Chapter 9- Horticulture: Recommended

Activities Recommended:

• Archery
• Library/Archivist caretaking
• Confectionery making
• Whistle blowing, flute playing & bell ringing
• Aromatherapies
• Homoeopathic flower remedies

Archery

I live upon an arrow’s head:
Hard-forged,
Sharp-edged,
Directionally pledged:
It points at the end
Of a sym-e-tree.

I fly on the stem -
On the stem’s
Crafted end,
And I play
With the wind
To the wind it will bend.

As I whisk through the breeze
Straight-shot gliding
This ease
And I dance on the feather
On the rod,
Spike and header,
What am I?

Projection is the foremost key fundamental to the higher organizations of plastic behavior. Just as one might study geometrical solids or boundary behaviors in physics, one can also study and catalogue fundamental actions as they occur and repeat throughout Kosmos into World, and are demonstrated in Man.

Projective emissaries and the projective action depends upon there being both space and time to contain the force expelled into directionally.

Now, although it appears that undue time may be given to this concept in this passage, upon scrutiny you may find something of a magic and marvel when exploring the thought. Because, the thought itself (the thought of projection – of that which speeds forward into the ethers with a particular passage, given to a particular destination) is exciting. It is fundamental to the future. It is a concept which has complete faith in there being:-

• space to carry the ‘arrow’ through,
•  time for it to follow through with and
• the hope itself that it will make the journey to where it is meant for.

This arrowic force that we may explore (in thought and actuality) horizontally is something that the plant kingdom drive up through gravity with in their pulse and push into life towards the sunlight – vertically. If you can grasp this arrowic force conceptually you begin to feel something of the excitement and speed given to our sprouting seeds and projecting buds! 

As very small infants we are soon to find our way to this force … when we stand straight, when we throw missiles, when we send forth our thoughts and our never-ending questions. As people it works within our beings both horizontally and vertically (yet another depiction of a cross); whereas in both plant and animal the arrowic factor is singly directional.

Archery, as a hobby, is a wonderfully free expression to this action that works out from us – and surrounds us – everywhere.

Books, manuscripts and archives attract the very same nature spirits as do gardens! It is not so unusual to see a spritely impish character, or a sagely, knobbled inquisitor settle into the library, where there is an affinity for the material, and make house there – fondly and with a genuine delight for the environment.

Nature-spirits perceive all kinds of life where we do not so readily. Their imaginative understanding endears them to those efforts and products of Men which are of their garden of thought and of being.

When we see flowers, we are not looking directly just at a bodily expression of a plant, but rather to that of the plant’s very own imaginative product. It is a creation of the plant itself, rather than its predestined form. Fruit occurs in this way also.

Literally speaking, as far as a Nature Spirit perceives, the very ‘fruits’ of a man are borne out in his thinking and imaginative efforts; and they have all the appeal and nourishment to them as do fruits, flowers and berries for us. This is also the same for the Angelic beings who tend to us and even that of the lesser Gods. We bring much delight and true sustenance to those around us we simply do not even know of! 

Life is everywhere it can be welcomed. Not one thing is cast away. Not one written work or piece of art becomes as spiritual compost … it is perpetually enjoyed! Creation marvels at itself continuously and rejoices!

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Chapter 9- Horticulture: Contraindicated, Part 2

Although morbid thinking appears obviously detrimental, it is indicative of the fellow who has not the comfort of Grace within him, at the same time bolting the doors against her in that practice.

Morbid thinking is distinct from mere gloominess or transitory tiredness – which once in a while we all feel come upon us. No, the morbidity itself is as an astral sickness brought about by a confluence of aggregating false conjectures.

Concepts live around us, the thoughts we use, the pictures which live on in our immediate auric recall, the philosophies to which we subscribe and their associate beings who promote them – all of these collectives, and their elemental benefactors as well – are embodied in living concepts.

