Hunt the Thimble
Introduction
Hunt the thimble is a party game
in which one person hides a thimble,
and the other players "race to locate the hidden object".
The first to find it is the winner.
Similar games exist in Germany, in Poland, in Russia
and in Spanish speaking countries.
And it is even hinted at in Alice in Wonderland,
when the Dodo uses Alice’s thimble as a prize.
Why a thimble? And to be symbolically correct
it should be a thimble and nothing else.
The symbolism is connected to that of the bee
and we have a video on the importance of the bee symbolically,
so this just adds to its importance.
Bee colonies raise only a few queens each year
and the new queen
develops in a specially constructed thimble shaped queen cell.
Finding the right Queen cell
- the one on whom the future of the entire hive is dependent
- is thus a key task for all the bees.
The Queen bee is thus symbolically
an immensely powerful person
- and this is Queen Elizabeth I - a well known "queen bee".
The Bee Goddess
The drone is a male bee. It does nothing other than serve
as a potential mate for the Queen bee.
In symbolic terms the drone is an Initiate,
a man on the path to becoming an Adept.
Assemblies of actual drones
are almost mystical in their behaviour.
They assemble at certain specific locations,
there they buzz around noisily in concentrated groups
waiting for the arrival of the virgin queen.
When the sun is high and the air warm and drowsy,
the Queen bee takes her virgin flight.
A host of drones follow her intoxicated by her scent.
Gradually the weaker and less agile drones fall away
exhausted until only a few are left.
Eventually, one drone, beside himself with desire,
reaches her and there - high high in the air
- he clasps her to him and they mate in the air.
He hangs passively from the queen by his endophallus,
all his reproductive equipment has been extruded from his body
just for this one moment.
The transfer of sperm cells is undertaken by the queen herself
through a strong contraction of her abdominal muscles
which not only pulls his entire phallus into her
but sucks him dry.
But there is a price to pay.
Once she has received his sperm, he is ripped from her.
And in the process all his reproductive organs
are also ripped away.
It is not unusual for the drone’s abdomen
to actually explode in mid-air - and he dies.
He falls back to earth dead.
The phallus remains attached to the queen.
Triumphantly she carries it back to the hive
as a sign that she has succeeded,
her virginity is no more.
So the Queen bee is a symbol of ecstatic death
- annihilation through love.
The Thimble
The thimble is thus the shell hiding the virgin queen.
By carrying a thimble you are advertising
that you are not only already a goddess,
but a High Priestess of some power
- a god maker via love.
In other words a person who is capable
of helping men to achieve the highest stages
of the spiritual path via love in all its variations.
So there is every reason for a man to "Hunt the Thimble"
because by doing so he locates the High Priestess,
able to progress him on the Path.
The "flighty" nature of the Queen
A single drone can deliver up to 6-11 million sperm cells.
But this is only about 10% of all sperm cells
with which she is finally impregnated,
because she has more than one flight
and is impregnated by more than one drone.
In other words, the thimble is a symbol of someone
able to make multiple gods.
And someone very sexually potent.
"Flighty" in fact.
The queen bee stores all the sperm in her sperm gland,
where they are kept fresh and used as a natural sperm bank.
From the eggs that result - around 200,000 are fertilised
and laid each year - all the workers and all future drones.
The female worker bees are born from the fertilised eggs,
the drones from the non-fertilised eggs.
It is the female workers that produce the honey.
Honey is a symbol of spirit input.
Thus symbolically the queen bee is the source of all honey
- spirit input - that results.
And the moral is?
Although the theory of the Queen bee seems to favour the males
and their search for enlightenment through ego death
[and this is William Cecil]
there is a subtle moral side to this symbolism
[and this is Christopher-Hatton].
A bee colony by its very organisation,
is a unit in which the female worker bees
work towards the good of the hive as a whole
[this is Henry Sidney].
The workers are sterile and thus cannot produce eggs,
but nevertheless do all the work
of cleaning and guarding the hive,
foraging and raising the babies - the brood.
They are thus symbols of selfless dedication
- love in its true form.
And it is the Queen who creates them.
Here we see Queen Elizabeth II, at work
as a junior commander in the Auxiliary Territorial Service
during a visit to The Motor Transport Training Centre
in Camberley, Surrey.
And the remaining drones?
[This is Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester who died aged 56].
Drones become superfluous at the end of the mating season.
By the end of summer they are all gone.
Those that remain are no longer fed
and are expelled from the hive. And die.
This is Sir Walter Raleigh - soldier, writer, explorer,
and a "favourite" of Queen Elizabeth I. He was executed.
And such is the spiritual path
[This is Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England
and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England who died aged 51].
There are those who achieve immortality
via their offspring and through annihilation.
This is William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley,
the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign.
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Albert Pollard
From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil
is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth
and from the history of England. [And this is his house]
and those that simply die,
to be reincarnated in the endless wheel of life.
This was John Dee - an English mathematician,
astrologer, occultist and alchemist.
He was the advisor to Elizabeth I,
on alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy.
As such Hunting the Thimble - if you are a man
- is a dangerous game indeed.