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.