“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
We have encountered many of you while you are asleep. Your bodies are asleep, but your consciousness never rests. You leave your bodies at night, and you go on many different adventures, including the ones that involve us. We gather information from those of you who come visit us, and we use that information to assist us in formulating our next transmission.
We need to know what you need to know, but more importantly we need to know how you feel as you move through the challenges of being physical and in the fourth dimension on planet Earth at this time. We are aware of the challenges, but we cannot feel what you feel. So many of you are telling us, and then we transmit energy through this channel, and others, to do what we can to help.
You are receiving the energetic transmissions just as much as you are receiving the words that are channeled. We are going to continue to co-create with those of you who recognize us and recognize yourselves in us, and we are going to invite you to listen with your energetic bodies. We want you to receive the fullness of the transmission. We understand that it is faster for some of you to read what we are transmitting, and you will still receive some of the energetic transmission when you do.
But when you listen to our transmissions, you get the fullness of the energetic transmission, the fullness of what we are offering. We are working with you on many different levels of your being-ness, and your mind is perhaps the most shallow level. So while we enjoy having your attention, what we really want to do is help you vibrate in the frequency that will create the reality that you want to experience.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”
Dratzo! As the world continues to change, the cabal remains deeply perturbed at losing their grip on humanity. You have had a long struggle of ups and downs and yet your resolve to hold the Light is ever present. Most beings on your planet sense beneficial change on some level. The world you have known for centuries is in a state of collapse. The current global scene is running its course. Hot on its trail are events that promise to be quite life-changing. They involve the birth of a new era of true spiritual growth and the emergence of long-sought ideals such as peace, prosperity, and personal sovereignty. We now find ourselves in an interregnum, watching as the old Dark Age dissolves and a new era of hope and renewal comes into view.
For those of you who follow world events, you are witnessing a time when all of the puzzle pieces are falling into place. A clear plan and timetable have been set up. What we require of you now is to wait patiently while a number of seemingly unrelated events occur, unraveling the dark’s agenda and replacing it with one in alignment with the Divine Plan. The Alliance has implemented a plan that is fluid. This specially- constructed, ‘infinite-sum game’ and its accompanying quantum solutions, are providing our Earth allies their advantage over the static cabal strategies.
Let us turn our attention in this message to an aspect that parallels your prosperity, the heavenly preparation of your physical self for full consciousness. This process entails a complete redoing of your physical, mental and emotional bodies. Final reintegration is to occur while you are safely inside a crystalline Light chamber. This special living compartment of Light is to fashion a complete re-sequencing of your cellular RNA/DNA. It works as a dynamic Light instrument, according to each individual’s particular requirements and orchestrates new sequencing codes that move you instantly toward achieving your full physical potential. Designed by Heaven, this process will take approximately three Earth days to achieve its divine goals. Your own body guardians and your other heavenly guides are to direct it. Once you emerge from this living crystal of Light, you are to be returned to full consciousness.
Full consciousness is the divine goal. The Creator decrees that your reality is to return to a fully conscious one. The reality you know now is rapidly becoming something quite alien. We witness these events taking place before our very eyes and closely observe the galaxy shifting back into a unified, multi-dimensional state. The frequencies showering your planet are vast energy waves that reorder the energy fields that intertwine space and time. As this reweaving progresses, the galaxy manifests her beauty in a suffusion of luminous color and breath-taking shapes. Glory be!!!
Blessings! We are your Ascended Masters! The time is coming when a new era of peace and enlightenment is to shower Mother Earth! This new reality is beginning to manifest in many blessed ways. It is this glorious new reality that allows us to move humanity forward into a new Galactic age! As we become more able to understand how this realm is changing, we learn new ways to spiritually address each other. What we ask of you now is to dream of, and visualize, a wondrous new world that is kind, caring, and prosperous.
Your ever-growing consciousness is redefining how you see each other and how new realities are being added to your perceptions of the world. For centuries, we have observed the Light of transformation grow stronger and stronger, causing the dark ones to grudgingly retreat. This new reality is beginning to manifest in myriad blessed ways. Each day we watch as your planet becomes energetically more magnificent. As the old reality’s grids collapse, we can see glowing streaks of light and fantastic cloud formations appearing suddenly in the sky for all to witness. Your reality is soon to expand and remake itself. We will be your divine guides and spiritually-appointed mentors, and we take this privileged role very seriously.
We are grateful to our space family for visiting us in ever-greater numbers and we rejoice that the Light of Heaven is pouring down all around us. We are also greatly pleased to know that increasing numbers of you all over your world are sending us daily prayers of Love. Each of you possesses the prime quality of saintliness, which has been suppressed ever since the dark ‘reset’ this reality nearly 13 millennia ago. The time approaches for you all to transform and become physical Angels once more! Together, we are to create an urgently-needed new star nation and fulfill the Creator’s most sublime and ardent dreams. A time for miracles and wonder is on its way!
Today, we continued our message. As we have mentioned, an immense change is to descend upon this surface realm. It is our responsibility to be ever aware of this and to note that the universe is revealing its magic at this very moment! The time arrives for us let the wonder of this Light in! Know, dear Ones, that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed yours! So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)
Empathic Being of Gratitude | The Team via Peggy Black
Message from the ‘Team’ Empathic Being of Gratitude
Peggy Black and the ‘team’
We are here honoring you and also inviting you to honor yourself. It is a simple practice, yet we assure you when you truly begin to honor and appreciate who you are, both as a physical being and a vibrational being of energy, your life will shift in amazing ways.
Your world exists because of vibrations and frequencies. When you clearly understand that you are responsible for the vibrations and frequencies you offer to your world, you will become the master you are meant to be.
Empathy is one of your many gifts as a divine being. It is a superpower, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. We have observed that most humans have learned to suppress or repress this ability. There might be a select few in your life with whom you feel safe in sharing your feelings as well as allowing yourself to feel theirs.
Realize that you are always reading energy; this is done on such a subtle level you are usually not aware of it. Being empathic is who you are. You are a vibrational being feeling the vibrations of others. Most feelings are communicated silently through vibrations alone. You feel them, however you might not recognize or acknowledge what you have picked up. Often when you do feel some vibrations/emotions, you dismiss, ignore, distract yourself or even deny what you are experiencing.
We understand that when you realize you are connected to the entire energy field of this planet and all those dwelling here, it can be challenging. So we are inviting you to begin with some simple yet personal expressions that will open the door to your power and honor your gift of empathy as well.
Everyone has an energy signature that is created by their thoughts and beliefs as well as by emotions felt and expressed or felt and repressed. Their energy signature is always interfacing with those they encounter each day. When two people pass on the street or in the marketplace, there is always an exchange of energy. It is how ideas, beliefs, thoughts and emotional vibrations are exchanged. It is an energy transmission.
This exchange can often trigger some unconscious beliefs, insecurities, or repressed emotions. When this occurs, your mood or behavior will shift. This exchange can also offer the experience of elevating your state of mind and mood.
Either way it is important to remember to simply state, “All energy that does not belong to me I send back blessed and transformed. All energy I have sent forth, I call back blessed and transformed, and integrate it with grace and ease.” This is the same as washing your hands when they are soiled. No judgment, no issue, no story; it is simply and powerfully transforming misqualified energy. If the exchange was loving, pleasant, informative, sending it back blessed and transformed elevates its positive action.