False conjecture is yet another frustrating factor in the lively processes of our reasoning, imaginations and perceptions. If someone offers you a thought which has no real basis in a true and parented reality, if you read or consider some ideas which do not make sense in any regard, then you may well suffer a mental ill-health as a direct consequence to this. In this instance it can be morbid thinking. Oddly enough there can be some actual substance (truth) to this morbid conjecture; even though it has resulted because of a false philosophy, a diet of anagrams, or an indulgence in too much clock-watching!

Similarly, those therapies which offer their instructive healings through back-tracking down paths of regression rarely seem to inspire joy and inspiration in the process. This, if it is so, should alarm one to the possibility that the practice is not altogether healthy in the type of results given in a solely negative review.

Some would argue that such therapy is not meant to be pleasant and that pain is necessary with disclosure and healing. However, we might ask for one moment, if this does contribute much in a positive way when entered into from the negative angle?

If you study an elderly person who is remembering the past, there will be an assortment of happy recollections along with the dramatic ones that they speak of. The happy ones bring the warmth of such comfort that enhances their disposition in the recall. When they come to speak of the sadder or more difficult of times there will be an attitude of hindsight, coming from one who has lived on to escape those tensions in the past and knows that the reality has now long gone.

In the retrogressive experience the person entering back into the past cannot disassociate from the experience, cannot distinguish between the present and the then. This may occur for several reasons, but the point being the resulting pain here, which if anything, gets worse and not better.

Some forms of suffering can actually block an individual from receiving the balm of Grace. If our reactions of sadness are primary to the cause, if they are immediate, then the sorrow can be supplicated in a very short time. If, on the other hand our sufferings are extended - overplayed hysterically – a condition in which we may put ourselves to much harrowing and painful complaining – then the secondary agonies are much more difficult to heal. 

It is not to suggest that folk bring on the sadness they may be upset with, but that when they extend the upset past the point of the primary reaction they become too self-contained to allow for any other influence to try to penetrate through their sadness and to heal them.

Regression as therapy can promote this secondary indulgence, simply because the individual is so self-contained and is no longer responding (anymore) to a primary cause (as it has long gone before). Therefore, the very healing we would hope for has been blocked by the process itself, repeating it over and over again.

For those who are in this position and caught in obsessive preoccupations which upset them, the most useful answer is found in steady prayer. The prayer diverts the inner position one holds in relation to the reality perceived in the memory. Because of this shift, we are releasing the woes out from our self, committing them up and into spheres which can tend them. Rather than prolonging our associations with this recall we are disassociating ourselves from all of that which does not warrant association. In time we shall remember all things without the harm it could otherwise cause if we were not ready.

This selectivity, this veiled memory, is necessary to our present day consciousness. We are veiled from many, many informations around us day-to-day, let alone the recall of them. Information can be too difficult – even the happiest of experiences can be too large – if permitted to overwhelm the consciousness without restraint. If I were to revisit all of the times that I felt the cold, or every ache all at once … if I came to ‘know’ with intensity (such as you find with regression) the sadnesses and fears nakedly, unprepared, I should certainly be overcome by these iniquities. We are, therefore, necessarily selective.

So the paradox here, within this garden, is that although it appears that life is unruly and unrestrained with its vivacious enthusiasms and rambling growth - even with weeds - there is an order to the garden and the life around us. Ecology teaches us of this order from the whole perspective. Once again we can begin to see the being (of Nature, of ourselves) as a whole, rather than fragmented. It becomes one cooperative and responsive composure.

We learn that we interact with time and that to try to artificially fragment that time is somewhat a superficial and abstract practice. We learn that our memory pictures are also interacting with our present day circumstances and when fragmented out from the whole and then magnified, there also becomes something of a superficial and abstract practice, compared to the true realities as they are adapted to within the ecology of self.

Cave inspecting was indicated under the previous subject (Engineering) and for the purpose of contrast has been included here as being contraindicated for Horticulture. The reasoning to this stems from the very differing needs and abilities given to both.

