The Harmony of a Creative Symbiosis; The Story of a Bee and a Flower.

"Bread feeds the body, but flowers feed the soul. Earthly flowers are a living bond between Earth and Heaven.  Their pollen is like magic gold dust and bees carry it into nature to spread life. Through the harmonic symbiosis of  bees and flowers heaven settles down upon earth."  Cassandra Eason

Bees love flowers,  inside this incredible environment, they search for nectar. The force of nature that brings a bee and a flower together is something remarkable. Then comes the creation of honey, just image...  A bee leaves the coolness of the beehive, goes out in the light of day, and flies around until it  gets to a beautiful flower, lands on the flower and goes inside. ... And  there, inside the flower, immersed in a  bouquet of smells and tastes it finds a little puddle of pure nectar, and with it creates a gift for human pleasure, sweet honey.

In,  A Policy of Kindness, The Dalai Lama wrote: “I am attracted to bees because I like honey, it's really delicious.  Their sweet  product is something we cannot produce, or imitate, very beautiful, isn’t it?  Even these insects have certain responsibilities, they work together very nicely.  They have no constitution, they have no law, no police, nothing, but they work together effectively.  We human beings, we have constitutions, we have law, we have a military force, we have religion, we have norms.  But in actual practice, in our society, I think we are behind bees.”

In the "dominant" cycle of the food chain, the strongest kill the weakest and the cycle of life goes on, sometimes this is called the “Grand Design”.  There's nothing wrong with it,  it's just the way it is. Yet, bees follow another plan, they occupy a statistically unique place in the natural world, opposite of  the “Grand Design”.  Bees live  in a full blown embrace with nature. Their relationship with their world is one of benefit, support, and enhancement.  The bee's relationship with the plant  it visits is mutually beneficial.  The consequence of this relationship is that  more flowers are made by cross pollination which, in turn, makes more food for humans produced from those plants.

From early times the bee has been used to represent the image of the Goddess.  Aphrodite,  Goddess of love, was worshipped at a honeycomb-shaped shrine at Mount Eryx. Her High Priestess was called Melissa, meaning bee. The hexagonal shape of the honeycomb (six was the number of Aphrodite and later Venus) was believed to be the sacred geometric shape of harmony. Indeed the mathematician Pythagoras believed that the honeycomb form suggested a symmetry that was reflected in the cosmos itself.
In Greek mythology Melissa is also the name  of the nymph that helped save Zeus from his father, Cronus. She hid him in the hills and fed him honey. When Cronus discovered this, he tried to destroy her  but Zeus, in gratitude, changed her into a Queen bee.  In the ancient world  bees were often seen  as divine messengers and honey was described as  ambrosia or the food  of the Gods. Later on bees also became symbols of the Virgin Mary, she is  the  protectress of beekeepers and consecrated honey is offered on altars  August 15, the date linked with her ascension into heaven.

In the writings, artwork and symbolism of cultures and religions around the world from time immemorial there are references to the bees and the substances they collect in Nature and make in their bodies, namely honey, bee pollen, royal jelly and wax.  These substances, along with the bees and the beehive, have been held in high esteem throughout human history in every part of the world. The bee is symbolic of  community, prosperity, fertility, cooperation,  sweetness, symmetry, and balance. They have  also been considered a flying miracle.  Aerodynamically, a bee's  body is too large for its wings and it should not be able to fly, although now we understand how it does fly (high rate of wing movement). For this reason the bee is  a symbol of accomplishing anything we put our mind to,  and the references are  almost always of renewal, rebirth and new beginnings.