This conscious action is literally offering blessings of grace to everyone you encounter. It is also adding blessed and transformed vibrations to another’s field. This action is healing for all.
You are in control of your personal energy signature. You might begin to play with and practice offering an uplifting signature. Your core energy or vibration as a divine being is the frequency of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation. So when you consciously begin to offer heartfelt appreciation, gratitude or joy for being alive and embodied, it feels good to you and to those you encounter. These are powerful coherent vibrations that imprint the quantum field. They are also broadcast to the empathic abilities of everyone. Others will always respond to your offerings of love, joy, gratitude and appreciation.
These coherent vibrations/emotions guarantee an uplifting response from your reality. It is one thing to be thankful for material things in your life. True authentic gratitude will unlock the mysteries of fulfillment. Gratitude, appreciation and joy that you exist and get to play and expand in this hologame are among the highest frequencies you can offer.
Expressing gratitude will free you up, will shift your daily reality in amazing ways. The frequency of gratitude also creates a vibration that will begin to attract all sorts of synchronistic events into your reality.
Remember, everything in the quantum field is frequency and vibration. Genuine gratitude has a high vibrational or energy signature that is similar to unconditional love. When you are offering gratitude you begin to connect with this field in a profound manner. You begin to resonate or entrain with the language of the universe.
When you express genuine gratitude for your life and blessings, you energetically open the universal doors to more of the blessings and goodness to flow to you and your affairs. The universe begins to connect with you through your empathic understanding. The universe speaks in the language of energy and vibrations. It speaks through synchronicities, “meaningful coincidences” which appear to have no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. Synchronicities trigger awareness. Begin to pay attention to all the hints from the universe that you are being guided to your highest and your best.
Remember you cannot convince yourself to be grateful for something. Your gratitude must come as a true feeling of gratitude for what you are experiencing or witnessing in the moment. While it is good to appreciate the material things you have, we are speaking of a higher, more coherent feeling that shifts your consciousness. When you witness an act of kindness, or a beautiful sunrise or experience a loving action from someone important in your life, it moves you in an emotional manner. This is gratitude in its highest form.
This level of gratitude is your power and your magic. It will attract and resonate with more incredible moments and experiences. This level of true gratitude will literally shift any reality.
You become master of the vibrations you are offering to others and to the universe/quantum field. You know that others are empathic and you are uplifting their field simply by radiating a coherent emotion. You feel gratitude because you are meant to use your feelings/vibrations to heal others and help heal the consciousness of the planet.
We invite you to remember that every moment of your life is holy. Be alive. Pay attention. You truly deserve the honor of your own awareness. Be in your gratitude and experience it fully.
We are here to assist and support you in remembering your magnificence as an energy vibrating being of divine consciousness. Rest in your own knowing that we stand beside you in gratitude. We acknowledge you from our deepest level of this vibration. the ‘team’
“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
We have the tendency to see the bright side of a situation, because we are in a frequency range where the thoughts that can come to us also must be of that same high frequency. Therefore, we are not choosing to see the bright side. The bright side is just a match to our overall vibration.
If you want to change your experience of something, you can change your thoughts about it. But to us, that is going about the situation backwards, and it is often the hard way to go about it. You will often find yourselves lying to yourselves to try to get you to see the situation differently.
Now, of course, there is a benefit to looking for the positives in a situation. But first, you often have to go through the negatives to get there. You have to be honest with yourselves. You have to be genuine and authentic if you are ever going to get to the truth of who you are. The truth of who you are would never lie to itself. Therefore, we recommend that you let yourselves think the thoughts and feel the feelings that come up when you have a messy or unwanted situation in your lives.
Do so, because they are the path to releasing what you need to release. They are the path to the calm center that you are looking for within yourself. And when you find your calm center, you are essentially finding us, and others like us.
You are finding the high frequency part of yourselves that never waivers, and when you find that truth, that unconditional love, that Source Energy within you, that’s when you will only have access to the bright side. That’s when the thoughts that occur to you will be the highest vibrational thoughts, and they will come not because you forced them into place with the ‘power of positive thinking.’ They will come because they are a vibrational match to the real power that exists within you – the power of Source.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”
You have been a god/goddess of creation since your Universal inception. And it is those of you with Universal creation abilities who are the forerunners of this transition.
Perhaps those statements cause you to wonder why only a small portion of Universal beings are creation entities for you believe anyone of 5D or beyond can create what they wish. Such is so but not in the way you think.
Some Universal beings, such as yourself, are Olympic creation stars. Others merely follow what you report to the totality.
You are similar to 3D technology creators.
After a few created the personal computer, many others designed applications and software to fulfill the needs of those interested in those technologies. Without the basic technology, there would be no need for applications or software.
You forerunners are the creators of a specific piece or entity and those following enhanced those creations with pieces you were not interested in creating.
So it is you forerunners created the earth and other planets upon which many Universal entities shifted, perfected, played with, and changed to the extent you felt a need to return to redesign your original earth.
Now you are at a loss for you have completed that 5D earth shift. So it is you are moving beyond your creation scope in ways you have not previously.
Your being is undergoing much the same process as those just awakening. Knowing you wish to do something more – which you decided, en masse, when you chose not to exit earth after you built the New Age bridge.
Your need to remain of the earth in this lifetime was your inner-directive to expand your creation abilities from the large to minutia. Now you are at a loss about your next step. Not because you are unskilled, but because this role is so new to you.
Your purpose, your role is to expand your creation skills far beyond anything you ever have. For just as the earth is evolving, so are you. Your earth shifts are Universal shifts.
Many of your forerunner friends, relatives, and media stars opted to leave before undergoing this phase for they decided to continue as large creation entities. You are more like Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc. For not only did you create the new box that is now earth – with the assistance of earth for the earth is also now a creation entity as of its 3D to 5D shift – you are creating the pieces that fit within the box.
Some of you are undecided – do you move forward with new creation skills or do you end your creation activity before doing so? There is no right answer. Nor will ending your creation activity end your earth life.
But most likely, you are excited about the possibilities of what comes next. If you are in that group, you are or soon will be discovering new creation skills.
Some of you pooh-pooh that concept for you are not excited about anything. Does that mean you will exit earth? Or merely that you have not yet discovered something exciting?
It is the latter. For you have practiced and practiced to go beyond your planet creation skillset. Your new goal is creating within 5D earth.
Perhaps you question why so many need to be addressing new processes, structures, thoughts, and feelings of the earth? Such is so because all of you of earth at this time wish to expand your skills in new and different directions.
Throughout our years of journeying together via this channeled blog, we have stated many times that as you evolve so do the Universes. You are now discovering the accuracy of that statement.
Perhaps you wonder why we are seemingly belittling your planet creation skills. Such is so because you are bored with creating the same planet shells over and over just as would be true for any relatively easy earth activity.
You forerunners are becoming excited about something you likely cannot yet pinpoint. You will decipher that excitement in a dream or other means that rev up your new skills for adventure.
