The Mystical Fairy Faith and Ufo Entities
In our times there is a surprising revival of sorts going on. This
revival
is the post modern fairy faith. There are signs of it in several
feature films*, festivals, art work, books, Fairy shops and
numerous web sites, if you are observant you should spot some
indications of it in the malls of America and other English countries.
..there are all kinds of
fairy things for sale: cards, calendars, fairy ornaments, fairy
costumes, candle holders, fairy statues for gardens etc. This last June
the Third Fairy Congress was held in the Cascade Mountains of
Washington state. Some of the speakers were from the Findhorn New
Age community of Scotland. Workshops included talks on how to contact
nature spirits (fairies) for guidance and help. Some casual observers
who
have noticed this growing interest in the fey or fairies
consider it a fad. Is it
just an innocent fad as some say or
is there a reality and a darker side to the world of fairie?
The following news clip, quotes from articles and information web links
may answer this question.
*some films with fairy theme or fairy encounters
The National Film Board of Canada's production, The Fairy Faith
Fairy Tale a True Story
Photography Fairies
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Legend
Willow
Ladybrinth
A faerie affair
Elusive folk and their followers to alight in Sedona for all-day
festival
Michael Kiefer
The Arizona Republic
May. 6, 2003 12:00 AM
Amy Ford sees fairies.
Some are as small as houseflies, others 18 feet tall. They're pixielike
or feminine, sometimes androgynous, and once, she claims, she woke up
in the woods near Cornville to find herself held captive.
"It was just like Gulliver's Travels," she says. "The fairies had tied
me down with dried grass," while one laughed right in her face.
"It scared the crap out of me."
Ford claims she's seen fairies all her life, and though she won't say
exactly how long that is, it looks to be 30-some years. She's a
musician and astrologer from Scottsdale, short and buxom with long,
dark hair and darker eyes. And though she seems reasonably sane, she
acknowledges, "I'm wired way different."
Ford is part of a growing subculture of fairy folk, not all of whom
claim to see fairies - though that number is bigger than you might
expect. The concept has allure for children, folklorists and
all-purpose whimsical folk, as well. There is fairy music, much of it
borrowing Celtic sounds and rhythms; there are T-shirts with fairy
pictures that sell big at teenage boutiques, and fairy cards and
posters in New Age bookstores. And a British artist named Brian Froud
has sold more than 8 million large-format books of paintings of
fairies, which he, like most fairy folk, spell the old-fashioned way:
"faeries."
"Faeryland is like the sea," Froud says. "It's like the tide, and
sometimes the tide is out a long way and Faeryland is very difficult to
reach. And sometimes the tide is in. And it does seem to me that the
tide was out for some years, but it's really come in now."
That tide has come in far enough that promoters expect more than 4,000
people to attend an all-day Faerieworlds Festival on Saturday at Sedona
Cultural Park. The festival will include music, multimedia shows, live
interactive performances and, especially, Froud and his artwork.
The expected attendees will be true believers like Ford, but also
Renaissance Faire fans, families with young children, masqueraders, New
Age dabblers, Goth kids who have "discovered Faery," as one promoter
put it, and even "folks factioning out of the old Grateful Dead days
who don't have anywhere to go."
Fairies originated in Celtic folklore, and, more often than not, they
were frightening, otherworldly forest beings that were blamed for
unexplainable events, such as ill children, people turned mad and dark
thoughts.
"They're about expression of things in everyday life that we can't
express openly," says Ari Berk, a professor of folklore at Central
Michigan University. "Fairies have always spoken to the human desire to
have some kind of conversation with the environment around them."
They've populated art and literature for centuries, not just as fairy
tales, but also in Shakespeare and in the poetry of William Butler
Yeats. More recently, they appear in the Lord of the Rings films, as
the elves.
Although children are naturally drawn to fairy tales, the current pop
phenomenon is not really about children. Froud's art, for example, is
not only well researched but very adult.
"Fairies have been relegated to the nursery for far too long," Froud
says. "That's a 20th-century point of view really. Fairies have always
been dangerous creatures. That's why they had to be placated. That's
why little gifts were left out at night, little saucers of milk, or,
otherwise, your cattle died, or, indeed, your children were stolen or
people died. The word 'stroke' comes from 'elf stroke' because a fairy
had touched you. So fairies have always been dangerous. And one way
that people have tried to make them safer is to turn them into fairy
stories, something that was safe, and say, 'Oh it's just for children,
isn't it?' "
Froud, 56, lives in Dartmoor, England, an area he says is slightly wild
and desolate, and whose landscape influenced his palette.
"When I looked at trees and rocks and hills when I moved to the
country, I wondered what the inside of them looked like," Froud says.
"And as I was wondering that, then I started painting fairies, and they
were indeed at the souls of trees and landscapes."
He was inspired by illustrations of fairy tales and did a lot of
research with his collaborator, Alan Lee, for his first book, Faeries,
which they published in 1978. It has sold more than 5 million copies,
including more than 100,000 since last October, when a 25th-anniversary
edition was published.
Froud followed up with several other titles, including Good Faeries/Bad
Faeries, whose paintings sometimes verge on the erotic, with lithesome
near nudes, a merging of several tingling and anticipatory fantasies,
and decidedly not for children. His art was the inspiration for the Jim
Henson films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, and Froud's wife, Wendy,
was one of the puppetmakers who designed Yoda for the Star Wars films.
Since he began painting fairies, Froud says they now present themselves
to him as, he believes, they present themselves to others. The
paintings, he says, are like maps that allow people to safely go on
their fairy journey, as he puts it.
"A lot of people go on the journey and don't return because they lapse
into madness," he says.
Saturday's festival in Sedona promises plenty of controlled madness.
