The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | AUGUST 1935
MAN’S DOMINION OVER HIS WORLD
IN THE article on Vital Thinking, we disclosed a great secret, one which will mean incalculable things to those who are able to put the knowledge contained in it to use.
In order further to help those who wish and are ready to do this, we will go more into detail regarding the elemental forces or beings which are man’s servants and which from the beginning have been silently, faithfully, selflessly, and without recognition accomplishing for man all that he thinks he has done. When in fact he has done nothing without the agency of these forces which are the actual executors of his will and desires.
We outlined to you how the elements of the air are what enter your thought forms, carry them to others and impress their meaning upon others’ minds; how the elements of fire are what seek to accomplish and outmanifest for you what they construe to be your feelings and desires; how the elements of water are what carry the blood and life-giving fluids of the body to every organ, muscle and nerve, and also circulate the fluids in all animal and vegetable life; and how the elements of earth have charge of the building, repairing and restoring the solid matter in the body, including the bones, tissues and muscles, likewise in all vegetable and animal bodies—not to speak of the building of the forms of all mineral matter.
In other words, all forces in man, used by man, or connected with man in any way—which mans all movement within man, by man, or that man sees or senses in his world—are but the action of these elementals; they are what constitute force or what seems to be movement in air, fire, water and earth—such being but the movement or activity of these elemental beings.*
What we wish particularly to impress upon you is their relation to and connection with man; that they were sent and deputized by the God-head to wait upon man, to obey him, to execute his will and to carry out his desires, whenever possible, according to the
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