For now, most of you are moving into this exciting phase with little or no indication what that means for you. Allow that to be as you awaken your new skills.
Perhaps you will find joy in creating new structures within society; something mechanical or scientific; new music or artwork; or something to enhance nature. It does not matter for you are learning how and where you wish to expand your creation skills. All of which will combine to create the heaven on earth you long dreamed of.
The difference is in this life you do not expect other entities to perfect your creation.
If such is so, who will create new planets, new Universal areas? Those following you. The Universes are a learning/evolving center for all.
Allow yourself to know you never stop evolving as is true for every Universal being. So it is this transition is not about repetition but evolution and expansion of all. So be it. Amen.
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At the end of all development lies emptiness. Everything becomes one and all separation is reversed.
The enlightened one realizes that every being gathers their unique experiences and doesn’t want to be disturbed or influenced while doing that.
Even active compassion – which means letting people be part of enlightenment – disappears in the enlightened one. So he has the choice to be silent and not interfere, or to speak and provide others with the living example of kindness, compassion and love.
I am BUDDHA
I once chose the path of active compassion! After becoming enlightened, I didn’t want to get on board to be shipped to the other side. No, I wanted to stay with the people as a present SUCHNESS-living Buddha.
• People needed to be able to touch me and be touched by my light.
• People needed to see who I am so that they could see who they themselves were, are and can be.
• People needed to walk part of the path with me until they were confident enough to find their own path.
AND SO IT HAPPENED,
that I stayed on earth among the people.
Enlightened ones have the choice to either immediately cross the bridge to nowhere and immerse in the big nothingness, or to remain on earth as Bodhisattvas to bring people close to this bridge.
Enlightened ones spark the memory in people and can do so in various ways. At the end, however, there is always nothingness, being; free from earthly illusions and far from human conditionings.
Today human beings awaken, and there are enlightened ones among you so that more and more people can become part of this process.
The walls of ignorance must be torn down so that the bridge of awareness becomes visible.
I am amongst you until you have completed this task, and until you yourself have reached completion.
For it is not about crossing the bridge into nothingness, but about one day standing in front of this bridge and having a choice.
I am BUDDHA
Channeled by Jahn J Kassl English edition by crystalflow translations
“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
We have begun exploring the timelines that will lead to open contact with extra-terrestrials for humanity. We know that most of you realize that contact has been made, and some of you even recognize that extra-terrestrials and hybrids walk among you. But you all want to know when it will be accepted by all of humanity that extra-terrestrials exist, and you want to know when it will be possible to have contact with extra-terrestrials whenever you want to have that contact.
We’ve been exploring the different probabilities for humanity to arrive at that day and time, and what we can see is that the decision has nothing to do with your governments. It has nothing to do with the military, and it has nothing to do with the secret space programs. The only determinant has to do with how integrated you all are as individuals. In other words, there is a much bigger picture here than just open contact.
You have the shift in consciousness to consider, and you’re not going to give yourselves any experience that you’re not ready for, including contact with e.t.s. So when you want more contact, don’t look out there, and don’t blame any government agency for keeping you all in the dark.
Your readiness for e.t. contact rests in your hands. The more you process the fears that you have, and let go of the judgments, the closer you become to the integrated version of yourself that can handle full and open contact.
If you can do this, if you can work out what you need to work out as an individual, you can have contact whenever you want it. And you will put yourself on that timeline where more people are ready and capable of handling contact with e.t.s.
There are so many benevolent e.t.s out there who want to connect with all of you, but they know that in order for that to happen, you have to have a readiness about you, and they’re watching. Just know that, and take care of what you need to take care of inside of you, and you will have that contact that you desire.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”
Divine blessings extend through my being to your essence and truth, I am Lady Portia, I am the sacred feminine aspect of Saint Germain. It is my purpose to oversee the awakening of the New Age of Ascension through the 7th Ray of Light expression of the Creator. Within the 7th Ray Ashram upon the inner planes of the Creator’s Universe, the Violet Flame of Transmutation and Transformation is fully anchored and present. I Lady Portia, wish to enrol you into a deep purification and transformation of your entire being with the purpose of becoming present with your essence. In doing so, I, Lady Portia, wish to create a sense of space within your being and reality to aid your manifestation of your essence. When you clear that which blocks your essence, you allow your essence to unfold and manifest within your being and reality in exciting and liberation way.
The Presence of Love
My love is present with you now. Allow yourself to feel, sense and acknowledge the presence of my love all around you. Please breathe my love into your entire being and imagine the energy of my love integrating with the loving presence of your essence within each cell and aspect of your being. Allow yourself to experience this fully.
When you feel ready and connected with the synthesised love of your essence and my essence within all aspects of your being, I gift to you a question:
‘What is the difference between the love of my being and the love of Lady Portia?’
Take this question into your heart and let it rest there, observing the answers and responses that awaken into your awareness. This question will allow you to witness your reaction to love and your thoughts about love, as well as your relationship to divine love.
I will share with you that my love is born from the same source as the love you embody and express. My love and your love are expressed and utilised in different and diverse ways. Therefore, our love is the same while embodying a different purpose. However, the goal of our love is the same. This signifies that the journey and expression of love can be different. In recognising this you accept that your source is the same while you have the freedom to be your unique essence or soul without judgment for yourself and others. You give yourself and others permission to express the flow of truth while recognising the oneness that is always present. This is truly liberating and allows judgment and the need to understand to fall away. You create a space for your truth to be present within you and through you while honouring the same within others.
Enrolling in the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame
I, Lady Portia, wish to share an invocation with you to support you in enrolling in the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame of Transmutation Energy. The Violet Flame is an expression of the Creator which cleanses and realigns you with your truth. It is often recognised as a large violet coloured flame of light that is constantly active and glows brightly. The Violet Flame has the ability to cleanse any aspects of your being and reality, with a simple invitation, intention or request.
The advanced levels of energy of the Violet Flame could be described as the purest vibrations of the energy and consciousness. The advanced levels not only cleanse your being, they cleanse your being to further awaken and aid the embodiment of your essence, creating Expanded Liberation. Within your expanded liberation you have the opportunity to recognise the presence of your essence as a core and foundation of everything you are and everything you create. The presence of your essence becomes so grounded within your being that you truly recognise it as a part of you, in truth as you. Therefore, releasing illusions that hinder and block you from being the presence of your essence in your reality upon the Earth.
‘Lady Portia, I invite you to enrol me in experiencing and benefiting from the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame. It is my wish to download the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame to surround me and move through my being. May I experience a deep cleansing and transformation which positively benefits my being, reality and spiritual awakening. As I receive the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame, assist me in embodying the cleansing vibrations and release all that is an illusion and hinders my recognition of the presence of my essence. Support me in entering into Expanded Liberation. Through the experience of Expanded Liberation within me, whether I recognise it or not, I acknowledge the presence of my essence as the foundation and core of all that I am and all I create. Lady Portia and the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame, please assist me now.’
Through this invocation, you have the opportunity of experiencing a deep and breathtakingly beautiful transformation within your being which will influence your relationship with your inner love and pure essence. Allow time for a full experience.
