The invisible life of plants

The finest lace of delicate white inflorescences, blue and pink, violet and blue God's crumbs look at you with the clear eyes of their petals and corollas, pouring out a wonderful aroma on you. Well, isn’t it obvious that this is a silent preaching of spiritual purity. One must have a very coarse heart not to hear this voice of God, sounding so clearly in the beauty of the material forms of nature. Naturally, women especially love flowers, and this does honor to their hearts.

V. F. Vono-Yasenetsky

Today, more than 3,000 plant species are known to contain essential oils. But there are immeasurably more plants on the globe. Why are only a select few distinguished by their fragrance: rose and oak moss, lily and narcissus, ginger and lavender, sandalwood and orange... Why do only a few thousand out of millions contain essential oils? Perhaps scientists have not discovered these complex compounds in other plants? Maybe the known methods for obtaining essential oils do not allow them to be detected in other plants? In our opinion, the probability of a positive answer to these questions is very small. Let's try to pose the question differently. Why do the most exquisite, beautiful and beneficial plants for humans and animals smell fragrant? Why is there no essential oil in peach, almond, watermelon, sunflower, but fatty oils are present? Why, for example, does cedar contain both?

Like people, plants have a different mental organization from each other. All living things have a soul - a subtle, specially organized individual structure that ensures the viability of physical matter. It is its manifestation in the physical world that we call life, only the degree of its activity can be different. In plants that react to human thoughts and actions, as evidenced by numerous scientific experiments, such a manifestation is hardly noticeable, but a sensitive person will not ignore it. “Our smaller brothers” show their inner world much more clearly, but the life of minerals without special devices that record ultrafine vibrations may seem like fiction, and yet...

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Archbishop Luke in the theological treatise “On Spirit, Soul and Body” wrote: “It is impossible to find a definite boundary between the plant and animal worlds, for in the region of the simplest single-celled organisms there are many almost completely similar forms, some of which serve as the beginning of the plant world, and others are animals and it is almost impossible to distinguish them. Such simple forms of animals as the river hydra volvulus are completely similar to plants and in their life functions are almost no different from them. From the class of protozoa begin two grandiose worlds of living beings - plants and animals. Gradually, the development of the plant world reached such magnificent grandiose forms as wonderfully fragrant luxurious flowers, slender palm trees and cypresses, majestic Lebanese cedars, mighty oaks and giant sequoias living inO three thousand years. Completely insignificant in comparison with them are such primitive forms of the animal world as polyps, corals, sea cucumbers, starfish and worms. And it would be strange to recognize the spirituality of these lower animal forms and at the same time not recognize the spirituality of highly advanced and even grandiose plant forms. It is absolutely certain that the entire plant and animal world possesses at least the lowest of the gifts of the Holy Spirit - the spirit of life."

It is known that since ancient times plants have been used for medicinal purposes. Why? If these are representatives of “inanimate” nature, as has long been believed, then how can they restore the vital forces of the body? This means that plants are capable of not only accumulating, but also releasing a certain force. Moreover, this power is preserved in dried and even crushed leaves and roots. It is enough to look at the pharmacy counters to make sure that this statement does not require proof. In traditional medicine, this phenomenon has not yet been identified, unlike in philosophy. In the book “Illumination” we read: “Nothing collects the essence of prana like plants. Even pranayama can be replaced by communication with plants... The law of nutrition of the Earth, through the tentacles of plants, makes it possible to draw from this reservoir through smell and vision the valuable quality of vitality - the so-called Natural Valoris, obtained through conscious aspiration.”

At the dawn of human development, many trees were revered as sacred and endowed with divine properties. Manly Hall wrote: “God the Father of the Mysteries was often worshiped under the name or form of an oak tree; God the Savior was worshiped in the form of a pine tree, and it was often used to worship God the Martyr; the world axis and the divine nature of humanity were worshiped in the form of an ash tree; to goddesses or the material principle - in the form of a cypress; the positive pole of generation - in the form of an inflorescence of a male palm tree...".

In ancient times, they believed that plants were created by the gods to heal people from illnesses. Healing was understood as gaining integrity, that is, a harmonious state of the whole organism. According to special recipes, special compositions were prepared from plants to restore mental and physical strength. Man was perceived as a particle of the Cosmos, so knowledge of astrology was mandatory for a doctor. Hippocrates argued that a doctor who does not know astrology “is not a doctor, but a fool.” The famous doctor, herbalist and astrologer Nikolai Kulpeper (XVII century) in the “Complete Guide to Herbs” pointed out that each plant corresponds to a planet of the solar system: the eyes of the Sun and the Moon should be treated with herbs, the spleen of Saturn, the liver of Jupiter, and Mars. - gall bladder, Venus - genitals.

