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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