Beehive and Bees

Beehive and bees are a prominent symbol in the Mystery Schools. It signifies societal cohesion; industry. Industry in working together in a societal form. and desire—the eternal triangle of God.

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"Among Masonic symbols is the beehive, called the symbol of industry, for it clearly demonstrates how man should cooperate with his fellow men for the mutual development of all. It also contains a much deeper message, for each living soul is a bee that travels through life and gathers the pollen of wisdom from the environments and experiences of life. As the bee gathers the honey from the heart of the flower, so each of us should extract the spiritual nectar from each happening, each joy, and each sorrow, and incorporate it into the great beehive of experience — the soul-body of man. In the same way it is said that the spiritual energies in man eternally take the life forces he is transmuting and carry them up into the beehive in the brain, where is kept the honey or oil necessary for the sustenance of life." - Anatomy of Man Manly P. Hall pg.  33

"Being "busy as little bees," may give rise to the belief that the bee-hive is an emblem of industry and that it reminds us of the fact that we must labor and none shall be idle among us. But one could hardly call that a mystical interpretation of this symbol, and it most certainly is not the ancient meaning given by the mystics of Egypt and other countries to this strange, natural emblem. The bee-hive, in the days of old, typified several laws of nature and several principles of divine mysticism. In brief they are: That we must build a place wherein to labor; this was to represent the Temple. That within the Temple, all must be engaged in mutual, co-operative production; this was the foundation or keystone of the co-operative crafts or guilds. That we are servants unto others and must devote our lives to extracting from nature those elements which are useful to man and refine them; in this sense honey was often used to represent the same principle or law for man to follow. That we must take from the material world such elements as will build our bodies into a home for the soul to reside, as the bee builds the hive into which is stored the sweets of life.

In other words, the mystical interpretation of this symbol was that man must mold his outer and physical body so that it will contain, and preserve, the richness, sweetness, and fruits of our labors and experiences, not for our own selfish use, but for the upbuilding and strength of others. There is, indeed, a great lesson to be learned from a study of this mystical interpretation, and we find the Pyramids in Egypt were built in similar design, in similar manner and for a similar purpose. And— the purpose has been fulfilled!" - Rosicrucian Digest  Vol. XI July, 1933 No. 6

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