By Dusty Miller 13.
LiveWood is very special wood donated by a sacred tree spirit (one of the Woodland Gods of long ago) for human use. The lovely 'feel' comes from the fact that it is the abode of a Dryad (Tree Spirit). This Dryad is a civilised clone of the original 'wild' Tree Dryad, who donated the LiveWood. Although invisible, Dryads are great fun to carry around, as they operate on the same levels as your own Higher Self; which means that the two of you can become friends on all levels. You will notice the benefit of this in the way they help you to 'Keep your Cool' yet give you the confidence you need to overcome stressful situations.
Co-operating with rare Sacred Trees and encouraging them to donate LiveWood; is an ancient Elfin Art that goes right back, through the mists of time, to the New Stone Age. In fact, examples of this pre-historic Art, are as rare as 'Five-leaf Clovers', in our modern world and as far as we know, there is only one surviving family, in the entire world, who have the passed-down know-how to produce LiveWood. They are a real Elfin family where all the
children have the same name (Dusty) and they trade under the traditional name of Dusty Miller and Son. The current Grandfather (Dusty the 13th) describes their work in the following manner:-
LiveWood Dusty Miller and Son, is a very small family business that has been involved in the magical production of 'LiveWood' Wands and 'LiveWood' Healing Tools for many centuries. All of our LiveWood Object d'Art are produced individually in the time honored traditional manner that dates back, with our family history, to the pre-Celtic Days of the WildWood. Effective LiveWood instruments can only be made with the active co-operation of the life force resident within the tree itself. As every tree is but the physical body of a Nature Spirit, known as a Tree Dryad, success in this field depends entirely on the degree of contact and the mutual agreement achieved. By using the sacred methods, rites and rituals laid down by the ancient woodcraft lore of the Old Religion, we have been able to talk with our Sacred Trees and achieve a very high degree of success. In simple terms, we (the Dusty Millers) have learnt to work WITH Mother Nature, instead of ON her, and the co-operation gained is truly fantastic, making our work very special. This rapport with trees is a very ancient and mystical art, but we have found it well worth the twenty-five long years of apprenticeship needed to achieve it. Although aware of us humans, most Dryads are not interested in mankind at all and tend to ignore us completely. However, for some unknown reason, those
Dryads that live on Ley-Lines, seem to go out of their way to be friendly. It is, as if, the barrier between their world and ours is much thinner on Ley-Lines, due maybe, to the Earth Energies that pulse along the Leys. This is why all our LiveWood Dryads were 'born and bred' on these lines of power. Trees can be predominantly Male or Female, or (more usually) both: whereas Dryads are always Neuter. This means that Dryads can only reproduce by sub-dividing themselves to form a 'Clone'. The New 'Clone' Dryad is immediately as old and knows everything the original Dryad knew. This means, in effect, that all Dryads are the same age; but in fact they are actually timeless and to all intents and purposes, immortal. The 'Tame' or domesticated Clone-Dryads use a piece of LiveWood from their parent tree, to anchor them to the physical world. Thus, even though they are very active in the psychic world, they still keep a 'sleeping partner' in our physical world.
Apart from LiveWood, we ought to mention that there are three other types of wood. 'Livingwood, Deadwood and Greenwood'.
'Livingwood' is the flexible, living wood that forms the body of a growing tree. It is in the business of being a tree and growing bigger and stronger all the time. 'Deadwood' is wood that for one reason or another, is no longer growing and has been rejected by both the tree and the Dryad, and has been put into a self-destruct mode. Autumn leaves are a good example of this withdrawal of the life-force, when the tree no longer needs them. Unfortunately, Deadwood isn't much good for anything apart from use as fuel or when rotted down as food for other trees as part of the woodland food-chain. 'Greenwood', on the other hand, is wood stolen from the tree by force. As soon as the Tree Spirit see the thief approaching, the Dryad will quickly vacate the tree, so that all the thief gets is an abandoned branch without any life-force in it. But as it isn't in the self-destruct mode, the branch will in fact die slowly, leaving behind a dead body known as timber, that mankind has found very useful. Once the thief has gone the Dryad will again enliven the tree, and things will return to normal. Most of our LiveWood items grew on incredibly ancient trees growing either along the pre-historic 'Ley-lines' or Earth Energy force fields that criss-cross our English North Kent countryside, or in one of the Elfin 'Hallowed Places' that mark their inter-sections. This is because the vibrations of these lines of force appear to have a very beneficial and strengthening effect on anything growing along their path. Likewise, all of our LiveWood comes from trees sacred to the Old Religion, because the combination of these two factors results in a much more reliable sort of Dryad.
Under normal circumstances, whenever a branch is cut from a tree, the Dryad withdraws the life-force from the branch and allows it to die, but with our method, the Dryad is only too happy to leave a sub-division or 'clone' of itself in the branch, so that the branch now has its own personal Dryad. It is somewhat similar to growing a plant from a cutting. This new Dryad, no longer attached to a tree, suddenly finds It can do a lot of things that It couldn't do before, and for our purposes It needs to be domesticated or tamed to help It to develop a higher degree of self-control. This is done by performing all the necessary rituals of the ancient woodcraft lore evolved during the hey-day of the Old Religion. This normally results in a unique LiveWood Tool complete with one or more resident Dryads, each capable of greatly amplifying and guiding any thought-forms produced by the user of the
tool. But, Beware! Every LiveWood Dryad, always has a strong character of its own and no guarantee of Its co-operation can be given. They will only work with the people they like and can trust. It will, therefore, pay you to take the time to make friends with them first, before requesting their help. The more you win their confidence, the more help they will give you. Treat them like a friend and they will give you a lifetime of devoted service.
