Earlier this week, I purchased some PC roasted almonds from the grocery store where I work. I find them delectable. The hickory smoke flavor mingles well with the texture of the almond. My mouth is pleased when my tongue and teeth toss them around like little cheery children on a rapturous trampoline. On a languid Sunday in late November, almond chewing seems like the supreme thing to be doing. I can’t picture doing anything else.
Before I talk about the mystical significance of the almond, I wanted to draw attention to the label that envelops the container of highly palatable almonds. I want to do this because the label itself has some significant symbolism on it. For one, the PC logo has two almonds in its structure. One is noticeable where the scrawled “P” meets the scrawled “C,” and the other is noticeable on the bottom leg of the “P”. Secondly, the label says the container has 300 grams of almonds in it. 300=3. “3” is the number of the Vesica Piscis, a sacred geometrical configuration that is made up of two oblate spheroids intersecting. The intersecting area is shaped like an almond. Lastly, there is a President’s Choice hotline number on the side of the label: 1-888-495-5111. “888”. In gematria, this three-digit number stands for Jesus. Jesus was born under the sign of Piscis. Jesus=Vesica Piscis. The Vesica Piscis contains the almond, also known as “the bladder of the fish”. Hmm…I know I am going to be pondering these synchronicities for quite some time.
On to the holy almond…
Jacob, the religious figure who saw a ladder that interconnected heaven and earth, was said to have gained access to the holy city of Luz or Bethel by an almond tree. The almond tree was allegedly hollow. Beneath this tree was an enigmatic cave that led to the city of Luz. Luz was a city where death had no authority over the denizens, much like the mythological city of Agartha. Agartha is the “model of paradise” in eastern esotericism, or the underground city that perfectly mirrors the celestial city.
Now, “Luz” is the Hebrew word for either ‘bone’ or ‘almond nut’. In the book, “The Tower of Alchemy,” David Goddard explains it as such:
“In Aramaic, the Mediterranean mercantile language in the time of Jesus, Luz means ‘nut’ or ‘bone’. It refers to the bottom cervical vertebrae of the spine, the coccyx, where the dormant kundalini sleeps as a coiled serpent.”
If we make a poetic convergence between this statement made by Goddard and what we know about the Vesica Piscis—the figure made by the square-root of three—there is a cool connection between “the almond shape” or “eye shape” in the spheroid overlap and the existence of the kundalini serpent or dragon. We could say the Luz, the holy city, is the “eye of the dragon” that looks up from the muladhara chakra, or the base chakra. There is also a spooky connection between Jesus and the kundalini serpent or dragon when we see the luz and the bladder of the fish as one in the same thing. This connection would certainly not be accepted in the circles of orthodoxy.
Now I want to make a necessary connection between something Jesus said in the Gospel of Thomas and something John Michell said in his book, “How The World Is Made: The Story of Creation According To Sacred Geometry”. They both relate to the sacrosanct almond and the Vesica Piscis. Jesus said:
“When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same…then you will enter the Kingdom of God.”
John Michell said:
“This productive union of two circles is the first and most perfect of geometric marriages. In alchemical terms it represents the conjunction of two opposites, two of the same kind who finally come together after their separation and refinement apart. Without losing their individualities or merging into one, the two oppositely charged or sexed entities find their point of balance and are creative together. It is an ideal image—too good to be true, some would say—but it is constantly reflected in the processes of nature and it lights up our human dreams.”
The productive union fosters the almond, the ideal form that reconciles the wills of opposing currents of energy. The Kingdom of God is inherent in this almond shape, or this mandorla, or this fish bladder, or this eye of the dragon. The kingdom is also the city of Luz or Agartha. All traditions refer to it in one form or another. All traditions are connected via the esoteric almond.
One more thing has to be mentioned when talking about the sacred almond, the Vesica Piscis, and all the symbolic images attached to this topic. This is the pineal gland. The pineal gland is a pinecone shaped gland that is associated with the endocrine system in the body. Rene Descartes called it “the seat of the soul”. In eastern metaphysics, it is the ajna chakra, or the “third eye”. Eye=almond. Almond=eye.
In Rick Strassman’s highly influential book, “DMT: The Spirit Molecule,” Rick posits that the pineal gland may secrete DMT—dimethyltryptamine—during certain key developmental periods throughout our lives, and it may even secrete DMT at the onset of death. The effluxing of DMT out of the pineal gland during the onset of death may assist in the transportation of subtle energies out of the body. DMT, in this case, acts as a molecular conduit. It helps extricate the subtle body from the corporeal body.
Rick also had this to say about the role of the pineal gland, or “the third eye that looks up,” in prenatal development:
“The human pineal gland becomes visible in the developing fetus at seven weeks, or forty-nine days, after conception. Of great interest to me was finding out that this was nearly exactly the moment in which one can clearly see the first indication of male or female gender. Before this time, the sex of the fetus is indeterminate, or unknown. Thus, the pineal gland and the most important differentiation of humanity, male and female gender, appear at the same time.”
So its not that the sacrosanct almond makes two circles, or two circles make the sacrosanct almond. The key thing to remember is that they arise at the same time. This is the mystery of the #3, and the Piscean Lord Jesus Christ, and even the thrice-great Hermes.
Enjoy your almonds. Hickory smoked. Smoke from the dragon’s breath.
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