Are faeries primarily astral beings in charge of growing things? And are we elfaerie descended from nature spirits, the dead or minor gods of antiquity?
“The mist upon the morning,
the dew upon the grass,
are set there to remind us
that Faerie did just pass.”
— by The Silver Elves
Are faeries primarily astral beings in charge of growing things? This is a very common idea that is held by many folks and can be found in some of the books by Theosophical writers as well. This notion of faeries being primarily astral in form goes along with the idea that can be found in many of the old magic texts from centuries ago that the faerie world was attached to the elementals and the gnomes were earth spirits, the sylphs, spirits of the air, the undines of the waters and then, curiously, salamanders were fire elementals. Which always seems to us like categorizing apples, oranges, pears and almonds together.
Along with this, the idea seems to have arisen that faeries represent the intelligence of Nature and are little invisible (save to those with the Faerie Sight) beings who are Nature’s gardeners tending to the plants and other flora. Thus, the idea of the Flower Fairies that Cicely Mary Barker turned into such lovely and beloved illustrations (see her various Flower Fairies books).
Astral is a word that is connected to stars and starlight (see our book Star Elves: Their Customs and Their Magic). The astral plane is a plane where beings are in non-material bodies and this was a popular idea in classical and medieval thought, also can be found in esoteric literature and currently is popular in New Age philosophies and mystery religions. It is not all that different from the idea of there being a heaven and hell, which are non-physical realities that we will abide in after death.
This is all good and well, except for the part about faeries being primarily astral beings. We haven’t actually taken a survey and it is surely possible that faeries are primarily astral beings. At the same time, if that is the case, it is probably also safe to say that nearly all beings are primarily astral beings. Our material world is rather small in comparison to the vast realms of light and energy, of thought forms and feeling forms and other forms of being.
We Silver Elves, however, deal with and know mostly faeries manifest in humanoid bodies. We’ve encountered astral beings and spirits from time to time. Some of them have come to peek at us but are thems’elves quite shy and soon scoot off when they notice that we’d noticed them in turn. But most of them are just going about doing what they do and we are not about to disturb them when they are so busy.
So, for us, the faeries we interact with and take notice of on the whole are those incarnated into the material world (in humanoid bodies) and often struggling to embrace their true identity. And some, of course, having already done that, are just out there being the faeries that they are and have ever been. They are the ones who are most important to us in our work and yet, we still acknowledge and frequently greet the various spirits of the trees, flowers and other flora when we encounter them. The idea that plants have spirits that are separate from them is sometimes to forget that those trees and plants are spirits and, in most ways, they take care of thems’elves. Faeries, for the most part, like we elves, are primarily concerned, in our experience, with taking care of thems’elves and, of course, each other.
It is said that we all have astral bodies that are part of and yet potentially separate from our material being and which does, in fact, divorce itself entirely from our material form when it dies. And, unless it is a goth spirit, it probably doesn’t linger too long around the discarded body any more than a person would sit for too long in their automobile that has irretrievably broken. Our astral body is the container for our life energy in a more subtle form and it is the vehicle we use when we are passing from one incarnation to another.
When one thinks of it that way, one understands that flowers are spirits and those spirits are the flower fairy spirits. Just as trees are spirits and they are tree spirits, thus dryads and tree nymphs and other tree beings. So, too, we are elves and our spirits are elves and the bodies our spirits inhabit when we are not in material bodies are often astral bodies. And, in time, as our power and consciousness evolve, we will take on higher astral (star) bodies, which is to say bodies of light. But when that happens, we will be entering the realms of the Shining Ones and then the chances of us going back to the material realm are about the same as our chances of returning to elementary school once we’ve entered graduate school. Maybe to visit. Maybe to teach. Who knows we might have children there. Although, we for our own part, would prefer homeschooling our children in Elf School.
And another question to ponder, dear Elfaerie Kindred, with an excerpt from one of our The Silver Elves books titled Finding Faerie: Answers to Questions About Being an Elf and Following the Elven Path, Volume 8, (available on Amazon internationally):
Are we elfae descended from nature spirits, the dead or minor gods of antiquity?“We elfae folk have long been associated with nature spirits and from our own point of view, we are nature spirits but then, as we see it, everyone is a part of Nature. The fact that mankind and the normal folk often see themselves as being apart from Nature and have, in their history, strived to divorce themselves from Nature and think that they are ultimately above Nature spiritually is merely their folly. They also are known to separate their particular god-form from Nature as well, even while they say that he (nearly always a he in their minds) created Nature. We elfae, on the other hand, see ours’elves and everything else as an expression of Nature. So, we are not only descended from nature spirits, we are natural elves, which is to say fae spirits of Nature.”
