Fairy Magic
We have said more than once that many cultures share a common conviction: alongside “ordinary” humankind there exists a kind of proto-humanity — longer-lived, and possessed of deeper knowledge of the world: its structure, its operating principles, and the ways it can be governed.
The people of Britain knew this race particularly well, calling it the Fair Folk; the peoples of the Middle East named these “magical people” Jinn.
Just as humans are the children of the Aesir and the Vanir, so the Fair Folk are the children of the Alves. Some royal lineages of the Fair Folk even trace their descent to the Jotuns themselves, while others trace theirs to the angelic Grigori (Watchers). By right, they hold dominion over the dense world.
But just as the Alves are wiser and colder than the creator-gods, so the Fair Folk are wiser and colder than humans. The Fair Folk of the Unseelie Court are openly hostile to the manifested world, and in their fall they draw close to the Fomorians-outdwellers.
As those who trace their lineage to the Aesir live predominantly in the principle of intelligence, and those who trace their lineage to the Vanir live in the principle of feeling, so the Fair Folk belong predominantly to the principle of will.
That is why Magic is inherent in their very nature. Everything humans attain only by balancing their dominant principle with a binary one is given to the Fair Folk “from birth.”
This same feature became both the blessing and the curse of Tylwyth Teg.
The magical people are deprived of love and think illogically, yet they play with the world as a child plays with a rattle.
“Junior” humankind has always watched its elder brothers with envy and wariness, because the forces subject to the Fair Folk — especially their higher estates (the Britons called them Sidhe, and the Arabs called them Ifrits) — ruled the human world absolutely.
Yet humans also possess what rouses the envy of the Fair Folk: a soul capable of love and self-sacrifice.
Moreover, the imbalance built into human nature places “junior humankind” in a liminal position between Heaven and Earth — one that makes the highest forms of realized being attainable. One can say that although the Fair Folk perceive the world far more distinctly “on average,” states of complete enlightenment remain inaccessible to them.
The Fair Folk cannot enter such a state because, being neutral by nature, they are not accustomed to balancing, and they easily fall under the power of Ascending and Descending Currents. The Fair Folk begin “above” good and evil; taking these as given, and lacking the skill of seeking them, the magical people readily find themselves drawn into Currents of angelic or demonic energy — more out of interest than compulsion. That is why both friendliness and hostility appear in them more sharply than in humans; for this reason, the Tylwyth Teg are divided into the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Yet the Fair Folk are almost never possessed: they keep their energy whole, and even when they choose the Way of “light” or the Way of “darkness,” they do so by their own will.
At the same time, the Fair Folk’s natural equilibrium also makes them unsuitable prey for Demons — Demons rarely manage to take the Life Force of the Fair Folk — and for angels as well: the Fair Folk rarely enter the struggle for the Current of Power.
This means that, standing outside the Vertical Currents, the Fair Folk can manipulate only the horizontal ones. Here lies the key difference between Fairy Magic and human magic.
The Fair Folk do not know how to subjugate ministering spirits (and in truth consider it unworthy), but they easily manipulate the spirits of the principles and Elementals. They easily open and stabilize Portals and tunnels through different Levels of the cosmos. They can influence the growth of plants, the formation of minerals, and the behavior of animals.
For the same reason, neither the Fair Folk nor their Progenitors — the Alves and the Grigori (Watchers) — take part in the Last Battle: Ragnarök, it seems, does not concern them.
In general, Fairy Magic is deeply rooted in nature: its technologies and worldview may strike an outside observer as either creative or destructive, but they are always inscribed in the global process. Even when the Fair Folk distort space or weave illusions, their true aim is to sustain certain global processes — not merely to help or harass individual Magi or lost farmers. The famous “pranks” of the Fair Folk are a method of creating stress in which certain knots and dead ends, which hinder the free flow of energy, are “untied.”
Among modern pagan Magi there is a strong impulse to interact with the Tylwyth Teg (or the Jinn), and this impulse is often tainted by self-interest.
