A Pearl is hidden, too delicate for this World, too Beautiful for the greedy eyes of Men. It is encased in a multitude of layers and lost in Immense Blue. Safe and Protected the Pearl is content, catching tides of journeys, feeling the spinning of Life. Always Knowing and Valuing the gentle, strong arms that encase her. Deep within the Pearl is a secondary need, one she really doesn’t understand too well, there is a little part of her, right at the centre, that sings a sweet Tune. The melody engages her in a dance. The movement tells a story of Being Fire. Nothing but Desire. But this desire is cooled by Water and turned to Stone. The Expression of Stone is Rigidity and The World Demands that nothing is Rigid. So slowly, breaks a little, then a little more… Till the Stone melts to a billion parts of its sum.
As the Billion disperse, to fulfil their billion reasons for Being, one or two (or maybe more) find their way into the Caves of joined Shells.
Which causes much Irritation to the Oysters who made their shells to snugly fit their bodies. Not knowing the Bigger Picture, the Oysters are disturbed by this Foreign Body inside their previously Peaceful Being.
And therefore do their best to cover it with the smooth silky liquid
with which they make their inner shell. But their problem does not go away from covering it!
No, it Grows!
Bigger and Bigger, to the Oysters’ Lament!
Until the Little Grain of Sand believes,
That She is the core of the Shell!
And the Oyster is merely her padded protection!
We would maybe expect the Oyster to be Greatly concerned with this development.
But the Oyster is Now a Mother.
That which was foreign is now
Made of more Shell than Sand. And like all Mothers is Gracious
to her child’s arrogance.
So asks:
“My beautiful Core, What is Your Desire?”
The Pearl focuses on the deepest Part of herself and finds a voice:
“I have travelled through Fire, Earth and Water.
I believe my destiny will be fulfilled in the next Element.”
Neither Mother nor Daughter question how, this journey will happen, both knowing the expression of this thought unlocked the door into the next Reality. And here the melody is left quivering in Anticipation:
The Pearl feels this abstract secondary need, push through her Primary need for Protection and at this moment… The Oyster and The Pearl feel the Earth fall from them and the Water push Down on them as they are brought to Air. As The Mother is Split in two, her body Chokes on the Air. Her Spiritual Being returns to Source while she sees Ethereal Rainbows encased in Her Child’s body. She feels the warmth of Man to hold something so Precious. So Proud is the Shell’s Spirit to be part of the Creation of Perfection. The manifestation that can only come through the Journey of the Earthly Elements but having completed the Journey is the Physical Reflection of the Total: The Spirit.