Elves for Beginners E-Book

Harry Eilenstein

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 92

Beschreibung

Elves? These are actually more than fantasy beings - but they are quite different from how they are usually described. Elves are not usually the subject of serious occultists, magicians and researchers, but it is worth taking a closer look at them. There are many useful, enriching and unexpected things to discover ... And it is not so difficult to get in touch with them.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Elves?

The history of the elves

The word "elves"

Light elves and dark elves

Plant elves

Erotic elves

Fantasy entities

Elf Research

Research principles

A working hypothesis

Plant telepathy

Plant-memory

Plant-consciousness

Help from the lycopodium elf

Help from the laurel elf

A gift from the meadowfoam

The collective subconsciousness of the plants

Elves, dwarves and animal spirits

What is consciousness?

The three allies

The Sushumna and the Tree of Life

The World Tree

Forms of Consciousness

Elf Encounters

Vitality

Power plants

Homeopathy and Bach flowers

Healing through elves

Conversations with trees

Magic rings

Crop circles

Plant-Gods

Hathor

Inanna

Osiris

Idun

Soma, Haoma, Kwasir and Medigenus

Dagda

Hun nah yeh

Cinteotl

Yum Kaax

Xochiquetzal

Chicomecoatl

Xilonen

Sara mama

Ilmatecutli

Xochipilli

Oberon

Totem poles

Dream journeys to the elves

Chamomile

Peppermint

Sage

Book List

I Elves?

What do elves have to do with serious magic? These lovely flower spirits from romantic stories and from fairy tales are not exactly what most magicians care about seriously and in detail – and hardly any other sensible person either.

The usual depiction of elves are small children or young women with butterfly wings – such beings do not seem to be a part of reality …

After all, the known elf depictions from the books of Cicely Mary Barker are very much based on the appearance of the respective plants, so that the elves appear as humanoid variants of the plants in question, so to speak.

But maybe a grain of truth can be found in the imaginative representations in the myths, legends and fairy tales. Let's see …

II The history of the elves

II 1. The word "elves"

It is almost always helpful to look at the history of the name and designation of a thing, if one wants to understand it better.

The word "Elves, Alben, Alfen, Elfen, Elben" comes from the Old Norse „alb“ and describes there a group of spirits. The word itself is related to the Latin "albus" for "bright, white".

With these Albs the spirits of the dead are meant, as among other things the title "Alberich" ("king of albs") of the former North Germanic sungod, fathergod and god of the dead Tyr shows. This interpretation is also confirmed by the fact that the albs live in hills – these are the barrows where the dead rest.

The designation of the spirits of the dead as "white" or "bright" has two reasons: on the one hand, spirits of the dead can be perceived clairvoyantly as milky-white shadows with a slight blue shimmer, and on the other hand, the afterlife of the Germanic peoples lay in one of their afterlife concepts up in the sky in the bright ("white"), golden hall of the sungod-godfather Tyr. Therefore also Tyr himself was called "the white god".

However, since the Germanic tribes also had the burial chamber in the barrow and the simple burial in the earth, the albs began to be distinguished according to their place of residence as the "light albs" above in the sky and the „dark albs" in the barrows.

II 2. Light elves and dark elves

From this distinction according to the place of residence of the ancestral spirits, which originated with the Germanic tribes, J.R.R. Tolkien created the Elves (light elves) and the Orcs (dark elves). Tolkien, who had been a professor of English at Oxford and had studied Germanic mythology intensively, brought the flower elf image, which was common in his time, back somewhat closer to the original Germanic image.

Tolkien's drastic-romantic depictions of the elves are rooted in his horoscope: He had a conjunction of Pluto ("drastic") and Neptune ("romantic") in the first house of his horoscope.

II 3. Plant elves

The spirits in the barrows have already become "spirits on the barrows" among the Teutons – especially the sungod-godfather Tyr, reborn in the morning, sits on his barrow.

These "spirits on the barrows" have apparently become associated with the "plants on the barrows".

In the Germanic mythology also the first two humans were created from trees, thus from plants – and humans were very often described by the Teutons and also by the Celts as "beech of the sword" (man), "birch of the collar" (woman) and similar.

Probably by these associations then in the course of time the motive of the plant spirits developed.

Among the Teutons themselves the plant elf motif is still unknown.

