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Yet it does possess a marvellous adaptability whioh often seems to come very near it, and it is no doubt this .property that caused elementals to be describe^ in one of our early books as" the semi-intelligent creatures of the astral light.” We shall find further evidence of this power when we come to consider the case of the artificial class. • When we read of a good or evil elemental, it must always be either an artificial entity or one of the many varieties of nature-spirits . that is meant, for the elemental kingdoms proper do not admit of any such conceptions as good and evil.
There is, however, undoubtedly a sort of bias.or tendency permeating nearly all their subdivisions which operates to render them rather hostile than friendly towards man. Every neophyte knows*this, for in most cases his very first impression of the astral plane is of the presence all around him of vast hosts of Protean spectresfwho advance upon him in