For the individual who has difficulties with establishing his inner sunlight (as are the problems with Horticulture), this fellow isn’t so well equipped when meeting with the earthly forces such as are deep below the ground or found within the recesses of caves.

Here there becomes a need for much external sunlight, and ‘free’ spaces to be experienced – freedom to be explored not only outdoors, but in thinking - in giving oneself license to be and to become. Freedom in experiencing that which you truly respond well to. Finding the structures and the laws from the greater homogeny, rather than via the specific and the particular.

Chapter 9- Horticulture: Contraindicated

Activities Contraindicated:

• Limestone work
• Clockwatching
• Morbid thinking
• Regressive therapies
• Cave exploration

The qualities of Limestone bear the antithesis to those of our garden of Grace, in that the ‘rock’ itself is immature and dull – both to work with and to be in the vicinity of. It does not respond to a ‘lightness’ around it. Esoterically its properties signify a dense absorbent plane which can actually cordon off many otherwise incoming or outgoing positive influences.

In other words, it would be extremely impractical to attempt inspiration or prayer in a limestone dwelling, and because of its ‘deathliness’ (an aspect of deceased material which even can be found in our own bones in part) it is a lowly talisman to be near, let alone build a house upon!

The emphasis of Horticulture is on Life and Life-perpetua. The qualities of the limestone belong in the same place as where we might place our disused nail-clippings or skin flakes! This chalky memorabilia, dry, clumped, and without the majesty of true crystalline formation is best left quite far away from people (and faeries). 

Clockwatching invokes the will, where the will shall surely become frustrated. If we are impatient for the time to pass, and make a habit of this impatience, we become incontinent to the moments as they soon present, disrupting our consciousness with an unnecessary anxiety then, and then later.

In respect to Horticulture, and for those who have difficulty with this subject inwardly, one can examine the outcome from clock-watching and soon discover its impropriety amongst the senses and the natural equilibrium of the psyche. When I am occupied and content with my time spent – not noticing the minutes pass – there is a flow of life which coherently takes me into each hour. However, if I place my consciousness into questioning, or observing that procession of minutes as incremented within the clock’s reasoning, I am then given to the task of assuming the mind of the clock itself.

Every man knows for himself that time is not comprehended evenly within our natural mindset. One hour or one day is not comparable or equitable time-wise. It is a very good example of how machines and Man do separate off within their experience of living. We do not argue that time can be measurably incremented, what we suggest is that it works in relation to our perception in a most different way.

Many men and women have had the experience of time slowing down during some crisis in which the events around them have appeared to play out as if they were in a slow-motion movie. Thinking of this situation - or even of time as it is experienced in a dream - we can know for ourselves that there are extremes to the experience we have day to day which have no bearing whatsoever on clock-time.

Therefore we can ask, what does occur when we try to follow clock time in our consciousness and make of this our first perception?

The human physiology is always responsive to external circumstances and never runs in isolation to an anticipated routine of time. If the pulse speeds or slows, if the digestion is awakened or the lungs provoked, we find certain cycles of operation, yet within those predictable functions there is always a consciousness of response. Not one part of the human body functions independently from the rest. You could not have, for example, one organ try to beat out a rhythm of operation on its own simply because it ran to a perfectly moderated time-beat … the homeostasis is ever in flux and flow. 

Our consciousness cannot by its own experience, reconcile to this either. It is a good case in point where there is a nonsense occurring in the effort we are attempting, and this in turn becomes an anxiety. Added to this anxiety of nonsense is the further anxiety of consciously feeling as though one were ‘out of time’. This, to those who have experienced it, is a sufferance whereby you feel so ‘out of whack’ that nothing appears to fit in the moment and you perceive yourself to be either just behind or willingly too fast for the time at hand. In these two regards clock-watching is disorientating and therefore cautioned against – particularly in relation to Horticulture as the very tensions invoked inhibit the appreciation of the free-flowing properties as given to Life as they work cooperatively in reality.
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Chapter 9- Horticulture: Meditation

Meditation – Grace

 

Grace – the first and highest Law
Of our Father’s Kingdom
Here on Earth.
A thing so totally pervasive
As to be almost unseen.

