The Powers of Hearth (Heart) and Soul (Soil)
by Yasmine Fatemi
'We are not a drop in an Ocean, we are
an Ocean in a drop’ - Rumi
Since we are on a journey of bringing to light
Alchemical and esoteric practices, there are
many such teachings from many of the
Messengers of Allah swt, and He swt never
left a people without guidance and
sustenance and so He (swt) sent the people of
Moses Manna to survive in the wilderness
after they disobeyed the Command for them
to enter Palestine.
The Essenes were a people who came from
the Nazerenes. They were given Manna which
was graced to them in form of wheat (the
seed of Life) which would become a type of
'super food' an essence of Life for them to
survive on (perhaps it is also co-incidental that
the word Essene is so close to ‘essence’),
needing little else to sustain a healthy bodily
and balanced spiritual state, a super bread
which was almost lost and rediscovered in the
Dead sea Scrolls, in the Essene gospels. It has
within it the way in which Manna bread is
prepared, the simple but secret recipe of the
ancient bread of Man, Living bread with Life
giving properties.
The energy of this bread when consumed is
very different to any other bread, as the seed
is sprouted before making the dough, the
seed has a nucleus inside it and an outer crust
that encases it, when seeds are sprouted, the
nucleus inside awakens and all the codes and
information comes alive, before this it is
dormant and only a certain amount of its
properties can be accessed, with sprouting
the seeds the entire memory is retained and
life forces are present and substances that
were not present before come to life which
are active live stem cells.
The properties of these are anti-aging in
nature and completely curative by the
blessing and will of Allah swt, and we can see
a parallel here to our own transformation
from within, that when the seed is ignited
within its heart center (nucleus) we have
access to Divine properties that transcend the
singular dimension and narrow reality one
otherwise experiences, all becomes available
through transforming into a complete human
being. Just like the sprout is now at a stage of
rebirth right after total annihilation has taken
place. Now alive and fresh bursting with new
energy in its fullest sense.
On realization (becoming Real in a sense) it is
much like bursting through the rough soils
that we are born into.
Breaking through the protection of the self
(ego) exposed and openly surrendering to the
soil encompassing and crushing its entire
being fusing with the substances and matter
from the soil and pushing itself up out of the
darkness of its existence toward the light,
unearthed liberated and breathing out new
life.
This is the transformation of Man; the death
before death.
The Essenes (people of Enoch to Moses)
prepared the dough for Manna bread by
initially sprouting the seeds of a grain or
wheat, once sprouted, it is then blended with
a little water until the dough is able to be
kneaded (there is something very grounding
and earthy about kneading dough and
forming it between the hands, it is very much
like a potter kneads clay before he starts his
work.
I have worked with both clay and dough
innumerable times, but each time I have done