"Right now, everything's so heavy and intense on the planet that I
think people need a fantasy to go to where they feel like they have
power, where they feel they have something to go to," says Emilio
Miller-Lopez, one of the festival's organizers. "What our events offer
people is a chance to participate. Everybody's part of the show."
Miller-Lopez is a spritely fellow of 28 with a shaggy gnome's beard and
a shock of hair long enough to evoke memories of the early 1970s. His
wife, Kelly, 27, has cascading Maid Marian locks and glittery makeup.
Both dress elfin, in earth tones and billowing sleeves. They draw
stares even in Sedona.
The couple perform in Woodland, a band with Celtic-music roots and a
rich New Age sound, which will play at the festival. Kelly says she has
seen fairies since she was a child, and she first latched onto Brian
Froud's work when she saw The Dark Crystal and then bought the Faeries
books, which she eventually showed to her husband. Together, they
sought out Froud's agent, Robert Gould, who is also a fantasy artist,
well known as the illustrator for Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone
novels.
Working with Gould's company, Imaginosis, they staged multimedia fairy
shows in Prescott, Santa Fe and Los Angeles. Fairy fans turned out in
droves.
"It was incredible," Gould says. "People were standing in line for an
hour. Everyone was in costume. Families came. It was pretty wild."
The Santa Fe show took place on Halloween, and the upcoming Sedona
festival is just after May Day, which, as Kelly Miller-Lopez explains,
are those times of the year when the veil is thinnest between the real
world and the fairy world and human-fairy encounters are more likely.
Gould would like to take the show on the road and maybe develop it into
a Cirque du Soleil-style of interactive performance.
As for the people who claim to see fairies, even Froud is not sure how
many really do.
"It took me a long time to actually work that out," he says. People
constantly ask him how they can see them, too.
"You don't use your eyes," he answers. "You see a fairy through your
heart."
Fairies have been attributed many origins, from natural causes to the
darkest element.
They are the creatures of the wild, primitive and untouched realm of
fantaisy that exists beside each society.
Fallen angels. In the lore of Scandinavia, Scotland, and Ireland, when
God cast out the arrogant angels from heaven, they became the evil
spirits that plague mankind, tormenting us and inflicting us with harm.
The ones who fell into hell and into caves and abysses became devils
and death-maidens. However, those who fell onto the earth became
goblins, imps, dwarfs, thumblings, alps, noon-and-evening-ghosts, and
will-o'-the-wisps. Those who fell into the forests became the
wood-spirits who live there: the hey-men, the wild-men, the forest-men,
the wild-women, and the forest-women. Finally, those who fell into the
water became water spirits: water-men, mermaids, and merwomen. These
angels were condemned to remain where they were, becoming the faeries
of seas and rivers, the earth, and the air.
Nature spirits : in most pagan religions, supernatural forces are
associated with animals, the five elements and the Goddess. Sometimes
the fairies were called Goddesses themselves. In several folk ballads
the Fairy Queen is adressed as 'Queen of Heaven.' Welsh fairies were
known as 'the Mother's Blessing.' Breton peasants called the fairies
Godmothers.
Are fallen angels now appearing also as aliens, new age spirit guides,
pagan gods, spirits of shamans, Marian apparations, etc?
The following is from the book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries'
published in 1911/ and a quote form a web site on theories of fairy
origins.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/
Taking Evidence (Section I, Chapter II, part 2)
III. IN SCOTLAND
Introduction by ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL, Hon. LL.D. of the University of
Edinburgh; author of Carmina Gadelica.
The belief in fairies was once common throughout Scotland -- Highland
and Lowland. It is now much less prevalent even in the Highlands and
Islands, where such beliefs linger longer than they do in the Lowlands.
But it still lives among the old people, and is privately entertained
here and there even among younger people; and some who hold the belief
declare that they themselves have seen fairies.
Various theories have been advanced as to the origin of
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fairies and as to the belief in them. The most concrete form in which
the belief has been urged has been by the Rev. Robert Kirk, minister of
Aberfoyle, in Perthshire. (1) Another theory of the origin of fairies I
took down in the island of Miunghlaidh (Minglay); and, though I have
given it in Carmina Gadelica, it is sufficiently interesting to be
quoted here. During October 1871, Roderick Macneill, known as 'Ruaraidh
mac Dhomhuil, then ninety-two years of age, told it in Gaelic to the
late J. F. Campbell of Islay and the writer, when they were
storm-stayed in the precipitous island of Miunghlaidh, Barra :--
'The Proud Angel fomented a rebellion among the angels of heaven,
where he had been a leading light. He declared that he would go and
found a kingdom for himself. When going out at the door of heaven the
Proud Angel brought prickly lightning and biting lightning out of the
doorstep with his heels. Many angels followed him -- so many that at
last the Son called out, "Father! Father! the city is being emptied!"
whereupon the Father ordered that the gates of heaven and the gates of
hell should be closed. This was instantly done. And those who were in
were in, and those who were out were out; while the hosts who had left
heaven and had not reached hell flew into the holes of the earth, like
the stormy petrels. These are the Fairy Folk -- ever since doomed to
live under the ground, and only allowed to emerge where and when the
King permits. They are never allowed abroad on Thursday, that being
Columba's Day; nor on Friday, that being the Son's Day; nor on
Saturday, that being Mary's Day; nor on Sunday, that being the Lord's
Day.
God be between me and every fairy,
Every ill wish and every druidry;
To-day is Thursday on sea and land,
I trust in the King that they do not hear me.
(1) It was the belief of the Rev. Robert Kirk, as expressed by him in
his Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, that the fairy
tribes are a distinct order of created beings possessing human-like
intelligence and supernormal powers, who live and move about in this
world invisible to all save men and women of the second-sight (see this
study, pp. 89, 91 n).
