They taught that between incarnations, a soul could travel to one of nine etheric globes surrounding the Earth, in which existed "well-defined classes of nature spirits" which included gnomes, sylphs, undines, and salamanders.
They taught that between incarnations, a soul could travel to one of nine etheric globes, all of which "surround and penetrate the solid Earth". They further taught that in this etheric region there existed "well-defined classes of nature spirits" which included gnomes, sylphs, undines, and salamanders.