“. . . . the tides keep coming in. The Age of Aquarius is slowly approaching. Not in one great tidal wave that will wash away the entire world, we hope, but in incremental steps that increase the number of those who are more tolerant in the world, more accepting of differences, and better able to harmonize in an effort to truly make the world more sustainable and enduring.”
— The Silver Elves
Back in the late 1960’s with the play Hair on Broadway and the popularity of the song The Age of Aquarius from that play, done in a medley with another song ‘Let the Sun Shine In’ (also from Hair) by the group the Fifth Dimension, the esoteric notion of spiritual and evolutionary Ages (see H. Blavatsky The Secret Doctrine) for the development of humanity, especially the coming transition from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age was thrust into popular culture.
That notion has faded into the background since then to the point it is hardly mentioned or acknowledged anymore. And that is to be expected. The evolution of a New Age comes not in a sudden change of humanity, like an alien invasion that arrives one day and takes over, but rather in a series of tides coming in and then receding again, after having left shells and sea weed and other things on the shore.
More mutants, which is to say increasing numbers of us elfae folk, are born, live and die and each wave brings even more of us and, for the most part, since we tend to live healthier, or more health conscious lives, we also are inclined to live longer (except for some of the Piscean Age thinking people seeking to kill us off) and eventually the mass of humanity will shift from normal folk to elfin folk over the course of time. Or, if you will, from Piscean Age thinkers, to Aquarian Age thinkers.
But what is the difference between the Piscean and Aquarian Ages?
The Piscean approach to life and all in it is essentially dualistic. Everything or most nearly all things are good or bad, black or white, true or false. It promotes the notion of thesis, antithesis and eventually synthesis but even more so the idea that the truth when contrasted to the false, will eventually win out. This is the basis of the present American Justice System and many others. It is the conflict of opposites. In some esoteric circles, it is the fourth ray of manifestation which rules beauty and harmony, which is said to create Harmony through Conflict. This is a Piscean way of viewing things.
The Aquarian view of the fourth ray is instead, Harmony Through Diversity. While the Piscean energy lends itself to the idea that there is one truth and thus that there is one true religion, as so many faiths claim to be, or our race is good and all others bad, also our country, ethnic group and even our generation are right and others wrong/evil. While Aquarian thought, on the other hand, presents the idea that all people have value, that every race, creed, culture and generation have something to contribute as long as they respect, cooperate and have tolerance for others. It is not good vs. bad, but good, bad and an enormous variety of possibilities in between. Doesn’t that sound elven to you!
We sometimes hear from some of the younger elves that all the problems that exist today are due to the Boomer Generation. We Boomers thought something similar when we were very young as well of the generations before us. What we learned, however, is that while we were quite liberal as individuals and as elfin beings, that many of our supposed generation were not. We may have been born around the same time, but we were very different individuals. The same holds true today. It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that one’s entire generation shares one’s views, that my generation will set things straight (we surely thought that at one time) but observation of reality has revealed to us that there are spiritual and materialistic individuals in every generation. Some perhaps more than others, but still there.
It might be more accurate to say that some of those who are of the Boomers are responsible for the mess we are in today in the world, but they inherited that world from generations before them, and will pass it on to generations to come, some of whom will seek, as we did, to make the world a better place and others who will continue to put self interest over everything else, including the survival of humanity and the planet. The fact that their own survival is also endangered seems to be something that they put out of their minds (and they are often out of their minds while seemingly obsessed with their own opinions) and simply ignore in favor of their prejudices and avarice.
Yet, the tides keep coming in. The Age of Aquarius is slowly approaching. Not in one great tidal wave that will wash away the entire world, we hope, but in incremental steps that increase the number of those who are more tolerant in the world, more accepting of differences, and better able to harmonize in an effort to truly make the world more sustainable and enduring. In other words, individuals who are more truly elfin in nature who are wise to the traps of racism, sexism, ageism, classism and every other pigeon hole set to limit our minds, our understanding of our s’elves and others, and our ability to cooperate toward creating a more beautiful, harmonious and, thus for us, more elfin world.