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On certain nights when their bruthain (bowers) are open and their lamps
are lit, and the song and the dance are moving merrily, the fairies may
be heard singing lightheartedly : -
Not of the seed of Adam are we,
Nor is Abraham our father;
But of the seed of the Proud Angel,
Driven forth from Heaven.'
Theories of Fairy Origins http://home.att.net/~waeshael/origins.htm
Many of the folk theories of the fairy origins have a theological
Christian background, and that highlighted by Professor Christiansen is
the one common to Ireland and the Scottish Highlands - the fairies are
fallen angels. A vivid and detailed account of this is given by
Alexander Carmichael in Carmina Gadelica and repeated in The Fairy
Faith in Celtic Countries.1 According to this some of the angels
seduced by Satan were not prominent in his councils, but might rather
be counted his dupes. When Michael hurled the hosts of Satan out of
Heaven they were followed by an almost endless stream of these
comparatively innocent victims of his unholy eloquence. The Shining
Host of Heaven was thinning rapidly, and the Son, seeing the danger,
cried out: 'Father, Father, the City is being emptied!' God raised his
hand; the gates of Heaven closed, the seduced angels stopped bewildered
and recollected themselves, and those who were already descending
stopped in their tracks, some in the sky, some in the sea, some on
mountains and in woods, some further on their way towards Hell, in
bowels of the earth, and the foremost angels, wholly committed to evil,
in the burning lake. This origin makes the final position of the Sidh
at the Day of Judgement a very perilous one. In Scotland Kirk, the
author of The Secret Commonwealth,2 describes their destiny as
'pendulous' until the Day of Judgement, but according to Christiansen
the general verdict in Ireland is that they are damned souls. He
mentions several Irish anecdotes in which a human is anxiously
questioned by some of the Sidh as to their final destination. The
human, pitying them, asks the question of a Saint, or of the priest
during the elevation of the Host when he cannot lie. Always the answer
is unfavourable, and when this is reported to the Sidh they break out
into terrible lamentations. A similar story is told by J. F. Campbell
of Islay in his Popular Tales of the West Highlands.3 The Scandinavian
assessment of the fairy fate is more charitable, but as Christiansen
points out, their supposed origin is different, and allows more
possibility for hope. There are variants of this legend, but the most
commonly told is of the hidden Children of Eve. After the fall Adam and
Eve settled down to domesticity and were the parents of a large number
of children, so many that Eve was ashamed of them. On day God, walking
through the world, called on Eve and asked her to present her children
to Him. Eve sent half of them to hide and brought out those she thought
most presentable; but God was not deceived. 'Let those who were hidden
from me, ' He said, 'be hidden people.' A different story is that the
Huldre were the offspring of Adam and his first wife, Lilith, about
whom there was much apocryphal information. At any rate in the
Scandinavian beliefs the fairies were half-human in origin and were not
creatures of another order as the angels were, good or bad.
An earlier investigator of fairy beliefs, though still of this century,
was Evans Wentz, from who book, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries, I
have already quoted.
In 1908 Evans Wentz, an American of Celtic descent, who had worked for
some years under John Rhys, the Oxford Professor of Celtic Studies, set
out on an exploration of the Celtic area - Ireland, the Highlands of
Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany. He began by
consulting the leading folklore experts of each region, Douglas Hyde in
Ireland, Alexander Carmichael in the Scottish Highlands, John Rhys of
Wales, Henry Jenner of Cornwall, Sophia Morrison of the Isle of Man and
Professor Anatole le Bras of Brittany; then he travelled through all
the regions, for the most part on foot like J. F. Campbell and
Alexander Carmichael, visiting and living in peasant cottages and
collecting material from people of all classes of society. It was no
doubt a help to him in his researches that he was himself a believer in
fairies, so that though he researched as a folklorist he encountered
believers without any trace of scepticism or condescension, and was
therefore given access to experiences and beliefs that would have been
withheld from a more sophisticated investigator. Most of these point,
as do many of Lady Wilde's4 stories, to a strong connection between
fairies and the dead. Christiansen still found traces of this, but
believed that the fairies were the captors and guardians of the dead
rather than the dead themselves. The recently dead are certainly often
described as being among the fairies, but the dead of the ancient
tribes of Ireland are also thought of as The Gentry. John Boglin, for
instance, of Kilmaeean, near Tara, who was about sixty years when he
gave his evidence, reported this of the fairy tribes:
"There is said to be a whole tribe of little red men living in Glen
Odder, between Ringleston and Tara; and in long evenings in June they
have been heard. There are other breeds or castes of fairies; and it
seems to me, when I recall our ancient traditions, that some of these
fairies are of the Fir Bolgs, some of the Tuatha de Danaan, and some of
the Milesians. All of them have been seen round the western slope of
Tara, dressed in ancient Irish costumes. Unlike the little red men,
these fairy races are warlike and given to making invasions."5
Later on in giving his evidence, John Boglin said:
The Fairies are the Dead - 'According to the local belief, fairies are
the spirits of the departed. Tradition says that Hugh O'Neil in the
sixteenth century, after his march to the south, encamped his army on
the Rath or Fort of Ringlestown, to be assisted by the spirits of the
mighty dead who dwelt within this rath. And it is believed that Gerald
Fitzgerald has been seen coming out of the Hill Mollyellen, down in
County Louth, leading his horse and dressed in the old Irish costume,
with heartplate, spear and was outfit.'6
In Scotland, which was next visited by Evans Wentz, the evil fairies,
The Host or Sluagh, were thought of as the dead, and the fairies or
Shee are spirits who were decoyed out of their natural allegiance by
The Proud Angel. In a footnote to one piece of evidence, taken from
Carmina Gadelica, (p. 108), Alexander Carmichael explains the
difference:
Sluagh. 'hosts', the spirit-world. The 'hosts' are the spirits of
mortals who have died...According to one informant, the spirits fly
about in great clouds, up and down the face of the earth like
starlings, and come back to the scenes of their earthly transgressions.
