The Powers of Hearth (Heart) and Soul (Soil)
by Yasmine Fatemi
Magnificent Temple it was intended as an
offering to Allah swt, Solomon (as) wanted to
use a most precious and sacred material fit for
its Divine purpose. So he chose to use Cedar
trees which he had imported from Lebanon
where they are natively grown and said to be
of the best Cedars in the world. The wood of
Cedar when burnt emits its vibration via
smell; it has popularly been used in sweat
lodges for initiating vision quests along with
the consumption of entheogens to seek
guidance through the interaction of
consciousness. It is known as a sacred lucky
charm in many cultures and used for
innumerous purposes.
There is another mystery behind the Cedar
tree that was exposed, and that is that a cedar
tree is like a giant antenna that sucks the
negative energy from the earth and soil and
filters it out of its tip. The Cedar tree with its
trunk branches and fruit are all filled with a
large amount of energy to move the negative
energy out of itself and up out of the
atmosphere where it transforms and returns
to the earth, a natural ‘recycling’ ability
certain plants have in particular the Cedar
tree. The Cedar tree if a branch breaks one
should be most cautious to stay away from its
point of fresh injury as it is an open channel
where the negative energy is able to leak out
at great force to the point of harming
something that is aligned in its path.
When a Cedar tree has reached the end of its
life span it begins to make a sound much like
the sound of 'ringing' or humming, and is
ready for further use, as the wood carries a
special frequency range of energy that is life
giving, healing and empowering, serving many
uses if utilized practically or spiritually.
There is a Hadith about Prophet Solomon (a.s)
when he was making plans to build his
Speaking of Vision quests, I have experienced
a number of entheo- Journeys that have
clearly brought to light the workings of dark
and light in the world of spirit and how it
branches into the fabric of our life. The 'weft'
is always within nature the 'weave' is our
thoughts and actions and how we
interconnect and create the brocade of our
past and present lives work. It is an
opportunity to commune in the purest way
with a spirit of nature, an elemental spirit,
which is essentially a piece which reflects the
entire consciousness of the plant kingdom.
When its consciousness is combined with our
own bio-chemstry, ie consciousness, (by
intake of its active ingredients) becomes
integrated with our own consciousness and
brings to our awareness all areas of our reality
that are out of balance and deficient and the
events and issues that have arisen due to the
giving the different manifestations of the false
ego self within the our psyche.
It is a profound experience that can each time
bring to awareness lifetimes worth of lessons
in a singular fast forwarded experience the
length of a moment or in the hour (as the