II 4. Erotic elves

The common erotic-feminine representation of the elves shows another root of this motif: In the Germanic myths, the earth and afterlife goddess unites with the dead man in the barrow, so that the dead man can beget himself, whereupon the goddess then gives birth to the dead man nine months later – the barrow is the belly of the earth goddess, who is pregnant with the re-begotten dead man. The seducing elves, who are almost always female, are the earth and afterlife goddess as the beautiful reconception mistress of the dead.

Since the dead in their burial mounds were imagined as snakes and dragons, after all sorts of reinterpretations, the motif of the hero (dead man) developed, who climbs into a cave (burial chamber in the burial mound), kills the dragon (spirit of the dead) and frees the fair maiden (goddess of the afterlife) and then unites with her (reconception).

II 5. Fantasy images

Since these elf-imaginings are only the result of associations and not of experiences, experiments, observations and conclusions, they are a pure fiction, nothing else than a figment of human imagination – nowadays mainly an idealizing, romantic and partly very sweet and erotic image of seductive young women with butterfly wings.

III Research on Elves

III 1. Research principles

In view of this mythological-fantastic origin of today's elf conceptions, taking the elves seriously looks almost ridiculous – unless one sees them simply as reinterpreted and misunderstood ancestral spirits.

However, the conclusion that no conception whose origin can be explained from mythological images can have a reality content is somewhat rash. With this argumentation one could also reject the reincarnation, because this originated from the cycle of agriculture with the sowing, the growing, the harvest and the reseeding of the grain.

If one really wants to be sure (which is generally preferable to hasty conclusions), one must examine the thing itself about which one wants to know something – and not only the history of the ideas connected with this thing.

III 2. A Working Hypothesis

Every verification needs a working hypothesis, and every experiment needs an approach from which to design an experimental setup. This approach can be very complex or very simple – depending on whether there are already experiences, ideas and procedures that can be applied to the case at hand.

If one asks the question whether elves exist or not, one comes one step further, if one asks oneself first of all, by what one would recognize an elf as real. The most important characteristic a flower spirit would have to have in order to be called such would be a consciousness and an individuality.

How can this be proven? One can, of course, make dream journeys to various plants and will find that one can talk to them – but is that a sure proof that there is a plant consciousness? It is first of all only the proof that one can receive information about plants with the help of dream journeys and then experience these internally as pictures and conversations – and possibly also that this information can be very helpful.

III 3. Plant telepathy

So one has to go back one step further with the question: How would I know that a plant has a consciousness?

This question is not easy to answer – but since I have already done experiments on it, I know fortunately which approach has been successful in the end. Asking a good question is generally already half the answer …

The first interesting observation was my mother's "green thumb" – she was able to make all plants bloom again that others had already given up on.

When I was once told about the experiment where you take two identical plants and curse one and praise and encourage the other, whereupon the first reacts by wilting and the second by thriving, I found this completely plausible based on my experience with my mother's "green thumb". When I also did the experiment myself once, the results matched what I had been told.

Interestingly, my mother once told me that she sometimes threatened plants that did not want to thrive with throwing them on the compost – whereupon they always started to grow.

What does it mean that plants react in this way? After all, they do not have ears and do not speak the human language. So information from a human being arrives at a plant – the plants apparently perceive what the human being imagines.

Even if one argues that it is not the words of the human being, but the changes in the life force of the plants caused by the words, it still remains that the plants can perceive the feelings and words and pictures of a human being "telepathically". Thus, the plant has the ability to perceive and react to non-physical things, i.e. the plants have telepathic perception.

The ability of perception is not identical with a consciousness, but perceptions are what a part of the contents of a consciousness consists of – and without perceptions, thus without contents of consciousness, a consciousness would be quite functionless and therefore also useless.

There is another experiment with which one can prove the plant telepathy:

Cleve Backster, an employee of the American secret service, connected a lie detector to his dragon tree in 1966 in order to measure how long it takes water to get from the roots to the top of the plant. However, instead of a rash indicating rising humidity in the plant, he found the rash that occurs in people who have been asked an unpleasant question.

Backster then tried all sorts of things, which the plant found boring and therefore did not respond. When he had the thought of burning one of its leaves, however, the polygraph struck out – the dragon tree had apparently sensed Backster's thoughts.

The dragon tree even seemed to sympathize with other plants, as the polygraph connected to it even struck out when Backster hurt other plants near the dragon tree. So it would appear that the plants that are in the same location are telepathically connected to each other. This suggests that also in nature the meadows, plant beds, groups of trees, forests etc. are not only an "optical unit" but also a "telepathic network".

III 4. Plant-memory