we are in the psychical atmosphere and the etheric atmosphere of
the planet.
Esoteric Teachings Chapter 15
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~ A Seeker of Truth
~ Daniel
General "Our system of Esoteric Christianity celebrates the eternal truths
known to all great religious traditions, while firmly based in the
teachings of the God-Man Joshua Immanuel the Christ and the New Testament"
~ DASKALOS E-mail: Contact@Researchers-of-Truth.org
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Noetic World.
The world of ideas,
of the archetypes. The world of causes and laws that provide the
foundations of all phenomenal reality. A state of Ideas and unexpressed
forms in the Eternal Now. From the noetic state the Archangels derive
the forms for creating and sustaining the phenomena of life. This state
is where we may come to rest in between incarnations.
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