No soul of them is without the clouds of earth, dimming the brightness
of the works of God, nor can any win heaven, till satisfaction is made
for the sins of the earth.7
In Man again, the same belief of 'The Proud Angel' is held, though
there are traces of the fairies as the descendants of the ancient gods,
particularly Mannanon, son of Lir, a belief we also find in Ireland. In
Wales the origin is more vaguely given in such sayings as 'The old folk
thought them a kind of spirit from a spirit world'. In Cornwall the
connection between the pixies and the dead seems to be closer, at least
among the country people. On P. 172, for instance, we have:
Nature of Piskies - 'I always understood the piskies to be little
people. A great deal was said about ghosts in this place. Whether or
not piskies are the same as ghosts, I cannot tell, but I fancy the old
folk thought they were.'8
Abductions Through The Ages
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/abduct050.html
UFO-like abductions and alien sexual encounters are nothing new.
Witches supposedly were taken into the air for meetings with the devil.
People who had been abducted by fairies were left with distinctive body
scars similar to those in UFO abductees. And the incubus and succubus
of medieval times did the exact same things to their abductees as
today's sexually-inclined aliens do to their abductees.
According to fairy lore, fairies create a circular cluster of small
bruises as their mark. The phenomenon is known as "fairy bruising" and
is a sign of either favor or disfavor. The ring of bruises is often
found around the genitals. They did this, according to various 17th
century accounts, by pinching their victims:
An Encyclopedia of Fairies (Briggs, 1976) gives numerous ancient
examples of fairy abductions. Almost always a special drink was given
to the abductee. This drink, usually described as a thick liquid, was
an essential part of the fairy abduction. Women are abducted much more
often than men and some fairies take special delight, in repeatedly
capturing women for amorous motives. In short, some fairies simply
liked having sexual relations with mortals.
Fairies abduct their victims through paralysis; then they simply carry
(levitate and fly) the abductee away into "fairyland." Fairyland is
always nearby; under normal conditions we can't see or perceive it. The
paralysis induced on the victim is how fairies get their abductee to
enter fairyland. The modem word "stroke" (meaning paralysis) is derived
from the ancient terms "elf-stroke" and "fairy-stroke." Fairies travel
in circular globes of light, sometimes called "will-o-the-wisp."
There are so many different types of fairies that going through them
would be tedious. Some of them, however, are virtually
indistinguishable from what have been described as demons. One
particular type, the "bogie," looks a lot like the traditional bigfoot.
Virtually every society has some lore of these "little people" and
myths of them forcing their sexual attentions on human victims.
Fairy lore has a tradition of thousands of years. Fairies have been
said to be abducting humans, human babies, flying in lighted globes,
striking paralysis and amnesia on their victims, forcing strange drink
on their victims, and having sexual relations with humans for all time.
If we could remove the mythological aspect from fairy abductions and
dress them a little differently, the folklore reports of a thousand
years ago would be virtually indistinguishable from present UFO
abduction reports. The same thing could be said for the reports of
demons.
The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns & Fairies
To see photos http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/UFOs/past.html
Malachim: 5,000 year old figurine that bears striking resemblance to
ET, or an Alien.
The so called learned men of our day are the first to oppose new ideas
and the bearers of these.
- Augustus LePlongeon
The photo on the left is a 5,500 year-old Sumerian clay figurine. The
resemblance to today's grays is overwelming. I would like to draw your
attention to the rod in its hand. This instrument was described by
various abductees and Paiute Indians as a device to subdue, and
paralize potential captives.
The 5, 000 year-old figurine does resemble descriptions and drawings of
UFO occupants, but the startling thing is the rod or in fairy lore,
"wand"! One modern case in particular warrants investigation for
historical comparison.
...pointed a pencil like instrument at him and he found himself
immobilized...
For several mornings in 1965, Maurice Masse living near Valensole in
the French Alpes, found to his annoyance that some of his plants had
been 'tampered with', the new shoots plucked out. Around dawn on July
1, as Masse was standing near a hillock at the end of a field, he heard
a whistling noise. There was a French atomic station in Vaucluse, and
as the army often carried out maneuvers in the vicinity, Masse glanced
around and expected to see a military helicopter. Not so. He saw a
machine, shaped like a football and about the size of a Dauphine car,
standing on six legs in the middle of his lavender field.
As he watched, Masse saw what he took to be 'two boys of about eight
years' emerge from the object and begin to steal more of his plants.
Furious and determined to catch them, Masse, a former Maquis
fighter,tried to skeak up on the theives. When he was only a short
distance away he realized they were not little boys, but funny
creatures with pointed chins, almond shaped eyes that curved around the
sides of their heads, and slits or holes ('un trou') for mouths. Later
he described their heads as'courgourdo tete,' the Languedoc dialect
word for 'pumpkin head'. They had no voices but communicated by
grumbling noises that seemed to come from their bodies.
Masse broke cover and rushed at them. When he was not more than five
meters away, one of the creatures pointed a pencil like instrument at
him and he found himself immobolized. He was conscious but frozen in
his tracks.The other creature carried a larger stick or rod which,
Masse later speculated, could have stopped an army.
Masse goes on to say the creatures who were four feet tall and wore
close-fitting gray green clothes, went 'bubbling' up a ladder of
light....and the craft took of to a height of of about 20 meters. Then
it suddenly vanished.
A police spokesman said,'We've established the reality of the landing
gear impressions on the soil. Witnesses other than the farmer verified
his statements.'
A curious feature to the Valensole case is Masse's reaction to a
photograph of an American UFO. In April 1964, in New Mexico, a
policeman named Lonnie Zamora witnessed a landing near the town of
Soccoro. The air force had built a model of the craft from Zamora's
description and French ufologist Aime Michel obtained a photograph of
the model which he showd to Masse.
