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An excerpt from Fairies at Work and Play, by Geoffrey Hodson of the
Theosophical Society.
Look at what lives directly below the surface.
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A Rock Gnome
Lake District. June, 1922.
"Deep within the solid rock behind us there is an evolving
consciousness, which manifests chiefly as form-less blotches of
colour, a sort of embryo gnome. the beginnings of the head are
visible in shadowy outline, together with the eyes and mouth, but the
rest of the body is only faintly suggested, like the preliminary work
of an artist, who might put in his main patches of colour and leave
the clear outlines to a later stage. But for this vagueness the
creature would be excessively ugly, not to say monstrous in
appearance. To etheric sight the whole rock is transparent and the
creature appears as if within a huge glass receptacle, through which
it is only vaguely aware of its surroundings. The only power of
volition that it appears to possess is that of slowly changing the
focus and direction of its dim and limited conscious-ness; this it
does very vaguely and dreamily. The main colourings, which are of
considerable density, are red, green and brown, and these are stirred
by faint ripples only, in response to the slowly awakening
consciousness.
The presence of this creature gives a certain indivi-duality to the
rock, noticeable on the physical plane as a magnetic vibration. It is
difficult to judge its size, but it is probably ten to fifteen feet
high. The feet that are to be are deep below the surface of the earth
in which the rock is buried, and the head some three feet from the
top of the rock."