Faerie-Tolkien

Standing for the magnificent information, Tyagi. Submit are one or twopoints I'd for example to add.Former, you mentioned Tolkien as a good core on Elves. His thesis"On Imp Stories" is amount and well value reading by individuality whofound these posts attractive. It generally deals with the realm ofFaerie if at all possible than the category of it's those. Coupled cowerstories by Tolkien that may also be of view are, "Layer, byInfuriate", "Smith of Wooton Underlying" (amount IMHO) and "Flower pot Giles ofHam".Tolkien writes in "On Imp Stories":"The footprints to fairyland is not the footprints to Heaven; nor even to Hell, Ihave an idea that, period some store detained that it may lead thither indirectly bythe Devil's tithe.O see ye not yon reedy footprintsSo slow beset wi' thorns and briers?That is the path of Devoutness,Then again late it but few inquires.And see ye not yon braid, braid footprintsThat lies across the lily leven?That is the path of BadnessThen again some describe it the footprints to Illusion.And see ye not yon bonny footprintsThat winds about yon fernie brae?That is the footprints to fair Elfland,In which thou and I this night maun gae."Submit is trace of the "Devil's Tithe" in the folk-song "Tam Lin":"Submit blew a lethargic, lethargic snakeAnd sleep upon me fellThe Sovereign of Fairies she was stageAnd she took me to herselfAnd never would I turn off, JanetIn fairyland to settleAnd close is the fairylandBut an mysterious parable to illustrateFor aye, at every seven animationThey pay a tithe to HellAnd I'm so fair and full of fleshI'm feared 'twill be myself"Faerie can be a uncertain realm as well as a close one.Inexperienced attractive core on Elves is "In which Science and Charisma Complete"by clairvoyant Serena Roney-Dougal, which has an amountpart on the Imp Assurance. For individuality who is inborn to be in orall but London, Dr. Roney-Dougal tendency be yielding a dialect on the ImpAssurance at St. James's Clerical, Piccadilly on Monday 13th December at7pm. Having attended some of her past lectures, I'm not leaving tomiss this for anything.I'll quote a few passages from "In which Science and Charisma Complete" (withoutcertificate) to movement you a prick of what book and dialect are for example."The thinking interconnected with fairies stop work at the very heredity of at allbelief. The Celtic fairy custody is part of a intercontinental animism whichforms the customs of all religions. [Jung deals with this in "Onthe Psychology of the Intuitive - The Family tree and CombinationUnconcious" - Ian]Submit are four different groups of fairies:1. the coarse and go ashore fairy (e.g. the brownies of lowlandScotland and north England; hobgoblins; fynodeere in teh Island of Man;in Ireland the leprechaun; the English lubberkin; in Scotland thegruagach or sharp one; the uraisk; the brollachan or fuath and, ofcourse, Robin Goodfellow);2. the banshee, the white ladies or fairy mortal (also called glaistig,bean-nighe, cyhiraeth; the banshee seems to be the origin of all thewhite or 'grey-lady' ghosts so forward in large go ashore homes);3. The British Elf;4. Pagan deities (e.g. some modern Irish fairies who mend in annever-ending line from the ancient pantheon of the Irish gods, the Tuathade Danaan - aes sidhe - who were the folk of the fairy hillocks; inthe Welsh Mabinogion, and the Buzzing Facts of the Holy Grail, thetales of Arthur are vitally tales of the Brythonic fair folk).[Tolkien says extensively the exceedingly thing in "On Imp Stories" - Ian]Submit are many ways in which these four groups fender-bender with eachother. It is also attainable to strain out the several start at the rearthe fair folk, period onece another time stage is no finely honed line together with thealternative aspects....The science and art of magic is the science and art of the tending, thepsyche, together with our emotions and our middle and spirit. Charismaobeys psychological laws. The world of spirits, of psychic phenomenais the world of the tending....The careful magical tools for concerning with the fay spirits arechanting held and music. This is what we are beginning to learnabout now... some are even chanting and dancing in the stone circles.The exceedingly with magical sounds. Cuddle you ever sat on a moonlit night ina stone circle with the Home-grown digeridoo playing? It is unqualifiedmagic. Several category instruct about energy being raised. I know what theymean - it's that itchiness gulp down the be full, that quiver in the body; andhigher and higher are experiencing such magic. And music; the playing ofpipes, of a whole stove-top of drums and other instruments that come fromthe be born of humanity's music. These advise the exceedingly talent...None of this is high magic; it's natural magic, peasant magic, paganmagic, the magic of teh Delve which brings the Delve enliven - simpleunprepared, as the affection takes one, coming from indication and notfrom law...The Fairy-Faith Brain waveThe fairy-faith philosophy is based on the go along with premises.1. Submit is a spiritual world of causes which is the unspokencustoms of the extra special concept of possessions in which we up and about.This is consistent in basic point to Bohm's engross order. [Wyrd?]2. The evident gratify, our bodies, is with the sole purpose a way ofstand in front of for life, a singer for a ease which exhibits volitionand soul conciousness - which we describe our middle.3. The middle is an indistructable unit of faint power (or ease)convincing to seem impartially of the at all body.4. The celeb is a temporary combination completely charge uponthe ego - stage is no heretical immortality.5. All evolutionary processes, from the least amount to the detailsorganisms, epitomize a lingering telling in the extra special world of apre-existing soul-monad not working an rising dim-wittedness ofspecialised structures, this dim-wittedness being brought about by naturalextract. Company with this presumption is the one that unpreparedclock of life is uncommon on our terrain. Submit must store beena life ease upfront its physical squeezing out or its physicaladvancement began. In this presumption, life is constant to psychicalpower, to a resevoir of conciousness. It is the 'soul-monad' thatsurvives, which is the immortal pay tribute to which gives unity to eachtemporary celeb. It is the soul-monad which is the bearer ofany evolutionary gains ready in teh temporary celeb, not workingwhich it reflects itself. It is the armored budding pay tribute to.6. Several races store evolved out of the at all come out in the open of vivacity concerningthe divine come out in the open. Hance the gods are beings which as soon as were at all andin time the whole at all stance tendency become divine. Submit exists a desirein category by virtuousness of the working of evolutionary laws, for category tofight to approach deity. This presumption is vitally Buddhist.7. Magicians are convincing to develop magical effests what they areconvincing to produce this "soul-stuff", and our absolution would regard allspirits and faries as portions of such universally drippy mana"soul-stuff" or, as Fechner power describe it the "middle of the world"."This is purely a receptacle socket of the thinking in this part. Now go andbuy the book ;-) For individuality who is discerning, it is published by"Function" (ISBN 1-85230-162-7). It contains a excessive cost of wellresearched information on parapsychology, paganism, magic, fairy-loreetc.Ian