Insights to the Invisible World of Elemental Forces

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 81 pages

The reference work of the section, at eighty-one pages, and the document other studies in the library point back to when they need the terms settled. Elementals are defined as the spirits of the four elements of the terrestrial world — the evolutionary forces of nature below the mineral kingdom — and the earth described as densely populated by what it calls Viewless Races.

Much of the study is devoted to keeping distinctions clear that popular usage had collapsed. Elementals have nothing to do with elementaries, the latter being a term for the disembodied souls of the depraved, sorted here into three classes. The Deva Yonis — gnomes, sylphs, fairies, djinns — belong to the three lower elemental kingdoms and are treated as dangerous. The Pitris are not the forefathers of living men but of the first human race: the Lunar Pitris gave the images of their astral bodies as models for the first race of the Fourth Round, while the Solar Pitris endowed man with intellect, which the text calls a Great Sacrifice. A long historical section argues that the Christian Fathers took the Greek daimonia — which had meant the divine egos of man, and was applied by the ancients to spirits good and bad alike — and made the word mean devils.

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