Alchemy of the Soul The Arc of the Ancients, A-Limbic System

Alchemy of the Soul The Arc of the Ancients, A-Limbic System

Chapter I

nce there was, and once there was not, a girl who walked with giants.

I am this girl, and I will start with a walk in the woods.

After a weekend of teaching about aromatherapy and Total-Sensory-Healing, it was time to pay homage and give my thanks and praise to the author.

They didn’t disappoint me.  Thoughts of the class tumbled through my mind, my notes, the comments from the students and the look of realization when their eyes lit up with discovery; I thought about the temple.

We discussed how the light of the sun, pours itself into our world and the garden of nature drinks it up with praise.  How every morning, we can see so much of nature line up ready for the sun to peak over the horizon and paint a new day.  Shrieking in rays of tangerine and citron, or gentling into the cottony tufts, the pink and yellow rose peels herself open and cranes her stem and bouquet to follow the sun, the aubergine meadows turn and stare, the periwinkle lilacs dance with the wind and arrange themselves all day, into the countenance of the sun.  Never questioning whether it would be better to be some other rose by any name, or a poppy that may sleep us wide awake.  While Beethoven paints this praise on notes of joy, Claude Monet reflected water lilies to capture the reverence that tacitly exudes the gnosis of the divine.

As the memories peeled back pages of wonder, my heart began that trance drumming, in the glory, I

wondered and asked again….why was so much opening and revealing to me….and then I heard the clear whispering of that watchful place inside of me, It is the time of REVEAL-ATIONS”……It almost dropped me, stopping me dead in my tracks.

Having my full attention now, one screen shot after another ran like a daisy chain of electricity lighting up the images and thoughts safely stored for this turn key moment…the word meant what it stated, to reveal, and like so much that had exposed itself in momentary glimpses before, it was multiplying now into a continuous stream of knowing…that indeed, we are living in the time of not simply the frightening stories sewn as a testament, but as a blooming under an exuberant golden sun, were we to follow his steady guidance all day long too.

We were being taught about our ‘essence’…and that word I had shared the meaning of so many times, would reveal even deeper; her majesty’s secret service.  Esse, comes from the Latin, ‘To be or to exist’.  It is a fundamental meaning or truth, of where one lives…. or what brings us alive.  Essential Oils, from esse and olere; meaning ‘to emit a smell or to be fragrant’ is comparable to the fragrant mind of being as one opens up their own book of life or their essence.

I have long believed the sacred act of anointing as the art of becoming conscious, to take to the skin, the captured essence of distilled light, and bring to the surface the light of one’s own being.  Immediately in the act of anointing, we vibrationally awaken the corresponding light within as the individual essence is enlivened to bring forth one’s truth, their purpose.  As I walked now more slowly, those thoughts melted into each other like soft butter and I looked down at the fence corralling me safely into the hilltop.  There in front of me were two words; one was the word ‘Essa’ carved into the top plank.  Next to that, just one more word was carved, Gypsy.  I have never seen another word carved before, and there is not so much carved into the lengthy line of wooden planks, not another marking etched in yards and yards of fencing as I searched through the rambling timbers.  Just those two words, essa/esse and Gypsy wrapped in the descending yolk of the sun in the canyons below and beyond.

Here is the definition for Essa as found online:

This is an Arabic name for males which means shine of sun. It is also the name for Jesus.  Slang; Puerto Rican version of "dude" or "guy" as in: “Yo essa, whats up?”

Essene or as Philo refers to the name: Essaioi; as the Greek form of the original name that according to his etymology signifies "holiness". 

I try to be a servant of the Most High, in my human form that is flawed.

To this, we can add the "Tetragrammaton" which is the four letters "YHWH", derived from the verb that means "to be", and is considered in Judaism to be the proper name of the God of Israel used in the Bible. 

Gypsy, for me comes from Egypt and represents the black earth, or black land.  It is often referred to as being ‘occult which means hidden’ since it is blackened earth from the fertile Nile and represents a lot of what we know of as mystical. These strong origins, or at the least, a long history of practice in Egypt form the basis of the unbound book called the Tarot, which we also find the word Torah and orat-e..  The land of ‘Khem or Chem’ as it is known, means the black land and is the root of chemistry and alchemy.  In my own belief and alchemical knowledge by now, the master known as ‘Jesus’ was teaching these very secrets along with Mary Magdalene and they were ‘gypsy’s’ teaching the Essenic knowledge. 

The word essential comes from the Latin "esse" (to be or to exist), where "Essene" stems from the Aramaic word- asayya- meaning physician, which corresponds to the Greek word - essenoi and at once denoting something essaios: that is something secret or mystic. In fact the group known
as the "Essenes" was called "the Therapeutae".

