ELEMENTS AND ELEMENTALS
Elementals is the term used to refer to beings who are beginning a course of evolutionary growth, and who thus are in the elemental stage of development. In general the term refers to beings who are below the mineral kingdom in the evolutionary scheme. Their existence is universally recognised in folklore under such names as fairies, elves, gnomes and suchlike, a mentioned earlier. But they are best understood as forces in Nature rather than as beings having miniature or ethereal human shapes.
These are examples of the hierarchical structure of the Cosmos. The Elements, in Esoteric Science, are seven in number, the four familiar ones of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, to which it adds a semi-material Ether that is still invisible to us, and two others which are "as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception" [5]. Yet all of these, it must always be remembered, are aspects of the One Universal Element, the source of all objective existence.
These seven elements with their numberless Sub-Elements ... are simply conditional modifications and aspects of the ONE and only Element. [6]
[5] The Secret Doctrine I ,12 /I, 40 /I, 78
[6] Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha)
