Being in HARMONY, aligning our will to love, with the Earthly
Mother may be an understanding of how large our family truly is. Within our ABUNDANCE of choices, we may need
the CLARITY which comes from non-judgment to see that what we are doing to the
Earth and to our brothers and sisters, we are also doing to ourselves. We may need that same clarity of non-judgment
to see what we are doing to our animals, we are likewise doing to ourselves. The result may be a need to sustain our
bodies without allowing any animal to be enslaved, misused, and killed on our
behalf. Then, we can truly declared our home
a sanctuary for all life and our kitchen, a place to receive what the Earthly
Mother gives us freely and abundantly. Perhaps
this keeps us free as well. It is not a
matter of being inconvenienced by change, for when responsibility is taken for what
each bite of food entails, when there is suffering and death, the mouth may simply not be able to receive it.
The foods given to us are found in the Essene Gospel of
Peace, translated by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, from hidden scrolls within the
Secret Archives of the Vatican,
into four small books (which can be found on-line). “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every
fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there
is breath of life, I give every green herb for meat. Also the milk of every thing that moveth and
liveth upon the earth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I
given unto them, so I give their milk unto you.
But flesh, and the blood which quickens it, shall ye not eat . . . he
who kills the beast without a cause, though the beast attack him not, through
lust for slaughter, or for its flesh, or for its hide, or yet for its tusks . .
. is his end also as the end of the wild beasts.”
In this Gospel, Jesus states that “life comes only from
life, and from death comes always death . . . your bodies become what your
foods are, even as your spirits, likewise, become what your thoughts are . . .eat
the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses of the field, the milk of beasts,
and the honey of bees . . . and you will never see want . . . neither mix all
things one with another . . .be content with two or three sorts of foods, which
you will always find upon the table of our Earthly Mother . . . never eat to
fullness . . . [eat no] more than twice a day . . . [and best] but once a day .
. . and then your days will be long upon the Earth.”
For the Essenes, the planetary forces were called
angels. “When you eat, have above you
the angel of air, and below you the angel of water. Breathe long and deeply at all your meals,
that the angel of air may bless your repasts.
And chew well your food with your teeth, that it become water, and that
the angel of water turn it into blood in your body. And eat slowly, as it were a prayer . . . all
that you eat in sorrow, or in anger, or without desire, becomes a poison in
your body . . . never sit before [being called] by the angel of appetite . . . let
not food trouble the work of the angels throughout the seventh day [by fasting]
. . . the Earthly Mother sends you her angels, that they may build your body.”
