Mind, Body & Spirit
This book is an invitation to enter the Rose Garden: the sanctuary of the soul that resides within every human heart.
For the Rose is one of the loveliest symbols of spirituality in the western world: a timeless expression of beauty, love, and, ultimately, oneness with the Divine.
Each chapter will take you on a mystical journey through myth, religion, sacred art and poetry, including the Rose in the classical world, the medieval visions of Mary, the wisdom of the Sufi mystics, the hidden codes of the Alchemists, the ceremonies of 19th century magical orders, and the poems of modern visionaries, along with rose windows, the Kabbalah, tarot cards and more.
Within the Rose Garden guided meditations offer gentle but profound nourishment to the soul leading to a sense of inner peace and a deeper connectedness with the essential Self through a uniquely Western path.
One reader affirms: ‘I have travelled over a long time down many different roads to heal myself from the wounds I have suffered. However, Mara, it is your meditations that have been so fruitful for me. The Fire of Roses meditation feels as if on a deep level I have found and own myself with clarity and light’.
Here's what readers have to say about this book....
Mara Freeman's life's work has been to offer seekers on the path a profound route into their personal quest. Her earlier books, Kindling the Celtic Spirit and Grail Alchemy, are two of my go-to resources for finding the depths of mystery in this world and in others. I was keen to read her latest book, Sacred Rose: The Soul's Path to Beauty and Wisdom. Filled with magnificent colour illustrations, and with rose-centred meditations which can be undertaken to fully illuminate the deeper messages and learning within the book, this book will delight any person on a spiritual quest.
I loved reading this book and no doubt will return to it many times. I could feel the beauty of the sacred rose through the poetry, artwork and narrative. It is heart-warming in its appreciation of the rose in all its many guises, and it is soul-opening in its potential to help the reader along their spiritual path. The artwork is beautiful, as are the meditations, which will help anyone with an interest in the spiritual side of life to experience the transformational quality of the rose. As a rose-fan, I have never come across such a clear and full teaching on how the soul can walk the path of the rose, and I appreciated learning about it from the perspectives of many different traditions. For me, this book pulled together so many aspects of the sacred rose, and helped me understand the wisdom that is held within it's beauty. It has been a great help to me and also a really enjoyable and compelling read.
I have always had a deep love for the Roses. Mara's new book Sacred Rose: The Soul's Path to Beauty and Wisdom is exactly that! It is a beautiful tome filled with history, poetry, and knowledge. This beautiful book provides the reader with a way to spiritually connect with the Rose! Mara takes you on a Rose-filled journey from the beginning of time to the modern day revealing the esoteric nature of the Rose. She unfurls the magic and mystery of the Rose in an elegant and concise way. Rose lovers and those interested in the mysteries of the divine feminine will not be disappointed! I highly recommend this enjoyable read to anyone who loves the Rose!
In this wonderful book Mara takes the reader on a journey to many traditions and cultures that have understood this queen of flowers as sacred. Each chapter contains well researched historical and sacred scripts, poetry and legend, then invites the reader to take a personal journey of discovery through rose-centred meditations, to which I return again and again. This book is beyond a knowledge of the rose to become personal experience. Highly recommended
I have travelled over a long time down many different roads to heal myself from the wounds I have suffered. However, Mara, it is your meditations that have been so fruitful for me. The Fire of Roses meditation feels as if on a deep level I have found and own myself with clarity and light.
