Love, Bees and sexual repression !

[DonAsoka]

 Rudolph Steiner had some very interesting insights int Bees and Beekeeping, I thought I would share some of his thoughts with you.
8 Lectures in Dornach, Nov 26, 1923 to Dec 22, 1923
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/beesrvw.htm

[page 2] The bees have a life in which the element is suppressed, very strongly suppressed, which in other animals is expressed through their sexual life. With bees, this element is very much repressed.

    [page 2,3] That which we experience within ourselves only at a time when our hearts develop love is actually the very same thing that is present as a substance in the entire beehive. The whole beehive is permeated with life based on love. In many ways the bees renounce love, and thereby this love develops within the entire beehive.



Don

[NWIN Beekeeper]

[...their sexual life... is very much repressed.]

Now see, this is the problem that I have been dealing with.

Is my sexual life repressed because I hang around with bees too much?
Or do I hang out with bees because my life was already repressed?

I don't know it's sort of chicken or the egg type question.

Then again, I'd probably have more time for sexual being if I wasn't on this board trying to answer questions like this.  :roll:

[Card]

So if I'm understanding Ol' Rudy correctly, what he's saying is that since the queen and the drones are the only bees in the hive that get to breed (and even then only on very rare occasions) that the workers all have a ton of sexual frustration built up, and that's why they work so hard.

I guess I can see that. Although among humans it seems like sexual frustration in humans usually ends up with less work getting done - not more.

...love is actually the very same thing that is present as a substance in the entire beehive.

Yeah. That and propolis, anyway. 8-)

[DonAsoka]

Hola !
I used the heading, Love, Bees and sexual repression , as an attention getter to encourage the reading of the review on Rudolph Stiners book " The Bees "
I hope some of my fellow beekeepers will take the time to read it as it definitely borders if not crosses over to a metaphysical interpretation of our work and relationship with our wonderful friends.

"To understand this next passage it will help some of you if I explain the love life of plants a bit. Plants have only a physical and etheric body. The etheric body is what distinguishes a living reed from an empty stalk, a live petunia from a wilted blob. Plants grow until they are mature and ready to reproduce, at which time, the uppermost leaves modify in color and structure to become what we call flowers. These flowers attract beings that exist in kingdoms higher than the plant kingdom to come to them, to admire them, to sip from them, to pollinate them, to leave traces of life-giving spiritual essence (bee, wasp, ant, insect poisons like formic acid). During the blooming of flowers, the uppermost part of the plant takes on an astral glow, a residue, if you will, from the attention given to the flowers by beings with astral bodies such as insects, animals, humans, etc. Without such attention no plant is able to reproduce itself. A planet with only plants is impossible(2).What's important is to understand that the sexual organs of plants are near the top of their physical bodies, exactly the opposite as for humans. If you have ever seen the glow of new love on someone's face, it should be easy to understand that plants take on this glow when they are in bloom. "
Thats some pretty erotic stuff !

and how about this one ?¿

"[page 3, 4] You can study the matter further by eating the honey. What does the honey do? . . . Honey creates sensual pleasure, at the most, on the tongue. At the moment when you eat honey, it creates the proper connection and relationship between the airy and fluid elements in the human being. There is nothing better for a human being than to add a little honey in the right quantity to food . . . it makes human beings strong.

Don

[Irwin]

This is to much for me  . I'm just trying to get my bee's to make it through winter.

[Scadsobees]

Personally I think somebody doesn't work enough with the bees, and doesn't get enough  ;).  Way too much time to just sit and think.

[NWIN Beekeeper]

[I think somebody doesn't work enough with the bees, and doesn't get enough  .]

Hey Now! - I work my bees plenty!

oh.. you weren't talking about me.
I agree the writer has to get out more.