THE HIDDEN
LIFE
One day, in the year 1926, on a hillside at the
edge of a beech forest in a secluded valley in the West of England; as I was
seeking ardently to enter the Sanctuary of Nature’s hidden life, for me the
heavens suddenly became filled with light. My consciousness was caught up into a
realm radiant with that light which never was on land or sea. Gradually I
realised the presence of a great Angelic Being, who was doubtless responsible
for my elevated state. From his mind to mine there began to flow a stream of
ideas concerning the life, the force and the consciousness of the universe and
their self-expression as angels and as men. This description is not strictly
accurate, however, because during such communication, the sense of duality was
reduced to a minimum. Rather did the two centres of consciousness, those of the
angle and myself, become almost co-existent, temporarily forming one “being”
within which the stream of ideas arose. This, I believe, is essentially true of
all interchanges which occur above the level of the formal mind, and especially
at those of spiritual Wisdom and spiritual Will. In the latter, duality
virtually disappears and oneness, uttermost interior unity, alone remains.
Daily entering that realm of light, I found
that the great ocean of the life, the force and the soul of the universe had its
myriad denizens. These are the Spiritual Selves of men and Super-men and the
vast company of the Angelic Hosts, of which the Being who “addressed” me was a
member. He was supernally beautiful, majestic, godlike, and impressive and
impersonal to the last degree. As teacher to pupil, he began to tell of – and to
enable me, with gradually increasing clarity, to perceive – the Angelic Hosts,
their Orders and degrees. He told of their communion with men, as in ancient
Greece, Egypt and Eastern lands, their place in Nature as Ministers of the Most
High and of that great dawn of creation when, metaphorically, as the Morning
Stars they sang together and as the Sons of God they shouted for joy. He spoke
of the creative process as the composition and performance of a celestial
symphony, of the Logos as Divine Musician and of His universe as a manifestation
of celestial harmony. He told of the great Gods who assimilate the mighty
creative chords in their primordial potency and relay them through all their
ranks from the highest spiritual worlds to the realm of everlasting Archetypes,
the great sound-forms upon and by which the physical universe is modelled.
Therefore, he said, the music of the Creative “Word” passes on to the lower
worlds, where lesser Hosts formatively echo and re-echo it, thereby building all
Nature’s varied forms. Since the Great Artist of the Universe perpetually
creates, the Creative Symphony is ever being composed and ever performed. Angels
and men live amidst celestial harmonies, the everlasting music of the
spheres.
Such, in part, is the vision which once
I had and which still lives with me. With it there has come the knowledge that,
in their real existence, the Gods who once were so near to men were none
other than the Angelic Hosts, that throughout the great
racial darkness they have still been near, though unperceived, and that the time
approaches when again the Major Creative Powers and Beings, the laws by which
Cosmos emerges from chaos and the place of humanity in the vast process of
divine manifestation will become apparent to mankind. For that day, it was
intimated, man may well prepare. Ugliness must be banished, war must be
outlawed, brotherhood must reign, beauty must be enshrined in human hearts and
revealed through human lives. Then to a humanity united in one fraternity the
High Gods will reveal their immortal loveliness and lend their aid in building a
new world in which all men may perceive and serve the Supreme as Beauty and as
Truth.
Auckland
New Zealand
1952
ILLUSTRATIONS
The following illustrations by Ethelwynne M.
Quail, based on the researches of Geoffrey Hodson, and the accompanying
information, was given out in the book, The Kingdom of the Gods by Geoffrey
Hodson in 1952.
As far as my experience goes, variations of
this type of primitive sea fairy are commonly to be seen skimming the surface of
the oceans and the lakes of the world. Relatively undeveloped, the sea nature
spirit has as yet little or no form. There is a rudimentary head which is the
seat of consciousness, whilst a current of streaming white force suggests a body
and a wing. More complex examples, with two or even more wing forms, are also to
be seen.