Enrolling in the Advanced Violet Flame Purification
While the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame can release illusion to bring forth and ground the presence of your essence, there is also a possibility of cleansing and purifying your awareness. This means your awareness of yourself, reality, the world and your spiritual growth as well as the soul awareness. Thus, your entire lineage of light, meaning all that you are as a light being, can experience a powerful cleanse awakening your soul into expanded liberation and further freedom to exist as the truth of the Creator. Enrolling into the Advanced Violet Flame Purification requires you to state the invocation I will share with you each night before sleep for 28 days, this will allow time and space for the full purification of your light lineage. It is only if you repeat the invocation for 28 days without stopping that you will receive the full benefits of the Advanced Violet Flame Purification.
‘Lady Portia and the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame, I call your presence to me now. I enrol myself in the Advanced Violet Flame Purification and invite you to begin your work with me. Please release illusions to bring forth and ground the presence of my essence fully within my being. Please cleanse and purify my awareness of myself, reality, the world and my spiritual growth as well as my soul awareness. Thus, my entire lineage of light. Let me awaken into my expanded liberation, pure awareness and grounded presence of my essence. I am surrounded by the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame and breathe the high vibrational light and cleansing rays into my entire being. Lady Portia please oversee the entire process and alert me to recognise the positive shifts, transformations and awakenings within my being. Thank you and it is so.’
Simply read the invocation silently or out loud and then lying down breathe deeply, breathing the violet flame energy into your entire body and being, you will naturally fall asleep allowing the Advanced Levels of the Violet Flame to continue its work with you. When the necessary cleansing and purification takes place for that night the Violet Flame will withdraw, and Angels of Love will surround you until you wake from your sleep. As you are breathing in the Violet Flame energy before sleeping you may wish to hold in your mind expanded liberation, the grounded presence of your essence and the purity of your awareness being empowered.
“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
You are the best judges of whether or not something is right for you, and yet we see so many of you asking others to guide you. We see you in your uncertainty, looking for answers from others, and you tend to look within very little for those answers. Here is a good indicator of whether something is right for you. If it would be impossible to talk you out of it, then it’s right for you. If it is right for someone to talk you into it, then it’s not.
You do not need to be convinced to do something that is overwhelmingly calling you towards it, but you do need to be convinced to do something that you’re not really sure about and you’re certainly not passionate about. If you need to remind yourselves of what you are passionate about, then make a list of all the things that you feel passionately about and use that list to help you determine whether something is right for you.
But don’t just let the list decide. Tune in to what’s going on inside of you to see if that particular version of your passion is right for you. Maybe it is, but maybe the timing isn’t right. So again, this is something that you cannot get from someone else’s opinion. You cannot ask someone else if the timing is right for you, because they don’t know. But if you are honest with yourself, you know.
Sometimes, you all just want so much to be doing something that you will take action even when it is not in alignment with how you feel. And we understand that. Your society is based on lots and lots of doing, but it’s time to get comfortable with not doing. It’s time to get comfortable with waiting and receiving, rather than going out and getting something.
You have so much guidance within you that if you ever have to ask for someone else’s opinion, then you know that you’re just not listening to your guidance. You know that it’s your mind that’s trying to convince you, and you want some help. You want some support for that mind’s game of talking you into something, but your feelings will never do that. So trust them. Trust them more than you trust anyone else in your life.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”
There is within each one of you a vast reservoir of love. There is, within your grasp, a profound universe of wisdom. You have the answers, the resources, the strength, and the courage to overcome any obstacle in your path. You have within you the wisdom to discover the answer to any question. You have the love to light a path so brightly in front of you that you could never falter.
You have nothing less than the power that creates universes, working through you, for you, and from you to sustain and support each and every one of your dreams.
Close your eyes for a moment and breathe. Imagine that you are a wave upon the ocean. A deep presence rises up within you, shapes you, and moves you forward. You are never separate.The water is dynamic and moving within you. It is never the same. With each swell and trough you are created anew. The more you surrender to the power of the ocean within, the more you are moved effortlessly towards your destination.
With each inhale feel a wave of love rising up within you. With each relaxed exhale feel yourself sinking back into an ocean of love.Breathe in. Feel Love rising up within you and moving you. Breathe out. Relax back into the ocean of love.
Dear ones, when you have a challenge in your life or something you wish to create, breathe and feel the Presence of the Divine rising up within you. Breathe out and imagine relaxing back into the ocean of love.
Breathe for a few minutes in this fashion, and then ask, “What is my next step?” If nothing comes to mind, rest. There is nothing to do now, but relax, enjoy your life, and trust. If something comes to mind, no matter how small, trust, and take this next step. Just as the ocean moves a wave, the Divine moves you.
You are the ones who, through your dreams and desires, choose the destination. You either allow yourself to be moved towards these dreams, or try to create the movement all by yourselves. You can allow the ocean of love to carry and guide you, or you can attempt to solve your challenges all by yourself.Relax dear friends. Breathe. Allow yourself to be supported, loved, carried, and guided. Your life will become so much easier when you do.
God Bless You! We love you so very much.
— The Angels
“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
We have been exploring the new timelines that have become available to you since the recent energies of the eclipses and the Lionsgate Portal. The reason that these new timelines are now available to you is because of how well you have assimilated these high frequency energies. Now, in addition to opening up these new possibilities, you have also vibrated out of range of some less-than-ideal timelines.
And therefore, we welcome you all to take the opportunity to pat yourselves on the back and to take it easy. We have also noticed that some of you have taken on more ascension symptoms as a result of the energies that you have been downloading. But we also want you to recognize that when you are in the midst of ascension symptoms, it means you are doing some serious clearing. And that is a very good thing, because now that you have demonstrated your ability to handle the recent energies, you are of course going to receive more.
Those of us in the higher realms are always watching to see how well you are handling the energies that you are receiving. And when we see that you are doing quite well, we line you up for some more. This is how it’s going to be, because this is the journey that you signed up for. But not to worry, because these energies that are forthcoming are going to be much easier for you to handle. If you are experiencing ascension symptoms, then these are the types of energies that will fill in the gaps from what you have purged. And there is a lot of purging going on.
We know that this journey has not been very easy. For those of you who are awakened, it has been especially challenging because you agreed to take on so much for the rest of humanity. Remember, however, that the rewards will be great. And also, recognize that it is so much more meaningful of a ride because you are awake. We also invite you to recognize that the experience of managing these energies is making you all into quite capable creator beings.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”
“Greetings. We are the Arcturian Council. We are pleased to connect with all of you.
We are overjoyed at the progress that we can see humanity making. We are particularly happy to see the progress that you are making in the realm of your connections with other beings. There are more human beings connected to more non-human beings, both physical and non-physical, than we have ever seen on planet Earth.
Now we know that there have been times on your planet when certain areas were visited openly by extra-terrestrial beings, and so you have certainly had more face-to-face physical contact and connection previously. But we are talking about the connections that you are making through your desire to connect and chat with other beings.
And more of you are able to receive and channel information than has ever been the case previously on planet Earth. So you can all feel very proud of yourselves for that statistic. You constantly reach out to beings in other dimensions and other star systems. And when you reach out, you are always heard and answered. But now more than ever we see you able to receive what beings like us are giving back to you.