That these two words are together is beyond profound, and they were there just for me to find on this day; written by the secret hand of the universe.  The use of essential oils has been dated back some 5000 years ago, because of residue found in clay pots during excavations at Karnac and Thebes; we know they were used as medicine and in the process of mummification.  There is the jar, which contains the ‘sacred oil’ for anointing that is kept for use with the Ark of the Covenant to transform mere mortals into angels.  We know that in the story of the New Testament, two of the three gifts the Magi bring to the newly born savior, are Myrrh and Frankincense and what are they brought with? They are accompanied by something else of great value, gold.  We also know that Jesus is anointed by ‘Nard’ oil, by Mary Magdalene.  I will go into the deeper meanings of those essential oils in later chapters and most certainly, one of my guide’s, Mary Magdalene.

This is how life speaks to me, how it winds me down a path of discovery to stand literally atop a small plateau in the valley and make me her private student.  I went over the part in class when I talk about the body as a vessel, the bottom hips and belly more like a bowl and the head like a vase and the vision of wine sparkling in a glass as I twirled it, once again begged me to look deeper.  Things catch my mind like fly paper and stick one thought to another till the page is full and weighs me down lest I find some way to release it onto a stage, a page, an ear who can witness with me, such exotic fare that is not yet found by my eyes or ears in the symphony I find it playing my own world.

Wine, the first miracle of Jesus was at the wedding feast. His mother Mary (always with me, with us) comes to her son Jesus/Jeshua and tells Him there is not enough wine left for the wedding guests.  Jesus responds “Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”  His mother told the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.”

Now you see, here is where I think a lot of people get lost by the false terrorism of screaming banshees who thieve them into worrying whether the story is real or not.

To me it is a silly consideration, robbing us of the deeper truth that is hidden far all who have eyes to see.

The real question to be asked is not if, but why?  Why on earth would the first miracle performed in a book of testimony that has waged wars and conquered multitudes and yet eludes the ‘masses’ and even I am sure the very elect themselves from its treasures, be a story about making more wine for a wedding feast?  Even in the commercials, the boast is that their ‘special grape will not be served before its time’.

Why is it not Jesus time yet?  Still he listens and those who are ‘serving’ wisely listen to the mother Mary. In John 2 the story continues:  ⁶And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

⁷Jesus saith unto them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.

⁸And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.

⁹When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants who drew the water knew) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,

¹⁰And saith unto him, every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Now, I think about how we are made up of water, over 80% of our bodies is mostly water.  Even the earth spinning on her axis mysteriously contains an almost equal amount ~of water in her surface.  We are told in Genesis or from the beginning…that we are created from clay, from the good sweet earth and that we are vessels ourselves to hold the water ~ that God Breathed life into our nostrils with His own breath.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2: ⁷

There we are ~ made from the dust, the earth….and breathed into life just as we must let a good wine breathe too.  All of it sewn together in my mind as the warm air cocooned me.  The clay vessels are symbolic of us and our own water bodies inside the temple.

I sat down and put my hands on the earth, as I had learned to do to feel her support and to feel her rise up to meet me as she always did to support my ~ our every step of life.

I felt the Erie Indians walking around between dimensions while not 20 feet away their own vessels slept secretly beneath under the softly rolling sacred burial mounds.

So too had I wondered about my own tribes who swam lifetimes before me and into this being, I now inhabited.  The fighting tribes of people who spent their lives dry over differences when only the wrapping of the same breath inhabited us all.  I needed to rectify both my Christian upbringing, and the distant path of the Cherokee Indian grandmother on my father’s side. The ground I now walked upon and came from wrote a different prayer, one that combined both.  I needed to honour both, to contain the truths of one while respecting the traditions of the Native Americans who knew the earth as a living being and lived life as a payer.  This is what came about:

Our mother earth, who gives birth to us, who nourishes, supports and sustains us, and holds the waters that nourish, cleanse and connect us reflecting back who we are; under the father sun, who strengthens, guides and enlightens us, I pray  by the power of the holy spirit that the great creator’s will, Thy Will Be Done through me; and I give thanks for the breath of god, who fills our lungs with air and life, and lifts our thoughts and our prayers up to the most high with the winged ones, and by the power of the Holy spirit returns to this earthly vessel which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom and thy queendom come, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

That prayer didn’t really open itself up to me, until I started to say it this way.

Then I realized why it was the Lord’s favorite prayer.  Even though I have embellished it now, that is what it took to realize what the prayer meant.

I believe that is how in part, the mystery of the first miracle revealed itself to me.  We are such a disparate people.  We all grow from the vine ….

Anyone who has lived long enough has trampled the grapes of wrath.  We find the bitter sweetness of sorrow to be a wisdom vein that has been intravenously feeding our spirit~

To reveal to us the meaning of our lives and who we are….

