Honey is a remarkable substance in many ways. It keeps for years
without any preservation process – a very long time, especially if
you compare it to the lifespan of a worker-bee, which is about one
or two months. So the bees take a sexually-related product and
turn it into a non-perishable substance. This of course reminds us
of the alchemical processes by which the sexual force is
transmuted and which result in the formation of the body of
immortality. On a simpler level, royal jelly, another product of
the hive, is highly sought after and regarded as a substance of
longevity.
Honey, interestingly enough, has always been considered an
excellent remedy for the throat, and bees a symbol of eloquence.
In Hebrew one of the words for voice is dibur, coming from the
root daber that gives the verb ledaber, to speak. And bee is dvora,
coming from the same root. (The name Deborah comes from the
Hebrew dvora, bee.)
barré
(Barré)
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