ELEMENTS: Traditionally, the four elements are
recognised as EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and WATER.
NATURE: Nature encompasses all material substance
perceivable by our physical senses, including landscapes, plants, and animals.
Essentially, it encompasses everything we can observe through our physical
senses, excluding man-made constructs like buildings. We can deduce from the
forgoing that NATURE includes the ELEMENTS mentioned ealier in addittion to
plants and animals.
What entities are called Elemental beings and Nature
beings? Do Elemental Beings work exclusively with the elements while Nature
Beings occupy themselves with other aspects of Nature, such as plants and
animals?
Nature beings and Elemental beings are conscious
substantiate beings that work together within the World of Matter. They are
many and include the elves, gnomes,
nixies, etc. These elemental and nature beings were the necessary preparation
for the further development towards the eventual creation of matter; for matter
could come into existence only in unison with Substantiality. The elemental and
nature beings had to co-operate creatively in the developing World of Matter
just as they still do today.
Now let us consider the elements EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and
WATER and their related ELEMENTALS BEINGS. The gnomes (with male forms) work with earth and rocks; the
nixies/water-sprites (with female forms)
work with the water element, the sylphs work with the air, and the
salamanders work with the fire element.
Then there are the NATURE BEINGS that are engaged with
stones, plants, and similar aspects of nature. We can extend this category to
include various natural features like mountains, forests, flowers, meadows, and
animals. So,for example we have the
flower-elves who work with flowers and owing to their delicacy have female
forms and, because they are attuned to the Light, they are of the most
exquisite beauty. No wonder flowers are beautiful! Then there are also tree
elves which have male forms according to their activity in dealing with a
harder material. Mountains also have
nature beings that protects and tend them.
Having made this distiction between the NATURE BEINGS
and the ELEMENTAL BEINGS, we need to note and remember that the ELEMENTAL
BEINGS also relate with animals and plants and are not restricted to the
elements alone. Afterall, the
elements--earth, water, fire and air help to nurture plants and animals! Elemental beings can communicate with animals, warning them of
impending natural events. Ultimately the work of the Nature Beings and the
Elemental Beings in as much as they bring benefit to plants an animals, they
bring immeasurable benefit to man as well. Indeed man cannot live on this
planet without the work of the elemental and nature beings.
Conclusion: The elemental beings and nature beings
work together hand in hand and deal with
everything we see in NATURE. Nature encompasses everything we see in the world
except man-made things. Nature includes the elements of EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and
WATER and also plants and animals. The activities of the elemental beings and
nature beings are so inter-related that one cannot demarcate them strictly.
Indeed one may refer to all of them collectively as NATURE BEINGS!
Our take-away:
We need to recognise the existence of the elemental and nature beings
even if we do not see them with our physical eyes. Let us acknowledge their
work as helpers and appreciate them in thought when we behold the wonders of
NATURE. Let us give thanks to our Creator as we do so. The elemental beings and
nature beings indeed the very tiniest one of them are immensely important and
more reliable in their activity than a human spirit. They carry out the work
assigned to them with unimaginable accuracy. Bearing all of these in mind, we
should therefore strive in all
earnestness to become in our deeds like these helpers we have discussed today
who in their faithful service are an example for us!
