Gifts of the Honeybees
Their Connection to Cosmos, Earth, and Humankind
Illustrated by Karsten Massei and Franziska van der Geest
Preface by Alex Tuchman
Translated by Ines Kinchen
- Publisher
SteinerBooks - Published
8th November 2022 - ISBN 9781621483106
- Language English
- Pages 180 pp.
- Size 5.5" x 8.5"
“When studying honeybees, one will find that they are creatures whose secrets are not easily elicited. A bee colony is an extremely complex entity. It consists of many thousands of individuals who have the ability to respond wisely to a wide variety of circumstances. To this day, it is not clear how they achieve this. In fact, one could say that a bee colony is imbued with an incomprehensible wisdom that encompasses each individual bee and ensures that the colony remains viable despite ever-changing living conditions.” — Karsten Massei
With Gifts of the Honeybees, Karsten Massei presents the fruits of years of careful intuitive research into the spiritual and elemental reality of honeybees. Karsten’s sharing of his ongoing dialogue with the inner being of the bees gifts us with surprising insights, giving us the opportunity to look at the world of bees, and ourselves, with different eyes.
There has been a great deal of research and speculation about the reasons why bees are dying. The causes are varied, but there is no doubt that all causes ultimately lead back to human activity. Technical and economic development that began in the nineteenth century has increasingly led to dealing with the beings of nature disrespectfully and in a way that is destructive to life on earth.
The spiritual beings that are connected with the life of bees, and whose messages are shared in this book, unequivocally voice that the plight of bees is actually the plight of human beings. They ask us to finally “wake up” to the spiritual reality of our world and the already evident consequences if we do not.
Gifts of the Honeybees is a translation from German of Die Gaben die Bienen (Futurum Verlag, 2014). Cover art by Karsten Massei: Honeybees as Messengers of the Spiritual World.
C O N T E N T S:
Preface by Alex Tuchman
Introduction
I. Spirits of the Animals
II. My Path to Honeybees
III. Elemental Beings of the Hive
The Bienerich
Guardian of the Apiary
Guardian and Bienerich
Guardian and Beekeeper
IV. The Honeybee Queen
Marriage Flight
Winter Path
Sun Being
Relationship to the Colony
Relationship to the Human Soul
V. The Worker Bee
Being of a Worker Bee
Flight of a Worker Bee
Visiting Flowers
Soul Being of an Individual Bee
Relationship to the Human Soul
Effects on Human Sleep
Plight of Bees
VI. The Drone
Being of the Drones
Drone Congregation Areas
Importance to the Colony
VII. Threefold Bee Colony
VIII. The Being of the Great Bee
The Great Bee and the Earth
Substances of Honeybees
IX. The Hive
Archetype of the Beehive
Birth of a Colony: The Swarm
Swarm Cluster
Moving In
Twelve Aspects of a Bee Colony
Essence of Honey
Bee Venom
Honeycomb
Warmth
Spiritual Earth
X. Transformative Work of Bees
Transformation of the Earth
Human Sleep
Realm of the Dead
Animals of the Threshold
The Varroa Mite
XI. Human-Bee and Bee-Human
Soul of a Beehive
Winter Cluster and the Human Soul
The Honeybee Path of the Soul
Gifts of the Honeybees
Words of the Fairies
Worker Bees’ Spiritual Gifts to the Beekeeper
Beekeepers and Their Colonies
An Image of the Future Soul
XII. Honeybee Verses
XIII. Messages from Honeybees
About the Illustrations
Notes
Karsten Massei