According to Michel, Masse stared at the picture 'as though he had just
looked upon his own death', and then said, "Monsieur, when did you
photograph my machine?" Quoted from Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with
UFOs; Ralph Blum with Judy Blum
This is but one of hundreds of reported cases in which the creature
uses this rod-like instrument to paralize captives or to make a hasty
exit. I chose this particular one for the startling similarity to our
5,500 year old figurine. Indeed, Masse's description of the creature's
facial features match precisely. T
e distinction between fairies,
sylphs, gnomes, aliens and demons gets even more fuzzy when we find out
that hundreds of years ago, there were scholars who gathered the
accounts of "common-folk" who related fantastic stories comparable with
what modern-day contactees describe in a non-technical fashion, which
would only be natural considering that these people had never even
encountered a hot-air balloon!
Of Sylphs and Fairies
In 1691 a Scottish scholar, Reverend Kirk of Aberfoyle, gathered all
the accounts he could find about the visitors and wrote a manuscript
intitled The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. It was
the first systematic attempt to describe the methods and organization
of the strange creatures that plagued the farmers of Scotland.
Here's a short summary of his findings compiled by Jacques Vallee in
his book:Passport to Magonia
1. They have a nature that is intermediate between man and the
angels.
2. Physically, they have very light and fluid bodies, which are
compared to a condensed cloud. They are particularly visible at dusk.
They can appear to vanish at will.
3. Intellectually, they are intelligent and curious.
4. They have the power to carry away anything they like.
5. They live inside the earth in caves, which they can reach through
any crevice or air passes.
6. When men did not inhabit the world, they used to live there and
had their own agriculture. Their civilization has left traces on the
high mountains; it was flourishing at a time when the whole countryside
was nothing but woods and forests.
7. At the begining of each three month period, they change quarters
because they are unable to stay in one place. Besides, they like to
travel. It is then that men have terrible encounters with them, even on
th great highways.* *
Kirk notes that the scots avoid all travel during those four
periods of the year, and he adds that some country folk go to church on
th first Sunday of every three-month period to have their family,
crops, and cattle blessed in order to keep away the elves who steal
plants an animals.
8. Their chameleonlike bodies alow them to swim through the air with
all their household.
9. They are divided into tribes. Like us,they have children, nurses,
marriages, burials, etc.,unless they just do this to mock our own
customs, or to predict terrestrial events.
10. Their houses are said to be wonderfully large and beautiful, but
under most circumstances they are invisible to human eyes. Kirk
compares them to enchanted islands. The houses are equipped with lamps
that burn forever and fires that need no fuel.
11. They speak very little. When they do so, when they talk among
themselves, their language is of a whistling sound.
12. Their habits and their language when they talk to humans are
similar to those of local people.
13. Their philosophical system is based on the following
ideas:nothing dies; all things evolve cyclically in such a way that at
every cycle they are renewed and improved. Motion is the universal law.
14. They are said to have a heirarchy of leaders, but they have no
visible devotion to God.
15. They have many pleasant books, but also serious and complex
books, rather in the style of the ROSICRUCIANS, dealing with abstract
matters.
16. They can be made to appear at will before us through magic.
Vallee goes on to say that both Paracelsus and Kirk agree that a `pact
can be made with these creatures, and they can be made to appear and
answer questions at will.`
Morphodeception
Throughout the Bible (evil spirits, demons, fallen angels, nephilim),
folklore (sylphs, fairies, gnomes, spirits of the air), and UFO (grays,
reptilians, ETs, space brothers, chupacabra) literature, we find our
visitors have the ability to manipulate time and space. To choose a
form at will. They seem to be toying with their true nature. Almost
laughing at us mere mortals.
A quick browse through the encounters of all ages, and this
'morphodeception' becomes apparent. Vallee, "...we have had to note
carefully the chameleonlike character of the secondary attributes of
the sightings: the shapes of the objects, the appearances of their
occupants, their reported statements, vary as a function of the
cultural environment into which they are projected."
Inorganic Beings? You can read many accounts and descriptions of
various entities describing what seems to be one phenomenon with many
names. If anyone has read any of Carlos Castaneda's books, Don Juan
teaches his students about powerful beings called 'allies'.
Don Juan, "....They take any size or shape that suits them. They could
be a pebble or a mountain. In the company of men they behave like men.
In the company of animals they behave like animals. Animals are usually
afraid of them."
In later explanations of allies, Castaneda's Teacher gives further
details, calling them inorganic beings. Don Juan explains to his
student that they live in a dimension with a different energy level.
Don Juan, "...with inorganic beings,however, since they are separated
from us by a most formidable barrier energy that moves at a different
speed sorcerers must gauge their expectations and sustain the
solicitation for as long as it takes to be acknowledged. ....inorganic
beings veil themselves in darkness or mystery....the inorganic beings
are after our awareness. They'll give us knowledge, but they'll extract
a payment: our total being".
He further explains that inorganic beings are of an awareness that is
immobile and awareness like that has to seek movement and it does this,
"by creating projections, phantasmical projections at times." He
explained that inorganic beings are superb projectionists, who delight
in projecting themselves like pictures on a wall.
Demonic ProjectionsThese 'allies' are further described as tenuous
energy projected through worlds, like a cosmic movie, a 'rarefied
energy' projected through the boundaries of two worlds. At this point
Carlos asks.., "But what about inorganic beings in their world? Are
they also like moving pictures?", to which Don Juan's answer was
unequivocal, "Not a chance. That world is as real as ours. The old
sorcerers protrayed the inorganic beings' world as a blob of caverns
and pores floating in some dark space. And they portrayed the inorganic
beings as hollow canes bound together, like cells of our bodies. The
old sorcerers called that immense bundle the labyrinth of penumbra".
