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The Flowering of Abundance
The Alchemy of Lotus Flower Essence

by
Donna Strong

While its roots lie in muddy waters, the Lotus has the capacity to utilize
the fertility of the earth’s elements to produce a strong, serene presence
that has been acknowledged by many world traditions. The Lotus has the
capacity to harness the latent potency of the elements of earth, water,
fire and air through a process of alchemy, to achieve a form that is highly
advanced.

Through alchemy, basic elements are combined in a special manner that
unites them into an expression of enormous value. Star Riparetti, of Star
Flower and Gemstone Essences in Santa Barbara, describes plants as the
original earth alchemists, working with the elements to create wondrous
forms. The Lotus offers both an apt metaphor and a truly organic process
of intelligent design for turning the ‘muck’ of basic elements such as earth
and water, into a substance with great refinement, beauty and harmony.

In the world of flower essences, the Lotus is considered one of the
highest vibrations. Lotus enhances receptivity to higher consciousness. It
is considered to be a universal essence with the capacity to harmonize
and bring forth more of the refinement of the soul’s qualities into physical
form.

The Lotus embodies several significant qualities of abundance. By
promoting receptivity, it allows the flow of the larger spiritual universe of
the soul into human form. In fostering harmony, it brings greater
coherence to our diverse aspects, and this in turn provides a greater
sense of inner peace. With more harmony and receptivity, another
element of abundance is realized, connectedness and unity. A sense of
connectedness and unity always boosts the consciousness of gratitude, of
the return to our true home, being consciously linked to the web of life
that is creation.

On the human level, when we let our minds marinate in doubt and fear, as
most of us do almost 24/7, we will create the muck of separation and
restlessness, webs of illusion that have to be dissolved. Too few of us
make a real practice of apprehending what our creative
life force has made and is continuing to produce.

In using the elements and learning the magic of alchemy, we first have to
decrease the production of dross. When we spend most of our energies in
fear, doubt, and despair, we are actively spinning webs of illusion that will
have to be dissolved. Returning to the Lotus, while its roots lie in the
‘muck’ of earth and water, it is not bound by them. In their lower
aspects, earth can be very contractive and slow, full of fear and panic.
Water that has become sluggish can be expressed as emotionally stagnant
expressions, such as continuing cycles of fear and doubt, that can be
difficult to shift.

Since energy follows our intention, what we focus on is the form of
creative ‘wealth’ that we create. We cannot generate ‘dross’ to create
‘gold.’ When we are mired in thoughts and emotions that are toxic and
express disconnection, how can we expect to create supreme forms of
abundance — harmony, flow, fullness, beauty, joy and unity?

The exquisite vital force of creation that flows into us must be used
wisely to create golden forms of abundance, such as the true joy of the
heart. This points to the importance of our own attitude in working with
the earthly elements, our ability to combine them into beautiful
productive forms of earth’s creation, just as the lotus does. Practice
doubt and we will realize greater disconnection and disharmony. Practice
gratitude and we will harvest more qualities of abundance; heart-fullness,
expansion, flow in life, awe, and unity.

We may need assistance to tune into the more productive and harmonious
aspects. Creation has already amply supplied an abundance of flower forms
to support the frequency field that we are, creating a stronger bridge
between our soul and our personality. This is a gift from the world of
nature/spirit, to alchemize the elements of personality that are dross, and
raise ourselves up to realize the virtues of abundance with which our soul
is already endowed.

The world we see is a rich kaleidoscopic expression of earth’s creative
fertility. It is made up of four basic elements: earth, water, fire and air.
As participants of creation, we are made of these same elements. As the
Essene philosophy simply states; ‘We are the earth.’ We are the earth
and the earth is full of elemental potency.

The Lotus is not bound by the elements of turbid mud. Through alchemy,
it has distilled the richness of the elements to bring forth its highest
expression; an exquisite jewel that is a treasure to be shared. Within each
one of us lies a dormant treasure.

We are each full of elemental potency waiting to be tapped. We need to
claim our role as citizens of creation. According to Green Hope Farm
flower essence producer Molly Sheehan, “we are already everything. We
are already one with everything. We are already the divinity we are
looking for.”

To access this state of knowing, Molly, owner of a flower farm in Meriden,
New Hampshire, explains that flower essences “ring a clear note of truth
that calls us to literally remember vibrations we recognize as true. Flower
essences help to transform the muck of the mind into an experience of
pure truth. Working with essences is an emptying out of the mind’s muck
— thoughts of scarcity, separation, and limitation, toward a realization
that ‘we are everything.’ In working with different flower essences, we
are guided to that layer of illusion on the surface and ripe to be dissolved
away in the vibration of a flower essence’s particular frequency of truth.”

“In the face of truth, bindings of untruth drop away from us and as this
process continues there comes a point when we are emptied of illusions
and illuminated and embodied in truth. That truth is the abundance of
everything! Every flower essence brings us toward the complete
realization of abundance, that experience of knowing we are God in an
ocean of God.”

Flowers have been part of the earth’s evolution for over
one hundred million years. They exist as a fountain of rich earth
intelligence to provide resources for our growth and expansion and realize
the richness of our true essence.

The gift of flower intelligence is received by taking essences. The
essences are truly elixirs of alchemy. Each essence is produced through
the elemental alchemy of the sun’s fire distilling the energetic imprint of a
flower at its highest expression of vital force and beauty into the universal
carrier, water.

A Native American prophecy has foretold this time as the ‘Age of Flowers.’
The earth offers an exuberant bounty of flower forms, profuse expressions
of beauty and harmony. They offer themselves fully to the world for a
time, before returning to the soil, again becoming part of the fertility of
the earth. Through this cycling of creation, nothing is lost. Forms simply
change into richer and richer expressions.

We are already full citizens of the abounding splendor of earth, here to
give our own beautiful expression for a time. This is a true flowering of
abundance, to be blessed with knowing the grace of our authenticity.
With the uplifting support of flower essences, we can celebrate, as we
make our own unique contribution and offer our gratitude, adding to the
plentiful cornucopia of creation.