Saint John's Tide June 24th 2011

The picture to the right is the Archangel 'Uriel.' At the time of the Summer Solstice this archangel oversees humankind as Cosmic Intelligence and Understanding. 

As the summer warmth forces gather upward, streams of elemental beings which busily weave in nature in the warmth of cosmic forces gathers, creates and weaves within the shimmering golden light of Uriel. At this St. John's time there appears his countenance of cosmic intelligence radiated by the streaming of elemental forces gathering upward where his raiment of Gold is created. 

Below within the earth can be felt and must be Imagined the blue crystal formation and therein weaves shining silvery lines of Cosmic Will. Within these lines are reflected both human errors and human morality and virtues. Above is the radiating light of Cosmic Intelligence and below is the blue crystalline earth the mantel blue of the Mater or the Earth Mother or Mary if you like.



Following the summer solstice occurs St John's Tide. This summer imagination is about John the Baptist and his exalted place in the singular event of the Sun God-Spirit entering and uniting with mankind and the earth through incarnating in the Initiate known as Jesus.

John the Baptist was the Initiate of the new man and newly evolving earth to come and the time of which we now live and have lived for the past 2,011 years. In the new humankind lies the potential for purification. This could only take place through the entering of the Sun Divine Being known as the Cristi-Logos, the force imbued within the earth and of which in the present time has entered into the mineral, plant and watery kingdoms of earth as well as that of humankind through man's free will. 

Out of the midst of these events comes the Imagination of the Trinity; Cosmic Intelligence, Earthly Mother and St John as the Initiate of the Cristi-Logos entering the Earth Sphere. It is at this time the continually emerging Truth of the Trinity and its meaning that is at the heart of St John's Tide. 

Participants celebrate St John's with music and by jumping over a fire. The deeper meaning of this was an act of Purification and uniting the hearts of human souls with the Cosmos and Sun Beings. 

The transposing of these pictures can occur through the weaving of music into human souls. The Will which lives in our limbs is purified through jumping over the fire so that that which enters below into the earth as human error is acknowledged and purified within mankind and the uniting with Uriel's Understanding enters human hearts and we partake in the great Cosmic Mystery at midsummer. 
 
 

Spring & Summer Consciousness; the Outbreath

As the Summer Solstice begins, the "Outbreath" of the earth is at its height. The outbreathing of the earth soul occurs between the Equinox of Spring through Autumn. In this time the human consciousness soul feels itself carried out into the Cosmos as it mingles with all Nature and Elemental Nature Spirits.

The budding Springtime has given way to full flowering of Summer as the elemental beings of fire, air, water and earth are growing the plant kingdom of earthly life. Their proper names are Pyrausta, Sylphs, Undines and Gnomes respectively. Human observance and warming of the heart soul toward that which we sense are crucial to fostering evolution not only for ourselves but for all living things including the nature spirits.

Try this to enhance connectedness of the self to nature spirits. Walk the forest, move along a stream, observe a starry night or meander a leafy neighborhood and cease to "name" things. Let go of believing you know what things are and as you practice this type of consciousness meditation you will begin to feel the enlivened world around you. If fortunate you will come to know its place within you.

When we label and name living things of the natural and cosmic world we kill it and stop our involvement in it and our own evolution, the great ongoing metamorphosis & evolution of all life and the world. Human beings grow and evolve and so do all living things in the seen and unseen worlds.

Be aware of the Outbreath of the earth, imagine it. In this outbreath the Earth Soul lives beyond the earth itself, in the great Cosmos where our consciousness has followed for we must become Conscious of this, we must remain awake to how we partake in the world's evolution or else be left behind.

Frozen and Enlivened Foods & the Nature of Man

 What is food in relation to the nature of the human being? There are certain principles about the human being and our relationship to nature and the earth's bounty of food which are of value to remember.

The human being has two (of four) bodies or members which are primarily engaged in the absorption and use of that which we take in from nature, they are the physical body and the formative forces body or etheric body. It is the task of the etheric body to take in and change that which we eat in nature. It is the task of the Ego or "I" and soul or astral body to take up and use what is prepared. What exists in nature must be transformed within the human being, if it is not then it becomes a foreign body which can lead to illness. The etheric body transforms food into warmth and liquid forces. The closer foods resemble warmth and liquid at the moment we eat it the more one can use those same etheric or formative forces for our health and not to break it down. The forces used to "breakdown" food are the same etheric forces we need for our nutrition, life and health.

Again the closer foods resemble warmth and liquid at the time of eating it the more one can more readily take in the "forces " needed for nutrition. For example eating cooked broccoli over raw. For eating and food are not chemical nor mechanical in nature, they are "forces." Nutrition is all that stands between life and death forces. What lives as a force, once food is ingested, exists between the food substances and forces that enter into us from the cosmos. As the plant grows on the vine it does so by the forces of sun, moon, water, light, and planetary forces from Venus, Mars, Jupiter and so on. Those same forces continue to enter us if what we have ingested are still enlivened. Cosmic forces are spiritual forces and we are beings of soul and spirit.

Just as the food receives forces to grow and metamorphose into sun imbued vegetables and fruits we too continue the warmth processes in us the same cosmological forces enter into us that entered the plant. 'I eat a golden apple and it shines out of me as I transform and take up the giving of her life force' such is the way of nutrition. Foods carry force and if food becomes frozen in the field its forces leave it and it dies for it hasn't enough warmth or liquid and they cannot be revived. Frozen foods in your refrigerator freezer are no different, they too are dead. If a human being placed his hand in a freezer it would die. It is a fallacy to believe that that which is alive with forces, forces are life, can survive a severe hardening process such as being frozen.

We can identify how foods are of the realms of nature as well. Rice is of the watery realm, wheat of the firey. Seeds and fruit are the culmination of the Sun forces and enliven the human heart. Root vegetable such as carrot, not tuber like potato, grow below the earth and are imbued with earth forces which nurture our nerve system while leafy plants are health for our circulation and the blossom like broccoli are forces for our metabolic will forces.

As for meats, the first thing to identify is that the majority of animals are vegetarian, the cow, the sheep, fowl. Once the animal eats grain and grasses it becomes the animal or meat. With plant, grain and fruit human beings take in cosmologic forces, with meats we take in the soul force of the animal. Through lamb we take in its frisky soul nature, with chicken an airy earthed soul nature of the animal.

In a more deeply meaningful view foods then are either enlivened or not enlivened. How substances are treated is important. I was told a story about an experiment of two identical plants which needed water. One can of water had been microwaved the other can contained tap water at the same temperature. The microwaved watered plant died. It is vital to think of food and ourselves as beings of forces; the force of movement, the force of thought. The physical sciences such as chemistry and biology possess mechanistic, unenlivened and static views of the world. We need not name everything for when we do it dies. we cease to let it speak to us. For the kingdoms of mineral, plant, animal, man and the cosmos are never static, they are in continual evolution, in continual metamorphoses. The crystal is metamorphosing mineral to plant.

A simple table prayer speaks well of the totality of our relationship to nature: 'From the Sun to the Earth, From the Earth to Us, Blessings on the Meal'