Pixie's Pixies

Fulgour

from:
THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES
by Manly P. Hall
(1928, copyright not renewed)

The Gnomes

The gnomes are of various sizes--most of them much smaller than human beings, though some of them have the power of changing their stature at will. This is the result of the extreme mobility of the element in which they function. Concerning them the Abbé de Villars wrote: "The earth is filled well nigh to its center with Gnomes, people of slight stature, who are the guardians of treasures, minerals and precious stones. They are ingenious, friends of man, and easy to govern."

The Undines

There are many groups of undines. Some inhabit waterfalls, where they can be seen in the spray; others are indigenous to swiftly moving rivers; some have their habitat in dripping, oozing fens or marshes; while other groups dwell in clear mountain lakes. According to the philosophers of antiquity, every fountain had its nymph; every ocean wave its oceanid. The water spirits were known under such names as oreades, nereides, limoniades, naiades, water sprites, sea maids, mermaids, and potamides. Often the water nymphs derived their names from the streams, lakes, or seas in which they dwelt.

The Salamanders

The third group of elementals is the salamanders, or spirits of fire, who live in that attenuated, spiritual ether which is the invisible fire element of Nature. Without them material fire cannot exist; a match cannot be struck nor will flint and steel give off their spark without the assistance of a salamander, who immediately appears (so the mediæval mystics believed), evoked by friction. Man is unable to communicate successfully with the salamanders, owing to the fiery element in which they dwell, for everything is resolved to ashes that comes into their presence.


The Sylphs
To the sylphs the ancients gave the labor of modeling the snowflakes and gathering clouds. This latter they accomplished with the cooperation of the undines who supplied the moisture. The winds were their particular vehicle and the ancients referred to them as the spirits of the air. They are the highest of all the elementals, their native element being the highest in vibratory rate. They live hundreds of years, often attaining to a thousand years and never seeming to grow old. The leader of the sylphs is called Paralda, who is said to dwell on the highest mountain of the earth. The female sylphs were called sylphids.

It is believed that the sylphs, salamanders, and nymphs had much to do with the oracles of the ancients; that in fact they were the ones who spoke from the depths of the earth and from the air above.

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Fulgour

The spirit consciousness that ensouls a plant or location. A spirit formed of one of the elements. The four elementals are salamanders (fire), sylphs (air), undines (water), and gnomes (earth).

Dryad - A deity or nymph of the woods. Similar to ancient Greek hamadryad. [nymph of an oak tree].

Elf - Garden or woodland fairy

Faerie - Archaic spelling of fairy.

Faery - Archaic spelling of fairy.

Fairy -One of a class of elemental beings. usually associated with gardens and plants

Fairy Ring - A circle formed on the grass in a field by the growth of certain fungi, formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their dances. Perhaps an ancient crop circle.

Fay - n. A fairy.

Faun - A rural elemental having a human shape, with the ears, horns, tail and hind legs of a goat.

Gnome - One of a species of elenetals, usually inhabiting the interior of the earth and acting as guardians of its mineral riches.

Hamadryad -A dryad who is the spirit of a particular tree.

Naiad - Any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.A Greek water nymph.)

Nymph - One of a class of elementals inhabiting the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, etc., and frequently mentioned as attending a superior deity.

Salamander - A fire elemental thought to resemble a lizard or other reptile,.

Sprite - An elf, fairy or goblin.

Sylph - One of a race of elementals supposed to inhabit the air.

Troll - n. A Scandinavian gnome

Undine - One of a group of female water spirits. According to Paracelsus ,(who was Philippus Aureolus 1493?-1541, Swiss physician and alchemist), when an undine married a mortal and bore a child, she received a soul.

Wood Nymph - : a nymph living in woods -- called also dryad


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Fulgour

from:
The Hidden Land

The 4 primary elements consist of both a vaporous and a tangible substance;
each element exists as both a physical element and a spiritual element. There
are 2 types of matter in nature - physical and etheric and also 2 types of
nature - the physical world and the supernatural world. Within the supernatural
world exists beings who are native to each of the elemental regions; earth,
air, fire and water, and the regions within.

The Elements
 

Fulgour

peek-a-boo

Pixie: According to one historical record, pixies were originally Druids who resisted Christianity, and the more they resisted the smaller they grew; and another documented source tells of a race of people who were not good enough for heaven, nor bad enough for hell and were doomed to wander the earth forever.
 

Talisman

Why she was called "Pixie"

Sorry, Fulgour, but this is an old thread, so perhaps it will be forgiven.

I suspect Pamela Coleman Smith was called "Pixie" for a reason.

Just looking through the cards she created, I am sure "Pixie" Smith had a keen sense of humor. How could we take her so seriously if she didn't ?

And why is poor old A.E. Waite so often deprecated ? Is it because he seems so pompous and ponderous in comparison ?

Could someone called "Pixie", always in rare photographs seen with a mischevous glint in her eye, really change the world ?

Which one, if you were a really little kid, would you want to tell you a goodnight story ?

Stories are, after all, what holds the world together.

A most interesting series of posts.

Talisman