according to the Rosicru’cian system, are the elemental spirits of earth, and the guardians of mines and quarries. (Greek, gnoma, knowledge, meaning the knowing ones the wise ones.) (SeeFairy, Salamanders.)
“The four elements are inhabited byspiritscalledsylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable.”—Pope: Pref. Letter to the Rape of the Lock.
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