Languedoc Flower Essence Therapy

Languedoc Flower Essence Therapy

One of the oldest known sciences of healing views Nature as the manifestation of the
Divine Mother, called Prakriti in Sanskrit or Mother Nature in English. The Divine
Feminine is viewed as the Wisdom aspect of the Creator, also known as Sophia.

The Mother (yin) receives the impulse carrying the male seed (yang), holds on to it,
and forms it into the newborn organism inside her body, growing it with her own
substance. This, of course, is the application of active intelligence, which we may call
Wisdom.

The preparation of flower essences involves similar principles and roles. The male
solar principle, i.e., sunlight (yang), interacts with the flower petals, which supply the
life force and healing consciousness. The sun interacts as well with the water (yin) &
petals to form the flower essence (called the Mother tincture).

In this latest cycle (Maha Yuga) of human incarnation on planet Earth, when
humanity took on a physical body, (s)he incarnated in the Garden of Eden known as
Lemuria¹ (approximately 500,000 years ago).

In the evolutionary plan for mankind flowers were then and still are the very essence
of the plant and contain the highest concentration of the life force (prana shakti) of
the plant. The flower is the highest manifestation and the crowning glory of the
plant's life cycle.

A Sufi mystic has expressed this understanding with his realisation that the "flower is
the purpose of the seed."

Flowers contain the male and female portions of the plant, which are, of course, vital
to the plants fertility and to its ability to continue as a species.

According to John the Apostle, who speaks through the trance channel Kevin
Ryerson²:

"When many souls fell and got trapped on the earth plane, God manifested His Spirit here in a specific intelligent pattern to shape and guide these souls. Part of God's Plan was to establish a specific relationship between the many plant forms and the humanoid form. With this development, these plants were gradually used as an enhancement for human growth in mind, body and spirit."

According to Arthur E. Waite, Paracelsus, in the 1500s, discovered (re-discovered) the
principle known as "The Doctrine of Signatures." (Hermetical and Alchemical
Writinas of Paracelsus).

¹ James Churchward, Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, Swami Subramuniyaswami and others have written about the
lost civilization of Lemuria or Mu. In that ancient civilization f lower essences were used primarily for their
benef it in psychic & spiritual development because there was little illness that required healing at that time.

² Kevin Ryerson made an appearance in Shirley McLain's f ilm, Out On A Limb. which may be rented at your local
video store. Gurudas used Kevin as a source f or channelled inf ormation on the mechanisms of f lower essence
action in his book Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing.

The doctrine of signatures, when applied to the use of plants therapeutically by
humanity, states that there is a relationship between the anatomy of people and the
shape, color and texture of many plants.

Using this relationship the flower essence therapist can find many meaningful clues as
to how flowers can be used to benefit the healing and spiritual growth of their clients.

Two examples will serve to make this relationship clear.

When we examine the Languedoc Flower known as the Poppy we readily observe the
following anatomical features:

• The flower is bilobed with a
central isthmus.

• The outer petals are ruffled
reminding one of the gyrated
surfaces of the brain.

• The petals are red.

• There is a central cross.

• There is a central circle.

• There are many central
stamens (male reproductive
elements).

• There are 8 distinct regions with a total of 18 elements present.

When we correlate these anatomical features of the Poppy flower with what is known
about our human physical and subtle anatomy, we will discover, using the doctrine of
signatures, how the Languedoc Flower Essence made from the Poppy flower can help
us in our healing.

Our human brain is bilobed. The Poppy essence will help heal and balance our brain.

Our crown chakra looks a lot like this flower. There are 2 lateral aspects each with
480 petals and a central core of 12 petals. Poppy will help to balance our crown
chakra (Sahasrara) and its glandular counterpart, our pineal gland. Additionally the
crown chakra has 2 associated colours, white and red. Both these colors are found in
the Poppy.

Our third eye chakra (Ajna) is also a bilobed chakra with 48 petals in each lobe. Its corresponding endocrine structure, our pituitary gland is bilobed as well. The Poppy LFE will also help balance our Ajna chakra and our pituitary function.