Keldas Zet Ton Na Tarsalunin Sol (Running wild on a moonlit night),
The Silver Elves
http://silverelves.angelfire.com
You can find all 50+ of the Silver Elves books to purchase on The Elven Way on Amazon here:
US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/The-Silver-Elves/e/B0070R8ER2
UK Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Silver-Elves/e/B0070R8ER2
“It is not so much that the elves will come back to save the Earth and humanity, so much as humanity must become more elven to save itself and the Earth.”
—The Silver Elves
If you enjoyed the article above, then you may well also enjoy:
How Do We Find Faerie? And How Do We Deal with Being an Elf or Otherkin While Living in the Mundane World?
https://silverelves.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/how-do-we-find-faerie-and-how-do-we-deal-with-being-an-elf-or-otherkin-while-living-in-the-mundane-world
Please enjoy viewing this an hour long YouTube video of The Silver Elves in a conversational presentation on The Modern Elven Movement and The Elven Way at Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore in Atlanta, GA, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0sv3OHkjRw
“We really shouldn’t be surprised when we tell normal people we are elves and they don’t believe us. After all, we’ve spent ages casting a glamor upon them to convince them we don’t exist. Their disbelief is really just an affirmation of the power of our enchantments.”
—What the Elves Say
And to learn more about the Elven Way and magical path of the elves,
you may enjoy reading: The Elven Way: The Magical Path of The Shining Ones
“The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known
into the forest of the unknown
illuminated by the glow of the elves.”
(From the cover below)
The Elven Way:
The Magical Path of The Shining Ones
Excerpt from Chapter One of —From The Elven Way: The Magical Path of The Shining Ones by The Silver Elves:
Awakening
“While we’ve often written that faery tales, both ancient and modern, view the faery folk as being ruled by monarchs, this idea is more a reflection of the lives of men and of the world that was and is than a true indication of the Realms of Elfin. This is not to say that there doesn’t exist a Hierarchy in Faery, but that it is important to understand that this Hierarchy is a natural one based on real development and merit and not in the least arbitrary or artificially constructed. All hierarchies, organizations and bureaucracies in the world are a pale attempt to recreate, or in many cases bypass or supersede, this natural hierarchy.”
“The hierarchy of Elfin is a spiritual hierarchy—the hierarchy of illuminated being, of s’elf development of magical maturity—and thus it is the power, of awakened consciousness and expanded and enlightened awareness. Besides the attempts of many to construct this hierarchy in the world, it is also reflected in Nature, where there are hierarchies of intelligence, of knowledge, of personality, beauty, strength, and so forth. While artificial hierarchies tend to be rather strictly structured and unyielding, these natural hierarchies, reflective of the true spiritual hierarchy, are varied and yielding. For instance, while there are general tendencies, we don’t all agree about who is most beautiful or most attractive. It is rather like the question, what is your favorite color? It depends on the individual. So, too, the natural hierarchies are, like the true inner hierarchy, dependent greatly on the individual and their own position in the Universe, their individual tendencies.”
“There is another way that the spiritual hierarchy tends to differ from all artificial hierarchies and even from the hierarchy of Nature. Artificial hierarchies tend to be pyramid schemes with one or a few people on the top and increasing numbers of individuals in various levels below with the greatest number on the bottom. This formula does not tend to change. The one at the top may change. Sometimes, but rarely one’s position on the hierarchy may change, but the structure tends to stay the same. In fact, that is its purpose to reinforce itself and maintain this structure.”
“On the other hand, while the spiritual hierarchy may have more on the bottom than the top at any particular point, the goal and purpose of this hierarchy is to get everyone at the top, to have everyone progress further and further into the realms of Elfin, the realms of radiant enlightenment.”
“We might think of it as a game. In the game of the material world the first ones to reach home win; everyone else is considered a loser. In the spiritual game, we gain points when each one reaches home and our ultimate goal is to get everyone home. Then and only then have we truly won the game.”
—end of Excerpt from The Elven Way
“Among some elves the weavers of the Fates are viewed as an Ancient Witch known as the Necromancer who carries a crystal ball, removes disused cobwebs with her broom and rules the Past. The Present is dominated by a bald middle aged male who carries a staff and does martial arts katas while reciting spells. He is known as the Dancer. And the Future is created by an androgynous child who plays with figures in a sand box imagining the future into being. No one knows this one’s name, although some call Hir Starlight.”
—The Silver Elves
Some Important Further Reading for Elves . . . .
