![]() Paracelsus believed 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.Īir is, therefore, twofold in nature-tangible atmosphere and an intangible, volatile substratum which may be termed spiritual air. 105 The Elements and Their InhabitantsįOR the most comprehensive and lucid exposition of occult pneumatology (the branch of philosophy dealing with spiritual substances) extant, mankind is indebted to Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), prince of alchemists and Hermetic philosophers and true possessor of the Royal Secret (the Philosopher's Stone and the Elixir of Life). ![]() Sacred Texts Esoteric Index Previous Next However, the couples of these spiritual beings should refrain from blaspheming and should be highly educated, since otherwise these beings of the air will be disappointed and will quickly abandon them.Secret Teachings of All Ages: The Elements and Their Inhabitants According to folklore, although they are invisible, when they wish sylphs and sylphs They can show themselves and take on human appearance to love and be loved by men and women of flesh and blood. His favorite distraction seems to be to sculpt the clouds giving them shapes that from the earth are familiar to us.ġ0. They are benefactor spirits for humans and often inspire artists. Diaphanous beings, eared, tall and slender, endowed with great beauty. Literature for centuries has presented the term sylph or sylph as synonymous with fairies from air. The young man also dies and in the end, the evil, represented by the witch, triumphs.īecause the dancers representing the sylph tend to be extremely thin and slender, this image has passed into popular culture.ĩ. The story ends with James deeply affected by what happened, seeing in the distance as his former fiancée marries his rival. Actually the cloth was poisoned and the sylph loses its wings and with them its immortality and its life. The woman gives him a veil and tells him that if he puts it on top of the sylph, it will lose its wings and stay with him forever. Among the trees he meets a witch, whom the young man had previously denounced, and who wants to take revenge on him. ![]() The sylph steals the wedding ring and James chases her through the woods forgetting about her fiancee and falling in love with her. Although the sylphs are invisible, they have the ability to show themselves to anyone they wish. In it, a nymph comes to the window of a young Scot named James, engaged to a young girl, and falls in love with him. The image we have today of what is a sylph comes from both literature and the famous romantic ballet "La Sylphide". "Prospero and Ariel", 1797 by William HamiltonĨ. It is saved by Prospero and serves as a slave until the end of the work gets freedom. This spirit of the air is one of the protagonists of Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". In other areas of the old continent it was thought that if a large number of sylphs and sylphs they met and beat their wings rhythmically, they could cause swirls and even hurricanes.ħ. They believed that the reddish or orange tint that sometimes stains the sky, was produced by the distant vision of these extraordinary creatures above the clouds.Ħ. They were giant spirits that moved over the clouds beating their huge red wings of fire. ![]() In the Middle Ages, in some parts of Europe, they believed in the existence of a type of magical being very similar to sylphs and sylphs. Sylphide -Marie Taglioni, the dancer -1832ĥ. The most similar are the nymph s, but in the myths of antiquity there were no aerial nymphs, although there were water, forests, mountains and trees. Neither in Greek nor in Roman mythology do we find beings similar to those sylphs and sylphs. I thought they looked like men because they moved through the air like us and if they came into contact with the fire they burned, with the water they were drowned and with the earth they got stuck.Ĥ. ![]() The alchemist believed that sylphs and sylphs were very similar to human beings but "stronger, thicker, taller and stronger". Paracelsus' description of sylphs is not very similar to the current idea of these beings influenced by later literature. Other authors believe that it could come from the ancient Greek word "σίλφη" (silphē) whose meaning approximates "moth".ģ. The word Sylph it is believed to be an acronym for two Latin words, "sylvestris" and "nympha" since in his writings Paracelsus sometimes uses the name "sylph" to speak of the forest nymphs. ![]()
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