Magnetics and Ascension (Page 7 of 16)

This book is a celebration of love. It is also a celebration of health. Love and health come together in the life of bees in a unique way. The hive of the honeybee exhibits a life process that mirrors that of the human head. The queen bee is like the round protein cells of the brain, the worker bees like the red blood cells, and the drones like the nerve cells. Bees were the first domesticated animal, the result of human-engineering of wasps so that their purified sweetness could be harvested (1). The poisons found in bees, wasps, and ants are pure distillations of spiritual substance and are essential to maintaining life in the plant world. Bee and wasp stings can be health-giving to humans with normally strong hearts. Bees vacate a hive for the same reason souls vacate the human body. Queen bees have a larval gestation period of 16 days, workers of 21 days, drones of 23 to 25 days. Our Sun has a rotation cycle of 21 days, the same as the worker bees. There is an intimate connection between the gestation cycle of the various categories of bees and the rotation of the Sun that correlates with the bees' division of labor and sexual habits. Humans at a future stage of evolution will develop similar characteristics to honeybees. Honey is an amazing natural production that promotes growth in human beings. Growing children past the infant stage and senior citizens can benefit their health greatly by eating honey from bees as part of their daily fare.

Few people who paid any attention at all over the past twenty years could have missed the New Agers' obsession with quartz crystals. If you look at quartz crystals in their natural state, you'll find a hexagonal structure with the point growing out of rocks. We humans have quartz minerals flowing within our body [silicic acid], but in its own wisdom, our body prevents it from becoming crystallized. Take a quartz crystal, hold its point down and you will notice two things, it is hexagonal, and, if it were an empty shell, the point would be a good receptacle for an insect egg such as a honey bee. In fact, honeycombs are designed as the exact shape of a quartz crystal and the egg develops into a larva which begins to fill the six-sided compartment until it's ready to climb out of it into the world.

[page 51] The bee is formed by the same force that resides in the Earth and can construct a quartz crystal. It's the finely distributed silicic acid that has this effect. . . . In this process the honey, having been worked upon by the bee's body, has such an effect that it can create wax in just such a form that human beings can use, because all human beings need to have these six-sided spaces within themselves. Human beings need the same things that bees do . . . a form of nourishment that can carry over into our bodies . . . a force that produces a six-sided effect.

Steiner mentions that this six-sided force can be found in the shapes of our muscles, but these shapes are not easily visible, however, inside our bones, the hexagonal shapes are easily to view. Engineers have only in the past fifty years begun to mimic bone structures by building extra strong structures of honeycombed metals. A living bone, with its low density and weight, is one of the strongest structural materials known. When we eat honey, we are ingesting a food infused with this hexagonal force, and it helps our bodies to grow stronger. Steiner was very aware of this force and its benefits. After childhood, we develop this force in ourselves naturally, but at times of weakened health or advanced age, its power may wane, and then honey is an enormous boon to health.

[page 51, 52] You see, gentlemen, if you eat honey, you will take into yourselves a tremendously strengthening force. If you have become too weak to develop within yourself this six-sided force that must flow from your head to the rest of your body, if you don't have any longer the power to give your blood a certain degree of solidity so that this six-sided force is continually present, then honey must step in to make up for the loss, or, in the case of children, milk will be necessary. Children don't have this six-sided force as yet -- they still must obtain it through that which a woman produces in herself in the form of milk.

About 25 years ago, I encountered an experiment in which oysters were moved from Long Island, NY to Wisconsin by airplane in order to answer the following question, "Will the oysters, who open their shells when the Moon is overhead, open their shells in Wisconsin when the Moon is overhead in Wisconsin or when it is overhead in New York?" On the face of it, this seems to be a trivial question, but its results are important and its implications far-reaching. Here's what researchers found: for the first three weeks, the oyster continued to open their shells when the Moon was over Long Island, and thereafter when the Moon was overhead in Wisconsin. About the time I read that article, I had just moved several times, to an apartment, then to another place, then to a house, and I realized that three weeks was about the time span during which the following happened to me: that door into which I placed a key each night upon returning from work became my door! What the researchers had discovered was that 21 days was the time it takes for a new behavior to form into a habit. The time it takes us to become accustomed to some new thing in our lives.

The Sun undergoes a complete rotation every 21 days. Coincidence or insight into a cosmic connection of us with the Sun? You decide. Steiner takes us through the gestation of the various bees, showing us that the Queen Bee only stays in the larval stage for 16 days, and as such she does not experience every aspect of the Sun in its rotation. The Queen is fully developed while she is still very much connected with the Sun. The worker, on the other hand, has spent the full Sun cycle of 21 days in the larval stage and has all of the effects of the Sun inside of it. The drones, however, have remained several days longer than the workers in their larval stage and developed thereby an attachment to the Earth. Steiner tells us that because of their different gestation periods, the Queen Bee remained attached to the Sun, the workers to the Queen Bee, and the drones to the Earth. Read his explanation for why this is important to the operation of the hive and relate it to the 21 day habit formation process.