The central cross is related to the divine purpose of our human incarnation... the
complete integration of matter and spirit in Sahaj Samadhi. The horizontal line
represents the plane of matter and the vertical line represents the plane of spirit.
The hu-man (God-man) has incarnated to establish the Kingdom of Heaven (the full
manifestation of the Divine Will of Love, Harmony and Beauty) here on earth (in
physical matter). The Poppy LFE will help us achieve this purpose.

The central circle with 10 petals is related to the Divine Mother's unconditional Love,
which is the force (Shakina, Shakti) that ultimately brings about Union with God, also
known as Mukti, Salvation, Realization, and Liberation for the human being. The
Poppy LFE will help us achieve this union by flooding us with its Spiritual Exaltation.

The central stamens (each of them a 1) bring in the male power, which provides the
seeds for further growth and development of the plant.

Now let us examine some of the numerical correspondences³ and potencies of the
Poppy flower.

The central circle (0) represents Nut - the origin. (0) is the symbol of Nut, the Mother
of Set, Isis, Osiris and Nepthys (SION). In illustrations she may be recognized as an
inverted crescent or a winged orb. Apparently of no value, but significantly it is the
first number and thereby it is the origin [the No-thing-ness out of which All things
have come]. It is the hole or holy place from which issues active intelligence
(Wisdom) and knowledge.

Each individual central stamen represents the 1, the Ithyphallus, Unity. Unity as the
word suggests is the instrument of union - the phallus. Various cultures represent the
phallus as the Shiva-lingam, the totem pole, the mast of a ship, an obelisk and so on.
As a vertical or at 90° it portrays erection, both sexually and in the sense of
construction, but in either mode it is impotent unless controlled by the feminine
circle.

The 2 outer petals represent the 2 of duality, polarity and division for the sake of
union.

The central cross represents the 4 of construction. It
divides the circle of 360° into 90° portions of erection
and construction in the form of a square. Four is the
building block of the human and predominates his
thought and design.

The 8 distinct regions bring in the 8 of Isis, the
number of the body of the Supreme Goddess. 8
symbolizes the entwined serpents forming the double
womb of infinity.

The 10 central petals combine the 1 and the 0 to
form the 10, which represents Reproduction. The
rigid and tail swallowing snakes represent the
perfection of animal reproduction.

The Greeks used this (lo) as a name for Isis. It represents the union of Thoth (1)
with Nut (0), Shiva with Shakti, Rama with Sita, Krishna with Radha, Jesus with Mary
Magdalene, etc.

The 18 separate elements correlate with the 18 of the function of Isis. 18 is the
complete symbol of Isis, the caduceus.

The two serpents entwined represent the vagina and womb, through both of which
passes the phallus. The 1 and the 8 together, the 18, represents the union of 1,
phallus, intellect, with the 8, womb, vagina, active intelligence (wisdom).

Our second example illustrating the use of the doctrine of signatures is the analysis of
the Languedoc flower called Bramble.

• The Bramble flower is white.

• The flowers look quite delicate and are
protected by the plants very sharp and
abundant prickles (thorns).

• There are five petals in each flower.

• Each petal has a central marking that could be
used to divide the petal in half.

• There are many central stamens.

• There is a central circle with a cross dividing
the circle into 4 divisions.

• There are three distinct regions with a total of 10 elements present.

When Carol chose to make this flower essence she had to tolerate the many cuts and
scratches that she received in order to reach the delicate white flowers.

Making this flower essence reminded Carol of the story of Sleeping Beauty. In the
children's story an evil witch cast a spell on Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) that resulted in
her falling asleep for 100 years. Only the kiss of her true love would awaken her.
When Aurora fell asleep the spell also put to sleep all of the people in the Kingdom.
By the time the Prince came to rescue his true love a thick wall of prickly Bramble had
surrounded the Palace hiding it from view. The Prince courageously cut through the
thorns, kissed the Princess and she and the rest of the Kingdom came back to life.