For in truth, what seed have I planted
That has not blossomed beyond belief?
As you sow, so shall ye reap …
Reap the seed of Karma’s bonds?
Never, no!
Rather shape hedge, cut flowers,
Shade 'neath young spreading oak,
From our seeds, seedlings and acorns
grown,
It cannot be otherwise,
He decreed.

 And even when pruning comes
Those doomed parts make way for greater growth
Toward the light,
‘tis Grace too
For naught is lost
Not even in death
But transformed be
To Mother Earth
Who too is soon to bloom.

He whose faith is diminutive
As the mustard seed
Has the greatest faith of all
Grace.

  Then plant and speak and send thy
thoughts, thy arrows swift 
 While Grace abounds.

Chapter 9- Horticulture: Prayer

 A Prayer for The Garden

Oh Bud, Oh Heart, Oh Sun profound!

My Joy, My Love, May Grace abound,

I pray today to know you well,

To find the key to the gate in the wall,

And if no key,

May I climb above,

That I may see

Into this Garden of Love.

 Find me there, I pray;

May I be blessed

That to this succour of Heaven attest,

And also my brother and sister in this

Can they find their way to know such a bliss?

And to drink from the syrup,

And to savour this beauty,

In the scents and the fruits

Of this sensual bounty,

Praise be to God, our God on High,

Praise be to God, the God within,

Praise be to Christ and His Paradise

This, the most blessed and Holy Garden!

Amen

Chapter 9- Horticulture

CHAPTER 9

Horticulture

Dietary Exercise Suggested:

To experience foods, condiments, cordials and teas, made from the produce of buds, blossoms and berries.

Commentary:

Of all of the expressions within the natural world: … the running waterways, the sinewy trees, the cavernous hills, the secretive woods, the hoary characters of vegetable, the fragrant winds from sea and grove, the sunlit paths, the sprouting of bushes, the sands and the glassy-smoothed pebbles, the hunchback boulder and even the towering mountain … in the step of a lively beast, the face of a child, or the features of wisdom; the grace of the rain’s fall, or the mystery in thorny icicles; in the ever-changing bodies of cloud, and the hues of the sky-dome as it kisses the horizon beneath …

Of all of the expressions within the natural world it is from the bud and the blossom and the burgeoning berry that we can learn of the abundantly free merriment which does chortle within the etheric life today.

Infant-spirited and given only to pure joy, it is the floral kingdom which contains the spiritus-vitae of the ancient gods. Whilst the elements conceal many an angelic collective, and the trees and rocks bring in the planetary aspects as are responded to; whilst Man is responsive to Christ, and the Animals are responsive to Man; and even the most serious of vegetable has a planetary wisdom to impart … Amongst all of these virtues as named (and ones not so named) … there are the GRACES.

Grace is distinct from virtue. The powers of virtue are discriminating and are only responsive to that which calls upon them duly. The curiousness of Grace lies in its charity to all that it visits – being as a universal token, with no particular exchange rate or currency – it is freely obtained and yet, uncommitted to the particular.

The old gods of the first world have preserved it. It is illusive, rarely thought about, and by the time we have concluded this paper about dear Horticulture it is our hope that the very magic of it shall be felt somewhat by the reader … enough to feel the excitement and hope that projects in the ethers, because of it.

There are common ideas circulating about ‘energies’ and life forces (similar to Star Wars), and yet the higher supplement to all of our beings actually exists in Grace. (“May all of the Grace be with you.”)