Even if you are just receiving what we are sending on the energetic level, don’t downplay the importance of being able to receive on that energetic level, because it is a very positive and powerful first step to even more connection. And we see you all having a great deal of success with reading that energy. Even if you don’t know that’s what you’re doing in the moment, it is in fact a reading or a translating that you are engaged in.
You are receiving impulses. You are receiving our transmissions and translating them into thoughts, and sometimes you think those thoughts are your own. But many of you are onto us and realize that you have just received a download. We are very confident in your abilities to download even more, to receive from your friends in other dimensions and star systems. And we are happy to be amongst that very privileged group of friends.
We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”
If you like to remain in the blissful ignorance of illusion please stop reading here.
If you want to embrace the sometimes painful truth of the true history of humanity as it is written in the now moment ,yes, the one that is not shown in mainstream media ,keep on reading these 2 articles by Steve Beckow.
(please follow up by reading what follows right after)
”I need to vent today and tomorrow.
My excuse and justification is Archangel Michael saying there is a place for righteous anger:
“[Given] the attempts to destroy truth and the true nature of what is transpiring within the human collective and throughout the universe, there is a place for righteous anger, my friend.” (1)
I need to vent on what I consider to be two disgraces: the 9/11 coverup and pedophilia or child trafficking, exploitation, rape, torture, and murder.
Anyone who can’t hear my vent, or rant, please stop reading here and come back in two days. I’m about to blow. I can’t keep silent about these matters any longer.
Vent #1. 9/11
Will this be the year that the full truth of 9/11 is told?
How many of the 45,468 sealed indictments (2) relate to the events of Sept. 11, 2001?
That was the very day that NESARA was to be declared. Gold sat in trucks, if I recall correctly (best check all my facts; it’s been 17 years), ready to be deposited. That was the molten gold found flowing below the WTC, after all the rubble (evidence) was shipped to China? Molten from what? Fires that had gone out?
The headquarters for all NESARA transactions were located in one of the World Trade Center buildings – it may have been Building 7. The computers were in another building.
Building 7 housed the alphabet-agency offices that managed the 9/11 event. It also contained Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s emergency management center.
Strangely enough, Giuliani never went near the World Trade Center throughout the emergency that day. “Do you believe in coincidences?” Of what use was the emergency central? To plan 9/11?
The BBC reported on Building 7’s destruction perhaps a quarter hour before it went down. You can see the building behind the reporter. How bizarre is that?
Allegedly, no plane hit the World Trade Center. Major parts of any plane – like the wings and tail, for example – would have crumpled on the outside of the building, rather than entering it, and probably would have fallen to the street. The aluminum plane would not have gone through two sets of rugged steel girders and emerged out the other side.
Instead the plane slices through the steel girders as if they were butter.
Where shall we go next? Thermate? Who has thermate? The army, right?
Squibbs (explosions) on the sides of the building, like in a controlled demolition?
No plane hit Building 7, which pancaked from a one-floor fire, with firemen shooing people away beforehand saying “this building is coming down.” (3)
The impossible plane strike at the Pentagon which left no marks of the plane – but plenty of a missile. The bank of the plane being impossible for that type of passenger jet?
An example of the really well-done investigations being carried out these days
The bin Ladens being allowed to leave the country – the only plane that did. All the “terrorists” passports – one miraculously recovered at the WTC site, undamaged – none of which withstood investigation.
An invasion of Afghanistan already miraculously organized and enroute, ready to go in after President Bush signed the document which was already on his desk.
Or the unanimity of opinion – newsmakers, news reporters, and people on the street – that it was Al Qaida that did it, a “terrorist organization,” consistently stated by everyone from the get-go. How did they know? Men on the street?
Never mind the fact that the man supposed to be directing it from an Afghani cave (Osama bin Laden) was lying in a Rawalpindi hospital, having kidney dialysis, guarded by Pakistani soldiers. He died in 2002, not in 2011. (4)
Afganhi opium managed by the CIA. Iraqi oil brought under US domination. Iran – a bridge too far?
9/11 is definitely a bridge too far. Way, way too far.
Where do the discoveries, improbabilities, and contradictions lead?
It doesn’t take Q to connect the dots.
Stop. Stop this madness. Stop this cover-up.
The 9/11 false flag won the cabal perhaps ten years and then Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and the rest of the deep state created corruption on a scale the Bushes could only dream of.
Tomorrow I’ll be discussing one aspect of it that shows how far the cabal has gone in corrupting the nations – pedophilia.
As Q said, they were sure she’d win. And so they made mistakes, identified themselves and their pastimes, and left their own trail of breadcrumbs.
Their rickety house of deceptions seldom lasts more than a decade. They then need a new and stunning global event to cow the population into buckling under to them again. As have most populations since Genghis Khan when faced with a tyrannical regime.
But not this generation.
This generation has said in a variety of ways that it will not knuckle under to tyranny.
This generation intends to bring the criminality of the cabal to a halt. (5)
The problem is our voices so far have been separate. Unity has not been achieved.
Causes and movements flare up like the Occupy Movement, Arab Spring, #MeToo, and #Black Lives Matter, but they’re neither united nor coordinated.
Don’t look to me. I’m a writer. To unite them is someone else’s amazing and incredible mission. After the Reval, I’ll fund anyone to take it on.
But it needs to be done. Lightworkers of all shades and persuasions need to come together, however it’s arranged.
This 9/11, will you take the steps necessary to end the criminal activities of the cabal? We can do that by bringing lightworkers together in conference and coordinating our actions.
Make our wishes known for an end to the cabal’s domination of our lives. Let our words be felt in the collective consciousness. I’m led to believe that that frees a lot of hands to come to our aid. Those who are with us are stronger than those who are against us.
(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 16, 2011.
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(3) Larry Silverman later alleged that he told the fire chief to “pull it” because it was going to come down anyways. You can’t just “pull” a building. It takes days to rig it for demolition.
I’ve been getting reports of pedophilia from a number of sources, on a regular basis.
I watch as many videos as I can without totally throwing things over and going back for a law degree so I can join the fight against pedophilia.
I was shopping in Safeway today when I heard myself say to myself: “I can’t go another minute without publicly speaking out against pedophilia.”
I’m using the word “pedophilia” to cover child trafficking, exploitation, rape, torture, and murder.
Look at how long it’s taken us to get over our own childhood trauma.
I’ve seen a woman go through her recovery process from ritual sexual abuse in repeated Enlightenment Intensives and I got her pain. A woman in a video Kathleen showed me took, I believe, 18 years to recover from her trauma after abuse as a sex slave.
Compared to theirs, mine – and perhaps that of most of us – is absolutely nothing. How will they get over it?
Children being tortured, raped, and murdered. (1) Children being “ordered” like pizza with a code for infant, girl, boy, white, black, etc. Taken into the White House and shown around. The grossest acts being visited upon young kids, no different from everyone’s children – and could be anyone’s. (2)
All these years when children have gone missing, what did we think? Well, now we know.
I’m on the warpath here. Our children should be safe. In our days, we always felt safe. We could leave our bikes anywhere. Any adult would help us. The police were our friends. No idea of danger every entered our minds, save from the local bully.
