Practically every single day of the week, I exit the workplace and go on a little jaunt over to Starbucks for a cup of coffee. The magical brew that is dispensed there revivifies my mind (if only in the highly transitory sense of the word ‘revivifies’). Very recently—Sunday to be exact—I purchased a lovely blueberry scone with my coffee. With the lovely scone came a bag. For some reason or another, a decorative rendering on the bag caught my attention. At first it just seemed like a quotidian symbol, a marketing gimmick, a clever and cute way to boost sales. However, when I turned the bag upside down to investigate the symbol from another angle, my eyes were greeted with a hieros gamos of esoteric symbolism. Here are the various symbols I discovered:
-A double helix chain that had six nodes. The seventh node turned into the thousand petalled lotus of Sahasrara.
-The infinity logo, or the sideways 8.
-The five-pointed star of Christ.
-The marriage of the alchemical water and fire. This takes the form of two overlapping triangles which are moving in opposing directions. This symbol is integral in the construction of the Seal of Solomon.
-The Pythagorean “tetraktys” or the triangle that represents the quaternary.
This was all rather illuminating for me. I didn’t think such an insignificant bag that briefly contained a delicious scone would have delivered such an ontological blow to my senses. But it definitely did, and I am obviously grateful.
The more that I think about it, this esoteric message—or welter of interconnecting messages—came from the Goddess. She is the one circumscribed by the green lifesaver in the Starbucks logo (as seen from above). She is the siren, or, according to a little tidbit on Wikipedia, a mythological being who lives on an island in a flowery meadow. She is the enchantress. She is a singer. She is a muse. Look at the royal crown. Look at the black triangle underneath the crown (a symbol that connects to the Pythagorean quaternary). It all relates to esoteric science and the discovery of the primordial self.
On the holiday Starbucks bag, the Goddess or siren is also gazing at the thousand petalled lotus of Sahasrara. This symbol on the bag can also be interpreted as the five-pointed star of Christ or the overlapping triangles in the Seal of Solomon. All three interpretations are indeed valid. This gazing also tells me that the siren, or the dweller of the flowery meadow, is a representative of Christ and the highest state of yogic consciousness. This ultimately implies that there is no separation between God and Goddess, heaven and the earth, self and other. Everything is interconnected in a latticework of symbols, energies, and archetypes.
Joseph Chilton Pearce in his book, “Evolution’s End,” talked about what I am desperately trying to convey with fewer words. He said:
“Real symbols access their field of potential. A symbol offers a dynamic that must be both invited in and entered into, at which point our conceptual capacity is operated on and changed by the power of the symbol.”
This means that symbols have the innate ability to amplify the latent energies of the mind. They have the power to carry the mind beyond itself. They have the ability to also alter the constructs and contents of the mind. Symbols are quite powerful in these respects. They aren’t just static images. They are cyclonic, illuminating, and the tools of the hidden gods.
I like to end this entry with the 4th verse in the seventh song of Solomon, a Gnostic hymn from the good old days of antiquity. It is very appropriate in conjunction with the symbols at work here in this entry—the act of drinking coffee, eating, God, Goddess, so on, so forth. Here it is:
“Let singers sing the grace of the high lord.
Let them sing.
Let their hearts be like day,
their harmonies like the lord’s excellent beauty.
Let there be nothing without his life, his knowledge,
or his speech.
The lord has given tongue to his creation.
He opens the lips of our mouth to praise him.
Confess his powers and release his grace.”
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