You may have noticed in some communities of the Church where this is said in effect, but how a sadness creeps over the soul, as if sensing that the Grace is so very far away and yet all the more needed?

The word itself does not invoke it. This is unusual as most words (if not all) call in their parent host, to some degree upon utterance. If I make a mantra out of any of the virtues, this will certainly assist in both the contemplation and the reality of their presence of force working within me. But if I call to ‘Grace’ it is as a nothing – almost alike to an open window that she has flown out of, leaving me waiting and without; this is for the very reason that the nature of Grace is as unfettered and free as it is within us. It is beyond invocation, beyond provocation, beyond ownership, without specific entitlement, distanced from all laws of causality save one, indifferent to methodology, untameable, unharnessable, immeasurable. 

Grace is not obligated by the laws of karma, as it did precede karma, sustains the karmic impulse and intercedes where karma cannot. Grace is above and beyond all else save Father God.

It is Grace that entices the young lovers into their rapturous play, it is Grace which invites the newborn into each womb complete; it is Grace that brings peace where no peace should be found; it is Grace that brings hope to counter a sadness; Grace that brings sleep to the sick and the pained; Grace that brings laughter amidst desolation; Grace that examples kindness which is pure, genuine and mighty; Grace which eases the weary in the last moments of their journey; Grace which teaches us in insight, in a leap of understanding that even reason could not reach to; Grace that shoulders each Kingdom, irrespective of the tensions necessary to such an untidy mix; Grace that keeps the stars in place and stops them from falling into our sea; Grace is what babies smile at so long and so often for; Grace is both the sugar and the salt which is given to our meal; Grace is that compassion when a strong God cares for his defiant and unruly of peoples and loves them well.

The properties of heavenly influences are represented here in the Physical World. They appear sometimes transitorily carried in the etheric vapours, or in a characteristic as is given out, exampled in some species as a living link to their domain. This goes for many marvels, and although the entire zodiacal astrea is mirrored completely in Man, these properties to which we subscribe to as being predominant within the floral kingdom, do not enter via the astral gateways but are given and received through the etheric life from cosmic fields lying further to our own.

If we consider Life as it manifests within the natural world we can come to realise that there are elements of obstinacy, of wilfulness, of opulence and of remarkable courage, synthetic to the spring and the push into actual being. For a plant, for example, just to find its way into this world, there has been such a determined effort just to break through the soil and flourish as it does. 
 

The flowers hold to the gentler of aspects, being agents for divine hosts whose passage in and out of this world do not require the same driven fervour as is applied to living elsewhere. The properties of many a grace are received and welcomed in all realms, and they can afford to be relaxed and as merry as they appear. This is why the elemental-faeries will be perfectly tempered and blissfully occupied around their blossom-buddies. We give flowers to our beloved and to the ill (and to the deceased). And the flowers themselves are actually visible in the spiritual worlds adjoining ours – being exactly what they are: these bodies of certain Grace. 
 

When taken internally (and please be discriminating as to what is edible and what is not) the bud, blossom and berry illuminate within us many sun properties as well. Their chief radiance comes of the Sun as it is the very heart to which the Grace does well into and out of, flowing to us.

The connection between this, and the learning of Horticulture in general pertains to the etheric/esoteric sphere in which they reside. Although difficult to picture, there are differing realms within the etheric paradise – not all plants are so tangled together, but rather segregated depending upon what age and influence they come from. The turnip does not reside with the cabbage (which, by the way, is where the babies come from – being a bud, i.e. Grace); and there are some cactus plants which pretend to be as flowers, but are astral sleuths which are quite deadly, both here and in their ethereal bodies.

But if you go to the garden and wish to converse with the sweet-voiced wisdoms that will introduce you to the happiest of truths about themselves, it is preferable to begin with the flowers. The trees may tell you of deep-rooted memories, but not so much of themselves in particular. Self-knowledge will not come of a sleep-talking tree. Grasses and leafy bushes, seaweeds and vegetable conundrums will all have great wisdoms to offer, but not of the garden, the most esoteric of all gardens, we ask the secrets of. 