Blessed Be!
LiveWood is very special wood donated by a sacred tree spirit (one of the Woodland Gods of long ago) for human use. The lovely 'feel' comes from the fact that it is the abode of a Dryad (Tree Spirit). This Dryad is a civilised clone of the original 'wild' Tree Dryad, who donated the LiveWood. Although invisible, Dryads are great fun to carry around, as they operate on the same levels as your own Higher Self; which means that the two of you can become friends on all levels. You will notice the benefit of this in the way they help you to 'Keep your Cool' yet give you the confidence you need to overcome stressful situations.
Co-operating with rare Sacred Trees and encouraging them to donate LiveWood; is an ancient Elfin Art that goes right back, through the mists of time, to the New Stone Age. In fact, examples of this pre-historic Art, are as rare as 'Five-leaf Clovers', in our modern world and as far as we know, there is only one surviving family, in the entire world, who have the passed-down know-how to produce LiveWood. They are a real Elfin family where all the
children have the same name (Dusty) and they trade under the traditional name of Dusty Miller and Son. The current Grandfather (Dusty the 13th) describes their work in the following manner:-
LiveWood Dusty Miller and Son, is a very small family business that has been involved in the magical production of 'LiveWood' Wands and 'LiveWood' Healing Tools for many centuries. All of our LiveWood Object d'Art are produced individually in the time honored traditional manner that dates back, with our family history, to the pre-Celtic Days of the WildWood. Effective LiveWood instruments can only be made with the active co-operation of the life force resident within the tree itself. As every tree is but the physical body of a Nature Spirit, known as a Tree Dryad, success in this field depends entirely on the degree of contact and the mutual agreement achieved. By using the sacred methods, rites and rituals laid down by the ancient woodcraft lore of the Old Religion, we have been able to talk with our Sacred Trees and achieve a very high degree of success. In simple terms, we (the Dusty Millers) have learnt to work WITH Mother Nature, instead of ON her, and the co-operation gained is truly fantastic, making our work very special. This rapport with trees is a very ancient and mystical art, but we have found it well worth the twenty-five long years of apprenticeship needed to achieve it. Although aware of us humans, most Dryads are not interested in mankind at all and tend to ignore us completely. However, for some unknown reason, those
Dryads that live on Ley-Lines, seem to go out of their way to be friendly. It is, as if, the barrier between their world and ours is much thinner on Ley-Lines, due maybe, to the Earth Energies that pulse along the Leys. This is why all our LiveWood Dryads were 'born and bred' on these lines of power. Trees can be predominantly Male or Female, or (more usually) both: whereas Dryads are always Neuter. This means that Dryads can only reproduce by sub-dividing themselves to form a 'Clone'. The New 'Clone' Dryad is immediately as old and knows everything the original Dryad knew. This means, in effect, that all Dryads are the same age; but in fact they are actually timeless and to all intents and purposes, immortal. The 'Tame' or domesticated Clone-Dryads use a piece of LiveWood from their parent tree, to anchor them to the physical world. Thus, even though they are very active in the psychic world, they still keep a 'sleeping partner' in our physical world.
Apart from LiveWood, we ought to mention that there are three other types of wood. 'Livingwood, Deadwood and Greenwood'.
'Livingwood' is the flexible, living wood that forms the body of a growing tree. It is in the business of being a tree and growing bigger and stronger all the time. 'Deadwood' is wood that for one reason or another, is no longer growing and has been rejected by both the tree and the Dryad, and has been put into a self-destruct mode. Autumn leaves are a good example of this withdrawal of the life-force, when the tree no longer needs them. Unfortunately, Deadwood isn't much good for anything apart from use as fuel or when rotted down as food for other trees as part of the woodland food-chain. 'Greenwood', on the other hand, is wood stolen from the tree by force. As soon as the Tree Spirit see the thief approaching, the Dryad will quickly vacate the tree, so that all the thief gets is an abandoned branch without any life-force in it. But as it isn't in the self-destruct mode, the branch will in fact die slowly, leaving behind a dead body known as timber, that mankind has found very useful. Once the thief has gone the Dryad will again enliven the tree, and things will return to normal. Most of our LiveWood items grew on incredibly ancient trees growing either along the pre-historic 'Ley-lines' or Earth Energy force fields that criss-cross our English North Kent countryside, or in one of the Elfin 'Hallowed Places' that mark their inter-sections. This is because the vibrations of these lines of force appear to have a very beneficial and strengthening effect on anything growing along their path. Likewise, all of our LiveWood comes from trees sacred to the Old Religion, because the combination of these two factors results in a much more reliable sort of Dryad.
Under normal circumstances, whenever a branch is cut from a tree, the Dryad withdraws the life-force from the branch and allows it to die, but with our method, the Dryad is only too happy to leave a sub-division or 'clone' of itself in the branch, so that the branch now has its own personal Dryad. It is somewhat similar to growing a plant from a cutting. This new Dryad, no longer attached to a tree, suddenly finds It can do a lot of things that It couldn't do before, and for our purposes It needs to be domesticated or tamed to help It to develop a higher degree of self-control. This is done by performing all the necessary rituals of the ancient woodcraft lore evolved during the hey-day of the Old Religion. This normally results in a unique LiveWood Tool complete with one or more resident Dryads, each capable of greatly amplifying and guiding any thought-forms produced by the user of the
tool. But, Beware! Every LiveWood Dryad, always has a strong character of its own and no guarantee of Its co-operation can be given. They will only work with the people they like and can trust. It will, therefore, pay you to take the time to make friends with them first, before requesting their help. The more you win their confidence, the more help they will give you. Treat them like a friend and they will give you a lifetime of devoted service.
Blessed Be!