White is the color one sees in the halo (aura) over the heads of illuminated Masters
such as Krishna, Christ and Buddha. It is the colour of the fully illuminated crown
chakra. Taking the Languedoc Bramble flower essence helps to develop our
compassion (love in action) and enables us to see beyond any prickly, thorny surface
appearance of the outer personality and reach the hidden beauty within the soul.

The three distinct regions bring in the 3 of Woman's Love. This is a feminine number
that has been associated with the Moon, Mary Magdalene, love, and the principle of
death and rebirth... dying to the thorny personality which injures and wounds and

being reborn to the heart of compassion. Being the least number of straight lines
which are capable of forming a complete figure (the triangle) leads one to suspect
that a female should be at the head of'triads'.

The 3 is also associated with the essence or core of the human being as expressed
and translated by the Ida (Lunar), Pingala (Solar) and Sushumna (Central Fire,
Illuminated Consciousness) Nadis. These three Nadis or channels exist in the higher
bodies. They intersect along the etheric spine to form the chakras, which regulate
the mental/astral body's mechanism as well as the physical body's mechanism.

In the language of the Bible trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy
Spirit, the only holy one is the feminine Hegia Sophia (Greek name for Holy Spirit).

The five white petals bring in the 5 representing Feminine Power. Five is the
quintessence, femininity par excellence, the pentagram, the figure of five extensions
signifying the female body.

When we place the pentagram inside the feminine circle and divide the angles of the star points in half we get the number of the active principle of the supreme goddess Isis, the number 18.

At the centre of the Bramble flower we again encounter the cross,

surrounded by the circle as well as by many stamens. See above for
the significance of the number four as well as the number 1.

The 10 elements present introduce the 10 of Union between Purusha

(1) and Prakriti (0) leading to Reproduction.

The Grandfather of Modern Flower Essence Therapy

The first and still the most well known modern proponent and creator of a flower
essence system was Dr. Edward Bach, MD of England.

As his consciousness evolved, so too did his medical practice, which progressed from
bacteriology, to homeopathy and he ended up his career as a flower essence
therapist.

Ahead of his time, writing in 1931, Bach stated:

"From time immemorial it has been known that Providential Means have placed in Nature the prevention and cure of disease, by means of divinely enriched herbs and plants and trees. They have been given the power to heal all types of illnesses and suffering.

...The dawn of a new and better healing art is upon us. A hundred years ago the Homeopathy of Hahnemann was as the first streak of morning light after a long night of darkness.

...Materialism forgets that there is a factor above the physical plane, which in the ordinary course of life protects or renders susceptible any particular individual with regard to disease, of whatever nature it may be.

Fear, by its depressing effect on our mentality, thus causes disharmony in our physical and magnetic bodies and paves the way for [bacterial] invasion. The real cause of disease lies in our personality [soul, mind, emotion, body complex]...

[In the future], healing will pass from the domain of physical methods of treating the physical body to that of spiritual and mental healing, which, by bringing about harmony between the Soul and mind, will eradicate the very basic cause of disease..."

Carol Anne Asher, BA (Hons.), the developer of the Languedoc Flower Essence
System (LFES), speaks of flower essences as "liquid tinctures of consciousness and
light."

In the preparation of her Languedoc Flower Essences, highly charged water, called
source water by the French locals, is used to house and carry the consciousness of
the flowers willingly given in service to the Divine Plan.

This source water comes right out of the mountains in the region that each flower
grows in. This water has maintained a high degree of vortexian energy, which makes
it the perfect carrier of each flower's high vibratory consciousness.

Experiments conducted in Canada and the USA by Dr. Bernard Grad⁴, Dr. John
Zimmerman⁵, and other researchers have demonstrated that water can be "charged"
and then "store" various types of subtle energies.

Tap water coming out of straight pipes does not have the same ability as highly
charged vortexian water, such as source water, to carry and store the healing
energies transmitted by the flowers.

