Chapter 35 - Communion with the Elemental Kingdoms

Communion with the Elemental Kingdoms introduces an energy whose purpose is relationship. It is neither simply Devic nor simply human, but a linking presence between mankind and the elemental worlds. The voice struggles to find a name for itself, because “energy” feels too bland for what it does. Its work is to bring different orders of life together, making communication possible where separation once prevailed.

The image of a house-buyer and a house-seller is unexpectedly practical. This linking energy has helped engineer the meetings between the group and the Devic kingdom, bringing two sides into contact so that exchange can begin. The chapter calls it a halfway house energy, and that phrase captures its function well. It stands between worlds, not as a barrier, but as a bridge.

The reason for this bridge is urgent. Mankind and the elemental kingdoms are both undergoing evolution, and their steps must remain synchronous. If humanity were to move forward while the Devas and other elemental worlds remained behind, or if the elemental worlds shifted beyond human reach, communication would fail. The result would be confusion, disconnection and loss of mutual help. Evolution has to become relational, not isolated.

The teaching is also honest about mankind’s effect on the other kingdoms. However indifferent or destructive human beings may seem, there is still immense interaction between human life and the elemental, animal, vegetable and mineral worlds. Mankind is too physically and psychically powerful to be ignored. The other kingdoms can no longer remain uninterested, and mankind can no longer afford to act as though it stands apart.

Signs of this new relationship are already visible in growing concern for animals and the environment. The teaching presents this respect not as fashion, but as evidence of a deeper effort to bring mankind and the other kingdoms into step. The elemental worlds too are becoming more aware of human energies. Where there may once have been hostility or distance, there is now greater interest and a possibility of sympathetic response.

The practice asked of the reader is simple but wide: form a conscious intent to commune and empathise with the other energies of life. This does not require seeing them or proving them. The intent itself matters. Earth, air, animals, plants, minerals, woods and the hidden beings of folklore are gathered into one invitation to become all-embracing.

There is a tenderness in that instruction. The human being does not have to master the elemental kingdoms before reaching out. Communion begins with intent, goodwill and the willingness to lose some of the differences that keep worlds apart. The other energies are described as ready to respond, which turns the practice from fantasy into relationship in the language of the book.

The chapter also expands the meaning of the word elemental. It does not refer only to one hidden class of beings, but to a broad living field that includes animals, plants, minerals, earth, fire, water, air and the many presences associated with them. Communion therefore becomes ecological, spiritual and imaginative at once.

Communion with the Elemental Kingdoms therefore marks one of the book’s clearest ethical movements. It turns the earlier teachings into a call for mutual awareness. Humanity is not asked to dominate nature or merely admire it, but to enter into conscious relationship with the many kingdoms alongside which it is evolving.