What is the Elven Spirit?

"Because of the somewhat ambiguous nature of our spirits, most people prefer to attempt to define us [elves] using physical characteristics because that is somewhat easier. . . . We see the world in ways that others cannot or simply will not dare to do; they having been programmed since early childhood to do otherwise. We see with Elf Sight and Elven Vision. We see not only what appears before us as form, but we also look to spirit and substance."  
 

The problem with defining the Elven spirit is similar to the difficulty with defining elves physically. We are an amorphous folk by our very natures and are generally quite unique as individuals, usually eccentric in our maturity and thus greatly varied as individuals and diverse among our different clans, tribes and peoples, overall. What you say of one elf may or may not apply to another and there are few things that we can say that would apply to all of us. Other than, we tend to be different. That, in many ways, is what most frightens normal folk, for we perpetually seem to be individuals that never quite fit into any of their boxes.

     Because of the somewhat ambiguous nature of our spirits, most people prefer to attempt to define us using physical characteristics because that is somewhat easier and, of course, they are affected by the general tendency toward viewing everything from a material and materialistic point of view that defines the Kali Yuga, or Dark Age, or we might call it the Age of Mistaking Form for Substance, anyway. Form appears so solid to them, but we perceive its transient nature. 

     If we were to believe the tales and legends about us, then we elves would all have pointed ears (which we would so love) and live for thousands of years (which we are also not opposed to) and most of us, but not all (for the Realms of Faerie are myriad and varied), would be amazingly beautiful, slim, gorgeous and looking rather like fashion models with pointed ears (that's fine with us). If we are to be strictly factual about this, then none of us on the Earth today would fulfill all three requirements. We've known brother and sisters who have real-to-life pointed ears. We've known brothers and sisters who are amazingly beautiful, but we've yet to meet any that live for thousands of years, although all of these are visions of our future.

     And yet, in observing the world around us, we've known many elven and elfae folk, who while they may not seem to live up to these ideas in the eyes of the Normal folk, are quite obviously elfin to us. In our point of view, they are quite beautiful, although sometimes the beauty is more of their spirit than their temporary bodily form. If you look at them, they do have pointed ears, you just have to see them in the right light when their magic is manifesting. And surely, by way of reincarnation, all of us have lived thousands upon thousands of years, even thousands and thousands of lives. Not in these same physical bodies, of course, but in our true bodies, our bodies of light that we are still in the process of constructing.

     For that is, in fact, an aspect of the elven spirit. We see the world in ways that others cannot or simply will not dare to do; they having been programmed since early childhood to do otherwise. We see with Elf Sight and Elven Vision. We see not only what appears before us as form, but we also look to spirit and substance. They say that beauty is only skin deep, but that is not quite the case. Some people's beauty comes from deep within them and is a manifestation of their spirit, their personality, their glamor, at times, and their enchantments manifesting in the world. 

     Elves, for the most part, are a very tolerant people. We may be somewhat intolerant of intolerance but, even then, we often look to the inner feelings of suffering and fearfulness that have driven the individual to be intolerant in the first place. We seek to understand more than we seek to judge. We are more inclined to accept than to reject. We are inclusive rather than exclusive. All who come to us sincerely are accepted, although some of those are not really meant for us; but still we will do our best to help them find those who are. We don't reject people due to race, creed, politics, place of national origin, gender identity or any other arbitrary manifestation of the world. All who dare to step into our realms are inviting our magics to swirl about them. 

     We are inclined toward artistic pursuits, but we also see science and mathematics as a kind of art and art and creativity as having scientific aspects. We don't value the hard sciences over the arts, but neither do we sacrifice them for the arts. It is balance we seek in nearly all things.

     And magic, especially in the form of enchantment, weaves its way through all that we do and all that we experience. Many people, especially those who embrace with a passion the idea that they are normal are afraid of magic. We elves love it with all our hearts. And despite some peoples' urge to make the world as boring, ugly and mundane as they possibly can, we know that there is something deeper and richer that lives beneath the surface of all seeming. Something magical that hides within the mundane waiting to spring forth at the right time and surprise us all with its wonder, forever leading us on the path of our beloved Elven Realms. 

La tae lun u Eldat te vari elsorin (By the light of Elfin be ever blessed),
The Silver Elves
http://silverelves.angelfire.com

 
"The Elves believe that the material body is little more than a shell covering the seed of spirit within. When that seed sprouts, the shell cracks and we grow into an entirely new dimension of elfin being."
The Silver Elves


Please, when you come to our website please enjoy reading sample pages and reader's reviews of all our 45+ books (published prior to March 2019) on magic and enchantment, elven lifestyle, elven poetry, elven short stories, an elven novel, on elven philosophy and the Elven Way at: http://silverelves.angelfire.com/HAelfbooks.html. 

Also, our newest Silver Elves books (beginning March 2019) may be found on this blog site at https://silverelves.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/magical-books-by-the-silver-elves-on-the-elven-way-magic-and-enchantment-elven-oracles-and-elven-lifestyle.

And you can find all our the Silver Elves books (50+) 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

 

If you would like to read about our Elfin realm, the Elf Haven or Eldafaryn of the Silver Elves, we suggest that you may truly enjoy ELDAFARYN: True Tales of Magic from the Lives of the Silver Elves.  Click on the title link and you will go to our website where you can read excerpts of this book and view the Table of Contents.

ELDAFARYN:
True Tales of Magic from the Lives of the Silver Elves
Eldafaryn (Elf Haven) contains a series of vignettes from the lives of the Silver Elves starting in the present and going back and forth through time describing their lives, their magic, their philosophy and their unique view of the world. If you've ever wanted to see Elfland from the inside, as the elves view and live it, here's your chance.