Now, the Mayans call this the ‘time of the great revealing’.  When I investigated the word ‘Apocalypse’ what I found astonished me, because I hadn’t thought of it in this way, but always in the fear mongering sense, when it means: ‘the thinning of the veil’.

So what is happening right now is a ‘thinning of the veil’ and as this peels back, like all the layers that we also have been ‘healing’ in ourselves, it reveals things that have been right in front of us all along.  This happens on every level, just like the layers we have been healing.

Just as the layers of the sacred teachings are opening up their secrets, so too are the layers of activity in Politics, Religions (church leaders scandals of pedophilia, theft, Satanism, etc.) the text books that are filled with lies, the unraveling of energy knowledge, historical skewing and rewriting, etc.

Even as a story is spun now, it is quickly unraveled and displayed neatly for those who have eyes to see.  This happens in layers too.  The more unaware someone is of how it plays out in their own personal life, the less likely they are to truly unravel the greater story.

Each layer, each veil to the sacred (this is also why women wear veils, which after a whole wedding ceremony, the man is told he can now ‘lift’ and kiss the bride) is like a curtain on the stage of life that falls, to reveal the emperor has no clothes,  “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.” (The wizard in the Wizard of Oz) I say pay very close attention.  Behind the veil is the mystery, but the light is so bright, one must be properly prepared, and see with their spiritual eyes.

From the Gospel of Thomas: 2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign overall. [And after they have reigned, they will rest.]"

She whispered to me the words: “Take this bread and drink from it, it is the cup of my blood, it is the blood of the new and everlasting covenant”. 

“Times, times and a half”; I read those words so many times and wondered what they really meant.  There it was as clear as day.  We take the body and the blood of Christ, the savior (the meaning of the name Jesus/Joshua is Saviour) into our being over and over.  In doing so, we finally understand that Christ was showing us the WAY, which was to awaken the Christed Being within ourselves. 
We are the body and the blood that will be turned into the fruit of the vine at the sacred wedding, the alchemical marriage in Communion.

They said to Him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the Kingdom?"

            Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside             and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, 

            and when you make the male and the female one and the same, 

            so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes 

            in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and

a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the Kingdom]." ~The Gospel of Thomas

And this: The light of the body is the eye: therefore, when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. ~Luke 11:34

The very first miracle leads the way to the teaching of Jesus and is obvious if we have eyes to see.  The story leads us all the way to Christ the savior being hung on the cross.

He dies to this world, and then is risen. 

Who is with Him at every passage?  Mary Magdalene is with Him.  It is She who comes to His tomb (symbolic of the empty body that holds life/spirit).

When She arrives, she sees a man she mistakenly identifies as ‘the gardener’.  Jesus says to her: “Woman why do you look for the living among the dead?”

                        24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. ² They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. ⁵ In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ⁷ ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” ⁸ Then they remembered his words.

⁹ When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. ¹⁰ It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. ¹¹ But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. ¹² Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened. ~Luke 24

Etymologically we find this: Galilee "northernmost province of Palestine," late 12c., from L. Galilaea, Gk. Galilaia, from Heb. Haggalil, lit. "The District," a compressed form of Gelil haggoyim "the District of Nations" (cf. Isa. viii:23).

 ⁴⁴ He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. ⁴⁶ He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

            ³⁶ While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

³⁷ They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. ³⁸ He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? ³⁹ Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

One day while meditating, as my breathing took me into an altered state, the contact with the holy spirit within me, that witness that monitors all I do, became decidedly separate and I had no doubt that my body was a simple vessel for the holy spirit.

Now, we have also been told that there are ‘holy and unholy, clean and unclean’ spirits.  It is up to us to decide which one will win our decision and which one we will follow.

I refer you to the story of Jesus in the desert for assistance, since now more than ever we see people following many who are falsely teaching to worship the things that will turn to dust.

17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. ~ John 20:17

            She wept as she thought of her Lord, slain by wicked men, and not even allowed to rest in his grave. And still weeping, she stooped and looked into the tomb. There she saw two men in white garments sitting, one at the head, the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. They were the two angels whom the other women had seen, but Mary Magdalene did not know this. One of them said to her, "Woman, why do you weep?"

She answered, "Because they have taken away my Lord; and I do not know where they have laid him." Something caused her to turn around; and she saw a man standing behind her. It was Jesus; but her eyes were held for a moment from knowing him. He said to her, "Woman, why do you weep?"

She supposed that he was the gardener, and said, hardly looking at him, "Sir, if you have carried him out of this place, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away." Then the stranger spoke her name, "Mary!" and she knew that he was Jesus, no longer dead, but living. She turned around and fell before him, and was about to seize his feet, as she said, "My Master!"

