little Scout said: “I bet all the harps and all the trum-
pets in heaven would go Zoom! Zoom! and all the angels
would come flocking if the Bee Master came through
the gates!
The Bee Master’s home, and surrounding gardens are
intimated to be a reflection of the Bee Master himself.
There are only a few places where love and arti-
sanship build a house with a welcoming face. There
are only a few places where love and good horse
sense build a garden half of wildings and half of
quaint old-fashioned things that evolved without
the help of crossing and
fertilization and other
makeshifts that produce
growth so rambling and
sizable that it is difficult to believe the blooms are
living things. There are only a few places where the
side of a mountain walks down and slides down
and jumps down and meanders winding, flowering
ways until it reaches the white sands of a brilliant-
ly blue sea, and it is easy to believe that such a
location would naturally be the home of tiny round
white houses with round roofs where millions of
bees make honey to sweeten the food of a world.
Health and healing through natural means is anoth-
er prominent theme. How our ailing soldier heals his
wounds through the discipline of a health regime is
carefully detailed. The value of eating for health, sim-
ple and nutritious foods, and in the right combinations,
is a concern of every spiritual aspirant.
In Occult Principles of Health and Healing, p. 116
we read: “Proper food given at the right time and
under the right conditions will not only cure but pre-
vent disease.” The science of food combining, a little
known aspect of diet, is touched upon here. Of the
neighbor that prepares his own meals he requests a
diet in the combination that will go towards the “mak-
ing of a man” and help to purify his septic blood.
Following his morning routine in the bee garden, he
drinks the juice of two ripe tomatoes and follows this
with a dip in the healing waters of the salt sea, drying
in the rays of the morning sun. Then after his mid-day
meal he rests. Upon waking he drinks one glass of
fresh-squeezed orange juice.
Of fruits it is said in Occult Principles of Health and
Healing, p. 117, that they contain “water of the purest
and best kind, capable of permeating the system in a
marvelous manner....The increased permeability
enables the Spirit to manifest more freely and with
renewed energy.” And in the same book the author
gives an occult explanation for the benefits of
uncooked food:
There is in the skull at the base of the brain a flame.
It burns continually in the medulla oblongata at the
head of the spinal cord, and, like the fire on the
alter of the tabernacle, is of divine origin. This fire
emits a singing sound like the buzz of a bee, which
is the keynote of the physical body, and is sounded
by the archetype. It builds in and cements together
that mass of cells known
as “our body”.
The fire burns high or
low, clear or dim,
according to how we feed it. [...] We replenish this
sacred fire partly from forces from the Sun entering
the vital body through the etheric counterpart of
the spleen and from there to the solar plexus where
it is colored and then carried upward through the
blood. We also feed the fire from the living fire we
absorb from the uncooked food which we eat and
then assimilate.
Note from the above the value of sunlight, in addi-
tion to raw foods, for renewing of the body’s energy.
An additional point to make here is that the etheric
counterpart of the spleen will continue to function
even following the removal of the physical spleen, as
sometimes occurs following injury to this organ.
The art of keeping bees is learned with the help of
the Bee Master’s ‘partner,’ as well as from an exten-
sive library on the subject, which includes writings by
Aristotle and Pliny. The little Scout asks: “Why is the
bee garden blue? And I’ll have to tell you the answer
because you’ll never guess in a thousand years.
Because of God.”
Max Heindel confirms this statement in Rosicrucian
Philosophy in Questions and Answers, Volume 2:
“Blue is the color of the Father who rules over the
whole universe continually from the beginning of man-
ifestation to the end thereof, omnipresent in everything
that lives, breathes, and has it’s being.”
There is more here, much more, to inspire us to live
diligently as the bees and their keepers, leading noble
and courageous lives, embracing the beauty of earth
and sky.
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—Jamis Lopez