Subtlety of Spirits
The medieval occultist's wrote painstaken works of great length,
defining and classifying the visitors. This documentation did not
confine itself to European writers. In Islam this same classification
was in full progress. Only now are these works being appreciated, and
it seems that these writers had an even deeper understanding, than
their European counterparts.
The European's of the age, thought all invisible beings can be divided
into four classes; the angels, the gods of the ancients; the devils or
demons, the fallen angels; the souls of the dead; and the elemental
spirits, which correspond to Kirk's Secret Commonwealth. Vallee, "In
the fourth group are the gnomes, who inhabit the earth and correspond
to mine-haunting fairies, goblins, pixies, korrigans, leprechans, and
the domovoys of Russian legends, and the sylphs, who inhabit the air'.
To subdivide these visitors is obviously extremely difficult, and you
might find yourself running in circles. However, I believe it is
imperative we try. Concerning the Elementals, Kirk says their of an
elastic semi-material essence, ethereal enough so as not to be detected
by physical sight, and may change their forms according to certain
laws.
Today's modern UFO literature abounds with these exact descriptions,
describing the 'ETs'. Aliens passing through walls, disappearing at the
blink of an eye, various reports of UFOs merging into each other. And
we haven't even explored sexual aspect of the abduction phenomena. This
would correspond to the incubus and succubii of medieval accounts.
If the reader has read through this page, your understanding of the UFO
situation as it presents itself to modern man, has probably changed,
that's assuming you subscribe to the 'nuts and bolts' theory of Aliens
from 'outer space'. On the other hand if the reader has been
contemplating the 'Inter-dimensional' or 'Ultraterrestrial' theory
which seems a more likely explanation, then maybe I've added some food
for thought.
Copyright © Terry Melanson, unless otherwise noted. Reproduction is
granted, and encouraged, on condition of author citation and a
hyperlink back to this page.
Fairies and UFOs?
By Ken Korczac
The most popular belief today is that UFOs are spaceships piloted by
aliens from outer space.
But another good theory which never gets as much press is that which
says UFOs may, in fact, be right here from earth.
Instead of being Extraterrestrials, UFO aliens might be
Ultraterrestrials -- a species that has always been here, which evolved
on earth along with homo sapiens, but which represents a species far
superior.
These Ultraterrestrials are so superior to us it's almost impossible
for us to comprehend their existence. All we know of them are fleeting
glimpses of lights in the sky, occasional bizarre encounters between
human beings and so-called aliens, and other unexplained phenomenon.
Think of how a group of monkeys in the wild perceive human beings.
Because their own level of consciousness is so limited, they cannot
comprehend that we humans are beyond being just another kind of animal.
They may see a jet or a helicopter or a car, but to the monkeys,
nothing in their consciousness can explain these amazing things.
A monkey may think of an airplane as some kind of magical giant bird.
They relate to it with the level of understanding they have about their
environment. The speculation of the monkey, at best, is a crude idea
about the total truth of an airplane, and the fact it represents entire
levels of consciousness that are so advanced, they are literally
invisible to monkey mind.
Now think of a human being who encounters a UFO. To us a UFO seems to
be some kind of flying, mechanical aircraft -- but the true nature of
the UFO may be as different from a spacecraft as a bird is from an
airplane. Like the monkey, we we just don't have the advanced levels of
consciousness we need to comprehend the true nature of a UFO.
As humans, we make the naturally egotistical assumption that we are the
species at the top of the heap -- we see ourselves as the peak of
achievement of evolution. We even make the bold claim that God, the
supreme architect of the entire universe, created us in his own image!
But it's not a big leap to consider that we are just another link in a
vast chain of species, many which are below us, and some which may be
above us.
People who support the Ultraterrestrial theory point out that
supernatural beings seemingly superior to humans have been reported
throughout history. In previous eras they were called gods, angels,
ogres, fairies, brownies, little people, demons, and more.
The Bible is filled with references to supernatural creatures,
including giants, "wheels" flying in the sky out of which incredible
creatures emerge, and more.
But references to flying disks were recorded centuries before the texts
of the Bible. Cave drawings dating to 30,000 B.C. depict numerous
drawings of disks floating around in the sky, remarkably similar to
modern UFO photographs.
Some maverick UFO investigators have pointed out the amazing
similarities of modern UFO aliens to that of elves, fairies and the
various "little people" famous in the folklore of many cultures.
Fairies are well known for kidnapping people, the same irritating habit
UFO aliens have. People who are abducted report incidents of missing
time, a phenomenon very similar to time lapses reported by people taken
to and returned from "fairyland.
Fairies, like modern aliens, tend to be diminuitive creatures with
large magical eyes. Many reports of alien abduction even include "power
rods" used to paralize abductees, just as fairies wield "magic wands".
One of the most interesting comparisons between aliens and fairies is
that both are interested in stealing babies. One of the most common
fairy activities is swiping babies from cribs, and sometimes replacing
them with a false double, or "changeling" as they are sometimes called.
A large part of modern UFO literature involves aliens abducting women,
impregnating them, and later abducting them again, only to remove and
take the unborn baby right out of the womb.
Crearly, both UFO occupants and fairies have a strong affinity for the
baby stealing business.
Fairies are closely associated with nature, just as modern aliens also
display a certain obsession with environmental issues. One of the most
common alien abduction scenarios involves aliens who force people to
watch "movies" depicting massive environmental degradation caused by
modern human civilization. The aliens then give them a lecture on
environmental issues and let them go.
If aliens truly are a superior species from earth and evolved on earth,
it would make sense that they would be concerned about another species
wrecking the planet.
But then you might ask, why don't the Ultraterrestrials simply step in
and "manage" us the same way humans "manage" wildlife, including chimps
and other large primates? The Ultraterrestrial theorists answer: "They
are!". That's what all the abduction and experiments are about!
