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"Rev. Robert Kirk's "Secret Commonwealth"

by Paul B. Thompson
Nebula Editor
psc...@aol.com

It has long been the habit of scholars to study the obscure, the
strange, and the unusual. Aside from the intrinsic interest of such
subjects, the fringes of human experience offer the widest scope for
unexpectedly enlarging our collective knowledge. Many common scientific
subjects were once "fringe:" electricity, meteors and radioactivity
were all once beyond the pale of standard knowledge. No scholar worth
his salt would pass up an opportunity to write their name into history
as a discoverer.

Robert Kirk was such a scholar. Born in 1644, Kirk came from a long
line of educated men. His grandfather, John Kirk, was a notary and
scrivener in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Reverend James Kirk, was
appointed minister to the parish of Aberfoyle, in Perthshire, in 1639.
He had a large family, of whom Robert Kirk was his seventh son. Among
the Celts, this was a propitious place to be born -- seventh sons were
commonly believed to have second sight. Kirk never made a reputation as
a seer, but he was exceptionally gifted intellectually. He studied at
Edinburgh University and at St. Andrews, receiving his master's degree
at 17. Ordained as a minister, Kirk served at various parishes for the
next twenty years. He married in 1678.

Kirk was also a linguist. He translated the psalms into Gaelic verse,
and translated other religious works into the Scots Highland dialect.
His facility with Gaelic led him to be named editor of a new Irish
edition of the bible. In June 1685 he was appointed to his father's old
parish of Aberfoyle, and served there until his early death in 1692.
Aberfoyle was, in the words of Sir Walter Scott, "[a] beautiful and
wild region, comprehending so many lakes, rocks, sequestered valleys,
and dim copsewoods, and not even yet quite abandoned by the fairies,
who have resolutely maintained secure footing in a region so well
suited to their residence."

His linguistic expertise would have been enough to insure Robert Kirk
a footnote in the cultural history of the British Isles, but his real
fame (and interest to readers of ParaScope) lies in his study of fairy
lore. He collected tales of fairy encounters by his countrymen and
analyzed them in a monograph entitled "The Secret Common-Wealth."

In Kirk's time, fairies were not seen as tiny, gauzy-winged creatures
of children's storybooks. Far from it -- fairies were thought of as
strange, powerful creatures, a paraphysical race of beings living among
mankind. It was common for some of the clergy to denounce fairy folk as
demons, or at least servants of Satan. Kirk wasn't so sure. He decided
that they were a separate race "betwixt Man and Angel." Lacking
scientific language to describe fairy attributes, Kirk resorted to
poetic descriptions. Fairies were made on "congealed Air" or "condensed
cloud." This ethereal composition was crucial to their ability to
vanish at will, fly, or penetrate any enclosed space, no matter how
tiny. Being so nebulous, fairies imbibed only the most refined of
"spirituous liquors" (Scotland being a good location for such), and
Kirk noted that although they had prodigious appetites, fairies never
grew fat because they only used the quintessence of food and drink.
Humans sometimes stumbled upon fairy banquets hidden away in the hills,
but mortals should never partake of fairy food; one taste, and the
luckless human was forever a captive of the Subterranean race. An
especially odd detail Kirk gives is that the fairies had a special
class of servant at their revels, whom he describes as "Pleasant
Children" or enchanted puppets, which sounds like the fairies were
tended by mechanical dolls...

Fairy affairs curiously mirrored the situation of their human
neighbors. When men experienced a good harvest, things were poorly in
the fairy realm, and vice-versa. Fairies lived in tribes and "orders"
(medieval social classes), had factions, fought wars among themselves
-- sometimes in the sky, to the astonishment of mortal witnesses -- and
by custom had to move their homes at the beginning of each quarter of
the year. These migrations were sometimes seen by psychically gifted
Scots, and led to them being called "the crew that never rest."

Fairy fashion echoed that of the country in which they lived. In
Scotland, they wore plaid kilts, and in Ireland dressed like the Irish.
Fairy women were the finest spinners and weavers in the world, making
cloth as fine as cobwebs, which seems only fitting for a race made of
congealed air. They had no religion, but would flee when humans invoked
God or Jesus. Kirk repeats the common belief that fairies fear and hate
iron, and offers an unusual reason why: Hell, it seems, is a place so
hot and terrible molten iron flows like water all over the place. Being
highly sensitive creatures, the fairies cannot bear even the smell of
cold iron, as it reminds them of the fate that awaits them once they
die... eternity in Hell.

Fairy relations with humans are always strange and often tragic. Time
passes differently among the fairies. What seems like a few days or
weeks in Elfland can be decades in the mortal world. Kirk's informants
told him of vast underground halls, lit by perpetual lamps, where
hundreds of fairies feasted and roistered down the ages.