Source water is used in the preparation of all the 26 flower essences in the LFES.

Returning to information on flower essences coming through Ryerson, John the
Apostle stated:

"The actual essence, of course, is the electromagnetic pattern of the plant form. Even as there are nutritional elements found in various plant forms... so in turn are there various parameters of biomagnetic energies discharged by flowers... And the vitality of the life-force increases about the area of the bloom...

[Essences prepared from flowers are] merely an etheric imprint; nothing physical gets transferred. ...You are dealing strictly with the ethereal vibration of the plant, the intelligence of it. The sun upon striking the water melds into the water the life-force of the flower, and this is transferred to people when they assimilate these vibrational essences."

Concerning the pathway taken by the flower essence remedy and its action on the
client, John states:

⁴ Some Biological Effects of Laying on of Hands and their Implications, pp 199-212.

⁵ New Technologies Detect Effects of Healing Hands, Brain/Mind Bulletin, vol 10, no. 16, September 30,1985.

"When a flower essence, homeopathic remedy... is ingested or used as a salve they follow a specific path through the physical and subtle bodies. They initially are assimilated into the circulatory system [the bloodstream]. Next, the remedy settles mid-way between the circulatory and nervous system [in the piezoelectric connective tissues]. An electromagnetic current is created here by the polarity of these two systems [and the inherent nature of the connective tissues].

Indeed, there is an intimate connection between these 2 systems in relation to the life-force and consciousness that modern science does not yet understand. The life-force works more through the blood, and consciousness works more through the brain and nervous systems. [The connective tissue system] contains quartz-like properties and an electromagnetic system that is piezoelectric, i.e., it magnifies force put into it. The life-force and the consciousness use these pathways and properties to enter and stimulate the physical body.

From the connective tissue system the remedy usually moves directly into the meridians. From the meridians, the remedy's life force and consciousness enter the various subtle bodies, the chakras, or returns directly to the physical body to the cellular level through several portals in the connective tissues. The type of remedy and the person's constitution determines the remedy's path.

The three main portals for the remedy's life force and consciousness to re-enter the physical body are the etheric body & the ethereal fluidium, the chakras, and the subcutaneous fascia (lowest layer of skin) with its silica or crystalline properties. The ethereal fluidium is part of the etheric body that surrounds the physical body, which brings the life-force into the individual cells. The life force and consciousness of the remedy will be most utilized by the imbalanced areas of the bodies that it has the greatest affinity with. This entire process takes place instantaneously, but it usually takes awhile to experience the results."

Science has just begun to investigate the subtle nature of the connective tissues and
its ability to amplify forces put into it.⁶ Connective tissue is the most abundant and
widely distributed tissue in the human bodymind. The ground substance present in
all connective tissues appears to be piezoelectric, particularly in bone. What this
means is that the connective tissues are able to amplify the life-force and
consciousness that has been put into them.

Additionally, the hollow collagen fibrils found in connective tissues have been found to
contain a fluid similar in properties to the cerebrospinal fluid.⁷ This would inherently
make the connective tissues a very sophisticated "sound-board" for Yesonance-
coupling' of the subtle energies of thought, feeling and consciousness which are
traditionally associated with our brain, nervous system and endocrine glands.

This communication potentially happens instantaneously and works both ways.

⁶ See Juhan, Bentov, Becker and Szent-Gyorgi.

⁷ See Job's Body by Juhan, page 73.

As John states:

"There are various quartz-like crystalline structures in the physical and subtle bodies that augment the impact of vibrational remedies. In the physical body, these areas include: cell salts, connective tissues, lymph, red and white blood cells, and the pineal gland. These crystalline structures are a complete system in the body, which are not yet properly isolated and understood by modern medicine.

Crystalline structures work on sympathetic resonancy. There is an attunement between crystalline properties in the physical and subtle bodies, the ethers, and many vibrational remedies, notably flower essences and gem elixirs.