You may also enjoy reading Living the Personal Myth:
Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One’s Own Life by The Silver Elves:

Living the Personal Myth:
Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One’s Own Life

Living the Personal Myth is written by Zardoa Silverstar of the Silver Elves. It is a unique narrative about a psychological study of the magic of living one’s personal myth, in effect, making one’s dream and vision of one’s self come true by living it. It is a personal guide to becoming one’s true s’elf as one inwardly knows one’s s’elf to be. What makes this book particularly interesting is that Zardoa considers himself to be an elf, yet he uses scientific methods to psychologically examine his identification with the Otherkin world. He explores his personal myth and life as an elf and demonstrates how basing one’s myth on real events in one’s life empowers one’s myth and one’s magic. This work suggests “Personal Myth” to be an understanding of the self that incorporates the symbolic, imaginal and fantasy elements of the unconscious and accepts them as real within their own realms of being. It is the author’s belief that the Personal Myth is the unconscious’ understanding of the individual spirit’s Cosmic aspirations and potentialities. In that way, Personal Myth is seen as the personality of the unconscious and of the individual’s spirit.

"What bird sings upon the Elven Dawn?
The bird of memory long thought gone,
the song of awakening it doth sing,
as the flocks of Elfin do take wing."
—The Silver Elves

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:

Elf Witches of the Mystic Moon — https://www.facebook.com/groups/806583242768352

The Magical Books of the Silver Elves — https://www.facebook.com/groups/539205916250397 — And if you would like to find out more about our 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 questions. 

 

Elven Life and Magic — https://www.facebook.com/groups/629491797123886

Elvish Magical Chat — https://www.facebook.com/groups/307775362744491

The Faerie Circle — https://www.facebook.com/groups/1025483294180077 

Faerie Craft — https://www.facebook.com/groups/395403367195312 — This is a group to share your elven and fae creations.

I Heart Elven Magic — https://www.facebook.com/groups/2215672296

Feasting With the Elves (sharing elven recipes) — 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 — https://www.facebook.com/groups/165938637423212

Devayana: Buddhism, Vedic, & Asian Spirituality for Elves and Fae https://www.facebook.com/groups/devayana

Nature & the Unseen Realms with the Elves & otherkin. A spiritual journey — https://www.facebook.com/groups/196916350335537

 "You can search for what seems like forever to Elfin and never find it. You can wait for it to come and it never seems to arrive. But if you live the life Elfin, it emerges all around you like buds in the springtime."
—The Silver Elves

And For Some Practical Elven Magic for Evoking Elfin. . . .

And we are happy to announce the publication of our newest book on Elven Magic!
Elven Hedgewitchery and Found Magic: Using Art-Making for Evoking Elfin Magic and Living the Elven Way by The Silver Elves is a book of magic — very practical magic that involves the creation of one’s magical tools, which include wands, staffs, rattles, crowns, hoods, robes and many other instruments of magic and, in this case in particular, of elven magic and enchantment. In this book, we share with you many of our favorite magical elven art projects that we have enjoyed doing in the last 40+ years and give you guidance and detailed instructions for creating your own and using them in your magic, along with over 100 photos to demonstrate the art processes. Also, this is a book of elven spells and enchantment magic, with elven rhyming magical spells (200 spells in total written in both English and the magical language of the Silver Elves — Arvyndase, including Arvyndase pronunciation keys) that you may use in rituals to empower your art and magic with each magical item and creative project. We include our magical art processes from faerie altered clothing and making faerie houses to creating magical elf stones and ritual tools such as a Book of Shadows (or a Book of Twilight as we elves call them) and also a Scrapbook of Shadows, chalices, ally dolls, wands, canes, staffs, seaweed pod rattles, magic plates, elven warrior shields, wishing wheels, mojo bags, and elven witches brooms and magic spoons. We further have chapters in Elven Hedgewitchery and Found Magic on making elfin dream pillows, fairy dust and pixie powder, elven magical boxes or reliquaries, elven Mbuti, paintings, illuminated circles, magic soul cards, tarot decks, pan pipes, fantasy maps and even some of our favorite elven group-art games like elven notan and Elven Chess. We also have a chapter on spell crafting using the seven-pointed elven star. And in our final chapter, we share with you more about the Orb of Healing, which is a magical artifact that is at the center of our elven magick.
You may read a bit more about this book and a few examples of spells from it here.
Sold here on Amazon USA
and also sold here on Amazon UK

 

 

And for further reading on the Elven Way and following the Elven Path, we suggest:

If you have questions about the Elven Way and being an elf, then you may also wish to read
The Magical Realms of Elfin:
Answers to Questions About Being an Elf and Following the Elven Path. 

We also suggest our volume 2 in this series of questions and answers: Manifesting Elfin: Answers to Questions About Being an Elf and Following the Elven Path, Volume 2. If you are curious about elves and want to learn more about modern elves, then you will surely find The Magical Realms of Elfin and Manifesting Elfin to contain many of your questions answered and either or both books will be a great comfort and help in finding your way home to abide in the magical realms of elfin and in manifesting elfin in your daily life.

 Manifesting Elfin:
Answers to Questions About Being an Elf
and Following the Elven Path, Volume 2

The Radiance of Elfin is like a thread that connects our spirits

 to each other and creates thereby a tapestry of elvish being."
—The Silver Elves

Touch this Star Above for an Elven Blessing, dear Kindred!