These creatures fly about the surface of the
oceans in innumerable hosts. Sometimes they rise high into the air; at others
they plunge into the water to reappear in a few moments in a flash of white
light, catching the eye with its brilliance. After a moment’s concentration
required to focus the appropriate power of vision, the swiftly moving, bird-like
form appears to the observer, somewhat as painted by Miss Quail. The distance
from head to tip of wing would vary from three to twelve feet, according to
phase of manifestation and stage of
development.
2. A SEA SYLPH
The sea nature spirit evolves into the type of
sea sylph here portrayed. This example has reached individualisation and, with
countless similar and different beings, may be seen in the upper air, chiefly
above the seas. The average height of the central form at this level of
evolution would be from ten to fifteen feet.
3. A
SALAMANDER
Since, like their relatively formless element,
nature spirits of fire are without a fixed form, descriptions of them are
somewhat difficult to obtain and record. The suggestion is received of an
underlying human shape, limbs and “hair” being build of streams of rushing fiery
energy and only rarely conforming in shape and position to the human frame.
The face, however, when not veiled by auric
flames, is distinctly human in appearance. Quite non-human, however, is its
expression, whilst the upward-slanting eyes seem to be lit with a kind of unholy
delight in the destructive power of their element. The face is triangular, chin
and ears being pointed, and the head surrounded and outlined by flickering,
orange-red flamelets, through which shoot flashing tongues of fire. Salamanders
vary in height from two or three feet to the colossi of fire-power who are the
Fire lords associated with the sun.
4. A MOUNTAIN
SYLPH
This is one of the many types of
non-individualised sylphs commonly to be seen in the air over the land. It is in
swift motion, with shining inner aura streaming in beautiful, wing-like shapes
behind and above it.
Interpenetrating and extending beyond the form
and aura here portrayed are the finer radiations, not shown, characteristic of
every member of the Angelic Hosts. They are generally ovoid, composed of many
brilliant hues, and extend for several yards on every side of the beautiful form
within.
The orange sylph is possibly associated with
the solar life-force or prana with which the air is charged, and which
constitutes the vitality of all organic forms. The height of the central figure
of the sylph is about five feet.
5. A LORD OF THE TREE FERNS - [Newara Eliya,
Ceylon]
Whilst the building Orders of the Gods play all important
parts in solar and planetary creative processes, another Order is concerned with
the evolution of consciousness within form. Trees and forests also receive
similar assistance, the classical concept of the dryad of the trees being
founded upon fact. Nearly all well-grown trees have attached to them, in
addition to innumerable nature spirit builders, an advanced nature spirit or a
God which throughout its life remains within or linked to the astro-etheric
double and the aura of the tree. The presence of such a being, through the
constant play of its thoughts and auric energies, greatly quickens the evolution
of tree life and consciousness. Such nature spirits and Gods are subordinate to
more advanced beings in charge of groups of trees of the same genus, as are
found in large woods, forests and jungles.
The tree fern God here portrayed was observed
over the jungle in the mountain district of Ceylon, near Newara Eliya. Such a
being assists the evolution of form and the unfoldment of consciousness of a
very large number of tree ferns. It is of interest to observe that the patterns
formed by the flow of the lines of force in the aura of this God reproduce
within it certain of the tree fern forms.
The central form of this being is some fifty
feet tall. The aura, however, is capable of extension for at least one hundred
yards in all directions and was thus expanded when first seen high in the air,
about a mile away. In the picture the outer aura is omitted and the inner aura
is shown in phase of contraction, as when the God graciously hovered for a few
minutes of mental communion. Through both form and aura currents of force,
presumably from the tree fern Archetype, play down into successive areas of the
jungle as the God moves above its domain and ministers to its charges.
