Beauty for Ashes: The Universe’s Trade Shop

How to Master your Mental and Personal Transformation

He gives beauty for ashes, strength for fear, gladness for mourning,
Peace for despair
“Beauty for Ashes” — Crystal Lewis

The Bargain of All Ages

If there is one thing The Universe loves, is a good bargain. The resourcefulness of creation is a faithful testament to the belief that nothing is truly created nor destroyed, rather it must simply be transformed from one state to another. This means that everything you see, smell, touch, hear, taste has been transformed into existence within the Mind of the All. Nothing is new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9), and neither are you.

Everything you are is borrowed energy, a physical and dense formation of a thought-form that both precedes and follows you. You see, the thought that thought of you long before you were formed in your mother’s womb (Jeremiah 1:5), already existed. Before you condensed into a physical timeline, you already were — in fact, you always were, and you shall ever be, for you exists within the Mind of the All.

As you dive deeper into your nature, you come to realize that you are neither your thoughts, nor the memories and experiences you have lived thus far. If you are neither of these things, what exactly are you? The aspect you call the soul is an accumulation of patterns accumulated both personally and ancestrally; your soul is composed of a variety of essences (energy). Just like a mosaic, your soul is composed of various shards of fragmented experiences and memories that come together to create a picture, the current you.

How do you alter a picture you see? By altering the components of that picture. For what is within you is made manifest in this inverted reality. If you do not like the fruits you are biting into, it is time to change the seeds you are planting. The state of your conscience is contingent on the words that come out of your mouth, and what comes out of your mouth is what is within your heart (Matthew 15:18). What is within your heart that must be transformed, altered, changed? What bitter fruits are you biting into that no longer satisfies your hunger?

The Chemistry of the Soul

Inner emotional alchemy exists to rejuvenate, renew and revitalize the frequency within you. As you renew the frequency within you, you begin to alter what you attract and magnetize. The lighter your density, the more weightless you become in mind, body and Spirit. The more you are willing to let go of all the pain, resentment, unforgiveness that is no longer serving you, the more you transmute (change in form, nature, or substance) the components of the soul.

Alchemy is the esoteric study of changing base metals to gold. Since many of us do not own a lair with ancient apparatuses or potions, we will go into the metaphorical meaning on how alchemy applies to you and your waking life. You must understand that the rhythm of life is not chronological, rather it is cyclical and spiral. This means that today you can choose to be different, you can be bold enough to leave the jackets of the past and conditionings to perfect your soul. You have the luxury of trading in what you no longer want; you can cash in your tears for laughter, your infirmity for wellness, your past for a new future, your sorrow for joy, despair for a peace that surpasses all human logic and understanding.

Just like the psalmist sings, “This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalms 118:24). Joy is a choice, peace is a choice, a new mind and life is a choice; the good news is that you have the privilege of free-will. You dictate the state of your soul by dictating how you want to feel. What do you want to feel less of? Now give it up and trade it in for what you want to feel more of.

The environmental, social, childhood, cultural, religious, political influences that have painted your soul have assisted you in creating the current life you experience. Take a bite into your reality, what does it taste like? Is it like milk and honey to your tongue? Are you living your Heaven on Earth? Or are you living the same experiences, emotions, behaviors, patterns over and over again? It is time to alchemize the soul, it is time to transmute what you no longer desire into a state of desirability.

Reality is rooted in your belief systems; the Universe operates within systems. Whether it is systems of galaxies, or environmental systems of equal give and take (symbiosis), your internal reality also works through systems. As a mini-Universe, you are built of systems, skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, reproductive, lymphatic; these systems also exist within the mind. Your mind projects beliefs stemming from a cycle of thought that originates from the state of your soul.

Are you overburdened? Are you weighed down by what was done to you in the past? Are you still holding on to the bitterness of the fruits you have eaten in the past? It is time to let it go, it is time to move forward, to trade it in. You do not have to continue living a life of defeat or pain. You do not have to live a life of fear, limitations, bondage, addictions, sad narratives and woeful moments. Decide today, this moment that you are ready for new and allow The Universe to show you just how delighted it is in assisting you into your rightful heritage, as a co-creator of your reality.

The Universe has always given you what you have asked for. It does not listen to your word, rather it listens to your heart and its intent. When we say the Lord seeks those in Spirit and Truth, it means that it seeks those who dare strip away the essence of who they have been told they are, instead, they create who they truly are — the likeness and image of The Universe. The likeness and image of The Universe is consistently making all things new. It is constantly changing from one form to another, to another and another form.

Nothing is new under the sun, again, just like life decomposes and gives nutrients to the underground network of mycelium, new life springs forth from what was once dead. Likewise, you are a new life waiting to happen, a new story waiting to be told. The magic of the cosmos is in the destruction and creation of all things, you too possess the magic to destroy and create worlds within your internal reality. Destroy what no longer is serving your vision and blueprint of your soul, as you alter and adapt.

From Base to Gold

Create beauty by giving the ugliness away to be transformed. As you change the essence of your soul, you begin to change the chemistry of your thoughts, neutralizing the chemistry of your body. You reset your nervous system, heal the mind and body as you enter a state of being a powerful alchemist. All is in the mind, therefore produce thoughts that raise you above the state of base [lower states of consciousness], as you transform into purified, solid, forged by fire gold.

This is the path of your soul, to take the lemons and create a profitable lemonade stand. That is your incredible super-power, you replace one thing for another, changing on form one to another. Shapeshift the makeup of your soul, mind, and reality as you trade it all in at The Universe’s pawn shop.

Go forth in renewal, it suits you.

In Love and in Oneness,