There were also more sinister aspects to human/fairy interactions.
Most people have heard of changelings, where a human baby is taken away
from its parents and a defective fairy child left in its place. But the
Subterraneans did not balk at taking adults away too. They particularly
liked women who'd just given birth. They were kidnapped to serve as wet
nurses to fairy babies. Interestingly, the fairies would leave exact
doubles of their captives behind. Kirk discusses these doppelgangers,
who he calls "co-walkers," in some detail. Like changeling infants,
co-walkers tend to weaken, become incoherent, and eventually die.
They're not human or fairy, but a sort of biological robot created by
fairy magic to distract mortals away from the truth about the abduction
of their loved ones. UFO lore is full of co-walker types. Many of the
classic "men in black" episodes feature clumsy, muddle-mouthed visitors
who don't quite seem in sync with the mundane world. MIBs, like
co-walkers, perform some task, then depart -- though they don't usually
die in front of puzzled witnesses.

Kirk gives this account of one woman's abduction (I have modernized
his spelling):

"Among other instances of undoubted verity, proving in these the being
of such aerial people, or species of creatures not vulgarly known, I
add the subsequent relations, some whereof I have from my acquaintance
with the actors and patients and the rest from the eyewitnesses to the
matter of fact. The first whereof shall be of the woman taken out of
her child-bed, and having a lingering image of her substituted body in
her room, which resemblance decayed, died, and was buried. But the
person stolen returning to her husband after two years space, he being
convinced by many undeniable tokens that she was his former wife,
admitted her home and had diverse children by her. Among other reports
she gave her husband, this was one: that she perceived little what they
[the fairies] did in the spacious house she lodged in, until she
anointed one of her eyes with a certain unction that was by her; which
they perceiving to have acquainted her with their actions, they fained
her blind of that eye with a puff of their breath. She found the place
full of light, without any fountain or lamp from whence it did spring."

Kirk goes on to say the returned woman was undoubtedly the same one
everyone thought had died, and that her husband, having remarried since
her "death," was obliged to divorce his second wife to remarry his
first.

The scholarly minister's interest in the Good People (as fairies were
euphemistically called) proved unhealthy. Kirk's monograph was finished
in 1691. A short time later, after the minister returned from London to
Aberfoyle, he went for an evening stroll in his nightshirt. Kirk's
perambulations took him past a fairy mound near his home. While passing
by the mound (or walking over it, according to some accounts), the 47
year-old scholar collapsed. He was found and brought home, but died
soon after and was buried in the kirkyard of his own church. Kirk's
death on or near a fairy mound must have made his parishioners shudder,
but an even weirder postscript would be added to the case.

One of Kirk's relatives was awakened in the night by the apparition of
the dead minister. Kirk gave him a message for his cousin, one Graham
of Duchray. I am not dead, Kirk's specter declared. The Good People had
carried him off. He had one chance to escape their clutches: when
Kirk's posthumous child was christened (his wife being pregnant when he
died), Kirk's apparition would appear at the ceremony. Graham of
Duchray was to throw an iron-bladed knife over the head of the
minister's specter. Iron was a powerful counter to fairy magic, and
Kirk would be released from their power by this act. (One wonders what
would become of his corpse, buried securely in the Aberfoyle
cemetery... but some folk in Aberfoyle claimed that Kirk's body was
abducted, not just his soul. His coffin, it was said, was buried with
nothing in it but stones.)

The child was born, and duly christened. While the family dined
afterward, Kirk appeared before them. Unfortunately, his cousin Graham
was so thunderstruck by this vision he failed to throw his knife as
directed. Kirk's spirit faded away, never to be seen again. Well into
the twentieth century people in Aberfoyle maintained that Robert Kirk
was not really dead, but lived as an eternal captive in fairyland.

This kind of fairy lore echoes again and again through UFO literature.
Strange time effects, odd, diminutive "people" with pointed features
seen to occupy UFOs, traditional fairy gambits of borrowing mundane
object from witnesses -- and witnesses not being able to borrow
"extraterrestrial" artifacts back -- all are common facets of UFO close
encounters. Sometimes the fairy connection is so obvious as to be
startling -- as in the 1967 Long Island case where a contactee was
given a seemingly ordinary metal disc to wear so that "they" would
recognize her.

Who are "they?" asked the contactee.

"They are the very good people," she was told. (See John Keel, The
Mothman Prophecies, chapter 15).

If there is a strong link between fairy lore and UFO encounters, what
does it mean? The crassly obvious view is that extraterrestrials have
been visiting us for centuries, and in the past they were mistaken for
elves and fairies. This is a naive concept; more probable is the notion
that modern encounters with strange beings are interpreted as contact
with outer space folk whereas three hundred years ago such a meeting
would have been seen as a visitation by the Good People.

