Previous Gnostic Questions
What are the elementals and what do we call them?
Answer from the V.M. Samael Aun Weor.
In that etheric region, in that Fourth Dimension, live the elemental creatures of nature and this is something that we must deeply understand. Such creatures are given the name of elementals, precisely because they live in the elements.
Know, my dear friend, that fire is populated by elemental creatures; understand that air is also densely populated by that kind of creatures and that water and earth are populated by those same elementals.
Since ancient times, creatures of fire have been known by the name of Salamanders; elementals of air are designated by the name of Sylphs; beings of water are called Ondines, Nereids, Sirens, etc. etc.; creatures that live among the rocks of the earth were baptized with the name of pygmies, gnomes, etc. It is obvious that the form of these creatures varies greatly.
The creatures of fire are thin and dry, very similar to the grasshopper or cricket, although much larger in size.
The creatures of air look like very beautiful little children with rosy faces like the dawn; the elementals of water have various forms; some look like ineffable ladies, happy among the waves of the immense sea, others have the form of fish-mermaids, with the head of a woman, and finally there are undines that play with the clouds or live in the lakes and rivers that rush between their rocky beds.
The gnomes of the earth, the pygmies, look like old men with their long white beards and ceremonious bearing. They normally live in the mines of the earth or take care of the treasures that lie hidden there.
All these elementals of nature are useful in the great creation; Some animate fire, others propel the air forming the winds, those animate the waters, these others work in the alchemy of metals within the bowels of the earth.
Samael Aun Weor.
Answer from the magazine "The The wisdom of the Being.".
The elementals are beings that do not have psychological defects, they are innocent, they live in plants, animals and vegetables and are in contact with Mother Nature and, therefore, they possess her powers.
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The sylphs and sylphs of the air, the undines and nereids of the waters, the gnomes and pygmies of the earth and the salamanders of fire, are present in every plant, flower or tree in nature.
The Magazine "The Wisdom of Being" 104: "Introduction."