It’s unacceptable to me that we’ve fallen so low as to prey on our children today and make it necessary that they should be afraid of those who should be their protectors.
This is not the world I wish to live in – and I’m not leaving. This world will have to change.
No more pedophilia, in all its forms. No more lies about it. No more tolerance of the child-trafficking-to-child-murder cycle.
Pedophilia must stop immediately, everywhere on this planet. I say this on my own sovereign independence and authority.
Footnotes
(1) See for instance Frank Miles, “Stunning findings on report of Catholic Church abuse: Pa. priests molested more than 1,000 children,” Fox News, Aug. 14, 2018, at https://tinyurl.com/yaovg5nu:
“Hundreds of priests were said to have molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s, and senior church officials, including a man who is now the archbishop of Washington, D.C., allegedly covered up the abuse, according to a grand jury report released Tuesday.”
(2) And whistleblowers regularly being murdered. Here’s the latest:
Investigative Journalist Jen Moore was found dead in a suburban Washington D.C. hotel room Monday, according to police and shocked and distraught friends and colleagues.
Moore died of an apparent seizure. Police are closely investigating the cause of death after former FBI Agent Robyn Gritz, a friend of Moore’s, made inquiries with homicide detectives Monday afternoon in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Preliminary reports from police said the death was not the result of suicide. …
Moore, an advocate who investigated abused and trafficked children, had been in the process of investigating allegations by a 26-year-old man that — as a young boy — he was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and pimped out at private sex parties attended by other D.C. elites.
In fact, just four weeks before her death, Moore filed details of the alleged victim’s claims with the Department of Homeland Security, detailing the allegations against Clinton. Moore contacted Homeland Security beginning on July 6th through July 9th, records show. A week later, she contacted the FBI with identical details about the victim and the shocking allegations against Clinton.
FBI sources report no case has been opened on the evidence supplied by Moore. [Why has no case been opened?]
Qanon is an organisation that works closely with Trump,President of America for the liberation of their country that goes hand in hand with the liberation of whole planet.Grab your pop corn and see for yourself as we keep on sending our prayers for manifestation of our New Earth Realities with Ease and Grace.In June there was an attempt to kill The President,see how things turned out and connect the dots with the previous posted articles ,the following video explains what Q means in their ‘breadcrumbs’ these past days:
https://youtu.be/JKp-gk5rcfg
We are living in amazing times where Humanity,we are writing our Ascension history and if you one of the lucky ones sitting at your office or sofa reading this, you have more than one reasons to be happy and to be alive in your body witnessing this and yes it is painful and yet you also get to know that the pain you may feel is not just yours, it is the whole planet.What you can do?
Connect with your Higher Self,The Angels and Archangels and Ascended Masters and Pray and Meditate for the Highest for All and remain INjoy at all times,even if what you observe is painful.The smallest action by your side counts, even if it is keeping yourself happy by doing the things you love.Everything counts!
The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary Commemorated on August 15 The Dormition of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary: After the Ascension of the Lord, the Mother of God remained in the care of the Apostle John the Theologian, and during his journeys She lived at the home of his parents, near the Mount of Olives. She was a source of consolation and edification both for the Apostles and for all the believers. Conversing with them, She told them about miraculous events: the Annunciation, the seedless and undefiled Conception of Christ born of Her, about His early childhood, and about His earthly life. Like the Apostles, She helped plant and strengthen the Christian Church by Her presence, Her discourse and Her prayers. The reverence of the Apostles for the Most Holy Virgin was extraordinary. After the receiving of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, the Apostles remained at Jerusalem for about ten years attending to the salvation of the Jews, and wanting moreover to see the Mother of God and hear Her holy discourse. Many of the newly-enlightened in the Faith even came from faraway lands to Jerusalem, to see and to hear the All-Pure Mother of God. During the persecution initiated by King Herod against the young Church of Christ (Acts 12:1-3), the Most Holy Virgin and the Apostle John the Theologian withdrew to Ephesus in the year 43. The preaching of the Gospel there had fallen by lot to the Apostle John the Theologian. The Mother of God was on Cyprus with Saint Lazarus the Four-Days-Dead, where he was bishop. She was also on Holy Mount Athos. Saint Stephen of the Holy Mountain says that the Mother of God prophetically spoke of it: “Let this place be my lot, given to me by my Son and my God. I will be the Patroness of this place and intercede with God for it.” The respect of ancient Christians for the Mother of God was so great that they preserved what they could about Her life, what they could take note of concerning Her sayings and deeds, and they even passed down to us a description of Her outward appearance. According to Tradition, based on the words of the Hieromartyrs Dionysius the Areopagite (October 3), Ignatius the God-Bearer (December 20), Saint Ambrose of Milan (December 7) had occasion to write in his work “On Virgins” concerning the Mother of God: “She was a Virgin not only in body, but also in soul, humble of heart, circumspect in word, wise in mind, not overly given to speaking, a lover of reading and of work, and prudent in speech. Her rule of life was to offend no one, to intend good for everyone, to respect the aged, not envy others, avoid bragging, be healthy of mind, and to love virtue.” When did She ever hurl the least insult in the face of Her parents? When was She at discord with Her kin? When did She ever puff up with pride before a modest person, or laugh at the weak, or shun the destitute? With Her there was nothing of glaring eyes, nothing of unseemly words, nor of improper conduct. She was modest in the movement of Her body, Her step was quiet, and Her voice straightforward; so that Her face was an expression of soul. She was the personification of purity. All Her days She was concerned with fasting: She slept only when necessary, and even then, when Her body was at rest, She was still alert in spirit, repeating in Her dreams what She had read, or the implementation of proposed intentions, or those planned yet anew. She was out of Her house only for church, and then only in the company of relatives. Otherwise, She seldom appeared outside Her house in the company of others, and She was Her own best overseer. Others could protect Her only in body, but She Herself guarded Her character.” According to Tradition, that from the compiler of Church history Nicephorus Callistus (fourteenth century), the Mother of God “was of average stature, or as others suggest, slightly more than average; Her hair golden in appearance; Her eyes bright with pupils like shiny olives; Her eyebrows strong in character and moderately dark, Her nose pronounced and Her mouth vibrant bespeaking sweet speech; Her face was neither round nor angular, but somewhat oblong; the palm of Her hands and fingers were longish… In conversation with others She preserved decorum, neither becoming silly nor agitated, and indeed especially never angry; without artifice, and direct, She was not overly concerned about Herself, and far from pampering Herself, She was distinctly full of humility. Regarding the clothing which She wore, She was satisfied to have natural colors, which even now is evidenced by Her holy head-covering. Suffice it to say, a special grace attended all Her actions.” (Nicephoros Callistus borrowed his description from Saint Epiphanius of Cyprus (May 12), from the “Letter to Theophilus Concerning Icons.” The circumstances of the Dormition of the Mother of God were known in the Orthodox Church from apostolic times. Already in the first century, the Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite wrote about Her “Falling-Asleep.” In the second century, the account of the bodily ascent of the Most Holy Virgin Mary to