Nature offers us gateways to the sacred: it can be read as the book of life. It was also used by the ancients as a universal symbol containing universal truths and wisdom. Nature symbolism was part of the teachings, whose symbols were used and interpreted in relation to individuals and their development.
Symbols were known to be a means of communicating the truth of the invisible worlds. Symbols are the human mind’s way of crossing the threshold between the objective world and higher realities. The sages of antiquity knew that if they constructed images of metaphysical reality according to the models of objects and phenomena of the known world, they would arrive at the truth.
They spoke the language of meaningful forms, not that of words. An object or event in nature brings meaning and meaning that words alone never could. The words may not represent a truth, the symbolism of nature does. It unfolds its truth constantly, in the same way it did thousands of years ago.
Although it is destroyed and polluted, its functions and cycles remain the same, its powerful esoteric meaning is not altered. Whether in a patch of greenery in an urban park or in the heart of wild forests, whether animal or plant.
The simplicity of nature cannot confuse the intellect in an escalation of sophistication and aesthetics, its truth is direct and profound at the same time. Too simple at first glance to interest the modern mind, which is often attracted by complex or exotic teachings.
In this logic, a bee, a cloud or a tree can provide more answers and universal cosmic truths than a Himalayan guru or thousands of words.
Crises in the modern world can bring global travel and trade, book production, and modern communications to a screeching halt. All that will remain is nature, which is so close, but also sometimes so strange, because modern man has had little opportunity to touch its initiatory mysteries.
Words can confuse a message and distort the truth. Nature never.