Your Messenger message:

"Hi Sir Tony, meron po ba tayong mga books or articles we can read about elementals? Medyo vague pa din po kasi sa akin ang existence nila.

"Napaisip din po ako dahil sa comment nyo na they have no souls and they fade. I thought they were first made before us humans and they protect the earth, the surroundings.

"Please correct me po if im wrong."

My reply:

Hello ______!

I don't keep a bibliography of sources. Many such sources do exist, however. You can probably Google-search some of them. Unfortunately, many of these are untrustworthy, and so one needs to exercise discernment when encountering them.

The elements did exist before humans. Therefore, so did elementals, which are best perceived as PERSONIFICATIONS of the elements. (Thus you have Ghob, King of Earth, Paralda, King of Air, Djinn, King of Fire, and Nichsah, King of Water, and under them gnomes [earth elementals], sylphs [air elementals], salamanders [fire elementals], and undines [water elementals]. Names differ depending on which culture you are focused on, and they therefore have Asian and Philippine equivalents.

It is unfortunate that comic books and horror movies have overtaken our concepts of what elementals are, how they live, and what they can do.

All elementals, however, are lower spirits, and we are above them all. That is why they don't have souls, and we do.