The Mother Temple
Honeybee Wisdom: An Ancient Spiritual Path
The Mother Temple is a devotional community honoring the Divine Feminine as life-sustaining Mother Nature, especially in Her form as the Honeybee. We venerate the Honeybee for the Divine Intelligence she embodies and re-establish a sacred relationship with her in this age. We honor her in all the ways she has appeared in human consciousness as spiritual teacher and guide, who reveals to us the ancient truths and new awareness needed to move through this time of social and ecological crisis.
The Wisdom Path of the Honeybee
The Honeybee’s association with Divinity stretches far back into pre-history, but was pervasive in the Greek temple period when Demeter, Artemis and Aphrodite were all worshipped as the Mother Bee. Their temples were modeled after beehives, attended by priestesses called ‘Melissae’ (honeybees). Widely recognized as the ‘visible face’ of the Mother Goddess, bees exemplify Her attributes of fertility, ecstasy, abundance, sweetness, social cooperation/unity, sacred geometry and sound, and the presence of a Queen who is the Mother of them all.
A beehive is literally ‘the One (beehive super-organism) and the Many (individual bees)’, an ancient epithet of Divine Mother. The hive was understood by the ancients to represent our relationship as unique individuals to the all-pervasive unity of Divine Consciousness. The Divine Feminine has re-emerged into human consciousness at this time of social and ecological crisis in the form of the Mother Bee. We believe that through renewing our relationship with the honeybee as sacred guide, we can restore our direct connection to the divinity within ourselves and within all Creation. We have established a modern Honeybee Temple for this age, for ‘She is a creature of Paradise, and She can lead us back to the Garden.’
The physical location of the Mother Temple is our Honeybee Sanctuary in Hawaii, marked by a great Mother Tree. As in ancient times, the rites of the Bee Goddess include ecstatic communion with Nature, deep silent meditation, offerings of fruits, flowers, milk, honey and sound. We gather at astrologically significant times, particularly at solstice and equinox, where we network with others meditating for peace and harmony at sacred sites around the globe.
The Bee Goddess Returns
Depicted here are just two of the many bee-goddesses once venerated throughout the world; Artemis, protector of the wilderness, women and children, and Bhramari Devi, Goddess of the Black Bees.
In Hindu scriptures the bee goddesses appear in times of crisis to save the world from demonic energies. In the Devi Mahatmyam ‘ego-demons’ in collusion with greedy humans are running amok, warring and destroying Nature. The bee goddess Mahiasuramardini destroys the ego-demons by emitting a super-sonic ‘HHUUUMMMM’.
She then promises “in those times I shall return, with my six arms for the saving of the three worlds, and I shall be known as ‘She of the Bee-Like Nature’.”
These are those times. The Bee Goddess has re-emerged in human consciousness to assist humanity in these perilous times. Join us in amplifying Her frequency on the planet through the Bee Grid project.
