The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1933
animal and human. All of them being sub-human, they naturally live and work close to man, in order that they may feel and feed off his vibrations and thereby may be developed by them as much as their nature permits, thus tending to prepare them for and evolve them eventually into the human kingdom.
In other words, these elemental beings are really the invisible forces of man’s own nature, and are intended to become the servants of man, the executors of his will, deputized by the God-head, when man was first placed in the Garden of his own Spiritual nature and given dominion over all lower kingdoms, to serve him in all his ways. They are actually serving man now, but being impersonal and having no will of their own, they serve him for good or for ill, obeying his every thought, word and desire—man in his ignorance not knowing that the results of such service is what is now manifesting in his body, life and affairs.
That you may see how these beings work and may learn their nature and thereby how consciously to control and direct their forces—for remember they actually are the forces of your nature, as they are the forces of all nature, and which accomplish all things for you, whether you are conscious of it or not, or whether in the past you directed their activities ignorantly, foolishly or destructively—we will show how they are attached to man and how they are the agents used by the Higher Self to develop and unfold man’s spiritual nature.
FIRST remember that man fundamentally is a Spiritual being, but having “fallen” or descended from his divine estate, and thereby having separated himself in consciousness from his Spiritual source, he is now unconsciously but none the less surely bringing back or redeeming and lifting up his miscreations of the past to their heavenly
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