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SYLPHS OF CARDAN.
Here I will add a story which is more wonderful than all the rest, and which I have heard my father, Facius Cardan (who confessed that he had had a familiar spirit for nearly thirty years) recount not once but many times.
THE SYLPHS
While the sages said that the fourth class of elementals, or sylphs, lived in the element of air, they meant by this not the natural atmosphere of the earth, but the invisible, intangible, ...
SYLPHS
267. We come now to the consideration of the highest type in the kingdom of the nature-spirits-- the stage at which the lines of development both of the land and sea creatures converge-- the sylphs, or spirits of the air.
Prayer of the Sylphs: East.
" O Spirits of the wisdom of light, whose breath breaths the seed of life unto all things, whom taketh away life with thy absence, Thou who ascends upon the wings of the Eagle, and descends like the Dove, ...
] Des peuples qui habitent les quatre élémens, sous les noms des Salamandres, des Gnomes, des Sylphes & des Nymphes, 85 & suiv.
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They are called by the Kabalists, Gnomes (of the Earth), Sylphs (of the Air), Salamanders (of the Fire), and Undines (of the Water), except a few of the higher kinds and their rulers. They are rather the forces of nature than ethereal men and women.
To this class belong the gnomes, sylphs, fairies, djins, etc. They are the Soul of the elements, the capricious forces in Nature, acting under one immutable Law, inherent in these Centres of Force, ...
They affirmed they could bind to their service, and imprison in a ring, a mirror, or a stone, some fairy, sylph, or salamander, and compel it to appear when called, and render answers to such questions as the viewer should propose.
Earlier and less materialistic traditions in occultism defined this type of divination as the art of foretelling the future by the means of the activities of air fairies, such as Aeradis and Sylphs, which may be construed as clairvoyantly, ...
The elementals of the earth are the gnomes, ruled by the angel Ariel; the ones of the air are the sylphs, ruled by Cherub; the ones of the water are the undines, ruled by Tharsis; and there are five elementals that are salamanders, ruled by Seraph.
Disembodied spirits, elves, fairies or daemons; often the term used for the Air elemental known as "sylphs," or as the name of the elementals of Spirit.
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The inhabitants of the Elements may appear on their own, as Salamanders for FIRE; Undines or Mermaids for WATER; Sylphs or Churubic-like figures for AIR; and small Gnome-like beings for EARTH.
 See also: Sylphs, Spirit, World, Spirits, Magic
  
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