In the short treatise of Hermes Trismegistus “On the Plants of the Twelve Signs” we read about the correspondence of plants to the signs of the Zodiac:

Aries - sage (elelisfacon, salvia).

Bull - verbena straight (peristereon orpheus, peristeria est columdina vel vervena).

Twins - low verbena, spreading along the ground (peristereon ipthios, hierabotane quae spargitur super terram).

Cancer - large comfrey (symphyton, id est consolida maior).

a lion - alpine violet (cuclamen).

Virgo - calamine (calaminthum).

Scales - scorpion tail or heliotrope (scorpialis id est heliotropium).

Scorpion - wormwood (artemisia).

Sagittarius - red and blue burnet (anagallis id est citragalla).

Capricorn - English spinach (lapathum).

Aquarius - dragon root, snake (dracontea).

Fish - Kirkazon is long and squat (Aristolokia makra kai stroggile, aristolochia).

In another, more extensive work - “Plants of the twelve signs according to Hermes” - he indicates not dragon root, but dill for the constellation Aquarius. Hermes Trismegistus advised collecting plants and extracting juice from them in accordance with physical and cosmic influence.

The little-known properties of plants were called secret or mystical. H. P. Blavatsky wrote in “Isis Unveiled”: “Plants also have mystical properties to an enormous degree, and the secrets of inducing visions with plant extracts are lost to European science, with the exception of hashish and opium. But even in these exceptional cases, their mental effect is considered to cause insanity. The women of Thessaly and Epirus, the priestesses of the rituals of Sabazius, did not take these secrets with them. They are still here, and those who realize the nature of Soma know the properties of other plants." It should be noted that the competent use of certain odors has nothing to do with drug addiction and substance abuse.

Many modern scientists consider plants to be animate beings. They claim that flowers, trees and herbs have their own language, can warn each other about danger, are able to cause rain, remember people well, and some are greeted with silent jubilation, and in the presence of others they cower and freeze. Back in 1887, W. Burdon-Saunderson noted that electrical phenomena in plants are similar to the propagation of excitation in the neuromuscular fibers of animals. Half a century later, E. I. Roerich wrote: “... it will not be absurd to talk about the consciousness of plants. We already know about plant nerves, but moreover, we can distinguish not only responsiveness to light, but also attachment to a specific person. On the one hand, there will be human psychic energy, but on the other hand, there will also be a gravitation towards a certain person. You can see how a plant, in order to please a loved one, even blooms at inopportune times.” In one of her letters, she noted the following facts: “... the remarkable scientist of India, Sir Jagadish Bose... captured the pulse of plants, revealed even to the casual eye how plants react to pain, to light, how its appearance is noted in the pulse, even the slightest distant cloud. The entire spasm of a plant, poisoned or pierced, was noted in full graphic detail on the wall. The impact of human energy on the life of those very plants, which until recently, even in the eyes of civilized people, were only the lowest dead shoots, was also noted. In the movement of the needle, which marks the pulse of the plant, one can observe the influence of human energy of thought. A good thought, a thought of sympathy, could protect plants from the effects of poison. In the same way, an evil thought will intensify its deadly effect.”

Cliff Baxter in 1966, after a series of experiments, confirmed that plants respond not only to human actions, but also to human emotions and thoughts. Professor of the Timiryazev Academy I.I. Guner wrote that electrical signals propagating through plant cells come from a special center on the neck of the root, which contracts and unclenches like a heart muscle. Orwin Wagner, a professor from the USA, claims that if a tree is in danger, it emits “SOS” signals in the form of pulsating waves that travel along the trunk and branches at a speed of up to 1.5 m per second, and in the air - up to 5 m per second. Japanese scientists have found that plants love to listen to music, preferring mainly classical works.

It is strange that after these and other important discoveries, the plant world is still classified as inanimate nature. But regardless of our opinion, plants continue to live their own special life, still in many ways mysterious to us. In the book “Community” we read: “Combinations of plants neighboring in nature should be studied like instruments of an orchestra. Scientists are right when they consider plants as sensitive organisms. The next steps will be to study the impact of groups of plants both on each other and on humans. The sensitivity and impact of plants on the environment is truly amazing! Plants are like the connected substance of our planet, acting on a network of imperceptible interactions.”