These properties in the body magnify the life-force of the vibrational remedies to a recognizable level to be assimilated. When vibrational remedies are amplified, their life-force reaches the imbalanced parts of the body faster and in a more stable state. The remedies may cleanse the aura and subtle bodies so those imbalances will no longer contribute to ill health. If this sounds strange, remember scientists have many times proven that subtle energies such as ultrasonics and microwaves can cause sickness. Why cannot other subtle energies produce health?"

The Languedoc Flower Essences are especially potent in inducing positive changes in the chakras and subtle bodies. However certain of these 26 LFEs also heal by working directly, however not exclusively, at the level of the physical body.

Supplementing the information about each flower's healing abilities that we have gained using the doctrine of signatures, devic permission has been given to use the flowers for their high healing purpose according to the Divine Plan as revealed in the Akashic Records.

Carol Asher, like the trance channel Edgar Cayce before her, has been gifted with the ability to enter the Akashic Records and bring forth the information on the soul purpose of each of the 26 flowers in the Languedoc Flower Essence System.

Additionally, a physician in Adelaide Australia has been kind enough to give Carol information on the specific ways each flower essence affects the various physical organs, tissues and cells of the human bodymind.

	Languedoc Flower Essence Therapy One of the oldest known sciences of healing views Nature as the manifestation of the Divine Mother, called Prakriti in Sanskrit or Mother Nature in English. The Divine Feminine is viewed as the Wisdom aspect of the Creator, also known as Sophia. The Mother (yin) receives the impulse carrying the male seed (yang), holds on to it, and forms it into the newborn organism inside her body, growing it with her own substance. This, of course, is the application of active intelligence, which we may call Wisdom. The preparation of flower essences involves similar principles and roles. The male solar principle, i.e., sunlight (yang), interacts with the flower petals, which supply the life force and healing consciousness. The sun interacts as well with the water (yin) & petals to form the flower essence (called the Mother tincture). In this latest cycle (Maha Yuga) of human incarnation on planet Earth, when humanity took on a physical body, (s)he incarnated in the Garden of Eden known as Lemuria¹ (approximately 500,000 years ago). In the evolutionary plan for mankind flowers were then and still are the very essence of the plant and contain the highest concentration of the life force (prana shakti) of the plant. The flower is the highest manifestation and the crowning glory of the plant's life cycle. A Sufi mystic has expressed this understanding with his realisation that the "flower is the purpose of the seed." Flowers contain the male and female portions of the plant, which are, of course, vital to the plants fertility and to its ability to continue as a species. According to John the Apostle, who speaks through the trance channel Kevin Ryerson²: "When many souls fell and got trapped on the earth plane, God manifested His Spirit here in a specific intelligent pattern to shape and guide these souls. Part of God's Plan was to establish a specific relationship between the many plant forms and the humanoid form. With this development, these plants were gradually used as an enhancement for human growth in mind, body and spirit." According to Arthur E. Waite, Paracelsus, in the 1500s, discovered (re-discovered) the principle known as "The Doctrine of Signatures." (Hermetical and Alchemical Writinas of Paracelsus).

	¹ James Churchward, Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, Swami Subramuniyaswami and others have written about the lost civilization of Lemuria or Mu. In that ancient civilization f lower essences were used primarily for their benef it in psychic & spiritual development because there was little illness that required healing at that time. ² Kevin Ryerson made an appearance in Shirley McLain's f ilm, Out On A Limb. which may be rented at your local video store. Gurudas used Kevin as a source f or channelled inf ormation on the mechanisms of f lower essence action in his book Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing.