Just as human beings capture and tag various species, UFO abductees
report experiences of extreme similarity. Many people report being
"tagged" during frightening sessions on a UFO operating table. Some of
these "tags" have even been recovered, or show up on MRI exams, and
remain unexplained.
It's also possible that Ultraterrestrials comprehend and operate within
higher levels of dimension than we experience at the human level. A
monkey could never understand that time and space are actually two
parts of the same dimension, as scientists have discovered.
Mathematicians tell us that many additional dimensions of reality exist
‹ dimensions which only the most brilliant math minds can glimpse
through numbers, although they cannot experience them psychologically
in any meaningful way.
If Ultraterrestrials can exist "above" or "beyond" spacetime, that
means they can easily see us, trick us and manipulate our existence,
while we can't see them at all, or only in the most crude manner, or
perhaps only when they allow us to see them.
Imagine when a bear is shot with a drugged dart from a helicopter
hovering above him. Imagine how terrified the bear is of the bizarre
flying monster and the noise and lights that come out of it. Now
imagine that the bear thinks of the strange beings that come out of the
flying monster. The strange beings poke and prod him, look inside his
mouth, apply a tag to his ear, and then let him go. Why?
How can a bear understand or interpret the meaning of this incident on
its level of consciousness? It can't. It just seem to make any sense.
Human beings are so advanced and superior as to incomprehensible.
Is it so difficult to believe that the ongoing bizarre and seemingly
incomprehensible phenomenon of UFOs and their activities are the
actions of an earth-born species far advanced and superior to human
beings?
Just ask a bear or a monkey.
A Christian Response to the New Age Movement
copyright © 1990 PWM Team Ministries
Contents
1. A Christian Response To The New Age
2. Monism/Pantheism. 'All is one'
3. God within you. 'The only way out is in'
4. The Christ of the New Age
5. The New Agenda
6. The New Age and the Church
Chapter One
I first became aware of the New Age movement by name early In 1988. I
say 'by name' because I soon realized that many of the ideas I had come
up against through evangelism, through my work as a teacher in London
comprehensive schools and even from experiences within the church
actually came from this source or were moving towards it. Perhaps this
is the first lesson Christians need to learn about the New Age
movement. It is not always easily identifiable like the Jehovah's
Witness who arrives on your doorstep offering you "The Watchtower.' In.
fact many people who are putting over New Age ideas may not even be
aware that they are doing so. So we need to ask the Lord for
discernment in order to 'watch out that no-one deceives you' for as the
Lord warned, a sign of the end of this age and his return is that 'many
false prophets will appear and deceive many people' (Matthew 24:11).
Defining the New Age Movement
So what is the New Age movement? Certainly its profile has been raised
over the past year with articles in both the religious and secular
press familiarising people with the term. Yet there are many within the
movement who are reluctant to use the term of themselves and unclear
about how to define it:
A New Age writer Jeremy Tarcher has said, 'No one speaks for the entire
New Age community. Within the movement there is no unanimity as to how
to define it or even that it is significantly cohesive enough to be
called a movement.' New Age as a Perennial Philosophy (Los Angeles
Times Book Review, Feb '88).
At best it is a loosely connected movement linking together a wide
range of ideas and philosophical systems in an attempt to formulate an
understanding of humanity's place within the whole order of natural
creation. What is important for Christians seeking to recognise and
respond to the New Age movement is not just to look for the term 'New
Age' but to be able to recognise the ideas behind it and to understand
why they conflict with the revelation given us by God in the Bible.
Then hopefully we will be able to give a 'reason for the hope that is
in us' and respond not with fear and paranoia, but with confidence in
our faith and with love for those who are being misled and a desire to
lead them out of darkness into the light of faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
That is the main purpose of this booklet, rather than to give a
detailed analysis of the New Age Movement in all its various
manifestations. Origins of the New Age Movement Solomon said there is
nothing new under the sun and in many ways there is nothing new about
the New Age. There is a strong link with Hinduism, which is not
accidental, as many of these ideas began to take root in western
culture in the 1960s with the interest in yoga, transcendental
meditation and eastern gurus which characterised the 'hippie' movement.
The Beatles looked to India and became for a short while the most
famous 'evangelists' of the New Age world view. The line from their
song I am the Walrus. I am you and you are he, and he is she and we are
one together' is as we shall see straight New Age teaching. There is
also a link with the mystical ideas of all the major religions and
particularly with the early Christian heresy of Gnosticism. It is
significant that there is a growing interest in the Gnostic gospels
amongst radical theologians and those interested in the New Age. The
idea is being raised that these may represent the authentic teaching of
Jesus which was suppressed by the early church.
This quotation from the 'Gospel of Thomas' in which Jesus is supposed
to be speaking expressed perfectly the New Age view of ' All is One',
God is in everything:
It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I who am the
All. From me did the All come forth, and unto me did the All extend.
Split a piece of wood and I am there. Lift up a stone and you will find
me there.' (James M. Robinson ed. The Nag Hammadi Library, p. 126)
In addition the New Age draws heavily from pre-Christian tribal
religions, from the Druids to native American (Red Indian) medicine
men. The occultic art of astrology is a strong influence as the New Age
is seen to be the transition from the 'dark violent Piscean age' (i.e.
this age) into the Aquarian Age, 'a millennium of love and light'. In
the words of the musical Hair the 'Age of Aquarius' will be at a time
when ' . . -peace will guide the planets and love will steer the
stars... Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding. No
more falsehoods or derision, golden living dreams of visions. Mystic
crystal revelation and mind's true liberation.
