If you think anything has really changed in the world since the dawn of man, then you just haven't been paying attention. As soon as man started to ask questions about his origins and about the afterlife I would suggest that there was always another man ready to charge him a fee for some answers.

History reveals to us a grand delusion, a great deceit that has befallen man in all the ages. All through history man has been fooled into seeking salvation not from within but from grand institutions. These institutions have fleeced the uninitiated with the promise of a gift, a gift that every man has already in his possession.

The key to this grand delusion is the price paid for man's salvation; each temple in the world whether it be the Egyptian Priests or the Catholic Church have each participated in the great sale of salvation. The sale of salvation is the longest, most successful, one of the most brutal and deceitful ‘empire endorsed’ business that the world may ever see.

One of the earliest origins of the sale can be found in the Egyptian mythological scroll known as the Book of the Dead. The Book of the Dead is considered by many to be man's first attempt to prosper from man's ageless questions regarding the afterlife. The scroll was not free for all and in its day, much like the Judaist scroll the Torah; it was something that was not to be seen or experienced by commoners.

The Book of the Dead could be purchased by wealthy citizenry, the priests of the temple were the marketers of this great scam; each purchaser of the scroll would be advised which scroll would best suit his needs in the afterlife. The scroll was to be paid in full, up front for a fee not less than half a year's wage.

More than providing detailed instructions on how the purchaser was to traverse his way through the series of trials and tribulations of the afterlife, it provided the man with peace of mind, not only for himself but also for his wife whom was included in the scroll at no extra cost.

The parallels in history are obvious but there is something much more enlightening is this whole affair that can be revealed. The all inclusive package included one more item that was essential for any person contemplating the afterlife. It was a scarab that was to be placed upon the man's heart just before he was finally rested.

The heart is very significant in Egyptian mythology, when a man was buried, all of his internal organs were removed from the body; even the brain was surgical removed through the man's nose. The organs were placed in decorated containers and placed beside the man's sarcophagus, yet the man’s heart remained safely in situ.

The heart was important because during a significant tribulation of the afterlife, a man was required to have his heart weighed against the weight of a feather. The Egyptian Priests plainly informed their customers that there was no way a mere mortal could pass this vital stage; trickery alone was the only way man would pass the test.

Because it was impossible to enter the afterlife with a perfect heart free of guilt and sin, the scarab was placed on the heart to fool the god Osiris (sometimes Anubis). And this is where original sin comes from. And this is where man gets its biggest clue to not only understanding what religion is about but also to understand where true freedom lies.

Many thousands of years have passed since this great crime was perpetrated against man, the only difference now is that even the commoner is invited to participate in this great deceit; an unfortunate legacy of the misunderstood message of Jesus.

Christians are told that Jesus died on a cross not for crimes committed against the law but for them. They're told at least once a year that Jesus was sentenced, stripped, scourged and nailed to a cross for each and every one them. Their temples are filled with pictures of the event and their sign, a cross of which many of them wear upon their heart, is a further symbol of it.

The Catholic Church, we're told with participants well in excess of 1 billion, is fascinated with both sin and guilt. The Church requires its supplicants, in order to ensure their place in heaven, to confess of their sins each week to a temple priest. When coupled with a weekly ritual called the mass, the Church considers itself to be providing a full spiritual service to its practitioners.

And this service of course comes at a price; each member is expected to make a donation each week to the church in what they call a tithe. Of course the tithe is no different to the cost involved in producing a Book of the Dead for an Egyptian citizen. Religion is a business; where more followers quite simply equates to more money for the corporation that is the church.

If you're impressed with stock exchange listed companies that turn good profits year in, year out; that do well in good times and bad, is able to bet on either side of a war; a company that has a spiritual mandate to drum up business for all eternity, then the Church is the business for you. But I'm afraid they're not selling any shares today, or even tomorrow or the next day; to you they're only selling salvation.

But the clue has been given and the message needs to go straight to the heart, because it is the heart that should rule your world. When man places his heavy thoughts on a scale against his heart, he will indeed elevate his heart to its rightful position and in turn will start to know his divine and spiritual purpose. Now, whether you realise it or not, your great search for your truth has begun.

 

In a new age world where we are told that we are all beautiful creatures, desirable to all and sundry...I'm afraid it is simply not the case...mere mammals are we and the game of attract and attracted is what I like to call the flower and the bee.

The flower and the bee is the supposedly complicated dance that we male and female humans play in order to socialize together in couples. But quite simply and whether you want to admit it or not, one person in your couple is a flower and the other is a bee.

The upper and lower hand flower and bee relationship has nothing to do with education, intelligence or wisdom, it is all based on physical attraction, one partner is a beautiful flower in the relationship and the other is the bee attracted to the flower.

Only when we let go of all the niceties and political corrections of this world can we truly see that it is the game of the flower and the bee that keeps this world re-generating, generation after generation.

And it is not a simple case that the female is the flower and the male is the bee, everyone that has had more than a few relationships can tell you what it is like to be the flower and what its like to be the bee.

To understand who the flower and bee of all our relationships are, you need to go all the way back to your first meeting with your partner, who was chasing; desperate to see the other person and who was watching and waiting.

When you establish who was the original flower and the original bee, your relationship should return to the original attraction of that original meeting; the position that each of you took at that meeting can change in your minds but never in reality.

What happens when a bee starts acting like a flower and a flower starts acting like a bee? Quite simply, the balance of nature is thrown out, and neither person will be truly happy until it is restored to its rightful order.

When a bee starts acting like the flower, the flower understandably gets very upset, it is not his or her ego, it is simply the personality of their petals, in this world with this particular partner she or he is the attractor; it is not his or her fault, just nature.

A bee starts acting like a flower for many reasons, including higher intelligence, better work opportunities, even a higher level of self esteem but he or she will always be a bee in his or her current relationship and until he or she starts remembering that and behaving as a bee, he or she and the relationship will never work properly.

As you can imagine it is hard for the bee, to look in the mirror one day and face the reality that he or she was never the flower in their relationship. That against all the new age ideas of equality and balance, their position is one of attraction not attractive.

Don't be confused, this little bee may be the flower in hundreds of relationships that he or she may have, but in their current one they are the bee. And for their current relationship to succeed they must start to act like one or buzz off somewhere else hoping to be a flower.

In this world, there are many confused little bees out there that return from the beauty salon thinking they are beautiful little flowers, and they are to many, but to their current partner they will always be a bee, and I'm afraid at this point in time in their life, that's all that matters.

Flowers on the other hand are never confused; they are merely waiting, waiting to be treated properly, as a flower. A flower will put up with a confused little bee for a very long time, but they will not be truly happy until the bee starts to act like a bee again.  

So what makes a happy bee and a happy flower? It is very simple, the bee must continue to assure the flower that his or her partner is the flower in their relationship; he or she can do this with either words or actions. And as with any great truth in this world, the words or actions should come surprisingly easy for the bee.

This is one truth that will not save the world, yet it keeps the world turning over, it will not bring world peace, but it will bring peace to your world, it will not fix all the relationships in the world, but it may mend a very important fundamental imbalance in yours.

Signed

A little bee.