	The central cross is related to the divine purpose of our human incarnation... the complete integration of matter and spirit in Sahaj Samadhi. The horizontal line represents the plane of matter and the vertical line represents the plane of spirit. The hu-man (God-man) has incarnated to establish the Kingdom of Heaven (the full manifestation of the Divine Will of Love, Harmony and Beauty) here on earth (in physical matter). The Poppy LFE will help us achieve this purpose. The central circle with 10 petals is related to the Divine Mother's unconditional Love, which is the force (Shakina, Shakti) that ultimately brings about Union with God, also known as Mukti, Salvation, Realization, and Liberation for the human being. The Poppy LFE will help us achieve this union by flooding us with its Spiritual Exaltation. The central stamens (each of them a 1) bring in the male power, which provides the seeds for further growth and development of the plant. Now let us examine some of the numerical correspondences³ and potencies of the Poppy flower. The central circle (0) represents Nut - the origin. (0) is the symbol of Nut, the Mother of Set, Isis, Osiris and Nepthys (SION). In illustrations she may be recognized as an inverted crescent or a winged orb. Apparently of no value, but significantly it is the first number and thereby it is the origin [the No-thing-ness out of which All things have come]. It is the hole or holy place from which issues active intelligence (Wisdom) and knowledge. Each individual central stamen represents the 1, the Ithyphallus, Unity. Unity as the word suggests is the instrument of union - the phallus. Various cultures represent the phallus as the Shiva-lingam, the totem pole, the mast of a ship, an obelisk and so on. As a vertical or at 90° it portrays erection, both sexually and in the sense of construction, but in either mode it is impotent unless controlled by the feminine circle. The 2 outer petals represent the 2 of duality, polarity and division for the sake of union.

	The central cross represents the 4 of construction. It divides the circle of 360° into 90° portions of erection and construction in the form of a square. Four is the building block of the human and predominates his thought and design. The 8 distinct regions bring in the 8 of Isis, the number of the body of the Supreme Goddess. 8 symbolizes the entwined serpents forming the double womb of infinity. The 10 central petals combine the 1 and the 0 to form the 10, which represents Reproduction. The rigid and tail swallowing snakes represent the perfection of animal reproduction.

	See pp 208-216 in David Wood's 6enisis The First Book of Revelations, ©1985.



	The Greeks used this (lo) as a name for Isis. It represents the union of Thoth (1) with Nut (0), Shiva with Shakti, Rama with Sita, Krishna with Radha, Jesus with Mary Magdalene, etc. The 18 separate elements correlate with the 18 of the function of Isis. 18 is the complete symbol of Isis, the caduceus. The two serpents entwined represent the vagina and womb, through both of which passes the phallus. The 1 and the 8 together, the 18, represents the union of 1, phallus, intellect, with the 8, womb, vagina, active intelligence (wisdom). Our second example illustrating the use of the doctrine of signatures is the analysis of the Languedoc flower called Bramble.

		• The Bramble flower is white. • The flowers look quite delicate and are protected by the plants very sharp and abundant prickles (thorns). • There are five petals in each flower. • Each petal has a central marking that could be used to divide the petal in half. • There are many central stamens. • There is a central circle with a cross dividing the circle into 4 divisions.

	• There are three distinct regions with a total of 10 elements present. When Carol chose to make this flower essence she had to tolerate the many cuts and scratches that she received in order to reach the delicate white flowers. Making this flower essence reminded Carol of the story of Sleeping Beauty. In the children's story an evil witch cast a spell on Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) that resulted in her falling asleep for 100 years. Only the kiss of her true love would awaken her. When Aurora fell asleep the spell also put to sleep all of the people in the Kingdom. By the time the Prince came to rescue his true love a thick wall of prickly Bramble had surrounded the Palace hiding it from view. The Prince courageously cut through the thorns, kissed the Princess and she and the rest of the Kingdom came back to life. White is the color one sees in the halo (aura) over the heads of illuminated Masters such as Krishna, Christ and Buddha. It is the colour of the fully illuminated crown chakra. Taking the Languedoc Bramble flower essence helps to develop our compassion (love in action) and enables us to see beyond any prickly, thorny surface appearance of the outer personality and reach the hidden beauty within the soul. The three distinct regions bring in the 3 of Woman's Love. This is a feminine number that has been associated with the Moon, Mary Magdalene, love, and the principle of death and rebirth... dying to the thorny personality which injures and wounds and