But Jesus said to her, "Do not take hold of me; I am not yet going away to my Father. But go to my brothers, and say to them, I go up to my Father, and to your Father, to my God, and your God."

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples how she had seen the Lord, and how he had spoken these things to her. So this was the first time that any one saw Jesus after he rose from the dead.

        Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ?I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God." John 20:17
Mark 16:9-11; John 20:11-18

One of the first major experiences I had during a meditation was the opening of my third eye to a huge shaft of golden light.   As it opened, the warm honey light poured in and I heard these words: “This is communion and you are Nefertiti”

My body shook and rocked, and great rivers of tears burst forth as they ran warmly down my cheeks.  This was one of the layers of learning that helped to awaken my being.  So many times, had I taken communion and heard the words: ‘Lord I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the words and I shall be healed.”

I had to repeat that process over and over, and then go into a meditation to have union or yoga with the divine.  The divine is within us if we but seek it to find even though we are not worthy to receive the savior, to be saved, it is only the words and we shall be healed.

Many years later, after working on so many people doing Total Sensory Healing and Integration©, and wiping rivers of tears from my clients, I realized that those tears are the living waters of life.  They were a healing salve necessary to fuel the fires of the heart, to create the ‘flaming heart’ of God; to ignite the fires of the Holy Spirit within.

I was there to bear witness.  It was also during these sessions, that I would discover the power of that simple act, of bearing true witness to someone, to the pain of someone’s life, their grapes of wrath.  If we are instructed not to bear false witness in the commandments, then to bear true witness was simply the higher learning of that commandment.  It was the sacrament of confession.  Sacrament is simply ‘sacred/sacra and mind/ment/mental; to open the doorway to the sacred river of life, the mind of God.  The word Element has this same unwinding etymologically; El, being the God of the Hebrew Old Testament and ment again being ‘mind’ or ‘mental’.  So, we have ‘God-mind’ or ‘Sacred Mind’ the mind of God.

The heart, as we shall see is the bridal chamber, and it is the open heart that leads the way into the kingdom and queendom of heaven.

            St. Margaret Mary Alacoque describes the revelation of the "Sacred Heart" of Jesus (emphasis is mine): “The Sacred Heart was represented to me as a resplendent sun, the burning rays of which fell vertically upon my heart, which was inflamed with a fire so fervid that it seemed as if it would reduce me to ashes. It was at these times especially that my Divine Master taught me what He required of me and disclosed to me the secrets of His loving Heart.”

We place the ‘communion host’ in a monstrance, so just what is a monstrance and where does the word come from? Monstrance: 1. Noun. An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the consecrated host is placed for veneration. ¹

remonstrance (n.) late 15c., from M.Fr. remonstrance (15c.), from M.L. remonstrantia, from remonstrans, prp. of remonstrare "point out, show," from L. re-, intensive prefix, + monstrare "to show" (see monster).

Other words from this prefix: Demonstrate, dimension, demons.

⁴⁵ Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. ⁴⁶ He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, ⁴⁷ and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. ⁴⁸ You are witnesses of these things. ⁴⁹ I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

We are the Ark of the Covenant, it is within us that Holy Communion takes place and our savior rises within to marry the Sophia, Wisdom in the bedroom chamber, the heart/thymus.

Hear Thy Muse, in the Hearth, heart of it all.

Sadly, many people who start to open up the book of life, can begin to believe they are the ONLY person who can do this, and that they are THE SAVIOUR rather than understanding we are all living into our own sacredness through living the teachings of Jeshua and Mary Magdalene and through Divine Mercy which gives birth to grace: We need to tap into this misunderstood book of light, as there are many books of light, to begin to decode our holy beings, unwrap our packages/bodies to expose the truth and light of the world, soul shine.  Some people also believe that ‘they are God’, I don’t happen to be inside that camp.  I believe we are all aspects of the God Mind.  Until we learn how to spin planets into existence, calling ourselves ‘god’ is a bit presumptive and again misses the mystery which is enough, to be a part and aspect of the Glory of God.  This has plenty of magic to contemplate and behold, and we miss the journey in the extrapolation into a largess that is spoon feeding us life in the river of time.

In short, The Holy Grail ‘CUP’ has been hidden very well indeed, it is inside of us like a magic lamp, we need to rub it in just the right WAY, The Truth, The Light and The WAY” to give birth to the Saviour, Our own genetic make-up, is the Genie in the Bottle, Abracadabra.

My third eye begins to itch, I scratch it and bring my index fingers to the side of my head and rub my TEMPLES.

(Editor Note: El-E-ment) El is God or THE and ment is MIND.  Therefore, element is the God mind.

Everything we address with THE, is adding the prefix of God.

Editor's Note: I have since revise this chapter and broken it down into a foreword and additional chapters in the book.