Engineering: Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths

 

Characteristic Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths:

Virtues are natural to Man, and when desired, when called upon, when prayed for sincerely, deliberately and needfully induced, their messengers will beckon and their characteristics shall be grafted to our being. The weakness shall be restored into that which it was originally destined to become, as follows:

Murder, mutilation & blood fetish were once deemed by the ‘black’ occultists as being ways to discover the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. For perversely, in sinister, cruel, cold and anti-human circles, the demonic dire-tribes pushed to explore Man’s inherent spirituality in ways which would try to tear apart the very body it is graced in.

Men do not kill other men, nor do they harm them or indulge in blood warrants. Rather, it becomes a possession/habitation of a malevolent being which is not human that is directing the malicious assault. It is true that in some measure the individual given to the corrupt influence is accountable for the position that he is in, however the intensive drive and hunger provoking the insane soul comes from another which is not sympathetic to our race or being; and reckless because of it.

Remarkably, most men and women have taken part in the three crimes listed above at some time or other. During wars, initiatory rites, sacrificial customs, in sinister or protective contexts, most ‘civilized’ individuals have, in previous lifetimes, caused mortal injury, have been ‘overcome’ in such a way that their very own humanity was renounced. Very few have been serial killers, because they have retained enough of their humanity to see through the karmic repercussions which have been invoked upon them later, because of their involvements before. If nothing else, our own soul’s pictures warn us of the dark places we do not ever again wish to revisit. And so we know better.

Once again we come to value The Source of all Life, Creativity, and The Fires of Life, as Divine Motivation – and, in turn we can rediscover our humanity as it lives inside of us. The indwelling corruption will be expelled and thrown over – praise be to Christ our Protector, in this and in these.

Amen

The desire to degrade others comes from a disquiet within the soul, which is constantly nagging at the individual to repair. It is as he does see others through that of his own fractured lens and seeks to prove their inadequacy; not perceiving that of his own.

When worked upon and redeemed this inclination can improve upon itself into a genuine criticism which is fair and accurate. This then goes on to develop as a beginning to discernment, as long as the ego may identify the specific problematic tasks pertaining to it, rather than to others.

The good charioteer of Engineering comes to love this World through the employment of his own efforts – efforts which have brought the spiritual worlds into being through both the creative and the practical imaginative application now materialized. He brings permanency and steadfastness, practicality and cooperative effort into manifestation.

He is the worthy Prince, whose Father, the Divine Architect, is well pleased with.

Chapter 8- Engineering: Exercise 2

Exercise 2

Touring the Cathedrals:

Venture into a Cathedral and mentally note if you feel any changes within your breathing, within your own body’s perimeters, in relation to the height of the ceilings, in relation to the turrets, columns and altar etc …

Walk slowly around each area permitted and find that place within yourself that resonates with where you are. Intuitively be guided to the space within the Cathedral that you best feel most comfortable at.

Should you have any particular regions of the body you desire to be healed, or reconditioned, go to that place within the Cathedral that speaks to you of that portion of your body … and pray there.

If you are mentally perplexed and hoping for some guidance which will speak to you, find which window makes you the happiest to be close to and in sight of, and pray there.

If comfort of sorrow is most sought after, appeal to the region of the altar and see if a power there does reach you, and pray there.

Repeat this exercise (where possible) for fourteen consecutive days.

Chapter 8- Engineering: Exercise 1

Exercise 1

Tools required:

• A see-saw
• A playground partner
• A ball

Perched on a see-saw throw the ball to your partner when you are suspended in the air and wish to come down – the ball will signal your partner’s release from the ground, as he elevates and you descend. Ask your partner of the same.

As an addition: Try to think of words (singly) that express great enthusiasm and joy – pronounce one of these words with meaning when discharging the ball.