6. A LORD OF THE PINES - [Cape Peninsula, South
Africa]
This being was observed in association with
groups of stone pines in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. as the picture shows,
the colouring and the lines of force in the inner aura – the outer is omitted –
suggest somewhat the needle-like foliage of the pine. Many well-grown pines were
found to have their own tree God resembling the one here portrayed, but smaller
in size and lower in evolution. The stature of this God is about thirty
feet.
his sixteen-year-old Waringan tree grows in a
garden in Madioen, in the Island of Java. It was planted by the lady of the
house, who became much attached to it and felt it to be a living, conscious
being from whom , she assured me, she received a sense of friendliness and
rest.
When taking tea beneath its welcome shade, I
became aware of the presence of this delightful tree nature spirit or dryad. I
found it to be approaching individualisation, or evolution out of group into
individualised consciousness [on the deva path of evolution], and to be well
aware of the affection of the owner of the tree and responsive to it, which
would beneficially affect its development. This nature spirit is approximately
five feet tall.
8. A MOUNTAIN GOD – [Harrismith, OFS, South
Africa]
Here is portrayed a mountain God intimately
associated with the element of fire. It was observed at Loskop Mountain, near
Harrismith in the Orange Free State, South Africa. the remarkable arrangement of
the auric forces and the brilliant colouring are unique in my experience. Both
are well portrayed in this fine example of Miss Quail’s art. The central figure
at the time of observation was partly within the mountain and some fifty feet
tall. A greatly extended outer aura, here omitted, shone with simitar but more
delicate hues.
This being was observed in the
Drakensberg Range in Natal. Two of the
most striking features were the
remarkable mitre-like effect produced by the uprush of forces from the head and
shoulders and the brilliant, four-funnelled force-centre in the region of the
solar plexus through which power was flowing into the mountain below. The axes
of the rapidly spinning funnels formed an equal-armed cross, the arms of which
met within the form of the God and pointed forwards, backwards, to the right and
to the left. In this picture the effect of translucency, characteristic of the
appearance of all the Gods, is well portrayed. In the process, however, the
impreeion of the tremendous power of the God and of the passage through it at
high voltage of mighty forces from above, also of brilliance and radiance, is
perhaps, not conveyed quite s adequately as in other
pictures.
Watching this God throughout successive days, I
was reminded constantly of the vision of Ezekiel. Certain currents in its aura
were arranged in the shape of upward-pointing wings, far more three-dimensional
than any picture could suggest. The chakras received and compreeed the
descending forces, which were then directed into the mountain below. The central
form in this case is at least sixty feet tall and it I s one of the most
majestic and splendid members of this Order of the Angelic Hosts that I have
ever been privileged to behold.
10. A MOUNTAIN GOD – [Drakensberg Range, Natal,
South Africa]
This God was also observed in the Drakensberg
Range in Natal, presiding over the region known as the Amphitheatre at Mont aux
Sources. I have more than once received evidence of similarity of types and
appearance in the various Gods of one mountain range. Comparison with the
previous one reveals a similarity between the two Gods of the Drakensberg Range.
In both of them the wing-like radiations and the intensely brilliant, vortical
force-centres or “wheels” were noticeably common characteristics. The God is
shown in phase of expansion, the auric wings extending at least half a mile from
tip to tip, whilst the outflowing and descending energies have a very much
greater range. In this picture, part of the outer aura is included. The central
form is at least sixty feet tall.
11. A MOUNTAIN GOD – [H.H. Mountains, CP, South
Africa]
The picture portrays the presiding God of a
mountain range, which was observed high above one of the peaks of the Hottentots
Hollands Mountains in Cape Province, South Africa. as I observed and gave my
description to the artist, the downflow of power was os great and so brilliant
as almost to conceal the form and aura of the God. The chief colours shown were
lavender, gold and white, the central form of the God and the aura immediately
surrounding it shining in those hues with a dazzling radiance quite impossible
to reproduce. The uprush of golden-coloured, fiery power above the head was
particularly brilliant, bestowing upon the God the appearance of a majestic Deva
King wearing a crown of flames. In all cases of devic direction of natural
energies, however prodigious the outpouring of power may be, the God always
gives the impression of complete mastery of the forces flowing through and all
about it. the central figure is at least eighty feet tall.
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