New Age Goals - World Transformation
What is new about all this is the coming together of so many diverse
influences in a recognisable movement which hopes to 'cover the globe
with a myriad of 'networks' - interconnecting ideas, people, services
and organizations in order to implement world transformation' (DR
Groothuis Unmasking the New Age. 31). The 'networks' are an important
aspect of the New Age Movement. There is no central organization, taut
like minded people coming together for a common purpose. Marilyn
Ferguson in her book The Aquarian Conspiracy makes the point that
'Networks are a source of power never before tapped in history:
'multiple self sufficient social movements linked for a whole array of
goals whose accomplishment would transform every aspect of contemporary
society.'
When we begin to recognise this influence we detect it in such areas as
entertainment, the media, education, health care, religious and
political groups, environmental and feminist groups. With modem
communications and travel facilities ideas can quickly cross
linguistic, national and political boundaries, and the New Age
influence has taken root in Capitalist America and Communist Russia
with the aim of transforming both and merging them into the New Age.
The battle has begun and Christians cannot opt out because the goal of
the New Age is a radical change in the way people see themselves, the
world around them and God. This involves a definite denial and
opposition to Christianity as John Dunphy writing in The Humanist (Jan
-Feb 1983) on 'A Religion for the New Age' says:
'I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged
and won in the school classrooms by teachers who correctly perceive
their role as the proselytisers of a new faith: a religion of humanity
that recognises and respects the spark of what the theologians call
divinity in every human being. The classroom must and will become an
arena of conflict between the old and the new - the rotting corpse of
Christianity, together with all its adjacent evil and misery and the
new faith resplendent in its promise.
The appeal of the New Age is clear. The 'gods' of the old age -
Christianity, Secular Humanism, Capitalism and Communism - have all
failed; the earth is on the brink of environmental catastrophe; we must
work for a new age in which we rediscover the sense of the sacred in
nature and in ourselves in order to save the world. It all sounds so
plausible - but that is the nature of deception' The New Age movement
probably represents the greatest (and most subtle and sinister)
challenge to Christianity since the heresies of Arianism and Gnosticism
assailed the Early Church in the Second Century AD.
Love and Light or Doorway to Occult
The more we study the ideas behind the movement, the more we come to
recognise that for all the Fine sounding words such as love' and
light', which are extensively used in New Age writings, there is a
demonic influence at work within it, manipulating those who are
involved. This should not surprise us as Satan is able to transform
himself into an angel of light in order to deceive those who reject the
Lord. The New Age appeal will always be to improve the quality of
people's lives, relating to different kinds of people in different
ways. For example it appeals to those concerned for the environment by
promising that when people are 'attuned' to New Age ways of thinking
they will naturally work for the 'healing of the planet.' To businesses
and individuals wishing to improve their efficiency and earning power
it offers programmes on how to relieve stress, increase concentration
and visualise your dreams and work for their accomplishment. Many of
these programmes use yoga and eastern meditation techniques either
openly or packaged in some westernised 'non religious' form.
The New Age also seeks to influence Christians through using titles
which will appeal such as 'Creation Centred Spirituality' or 'A Course
in Miracles'. The following advertisement from the Findhorn Foundation
in Scotland illustrates this:
'A Course in Miracles is a channeled three-volume set of books in a
self study format. The goal of the course is inner peace found through
forgiveness and turning within for guidance. In the supportive
environment of a group we will look honestly at our relationships,
seeing when through fear we deny and project our guilt onto others and
how we can learn to love ourselves and each other by forgiving rather
than judging. Using meditation, guided imagery and higher self
exercises we will endeavor to make contact with the guidance of the
Holy Spirit within.' (Guest Programme. April - Dee, Findhorn Foundation
1990, P- 22).
We should note that the word 'channelled' refers to the New Age
practice of receiving insights intuitively or psychically from
'non-physical entities.' Alert Christians should have no difficulty in
identifying such entities as demons. We should also note that this
programme offers the guidance of the Holy Spirit, inner peace and
forgiveness without reference to the Lord Jesus, the one to whom the
Holy Spirit bears witness and who offers us peace and forgiveness
through the blood of his cross. Biblical 'Fall and Redemption' theology
is ridiculed and rejected by New Age teaching and is held up as the
main barrier to people achieving peace through discovering the 'god
within.' Of course as an 'angel of light', Satan offers good things,
not evil, to those whom he seeks to deceive.
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In The Magic of Findhorn, the story of the community by Paul Hawken,
the author relates how Robert Ogilvie Crombie (Roc), an associate of
the Findhorn Community met a spirit being whom he recognised as 'Pan'.
This being, during the course of the ensuing conversation, asked him,
'Do you love my subjects?' "Yes'. In that case do you love me?' 'Why
not?' 'DO YOU LOVE ME? "Yes' ...'You know of course that I am the
Devil? You have just said that you love the devil.' 'No you are not the
devil. You are the god of the woodlands and countryside. There is no
evil in you' There are many other references in the book to contact
with spirit beings.
David Spangler, one of the leaders of the New Age movement states in
Reflections on the Christ (p. 40-44), published by the Findhorn
Foundation, 'Christ is the same force as Lucifer, .(who) is an agent of
God's love acting through evolution - . . Lucifer prepares man . . for
the experience of Christhood . . . The light that reveals to us the
path to Christ comes from Lucifer . . . the great initiator . . .
Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness as we move
into the new age . . . each of us is brought to that point which I term
the Luciferic initiation , . Lucifer comes to give us the final
Luciferic initiation . . that many people in the days ahead will be
facing, for it is an initiation into the New Age.'
Could such an 'initiation' be the 'powerful delusion' of which Paul
speaks in 2 Thessalonians 2, causing people to worship the 'man of
sin'? Whatever our conclusions on this point we have to recognise that
we are dealing with a powerful force of antichrist, whose goal is for
Lucifer to take the place of Christ, which means for Satan to take the
place of God.