It is vital to understand the key differences that open an almost unbridgeable abyss between the mind of humans and the mind of the magical peoples. Then it becomes clear how little promise this impulse holds.
Fairies and Magic
The Energy of the Faerie
Faery: Beings and Principles
Fairies, Stikhials, and Elementals
People and Faerie: Two Strategies of Mind
Faerie as Teachers of Liberation
Fairies — the Bright Children of the Dark Mother
The Gods of the Faerie
Are these Fairies (Jinn) Higher Elementals?
No, they are not. Elementals are spirits of the Elements, while Fairies are inhabitants of our world. https://www.enmerkar.com/en/way/the-interworld-and-its-inhabitants
What is their nature? It is just not entirely clear from the article what they represent.
They are like humans. More details: https://www.enmerkar.com/en/myth/fairies-the-bright-children-of-the-dark-mother
Can they develop into a human over time? Or into some other being?
They are not “underdeveloped” to “develop into a human.”
Do they really exist?
🙂 Yes, they really exist.
Do Fairies live in this world, in the so-called Subtle planes? Can “seers” see them? Who has their third eye working?
Fairies lived in our world, in our plane. But starting from the 4th century AD, there was a so-called “Great Migration” of Fairies to Between-world, which was completed around the 10-11 century. And now they rarely appear to us, even though this world belongs to them no less than ours.
Are there among people (those who resemble fairies in appearance, magical abilities, or other parameters) still “relatives” of fairies? Are there people who have been fairies in past incarnations?
Yes, among people, there are those in whose blood flows that of the Magical people.
“… balancing my prevailing element of fire” – how to achieve this? I am a person of the Fire element. The opposite element is Water. Do I need to somehow isolate their qualities and develop the qualities of the opposite element within myself?
Yes, if you want to achieve realizations, you need to learn to achieve balance. The main thing is not to confuse balancing with neutralizing.
I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand the difference between balancing and neutralizing in this specific case. Please advise.
Neutralization is the mutual cessation of movement of opposing flows; balancing is a state when the intensities of opposing flows are equal. In both cases, the result is a lack of total movement, but in the first case it means a complete lack of movement, while in the second – only an absence of one-sided manifestations.
Please tell me, Enmerkar, in some text, it was mentioned that non-humans can be born in a human body. Now, tell me something very interesting: if someone dreams that they are a sharp-eared beauty with wings and ends up in a wonderful place in their dreams, the sensations of which are bliss compared to ordinary life, communicating with other elves, feeling them as their own, which cannot be said of people outside the dream, discovering those elven “qualities” within themselves that they read about, feeling a great power within, but cannot fully use, as if figuratively speaking, there is some kind of “knot” in them, untangling which all possibilities and degrees of awareness will be attained, although relatively much can already be done, but “tied” possibilities are breaking free. I even saw a book called “The Road to the Unicorn,” in which such individuals are described, and everything that is written about them is recognized, and in general, all this is known, understood, just pleasant to read like this… so, you mentioned those who have elven blood, I really hope you know and could elaborate on how to fully master my power and please shed more light on the topic of elves.
As if some energy moves through the body, changing its forms, but can’t connect with the outside world, cannot accept the necessary form, enter into the proper interaction, and cannot fully comprehend this phenomenon. Although, over time, I manage to learn more with years of magic practice, but still at a snail’s pace. I want to know how to correctly direct this and what it is.
Higher fairies (Sidh) can consciously interrupt their incarnation and be born in human form. Despite the fact that fairies lack a soul and each incarnation has a meaning different from human, some of them can indeed reverse their disembodiment and be born again. Why this happens is a non-trivial question; in different cases, the reasons are different. When born in human form, any being accepts the rules of the human world, and the differences in energies only add certain nuances to their development. In particular, a fairy born as a human cannot practice fairy magic but must practice human magic, albeit with a fairy nuance.
Oh, I completely forgot, in conversations with elves, they mentioned that such reincarnation happens so that elves gain immunity from some nastiness that people committed, they are all well-known, I won’t describe them, and reincarnation into human bodies is a circumvention maneuver; they mentioned that afterwards elves will not only be internally themselves. And I need to realize something… I really hope that my messages will be taken from a constructive perspective and will shed more light on this question!)