Heaven is found in the works of Meliton, Bishop of Sardis. In the fourth century, Saint Epiphanius of Cyprus refers to the tradition about the “Falling Asleep” of the Mother of God. In the fifth century, Saint Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem, told the holy Byzantine Empress Pulcheria: “Although there is no account of the circumstances of Her death in Holy Scripture, we know about them from the most ancient and credible Tradition.” This tradition was gathered and expounded in the Church History of Nicephorus Callistus during the fourteenth century. At the time of Her blessed Falling Asleep, the Most Holy Virgin Mary was again at Jerusalem. Her fame as the Mother of God had already spread throughout the land and had aroused many of the envious and the spiteful against Her. They wanted to make attempts on Her life; but God preserved Her from enemies. Day and night She spent her time in prayer. The Most Holy Theotokos went often to the Holy Sepulchre of the Lord, and here She offered up fevent prayer. More than once, enemies of the Savior sought to hinder Her from visiting her holy place, and they asked the High Priest for a guard to watch over the Grave of the Lord. The Holy Virgin continued to pray right in front of them, yet unseen by anyone. In one such visit to Golgotha, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Her and announced Her approaching departure from this life to eternal life. In pledge of this, the Archangel gave Her a palm branch. With these heavenly tidings the Mother of God returned to Bethlehem with the three girls attending Her (Sepphora, Abigail, and Jael). She summoned Righteous Joseph of Arimathea and other disciples of the Lord, and told them of Her impending Repose. The Most Holy Virgin prayed also that the Lord would have the Apostle John come to Her. The Holy Spirit transported him from Ephesus, setting him in that very place where the Mother of God lay. After the prayer, the Most Holy Virgin offered incense, and John heard a voice from Heaven, closing Her prayer with the word “Amen.” The Mother of God took it that the voice meant the speedy arrival of the Apostles and the Disciples and the holy Bodiless Powers. The faithful, whose number by then was impossible to count, gathered together, says Saint John of Damascus, like clouds and eagles, to listen to the Mother of God. Seeing one another, the Disciples rejoiced, but in their confusion they asked each other why the Lord had gathered them together in one place. Saint John the Theologian, greeting them with tears of joy, said that the time of the Virgin’s repose was at hand. Going in to the Mother of God, they beheld Her lying upon the bed, and filled with spiritual joy. The Disciples greeted Her, and then they told her how they had been carried miraculously from their places of preaching. The Most Holy Virgin Mary glorified God, because He had heard Her prayer and fulfilled Her heart’s desire, and She began speaking about Her imminent end. During this conversation the Apostle Paul also appeared in a miraculous manner together with his disciples Dionysius the Areopagite, Saint Hierotheus, Saint Timothy and others of the Seventy Apostles. The Holy Spirit had gathered them all together so that they might be granted the blessing of the All-Pure Virgin Mary, and more fittingly to see to the burial of the Mother of the Lord. She called each of them to Herself by name, She blessed them and extolled them for their faith and the hardships they endured in preaching the Gospel of Christ. To each She wished eternal bliss, and prayed with them for the peace and welfare of the whole world. Then came the third hour (9 A.M.), when the Dormition of the Mother of God was to occur. A number of candles were burning. The holy Disciples surrounded her beautifully adorned bed, offering praise to God. She prayed in anticipation of Her demise and of the arrival of Her longed-for Son and Lord. Suddenly, the inexpressible Light of Divine Glory shone forth, before which the blazing candles paled in comparison. All who saw it took fright. Descending from Heaven was Christ, the King of Glory, surrounded by hosts of Angels and Archangels and other Heavenly Powers, together with the souls of the Forefathers and the Prophets, who had prophesied in ages past concerning the Most Holy Virgin Mary. Seeing Her Son, the Mother of God exclaimed: “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God My Savior, for He hath regarded the low estate of His Handmaiden” (Luke 1:46-48) and, rising from Her bed to meet the Lord, She bowed down to Him, and the Lord bid Her enter into Life Eternal. Without any bodily suffering, as though in a happy sleep, the Most Holy Virgin Mary gave Her soul into the hands of Her Son and God. Then began a joyous angelic song. Accompanying the pure soul of the God-betrothed and with reverent awe for the Queen of Heaven, the angels exclaimed: “Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee, blessed art Thou among women! For lo, the Queen, God’s Maiden comes, lift up the gates, and with the Ever-Existing One, take up the Mother of Light; for through Her salvation has come to all the human race. It is impossible to gaze upon Her, and it is impossible to render Her due honor” (Stikherion on “Lord, I Have Cried”). The Heavenly gates were raised, and meeting the soul of the Most Holy Mother of God, the Cherubim and the Seraphim glorified Her with joy. The face of the Mother of God was radiant with the glory of Divine virginity, and from Her body there came a sweet fragrance. Miraculous was the life of the All-Pure Virgin, and wondrous was Her Repose, as Holy Church sings: “In Thee, O Queen, the God of all hath given thee as thy portion the things that are above nature. Just as in the Birth-Giving He did preserve Thine virginity, so also in the grave He did preserve Thy body from decay” (Canon 1, Ode 6, Troparion 1). Kissing the all-pure body with reverence and in awe, the Disciples in turn were blessed by it and filled with grace and spiritual joy. Through the great glorification of the Most Holy Theotokos, the almighty power of God healed the sick, who with faith and love touched the holy bed. Bewailing their separation from the Mother of God, the Apostles prepared to bury Her all-pure body. The holy Apostles Peter, Paul, James and others of the Twelve Apostles carried the funeral bier upon their shoulders, and upon it lay the body of the Ever-Virgin Mary. Saint John the Theologian went at the head with the resplendent palm-branch from Paradise. The other saints and a multitude of the faithful accompanied the funeral bier with candles and censers, singing sacred songs. This solemn procession went from Sion through Jerusalem to the Garden of Gethsemane. With the start of the procession there suddenly appeared over the all-pure body of the Mother of God and all those accompanying Her a resplendent circular cloud, like a crown. There was heard the singing of the Heavenly Powers, glorifying the Mother of God, which echoed that of the worldly voices. This circle of Heavenly singers and radiance accompanied the procession to the very place of burial. Unbelieving inhabitants of Jerusalem, taken aback by the extraordinarily grand funeral procession and vexed at the honor accorded the Mother of Jesus, complained of this to the High Priest and scribes. Burning with envy and vengefulness toward everything that reminded them of Christ, they sent out their own servants to disrupt the procession and to set the body of the Mother of God afire. An angry crowd and soldiers set off against the Christians, but the circular cloud accompanying the procession descended and surrounded them like a wall. The pursuers heard the footsteps and the singing, but could not see any of those accompanying the procession. Indeed, many of them were struck blind. The Jewish priest Athonios, out of spite and hatred for the Mother of Jesus of Nazareth, wanted to topple the funeral bier on which lay the body of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, but an angel of God invisibly cut off his hands, which had touched the bier. Seeing such a wonder, Athonios repented and with faith confessed the majesty of the Mother of God. He received healing and joined the crowd accompanying the body of the Mother of God, and he became a zealous follower of Christ. When the procession reached the Garden of Gethsemane, then amidst the weeping and the wailing began the last kiss to the all-pure body. Only towards evening were the Apostles able to place it in the tomb and seal the entrance to the cave with a large stone. For three days they did not depart from the place of burial, praying and chanting Psalms. Through the wise providence of God, the Apostle Thomas was