The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 5: The Unseen Kingdom of God: Elementals

Elementals

                The Bible calls these beings angels.  Angels are like the programs in a computer system that assist God in the functioning and creation of all other programs.  They are spiritual beings that have no set image or visible form, just as game engines themselves within a computer have no image in a video game world.  They help the video game function and are essential to its function, but the player never even knows they are there.  I mean, just load up a video game of any kind.  Do you know the name of the game engine that is actually controlling and maintaining your game?  Only computer geeks like myself might pay attention to the image that pops up during the game’s initial load that says, “Archangels Game Engine”.  This image only represents the immense number of commands that make up the game engine program, but the game engine itself has no real image.

                Spiritual beings are, therefore, beings with certain responsibilities.  Some are made with simple responsibilities.  These would be what ancient peoples called “Elementals.”  Some might call them lesser spirits.  We today think the ancient people were crazy and such for believing in these spirits of the wind and air and water, but the truth is that these ancient people weren’t far off from the truth.  Just as any video game or program has lesser files that run lesser functions of the program, so our universe is made up of many spirits; some great and some small.  Some have higher intelligence and some far lower.

                If you don’t like the word angel or spirit you could always use that word “force.”  People today seem to like “force” better.  Today we say that there is a “force of nature” or a “force of gravity.”  It’s really quite funny because if I said “spirit of nature” or “spirit of gravity” I’m pretty sure lots of people would think I was old-fashioned and just a bit crazy.  However, if we just change one word modern people understand and accept it more readily.  People in ancient times, however, would have looked at you funny for using the word “force.”

                The truth is they are really one and the same.  I mean, what is force but some sort of invisible energy or power that moves things.  When we use force in our bodies we are using energy to apply pressure to something in order to move it.  The force of gravity keeps everything on the planet.  It pushes us all down in place. 

                So use whatever word you want, but spirit and force are pretty much the same thing.  Also, you could easily substitute angel and spirit because angels are spiritual beings.  They are not physical beings.  It is as if, relating back to the computer, the control unit has syphoned off energy into different areas of the system and the energy that is syphoned off is given its own control unit and ALU to command it.  Now that this energy has its own control unit and ALU to command it, the main control unit and ALU are freed up to do other things.

                “But!” you might say, “…forces in our universe don’t have intelligence.  What you are suggesting is that forces and spirits are the same thing.  However, if that is true, forces must also have intelligence.  After all, you said that spirits have intelligence.”  And then you might say, “Forces don’t have intelligence.  That’s ridiculous!”

                Well, again, what is intelligence? 

                I’m repeating myself because I want to hit this point home.  Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.  Force, then, also has intelligence because it must be able to gather and apply knowledge if it is to interact with anything in our universe. 

                Back to the computer to illustrate.  Anyone who creates a video game has to create intelligent laws that dictate how “gravity” in a video game interacts with the characters in their world.  The “law of gravity” in a video game interacts with the laws that dictate a character’s placement on the screen and how it moves on the screen.  Without any intelligence then the character would not interact at all with the law of gravity and it would fly off in whatever direction without rhyme or reason.  The laws of gravity in a video game, in fact, are quite complex, and if they are not created in such a way as to account for all potential possibilities of movement on the screen, a glitch would occur whenever the character moved a certain way. 

                So you can call a spirit a force and you can call intelligence just the rules that govern things, but the concepts are all there.  You have lesser forces and you have greater forces.  You have lesser spirits and you have greater spirits.  You have simpler spirits with very little intelligence and you have greater spirits with super intelligences.  You have things in our universe with very few rules and laws to govern them and you have things in this universe with very complex rules and laws to govern them.  It matters very little which you choose to accept.  They are one and the same but called different things and viewed in different lights by different people.

                And why do we like to view a force as being different from a spirit?  We do this because we don’t want to think of a force as having any intelligence.  If we strip it of its intelligence we de-humanize it.  This means that we don’t feel guilty about manipulating it or destroying it or doing whatever we want to it.  If we think it is merely an unintelligent, unemotional thing we have no problem knowing that it is there and using it.

                The moment we say, “It has intelligence,” we start getting a bit freaked out.  “Is it watching me?”  “If I use it, does it feel pain?”  “Am I being pushed down by an intelligent spirit of gravity as if some being with hands and arms and a body is pushing down on my shoulders and keeping me on the ground?”

                No…just because it is intelligent doesn’t mean it is like a human being with arms and legs and feet and hands and eyes and mouth and nose.  Just because it has intelligence doesn’t mean it is spying on you and always watching you.  It is not human.  It is not a he or a she.  Their intelligence is like simple programming in a computer.  They don’t feel unless God has programmed them to feel.  They don’t think beyond the intelligence level that God has given them.

                So a spirit of the wind, for example, doesn’t view you as a human being.  It blows past you and treats you just like any other object that it is blowing past.  If we funnel or channel or control the wind, it is not aware of who or what is doing this.  It merely acts based on the rules it is given.  The more wind we build up within something, the greater the pressure against the container that is surrounding it.  This is all it understands and all it knows.

                In a computer, if the programmer has not programmed the ALU to recognize something then it simply will not recognize that something.  No matter what that something does the computer will not know it is there.  Why do you think that viruses go undetected in computers?  Viruses are created in such a way that computers don’t recognize it as a virus and so they don’t even know they are there.

                The same concept is true for intelligent “spirits” or “forces” in our universe.  A hydrogen atom isn’t programmed to recognize you as a human being.  Its intelligence is so small that all it understands and knows is how to bond with other elements.  It has no awareness of anything but other atoms.  If we destroy this atom, it has no idea what has been done to it.  It doesn’t understand such things.  If we destroy a hydrogen atom it is like a person getting hit in the head from behind.  Because the person did not see the attack coming, because he did not recognize the attack, he wouldn’t even know what hit him.

                And, of course, we don’t want to think of them as intelligent because we don’t want to think that we are harming intelligent things when we manipulate our environment.  If people realized that their environment was filled with living spirits that are intelligent they would have a harder time with… well…a lot of things. 

                But again, though the environment is filled with intelligent spirits, or forces if you feel more comfortable with that, it is an environment that we were made to live in.  God intended for us to use our environment and live in our environment.  Although we should respect our environment and treat it with reverence, for God has made it for us and given it to us, we should not be so overly afraid to destroy something.  (God never actually intended for us to even think of our environment as being alive and intelligent in any way.  He always wanted us just to enjoy it and do whatever we wanted to it.  But that we will get into later.)

                Therefore, whether you call them spirits or forces, they are the same.  They are faceless, imageless, body-less and non-physical beings that have a wide range of intelligences.  Some are so unintelligent that they are limited to very simple functions.  Others are so intelligent that they make us humans look like Neanderthals.