What exactly is this nuance and what specifically is the difference in these magics? Is it about commanding spirits, summoning them and directing them… what’s the difference? I feel a lot, but only a very small part is accessible to me. Hardly won back.
For Fairy Magic, controlling Servant spirits is not very characteristic; their spirit is inherently freer (see in the post).
And if the goal of a fairy’s incarnation in a human body is to realize something, what could that be? (Well, it might not be the goal of incarnation, but it could open up fairy’s abilities).
The abilities of fairies in fairy form are much greater than in human form. And regarding awareness – the main thing that a fairy can realize when born in human form is the meaning of passion. Humans are the most passionate of all beings.
What is the phenomenon when, during an attempt to take control of the energetic structure of something, instead of what should happen, a model of this structure is created in consciousness, setting up on this model and forming thought forms that are sent to the target; meanwhile, the effect is much weaker than what I could achieve by conventional means, tuning into the very object (situation, item, spirit) is much more difficult (except for spirits) and fully tuning in (as much as I can) does not succeed, as if in a circular labyrinth the guiding energy goes and returns to the source, what is this? And because of this, the direct influence is much weaker than possible.
Dear Enmerkar, a very strange girl asked me to inquire — how possible is it for these ancient peoples to physically come into our world and have connections with human women? (In her village, there’s a somewhat forgotten legend about a tribe that once visited them, calling themselves either Alfhis or Alfhis, and ended up leaving many descendants in the area.) I’ve asked many practitioners, and many said that such things haven’t happened for thousands of years.
The girl herself has a very distinctive appearance (slightly pointed, protruding ears, almond-shaped eyes, a sharp chin), and her skin cannot tolerate steel or iron jewelry. Apparently, she has quite a considerable talent for magic. For some reason, she is unable to conceive a child with a human. I myself am somewhat skeptical about this, but I’ve seen a few things, and she really asked for this matter to be explored. And you are the only one who might have some knowledge on this subject.
A sharp chin and ears are characteristics of children born prematurely. And why can’t she give birth? What is the medical diagnosis? Is the uterus absent?
Good afternoon. Tell me, if they coexisted for a long time in the manifested reality of our world, engaged in some activity, and died, there must have been some physical traces left behind – graves, bones, ruins? Is there a possibility for humanity to discover them?
Hello! Well, concerning bones – the body of fairies is not structured like that of humans, and after death it disintegrates, dissolving without leaving remains. As for ruins – there are plenty of them, including dolmens and rows of hills, like the famous Newgrange, and so on.
Does this mean that most similar, unusual ruins by our standards, like Gobekli Tepe, can be attributed to the creations of fairies? Can we somehow distinguish between the creations of fairies and humans? Can a mage use these ruins in their practice or do they only carry historical value?
In the early stages of humanity’s development, people and fairies interacted very closely, so indeed many megalithic structures are the product of such “joint” creativity, or fairy constructions that were occupied and adapted for their needs by humans. This connection can be utilized in practice if we want to establish a connection with fairies or simply learn more about them.
Thank you very much! Sorry for slightly derailing the topic, but I am very interested in the nature of creativity. We cannot consider most poets, writers, musicians, or game creators as mages in the classical sense of the word. Nevertheless, sometimes even in lowbrow, entertaining literature, there appear thoughts that strongly intersect with magical practice, reading which you do not understand how such a deep and significant piece ended up in this text. What is this – some special nature of creative individuals who draw information from the noosphere? Or hints from some entities? How does it happen that the myths of different peoples are so closely intertwined in essence?
Of course, intuition, inspiration, creative insights are the highest manifestations of consciousness that lead it out of the narrow confines of a causal-perceptual description of the world. However, Magic is not just a “perception” of what is usually hidden; it is the readiness and ability to operate in these additional aspects of perception. This is what distinguishes magicians from philosophers and artists – the striving and ability to actively interact with reality in the maximum available width and depth.