not to be present at the burial of the Mother of God. Arriving late on the third day at Gethsemane, he lay down at the tomb and with bitter tears asked that he might be permitted to look once more upon the Mother of God and bid her farewell. The Apostles out of heartfelt pity for him decided to open the grave and permit him the comfort of venerating the holy relics of the Ever-Virgin Mary. Having opened the grave, they found in it only the grave wrappings and were thus convinced of the bodily ascent of the Most Holy Virgin Mary to Heaven. On the evening of the same day, when the Apostles had gathered at a house to strengthen themselves with food, the Mother of God appeared to them and said: “Rejoice! I am with you all the days of your lives.” This so gladdened the Apostles and everyone with them, that they took a portion of the bread, set aside at the meal in memory of the Savior (“the Lord’s Portion”), and they exclaimed : “Most Holy Theotokos, save us”. (This marks the beginning of the rite of offering up the “Panagia” (“All-Holy”), a portion of bread in honor of the Mother of God, which is done at monasteries to the present day). The sash of the Mother of God, and Her holy garb, preserved with reverence and distributed over the face of the earth in pieces, have worked miracles both in the past and at present. Her numerous icons everywhere pour forth signs and healings, and Her holy body, taken up to Heaven, bears witness to our own future life there. Her body was not left to the vicissitudes of the transitory world, but was incomparably exalted by its glorious ascent to Heaven. The Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos is celebrated with special solemnity at Gethsemane, the place of Her burial. Nowhere else is there such sorrow of heart at the separation from the Mother of God, and nowhere else such joy, because of Her intercession for the world. The holy city of Jerusalem is separated from the Mount of Olives by the valley of Kedron on Josaphat. At the foot of the Mount of Olives is the Garden of Gethsemane, where olive trees bear fruit even now. The holy Ancestor-of-God Joachim had himself reposed at 80 years of age, several years after the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple (November 21). Saint Anna, having been left a widow, moved from Nazareth to Jerusalem, and lived near the Temple. At Jerusalem she bought two pieces of property: the first at the gates of Gethsemane, and the second in the valley of Josaphat. At the second locale she built a tomb for the members of her family, and where also she herself was buried with Joachim. It was there in the Garden of Gethsemane that the Savior often prayed with His disciples. The most-pure body of the Mother of God was buried in the family tomb. Christians honored the sepulchre of the Mother of God, and they built a church on this spot. Within the church was preserved the precious funeral cloth, which covered Her all-pure and fragrant body. The holy Patriarch Juvenal of Jerusalem (420-458) testified before the emperor Marcian (450-457) as to the authenticity of the tradition about the miraculous ascent of the Mother of God to Heaven, and he sent to the empress, Saint Pulcheria (September 10), the grave wrappings of the Mother of God from Her tomb. Saint Pulcheria then placed these grave-wrappings within the Blachernae church. Accounts have been preserved, that at the end of the seventh century a church had been built atop the underground church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, and that from its high bell-tower could be seen the dome of the Church of the Resurrection of the Lord. Traces of this church are no longer to be seen. And in the ninth century near the subterranean Gethsemane church a monastery was built, in which more than 30 monks struggled. Great destruction was done the Church in the year 1009 by the despoiler of the holy places, Hakim. Radical changes, the traces of which remain at present, also took place under the crusaders in the year 1130. During the eleventh to twelfth centuries the piece of excavated stone, at which the Savior had prayed on the night of His betrayal disappeared from Jerusalem. This piece of stone had been in the Gethsemane basilica from the sixth century. But in spite of the destruction and the changes, the overall original cruciform (cross-shaped) plan of the church has been preserved. At the entrance to the church along the sides of the iron gates stand four marble columns. To enter the church, it is necessary to go down a stairway of 48 steps. At the 23rd step on the right side is a chapel in honor of the holy Ancestors-of-God Joachim and Anna together with their graves, and on the left side opposite, the chapel of Saint Joseph the Betrothed with his grave. The right chapel belongs to the Orthodox Church, and the left to the Armenian Church (since 1814). The church of the Dormition of the Theotokos has the following dimensions: in length it is 48 arshin, and in breadth 8 arshin [1 arshin = 28 inches]. At an earlier time the church had also windows beside the doors. The whole temple was adorned with a multitude of lampadas and offerings. Two small entrances lead into the burial-chamber of the Mother of God. One enters through the western doors, and exits at the northern doors. The burial-chamber of the All-Pure Virgin Mary is veiled with precious curtains. The burial place was hewn out of stone in the manner of the ancient Jewish graves and is very similar to the Sepulchre of the Lord. Beyond the burial-chamber is the altar of the church, in which Divine Liturgy is celebrated each day in the Greek language. The olive woods on the eastern and northern sides of the temple was acquired from the Turks by the Orthodox during the seventh and eighth centuries. The Catholics acquired the olive woods on the east and south sides in 1803, and the Armenians on the west side in 1821. On August 12, at Little Gethsemane, at the second hour of the night, the head of the Gethsemane church celebrates Divine Liturgy. With the end of Liturgy, at the fourth hour of the morning, he serves a short Molieben before the resplendent burial shroud, lifts it in his hands and solemnly carries it beyond the church to Gethsemane proper where the holy sepulchre of the Mother of God is situated. All the members of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem, with the head of the Mission presiding, participate each year in the procession (called the “Litania”) with the holy burial shroud of the Mother of God.. The rite of the Burial of the Mother of God at Gethsemane begins customarily on the morning of August 14. A multitude of people with hierarchs and clergy at the head set off from the Jerusalem Patriarchate (nearby the Church of the Resurrection of Christ) in sorrowful procession. Along the narrow alley-ways of the Holy City the funeral procession makes its way to Gethsemane. Toward the front of the procession an icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos is carried. Along the way, pilgrims meet the icon, kissing the image of the All-Pure Virgin Mary and lift children of various ages to the icon. After the clergy, in two rows walk the black-robed monks and nuns of the Holy City: Greeks, Roumanians, Arabs, Russians. The procession, going along for about two hours, concludes with Lamentations at the Gethsemane church. In front the altar, beyond the burial chamber of the Mother of God, is a raised-up spot, upon which rests the burial shroud of the Most Holy Mother of God among fragrant flowers and myrtle, with precious coverings. “O marvelous wonder! The Fount of Life is placed in the grave, and the grave doth become the ladder to Heaven…” Here at the grave of the All-Pure Virgin, these words strike deep with their original sense and grief is dispelled by joy: “Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee, granting the world, through Thee, great mercy!” Numerous pilgrims, having kissed the icon of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, following an ancient custom, then stoop down and go beneath it. On the day of the Leave-taking of the feast (August 23), another solemn procession is made. On the return path, the holy burial shroud is carried by clergy led by the Archimandrite of Gethsemane. There is an article in the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate”, 1979, No. 3 regarding the rite of the litany and Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God in the Holy Land. Today flowers are blessed in church, and people keep them in their homes. During times of family strife or illness, the flower petals are placed in the censer with the incense, and the whole house is censed. See the Prayer at the Sanctification of any Fragrant Herbage.