There are those that may ridicule you for saying that you are an elf, but the world is changing slowly and Elfin is manifesting here as we create it in our lives. We modern elves are in all professions and bring our elven perspectives with us! In 2005, Zardoa Silverstar of the Silver Elves received his Masters of Arts Degree in Depth Psychology from Sonoma State University based upon his thesis on his Depth Inquiry research study concerning his life and magic as an Elf. Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One’s Own Life is a Silver Elves book that is based on his thesis and his use of the personal myth as a process for exploring the magical world of the unconscious.
Welcome To My World
“James Hillman (1997), Jungian analyst and the originator of archetypal psychology, argues that the generally accepted opinion, which holds that the parents, particularly the mother, is the most formative power in a person’s life, is inaccurate. He offers instead the idea that there is the archetypal daimon who guides us and drives us toward fulfillment of our true nature and calling. This daimon is in the form of a guiding force or guardian angel who holds the image of what we are meant to be. Of this he writes: “Yet all along a little elf whispers another tale: ‘You are different; you’re not like anyone in the family; you don’t really belong.’ There is an unbeliever in the heart. It calls the family a fantasy, a fallacy.” I heard that elf. It whispered to me: You are one of us.”
“I am an elf. I realize that must sound strange to some readers, since from the popularly accepted point of view, elves are fictional beings who do not and, being a product of fiction/fantasy/fairy tales/folk lore, cannot exist. However, the intelligent reader, like yourself, will ask, what do you mean by that statement? And my reply is multifold. When I say I am an elf, I mean, in part, that I am a theorist and practitioner of what I call the Elven Way which is a spiritual practice. Therefore, when I say I am an elf, I’m using it in the same way someone might say, I’m a practitioner of Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Catholicism or Judaism.”
“However, as you will see, for mys’elf, I also use my identification as an elf in both a genetic sense and a cultural one. Thus I could say to you that I am a descendent of the Scottish, English, Welsh, French and Dutch, but as I trace the ancestry of those peoples further back, I find I am equally entitled to tell you I am a descendent of the Pixies, Elves, Brownies, and Fae or Faery Folk. Just as some modern Italians could say they are descended from the Romans and some might argue before that the Trojans, so I tell you I am descended from the folks who were once known as the Elves, Pixies. Brownies and Fae. And just as the stories of Troy where once thought to be purely fictional or mythological until the late 1870’s, so are the stories of my ancestors currently considered in just this way.”
“And I also use the term elf culturally. So when I say I am an elf, I also mean that I carry on many of the traditions and fashions that have been passed on through the ages by my people. However, I don’t ask you to believe I am an elf. I simply ask to you to understand and accept that this is the culture, people and tradition, with whom I identify. And it is this culture that is at the heart of my personal myth.”
Religion or Culture?
“If you tell someone that you are a Buddhist, a Catholic, Jewish or even an agnostic or atheist, while they might not agree with your choice, they at least, for the most part believe it to be a real one. If you tell someone your ancestors were Italian or Japanese or Cherokee or even some tribe from Africa that they’ve never heard of, they will accept what you say without question. Try telling someone you’re an Elf.”
If you tell someone you are descended from elves, they will, A. think you’re crazy, or B. think you are pulling their leg, or C. think that you have taken Dungeons and Dragons a mite too seriously which brings us back to A.”
“If you tell someone you are on the Elven Path rather than claiming any other religious affiliation they will think you are, A. crazy, B. pulling their leg, or C. part of a weird cult, which brings us back to A.”
“Because, in the minds of most people, elves do not and have never existed except in Faery Tales. The very words Fairy Tale is defined by the dictionary (Soukhanov, 1984) as a story that is fanciful or fictitious.”
“So are we, as elves, a religion and thus some form of new age cult, or are we a culture descended from a people who never existed except in the imagination of fanciful people, and in tales told to children before they are old enough to realize what the world is really like? The answer is neither. The Elven Path is animistic in nature. Nearly all tales about us say that we are the Elder Race (Evans-Wentz, 1966; Tolkien, 1977b), the original people. Our path is aboriginal and thus, as Frazer (1951/1922) points out, shamanistic and pre-religious. Ours is a spiritual path, not a religion. We have no dogma, doctrine nor specific rituals, although every elf is free to follow whatever religion or believe whatever they choose concerning religion, the Universe and the world.”
