The Mahdi Times May 2014 Issue | Page 105

The Powers of Hearth (Heart) and Soul (Soil) by Yasmine Fatemi concept of linear time and space is nonexistent) where we can glimpse our Akasha (Astral records or book of life) this world would be closest described as the Barzagh, where all our deeds have created spiritual beings (demonic/angelic) that reflect the image of the deed, yet the being is a facet of the false ego or higher self that is normally unseen to us. All negative as well as positive aspects of the self are given expression and form in the spiritual world. The vision of the true reality of our existence where we stand in the present affected by our past lives up to the atom world may be glanced. Pieces of the whole relating to the present condition of our soul and the lessons presented with resolution. It is a fast track method of confronting our ‘darker side’ and overcoming the ego by taking a voluntary step back from the illusion of the world (i.e. seeing that which is kept hidden from the eyes in the physical world) beyond the boundaries and limits of the veils of the ego, it is a kind of death and rebirth on many levels. The messages from the consciousness/spirit of plants take rise from nature by example, when it wishes to impart something to us the messages are often cloaked in multiple layers of the truth and its many meanings, that we must work to unravel its mystery. Its prime message is very philosophical and deeply symbolic, figurative yet literal. When nature communicates it uses itself as the message and the messenger alike. There is no separation of states. We are wholly affecting everything like the ripples on a still pond, even with our silent sentience. All of our shortcomings have a root cause that manifests itself in the reality of each and every soul, no-one is without the seeds of dark and light. It is the seeds we activate that we empower and grow strongest and reproduce new seeds in abundance, nature is never halfhearted. The part of the Alchemical process consists of 12 stages which is the completion of a cycle. The stages are said to represent the stages Nature takes during the primary stages of creation and linked to the Primordial energy sources that exist in the creation process. This is also represented in the cosmic arenas and their twelve signs of the zodiac, (macrocosm) and reflected in the human organism (microcosm) by the seven major, and five minor (for a total of twelve), psycho-spiritual centers called chakras in Sanskrit. These centers are also linked to the endocrine and nervous systems in human beings. Therefore, both the study of astrological archetypes and the astrological timings of experiments, and esoteric meditations (powerful visual thoughts and intent coupled with words) , for the rising of spiritual energy known as the kundalini, are part of the alchemists path and following. The alchemist is in essence, a mystic, astrologer, and metaphysician (shaman). I would strongly suggest watching th H