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    Adepts of the Five Elements
    Adepts of the Five Elements
    Adepts of the Five Elements
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    Adepts of the Five Elements

    By David Anrias

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    This remarkable book will be welcomed by all those interested in the arcane and esoteric. David Anrias shows how the four elements--earth, water, air, and fire--control varying degrees the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual consciousness in all of us. He also sheds light on certain adepts who specialize in the transmutation of the effects these elements have on humanity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJan 1, 2008
    ISBN9781609257873
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    Adepts of the Five Elements - David Anrias

    PREFACE

    IN these chaotic times, when even the most enterprising modern mind is at a loss to know in what to believe or how to act with foresight and decision, when the old standards and conventions are being abandoned and nothing has as yet been found to take their place, it is not surprising that most of us are bewildered and speculate upon the possible cause of upheavals affecting every race and every country.

    Only to students of occultism or astrology is this situation in some degree comprehensible ; for they realise that the world has entered upon a new cycle in which old traditions of living must inevitably give way before the forces of a New Era which are even now becoming manifest all the world over.

    Through contact with the Masters of Wisdom and by means of astrology, I have been able in some measure to detect the causes of this general disruption as well as to foreshadow some of the subsequent developments likely to become evident, especially in the West.

    The method by which this occult knowledge has been acquired need not be described here, as it was dealt with in detail in the preface to my previous book, Through the Eyes of the Masters, which was partly inspired with the object of counteracting the doubt cast by Krishnamurti upon the power of the Masters to further the evolution of mankind.

    The immediate response to this book has justified a further endeavour to reveal how close, on the contrary, is Their association with man's future development as he endeavours to comprehend the five elements which go to make up his own nature.

    This assertion demands some slight elaboration. As everybody knows, man's physical body is composed of the five physical elements—earth, water, air, fire, and ether interpenetrating them all. His subtler bodies—astral or emotional, mental and Buddhic or spiritual—likewise partake in varying degrees of the subtler aspects of these five elements, i.e., the astral being co-related to the watery element, the mental to the airy and etheric and the Buddhic to the fiery. In the horoscope of each individual one element usually predominates over the others, but the ultimate goal of man is the attainment of self-conscious knowledge and control of each element in turn on his upward path towards the Light.

    For purposes of meditation, almost impossible amidst the conflicting thought-currents in cities, I frequently seek the seclusion of a certain lonely spot on the sea-coast ; and in this spot, where earth, air and water meet, certain Adepts have been able psychically to impress me with regard to many of those problems which beset the present age. Needless to say, this knowledge has only been given out in order that I, in turn, may share it with my fellow-seekers. Whole successions of ideas were conveyed to me in the form of comprehensive pictures, which frequently included concepts with which I was already familiar, and were finally co-ordinated on the New Moon of March, 1933, under exceptionally favourable psychic conditions. Phenomena of this sort is achieved by means of the Astral Light which is temporarily vivified by higher mental matter.

    This procedure is always adopted by certain Adepts, and accomplished without speech and with the greatest possible economy of force. I have tried to retain something of the brevity and terseness of this vivid experience by eliminating every superfluous word and only stressing the essentials here and there throughout the five meditations.

    As the portraits of the Masters in my previous book have caused a certain amount of bewilderment, I take this opportunity to remove the objections which have arisen in the minds of various readers. It has been asserted in a deprecating way that They all resemble each other. But is this surprising, considering that They are engaged upon the same work and acting as Members of one Great Spiritual Body? It is a recognised fact that clergymen, lawyers and actors, for instance, all tend to develop similar facial characteristics, as the result of similar work in the world. Surely this law applies equally to the Adepts.

    With regard to my two illustrations in the Vision of the Nazarene,¹ the second of these is intended to portray the initiate Jesus working against great opposition and still hampered by a body subject to time and other karmic restrictions, hence the strained expression of the face. The single lock of hair in the portrait was also deliberate, and conveys a meaning to the intuitive. The frontispiece depicts the Lord Maitreya associating Himself with the wonderful life of Jesus and the spiritual thought-form which it created throughout the centuries that followed.

    Similarly the portrait of the Master Serapis, assuming a Devic form in order to hasten the Era of the Coming Race, was not intended to be an exact likeness of His present physical body, which is maintained upon far more masculine currents of

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