“Is it a path we’ve inherited or is it one we’ve created? To me that doesn’t matter; for all spiritual paths began somewhere, sometime. All things, all religions, all cultures, are created. So for the longest time I would tell people that if there never were a historical people called elves, there are now! Yet, I always felt, deep, deep within, that I was descended from elves. For who else but elves would even wish to claim to be an elf? “
— end of Excerpt from Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One’s Own Life by the Silver Elves
You can find all our the Silver Elves books to purchase on The Elven Way on Amazon here:
US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/The-Silver-Elves/e/B0070R8ER2
UK Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Silver-Elves/e/B0070R8ER2
Please do come join us!
OUR SILVER ELVES FACEBOOK AND OTHERKIN GROUPS:
The Silver Elves invite you to come join us in some of our elven and magical otherkin Facebook groups where you will find our elven-faerie-fae otherkin community interacting and sharing The Elven Way:
The Magical Books of the Silver Elves — https://www.facebook.com/groups/539205916250397 — And if you would like to find out more about our 50+ The Silver Elves books on The Elven Way, please do join us! We have discussions about our Silver Elves books as well as about Elven and Otherkin philosophy, elven lifestyle and the Elven Way. If you have read our books and would like to discuss them with us, this is the place to come join in the discussions and ask also questions. And please do come share here in this group your own creative elven works of art, music, writing, crafts, or whatever you do to manifest Elfin in your life in your own way, as well as your thoughts and feelings about living the life Elfin.
Elven Home — https://www.facebook.com/groups/1712981718807166
This is an enchanting and private place for all elfae folk to share in cozy comfort. Feel free to share anything elfae related, and please do share (with images when you can) all about your own Eald (Elven Home) and the special aspects of it that make it your own enchanting elfin space.
Elven Life and Magic — A group for fae folk of all kinds.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/629491797123886
Elvish Magical Chat — Posting and chatting all about elves, faeries, pixies, and magic!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/307775362744491
The Faerie Circle — A group for the magical elfae folk. Be ever blest!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1025483294180077
Elf Witches of the Mystic Moon — A place to share your magic and enchantment with other elf witches! https://www.facebook.com/groups/806583242768352
Faerie Craft —This is a group to share your elven and fae creations, and yes you are welcome to advertise your elfish/faerie crafts.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/395403367195312
I Heart Elven Magic —For those who love Elfin Magic.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2215672296
Feasting With the Elves (having fun sharing elven recipes and healthy eating) — https://www.facebook.com/groups/597948240617006
United Otherkin Alliance —
https://www.facebook.com/groups/328253710566869 This is an alliance for Otherkin/ Therians, where elves, faeries, dragons, kitsune, gnomes, hobbits, merkin, pixies, brownies, nymphs, driads, niaids, valkyrie, vampires, devas, fauns, unicorns, animal kin and all manner of Faerie Folk gather and come together! This group is open to anyone who wishes to be part of a congenial group of Otherkin.
The Elven Way — This group creates a place for people to learn about the Elven Way and for Elves, Otherkin, and their friends to have a fun gathering place to enjoy each other’s company and share things on the path. Although it is a private group, it is open to anyone who wishes to learn about the Elven Way and friends of such.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/165938637423212
Nature & the Unseen Realms with the Elves & otherkin. A spiritual journey —A group to share together our occult experiences of Elfin-Faerie that are usually not shared and also to share about the wonders of Nature in the Unseen World.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/196916350335537
Elfin Faerie Lore — For Faeries and Elfin Folk. This group is for sharing elfin faerie lore, magic and life as Fae,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/975038062512421
Silver Elves Embassy — This is a place of rest and gathering together to relax and share our stories, dreams for the future, and magic of our elfin adventures. We Silver Elves also share here in this group some of our own magical true tales and adventures that have lead us to further embrace the Shining Ones.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/206231890276255
Also do look for our other elfae groups on Facebook: Elfae Spirituality Group, Elfae Tree Folk, Elven Oracles Group, and Elfin Faerie Lore.
“Evolution is like a relay race, we carry the baton of wisdom, power, and knowledge to those awaiting us in the future.”
—Ancient Elven Knowledge
What sort of elf, faerie or other are you?
silverelves
The Silver Elves Blog 