[page 9] The queen can lay eggs because the Sun effect is always within it, and it hasn't anything at all of the Earth's effect upon development. The worker continues its development for four to five days longer. It makes use of every influence the Sun has to offer. But then it enters slightly, for just a moment, into the Earth development's sphere of influence . . . This is why it can't lay eggs. The drones are fertile males; this fertilization capability comes from the Earth. The drones acquire the power to fertilize from the few days longer they are exposed, as incomplete insects, to the influence of Earth development. This leads us to the conclusion that with bees you can see clearly that the male's fertilization powers come from the energies given by the Earth, whereas the female capability to develop eggs derives from the Sun's energies.

There are two dramatic events in the life of a beehive: the nuptial flight of the Queen Bee and swarming. During its nuptial flight, the Queen takes off during a day when the Sun is present and flies towards the Sun, to which it is still attached, as high as it can. Following close behind it is a flight of drones who will attempt to impregnate the Queen. At the highest point of the Queen's flight she is fertilized and returns to the hive to begin laying her eggs.

Why do bees leave the hive in a swarm? Steiner's explanation is that the poison in the bee's body causes its eyes to almost entirely close. Bees live in a twilight world and depend mostly upon their sense of smell for collecting honey from flowers. When a new Queen Bee is hatched, the Sun influence from the new Queen neutralizes the poison in the worker bees and suddenly they are dazzled by the light emanating from the new Queen and rush around madly within the hive till they finally exit the hive in a swarm, leaving behind the original bees (3). [These two paragraphs summarized from Lecture One.]

In the next passage, Steiner explains the similarity between the human head and the beehive:

[page 16, 17] Inside the beehive things basically happen the same way, only with slight differences, as they do in the head of a human being. The only difference is that the substances do not develop and mature as much. In the human head we have nerves, blood vessels, and also individual protein cells, which remain round. They are always somewhere in there. . . . If the nerve cells in the human head could develop in all directions like the beehive, then these nerve cells would become drones. Second, the blood cells, flowing in the arteries, would become worker bees. Third, the protein cells, particularly those in the middle of the head, having undergone the shortest development, can be compared to the queen bee.

The sterile female worker bees bring back to the hive the nectar within their body which they convert into honey and wax. The blood cells in the human body do something similar. They collect nourishment from our internal organs and distribute it to the various cells of the human body for the building of six-sided cells in our muscles and bone structure. The basis of organic chemistry is the six-sided chain of molecules known as the benzene ring. Is it possible that the forces that lead to the structure of honeycombs, muscles, and human bones originate in the structure of the six-sided benzene ring?

The nerves are constantly being worn out in the same way that the worker bees battle the drones within a hive once a year. Death is the end result of that perennial weakening or fraying of nerves in the human being.

[page 18] It is actually because of this weakening of the nerves that the human being dies. We are then no longer able to sense the body as well as we once did, and human being always die because they have frayed their nerves and worn them out.

Like a modern jet liner that progressively loses its sensors and the motor controls to its engines and ailerons will eventually crash, so, too, a human body will have a catastrophic failure at some point. Steiner's insight helps us to understand why the oldest humans we meet tend to be calm and collected and evince no sign of frayed nerves. We likely have it reversed when we deem their calm demeanor to be a result rather than a cause of their long life.

He uses this to explain why bees will attack someone who is afraid or angry. Fear causes the blood to retract from the skin making you pale, while anger causes blood to flow more to the skin area making you red-faced, as we say. If you're afraid, the bees sting you because they want to obtain from you honey or wax, whereas if you're angry, the bees sting you because it senses you're trying to take away its six-sided force from them. Only in a calm person who is neither afraid or angry will the bees sense that this person has the same amount of six-sided force as they have and leave them alone. It should not surprise you that plants can also respond to a person's feelings ("exhalations, vapors, perspiration, and so forth") and thrive for one person and not for another. Perhaps our expression "green thumb" should be better expressed by the phrase, "green breath."

In the next passage I fulfill my goal to provide a statement for you to meditate on about how humans at a future stage of evolution will become like bees today, not individual bees, but the entire living beehive.

[page 170] The consciousness of a beehive, not the individual bees, is of a very high nature. Humankind will not attain the wisdom of such consciousness until the next major evolutionary stage -- that of Venus -- which will come when the evolution of the Earth stage has finished. Then human beings will possess the consciousness necessary to construct things with a material they create within themselves.

The best tonic for establishing a wholesome ecology of mind is EAT-O-TWIST!, which reminds us when we say it, that Everything Allways Turns Out The Way It's Supposed To, where supposing is how we entertain thoughts within our minds from now on.