[Jewelry making - Article 00735] - Re: [Orchid] Initial impulses for self adornment

[Randolph Post]

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    In his Orchid post, Sydney Cash poses deep questions about the
    origin of self-adornment in humans. While there are those in
    academic authority that make speculations based on current cultural
    belief, these statements are nothing more than educated conjectures
    about the distant past. The information remains hidden with the
    passage of eons of time. Or does it? 

    Other, more exotic sources may provide information that sheds some
    light on this subject. Shown below is information that has been
    'channeled' over a period of some twenty years, and is part of the
    book 'The Atlantean Influence in Contemporary Society.' In reading
    this brief extract, let your heart, rather than your mind, be the
    judge. 

    For greater understanding of the text, let us make the following
    assumptions: 

    Early humans were simply intelligent animals. Unlike the other
    animals however, humans developed the capacity to sustain
    individuated spirit (substitute 'soul' here if you like.) As a
    consequence, 'beings of light' (souls) began to inhabit humans,
    creating what the people of today aRe: spirited humans. In the
    prehistoric times referred to below there were two types of humans,
    spirited and unspirited. The text follows. 

    Q. How did art evolve in prehistoric society? 

    A. In those early days beauty was a thought process, and beauty was
    expressed in many different ways. First in just the beauty of the
    light within, and when this was found and seen and understood,
    spirited humans dwelled on this inner beauty in their mind's eye. In
    dealing with physical earth, they found themselves admiring and
    gaining interest in things as simple as smooth pebbles, crystals,
    and light reflected in crystalline structures such as snow and ice.
    These beautiful things they dwelled upon, and made images in the
    form of expressions of gathered shells, crystals, teeth, anything
    they could find that expressed this shiny and golden quality of
    light, for light was the way in which they expressed themselves.
    Light reflected on water was seen as something worshipful because
    they could see the light within each other and interpreted that as
    beauty. So the first art forms were nothing more than reflected
    sunlight and moonlight upon surfaces. The sunlight gleaming off a
    fr! esh picked up pebble from a streambed could be as highly valued
    an item to the collector as anything in the world. 

    Crystals were a form of exchange of pure love, for instance to
    enhance ones ability to gain entrance into another's realm, as in
    friendship or love, or expressions of worthiness. The exchanging of
    beautiful reflected surfaces such as crystals, or shiny pebbles of
    pyrites, or anything that had a cubical structure to it was highly
    refined as a meaningful exchange of gift. 

    They also laid them on for healing, for the body was physical and in
    an ill space with a harsh environment. So the feelings of using
    these as healing instruments was very much so, for they saw with
    their third eye the energy output of these materials of crystalline
    forms. Every magic man had his bag of crystals and perfect rocks for
    the processes of laying on of stones, for they could see the natural
    forces that were emanated, and could see the pulse waves that
    triggered healing within the physical body. They did not understand
    it, but they could see it. In seeing it, they used it and knowledge
    was gained. This was an evolutionary process in human form, for
    spirit had no concept of these physical aspects. Since they were
    more light spirits to begin with than physical form, they used these
    processes to illuminate their world of healing magic, and it also
    gave them power over their lower cousins from whom they had begun to
    separate by the ninth and tenth generations. The separ! ation was a
    culmination of pilgrimages away from the land of the animal. 

    One of their major differences was the adornment of their bodies,
    the attachment of shells and stones and acorns were the first
    indication of a higher developed skill. They were not encompassing
    anything of an intellectual nature, for the first spirited beings
    were quite satisfied to be just physical animal. But their highly
    evolved spirit was already beauty orientated or esthetically
    orientated, and therefore adornment was the first accumulated thing
    of a different nature. It set them apart dramatically for all of a
    sudden they wore strings of adornment, shells, stones etc., and
    their lesser parents or siblings saw them as being different and
    imitated them. 

    You might say that art was the first or second human spiritual
    attribute. We will determine now that the difference between what we
    will call human and animal is because the human possessed spirit,
    the animal possessed physical prowess. And the two were different
    from the beginning, because these spirited humans were born with the
    third eye. All of which still is in the world today within each
    being, but not opened. 

Randolph Post


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