It seems as though the phenomenon changes very little, but our
perception of it changes a great deal. Our understanding of it all
would be greatly enhanced if we could strip away the trappings of
folklore, religion, and pseudo-science that continued to obscure the
core facts. And if at some future date we can recognize these
experiences unburdened by medieval superstitions or cheesy
science-fiction concepts of "aliens," then perhaps we'll know our
visitors for who they truly are. Maybe then they'll cease to trouble
us, and cease to be "the crew that never rest."

© Copyright 1997 ParaScope, Inc.

The Mystical Fairy Faith -fad or deceptive reality?

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, fairy video games like Zelda for the N64 and Game Cube system,
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.

Presently there are
more and more books teaching people how to etablish communicate and
contact faeries for instance:

The Book of Faeries: A Guide to the World of Elves, Pixies, Goblins,
and Other Magic Spirits by Francis Melville

Fairy Spells: Seeing and Communicating With the Fairies
by Claire Nahmad

A Witchs Guide to Faery Folk: Reclaiming Our Working Relationship With
Invisible Helpers (Llewellyns New Age Series)
by Authors: Edain McCoy , Edain McCoy

Other books are listed on Amazon.com

Some casual observers
who have noticed this growing interest in faeries
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
Peter Pan -the new movie
Elf
Shrek

A Fairy 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. Here are some theories:

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.

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.'

The Fairy King

Who's he that doth travel the woods late by night?
It is the father, his son by his side.
A-holding the little boy all in his arm,
he's wrapped him up tightly, he's keeping him warm.

»My son, pray tell me, what frightens you so?«
»Beholdst thou not, father, the Fairy King's glow?
With his crown made of fire, his shimmering frock?«
»My son, this is naught but a phantom of fog.«

My lovely child, come follow me!
Most pleasant games I'll play with thee.
The flowers are bright where the river runs down,
my mother's got many a glistening gown.

»My father, my father, pray canst thou not hear,
the Fairy King's promises, soft in my ear?«
»O don't be afraid, little stupid, be calm!
'Tis naught but the wind that is shaking the elm.«

Willst thou, fairest manchild, not come and be mine?
My daughters will dress you in satin so fine.
At night, when my daughters are leading the ball
there's laughter and singing and joy in my hall.

»O father, my father, pray canst thou not see,
the Fairy King's daughters are smiling at me?«
»My boy, little boy, I can tell you quite sure,
'tis naught but the willows that wave by the moor.«

I love your fair features, your grace I behold,
and if you're not willing, you'll never grow old.
»My father, my father, he's touching my arm!
The Fairy King's holding me, doing me harm!«

The father a-shudders, he speeds like the wind,
a-clutching his son, never looking behind,
he reaches his home at his horse's last breath -
but the face of his son now is shadowed by death.

 

After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, »Der Erlkönig«
Brought into English by Maja Ilisch and Andrea Tavenrath

 

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. The 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
Ð 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.

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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."

[angelicusrex]

"Noah's Dove" <noah...@lighspeed.ca> wrote in message

> 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."

When are you people going to get it? Lucifer and Christ and God and Us are
all ONE. God is ONE. Not two or three or a million and one, but ONE. We are
ONE with God. Whatever God has created is also ONE with God,that means all
your angels, devils, aliens and everything else. Not only that, but Paul was
a rank amateur and a heretic to the Jerusalem Church who introduced a lot of
Pagan ideas to Christianity which has caused it to become a warped
expression of fear of the Devil, the Apocalypse and Judgment. So that now
Christians cower in fear that their own professed "Christ" himself cannot
save them from torment, possession by demons or the strict and terrible
punishments of an obscenely sadistic Old Testament Jehovah. And now of
course, you pass your fears along to everyone else. When God said to all of
us "FEAR NOT. I am with you always." Everything else is fallacious blather
of priests and prelates who want us to do as THEY say and fear everything.
While they themselves do not fear for one instant God's wrath as they go
about stealing money, whoring, and publicly proclaiming the "End Times" when
any disaster occurs. So now its faeries we should fear? Or is it UFOnauts?
Why not fear Santa Claus and his elves too! Why not go back to the dark ages
and cower in caves and fear the dark? What exactly is wrong with you
Christians anyway? Either Christ is and was Triumphant over evil or he was
not. Since the most insane evils of our past have come almost directly from
Christian Countries like Germany, France, Italy and Spain, is it any wonder
that most people these days see Christ as not only non-triumphant, but as
completely defeated by demons, Satan and his "worshipers?" You envision a
world of crawling chaos which your faith in God barely can defend you
against! And then you seek to share it and your morbid, childish fear, with
the rest of us! The stuff on faeries was interesting. But it's not science.
It's faery stories! So get a grip. God will let you know when it is time to
come home.

--
Namaste'

Saint 0;-)

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle.
The other is as if everything is."

Albert Einstein