“Gods, of course, don’t really die, except in the same way we die, which is to say we change bodies and go from one incarnation to another, one form to another through time, which is to say Now or Eternity or the Eternal Now. It is not time that changes really, but our forms within time. But yes, many of the old god-forms have been forgotten, just as the vast majority of individuals who have lived upon the Earth throughout time have been forgotten as well.”
“However, some individuals among mankind, back in the day, were somewhat in awe of us, fearful of us and amazed by us at the same time and thought of us as being somewhat god-like. Just in the same way that they sometimes worshiped the sun and other aspects of Nature and the Universe as god beings as well, and as many modern pagans worship the Earth as the divine being Gaia. They made offerings to us to propitiate us and keep on our good side until Christianity came along and declared we elfaerie were really demons and fallen angels and people didn’t really need to be afraid of us, that they just needed to be afraid of their particular god, etc. etc. who would protect them from us.”
“There is some lore that says that we are descended from the Anunnaki who were seen as gods and extraterrestrials or that we were those beings that the Anunnaki tampered with the DNA of to create more intelligent humans. Or that we are the descendants of the Nephilim who came from the union between angelic beings and humans, etc. and thus we were minor gods, or demi-gods as were popular in Greek mythos.”
“Also, we Elven are sometimes viewed as being the advanced peoples that are recorded in lore throughout the world, who came from Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu and other ‘lost’ civilizations and helped humanity survive in a rather harsh environment and uplifted humanity overall by virtue of our wisdom and knowledge.”
“Perhaps. It’s all possible. However, from our own point of view, we are spirits who descended into materialization from the more ethereal realms of being where our bodies where thought-forms that condensed into more solid seeming form, although we know for a fact now that we are actually composed of atoms dancing around in the vast sea of energy and our ‘solidity’ is a sort of illusion. It seems real but so do dreams when you are dreaming them. Yet we elves, for the most part, are quite fond of these bodies the majority of the time, just as we love many of our dreams. Although, we do sometimes have nightmares and sometimes this world can seem like a nightmare as well.”
“However, we elfae are not really the devolved and inferior descendants of ancestors who were gods, even minor gods. Rather, we came from realms where our powers seemed greater because the environment was different and less limited. Think of it this way, we didn’t fall from grace and lose our power, we migrated to a world where our powers are less effective so far. Look at the difference between walking on the Earth and walking on the Moon. There is less gravitational pull on the Moon so one can bounce with every step. On the Earth, it takes effort to lift one’s feet and move around. The same sort of difference can be found between living on the Earth and living in space. Out there, you just float around.”
“Many of us elfaerie came from space, in a sense, and we are learning and strengthening ours’elves upon the Earth. The Earth is weightlifting for us. We are building our muscles, growing stronger and will eventually master this realm, by mastering ours’elves, so the powers we had in space/the etheric realms, we will have here. By incarnating upon the Earth, we descended into gravity. We didn’t lose our powers, it is just that they are not, as yet, as powerful and effective here. But we’re learning.”
— end of excerpt from Finding Faerie by The Silver Elves . . . .
Kyela,
The Silver Elves
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“If you hear the Voice of Faerie,
it doesn’t mean you’re insane,
it just means the world around you
is no longer quite so plain,
and if you listen carefully,
and heed your own heart’s call,
you may join the fae as we promenade
along the tree lined mall.”
Nylfarthlys
pronounced: nill – fair-th – liss
meaning: sound of faeries singing in the distance
pronounced: a – day – fair
meaning: in the faerie manner
Farior
pronounced: fae – rye – or
meaning: Faerie forever
Farleoal
pronounced: fair – lee – oh – ale
meaning: the light of Faerie shines on all its inhabitants
Sovariko
pronounced: so – vair – rye – co
meaning: those who know that faeries can manifest in human bodies but who are not faeries themselves
Thaotarsi
thay – oh – tair – sigh
meaning: those who think faeries are only tiny little creatures
Taedynfar
pronounced: tay – e – den – fair
meaning: and they lived happily ever after … in Faerie
