Both Paracelsus and Bardon described in their writings that each of the four primary elements known to the ancients (earth, fire, air, and water) consisted of a subtle, vaporous principle and a gross corporeal substance. Minerals, plants, animals, and men live in a world composed of the gross side of these four elements, and from various combinations of them construct their living organisms. Just as visible Nature is populated by an infinite number of living creatures, so, according to both writers, the invisible, spiritual counterpart of visible Nature (composed of the tenuous principles of the visible elements) is inhabited by a host of peculiar beings, to whom they have given the name Elementals, and which have later been termed the Nature spirits. They divided these Nature spirits into four distinct groups, which they called Gnomes , Undines , Sylphs , and Salamanders . They taught that they were really living entities, many resembling human beings in shape, and inhabiting worlds of their own, unknown to man because his undeveloped senses were incapable of functioning beyond the limitations of the grosser elements. In this book, the nature of Elementals or Nature spirits are covered in detail based on the works of Bardon and the ancient wrtings of Paracelsus.
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