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Thoughts of Mike Booth
Samael has been described as
the most beautiful of Archangels. Many of the Archangels are said to have
six wings. Samael, like Metatron, is said to have twelve. He is also known
as the most prominent "Angel of Death" and is attributed to
Mars.
Traditionally, his
attributions are the Tower. In Aura-Soma, however, we have the bottle
number sixteen, Violet/Violet and the Archangel Michael, Equilibrium, B94,
Pale Blue/Pale Yellow.
The birth of Samael began to
come into materialization on the afternoon of Tuesday, 11th September
2001. The attribution of the Tower seems more than appropriate. Maybe we
need to re-evaluate all beliefs and ideals again in the light of new
understanding, as this is what the Tower calls upon us to do, not to judge
but to allow things to be as they are.
Rudolf Steiner and others
proposed that Samael ruled the earth prior to the Archangel Gabriel, from
1190-1510 A.D. During his reign, many rulers and leaders were overthrown.
Samael is also attributed to Mars, often thought of as a planet signifying
war and conflict. If we go to the essence of the present energy of Mars,
then it could also be the possibility of further awakening; of finding the
discipline to do what we know is necessary for our development.
The Deep Olive over the Deep
Magenta: the first time the Deep Olive has been born in the Aura-Soma
range. Here it is already being "healed" with "love from
above" with the deep magenta from within the depths of the bottle.
The shade of olive is the deepening of the experience of the feminine
intuitive and the possibility of this hope leading us foward towards our
future. There are incredible hidden fears in the conscious mind (yellow),
which now need to be addressed in our own space (green). If these fears
can be resolved, then there is the possibility of incredible joy, which
could come to be. This is the potential of one of the more hidden aspects
within the olive in its deeper form.
The Deep Magenta in the base
of the bottle signifies that we now need to trust the love from above in
the depth of ourselves, in a way that we may not have before. We have been
shocked out of our security, (the hidden Red within the Deep Magenta in
the base), that we now have the opportunity to see things anew. It is an
opportunity to again put the love in the little things to refocus and
bring the care to what we are doing moment-to-moment. That care could also
be described as a more conscious attention.
How to uproot the conflicts
within ourselves, not to try, not to force, not to set up resistance, but
to come to real peace (the hidden Blue), to the hope (Olive) that is there
for the future. Is not this what the Olive branch, that the Dove of the
Holy Spirit symbolized to Noah, as he waited for and knew that the new
world would come about, with the covenant of the rainbow, that assures us
of the potential for a more conscious future.
An aspect of the Deep Olive
could be a love on a personal level that has been unable to be expressed,
a love for one who went away to war and was never to return: a loss
unresolved as the depth of the caring was unable to be expressed. It is
evident that within this bottle are many levels of polarity and paradox.
Even the colours, Olive/Magenta, are opposites on the colour wheel. The
bottle contains the colours of the ancient Tao, the Green/Red, expressive
of the polarity within Existence. It is possible to say, that to create a
unified view, without coercion, it is necessary to fully integrate the
polarities within oneself.
Perhaps we would normally
associate this with Coral, but here in the Deep Olive over Deep Magenta,
another aspect emerges. The thoughts here are also to do with us creating
what it is that we fear the most, especially from the heart. Where there
is fear, there is no room for love. If we can go beyond the fears, then we
can re-create our world in the context of love. This is a tall order,
particularly when we think we do not understand all that there is for us
to understand, how do we really get back to the garden.
Remember the wise men who
were blindfolded and asked to describe what was within reach. It was only
when all the impressions were put together that the Elephant was revealed.
The elephant is the symbol of
the mind. Gradually, as we work on ourselves, we begin to purify the mind,
to see clearly the inner and outer reflections of reality.
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