The Spirit of the Apple Tree shows us how to transform the earth into a beautiful garden and supports us in doing so. It helps to nourish body, mind and spirit with beauty, pointing out the infinite possible expressions and helping us to find the ones that suit us.

The Spirit of the Apple Tree helps to:

• purify body, mind and spirit
• healing wounds
• recognise, savour and nurture your own beauty
• bringing beauty to the world
• help transform the earth into a paradise.

The virtues of the apple tree

The Spirit of the Apple Tree shows us how to transform the earth into a garden. It reminds us that nourishing body, mind and spirit with beauty is a prerequisite for building paradise on earth, and shows us the thousands of possibilities we have for doing so. The Apple Tree teaches us by its example of varietal abundance that there are infinite expressions of beauty and that each of us can offer our own.

Beauty lies in the care with which we live and honour our bodies. We can choose foods that are full of positive energy, natural products to honour our physical appearance and the many means that Nature offers to maintain and/or restore health.

The Apple Tree shows us how we can find beauty in our thoughts and let go of those that drive it away. It supports us in cultivating thoughts of grace and harmony. We can discover how much splendour lies in so many small and seemingly insignificant events in life.

When we have strayed from the pursuit of beauty and consequently polluted our body, mind and spirit with inappropriate substances and thoughts, the Apple Tree reminds us to cleanse ourselves and shows us the way to do so.

Sometimes they are wounds that prevent us from living in beauty, that remind us and bring us back into counterproductive emotional and mental states. In these cases the Apple Tree assists us in healing the wounds.

The Spirit of the Apple Tree shows us how the beauty that we nurture within us is also reflected in the outside world, and urges us to express it and work to manifest it in our surroundings. We can do this in our own small way by decorating our homes, the places we visit, our environment, our landscapes.

The relevance of the Spirit of the Apple Tree

The topicality of Melo's proposal is clear: there is a great need for people to take care of the Earth, to transform it into a better place, re-founding it on beauty. "Beauty will save the world", as Dostoevsky tells one of his characters. The Spirit of the Apple Tree communicates that this is possible and helps us to do it.

Every profound and lasting change takes place in small steps, and the Apple Tree offers us the opportunity to take many steps, one after the other, and to involve others in this action. In this way we will come ever closer to the ancient dream of living in an earthly paradise.