Written and published on 25 November 2015; transcribed on 17 February 2019
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Chapter 8
Alice’s Commentary
The First Angel
The Second Angel
On Faith in Christ
The Third Angel
The Fourth Angel
Ways to Cope with Sky Signs and Earth Signs
On Seeing Signs in God’s Creation
Signs of Anger Last Week
On Transforming Anger through Neutral Mind
Conclusion
Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Sunlight on Water
Dear Ones,
I know Ascension lore is a bit more optimistic in orientation than some of the ways of interpreting the Biblical Revelation of Saint John the Divine. So I thought I would provide some blogs on the chapters of Revelation, with comments in an Ascension context.
Here is the video on Revelation, Chapter 8. The Musical Sequel features “Prelude No. 20” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0; with Visuals by Alice B. Clagett, CC BY-SA 4.0
There is a lightly edited Summary after the video …
VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.
I am sitting here at beautiful Navajo Lake, Colorado, right now, in the afternoon, waiting for my crystals to absorb some of the Winter Solstice sunlight, which is already starting to pour into Earth, for the last few days. It has been astounding.
I was looking at the Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Chapter 8, in the Bible. I thought I would read Chapter 8 right now, and then offer just a short commentary on it, from an Ascension point of view.
I should warn you, in advance: I have been re-reading Chapter 8 for a while, now, and I do not see many good predictions in it. So … Be prepared! Here it goes …
Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Chapter 8 (KJV, public domain)
1 “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
2 “And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
3 “And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
4 “And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
5 “And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
6 “And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
7 “The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
8 “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 “And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 “And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12 “And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 “And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!”
Alice’s Commentary
This very last verse is a cliffhanger, is it not? It has been building up all through the chapter … a lot of bad tidings; a lot of things that might cause consternation. And at the very end, an angel flies by, saying that there are three more angels yet to go, and they are a lot worse than what we were talking about just then.
Well, Dear Ones, this is the thing: The Earth has changed to New Earth. As the minds of men adjust to this, it can seem to us that there are a great deal of worrisome things happening, in the third dimension.
Some of this I can speak to, from the prior history of Earth; and some I cannot … just referring to Chapter 8. (Chapter 9, you will find, is also a lollapalooza.
The First Angel. When the first angel sounded, it says “there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth,” and this burnt up the trees and the grass. The best I can do with this is that it might be describing a volcanic eruption.
The Second Angel. And when the second angel shows a vision, that is a lot like in Hawaii … the lava going into the sea. And it reads like this:
8 “And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;”
Yes, that reminds me of those video clips I have seen, of lava from volcanic eruptions, flowing down to the sea, in Hawaii … and how the sea boils with the lava. Of course, it is not an exact description of that, but it is reminiscent of that; and that may be what is meant there.
The verse about the first angel would be something like the volcanic eruption, and the great clumps of matter that are thrown out of a volcano, and might be landing on people and hurting them … burning up the grass and the trees and like that. And the verse about the second angel might be about the flow of lava into the sea. Let us just say, that is one, natural explanation for those verses. So: There may be volcanic eruptions; that is basically the way I interpret verses 7 and 8.
And then it says there is great loss of life, of creatures in the sea, and of ships … which would make sense, if it were a sea, rather than the ocean, and there were a volcanic eruption.
On Faith in Christ. I see many references to ‘a third’ in this section. To tell the truth, I have been thinking about this chapter for a long time … and whether to take ‘one third’ literally or not. I am thinking that what is really being said here is that, if we do not let go of our minds, and feel Christ consciousness … Christ’s love, and faith in Christ … during the time of Ascension, then it is going to seem really difficult. It is going to be very fearful.
When the passage describes the destruction of a third, it may be must saying: Be careful. We will see more of this later … Be careful, because things are going to be very tough. That would be the nonliteral interpretation of a third of everything just being destroyed.
That is the one that I tend to favor … because, you know, timeline-wise, we have the option, always, to optimize our timelines and to move forward, into a more abundant and beautiful future … a more peaceful future … and to bring that loop right back to the present.
We have the free will, and the co-creative ability, not to experience the types of fears and scariness that other people may or may not be feeling, as things change. We have the ability to be copacetic about the whole thing,
It is totally up to us, is what I am saying; we are not at the effect of what goes on. This was true in the times before the Ascension, too, that we had the ability to feel our hearts, and feel love, and feel grateful and thankful for all that is … in the darkest times on Earth, before the Shift … and the more so now, as the tests and tribulations come, faster and faster.
Really, these tests and tribulations are just the shadow that presents to our minds, in the great Light … the ever-increasing Light of Christ consciousness that is coming in to Earth … all the more so now, for the last few days, and onward, into the Winter Solstice, which will be a whole month, starting now, of glorious light coming in to Earth.
We can sit, and say to ourselves: My goodness! What shadows are cast by this bright Light! Or we can just look at the Light, you know? [laughs] So we have that choice.
The Third Angel. And to go on to the third angel …
10 “And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 “And the name of the star is called Wormwood:”
It sounds very catastrophic, and it reminds me of the descriptions of meteors that have come into the Earth’s atmosphere, and burned brightly, and it could be described as burning like a lamp.
So this might be a meteor. I do not know what it means about making the waters like wormwood, and then “many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”
I am not sure what that means … unless there may have been an historical event in which a meteor struck, say, the Red Sea, or the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) and possibly there was something in the meteor, some mineral, that turned the sea water bitter, and poisonous. Or possibly, this may be a reference to a poisonous ‘Red Tide’?
In general, I think that this Biblical passage has to do with a meteor.
The Fourth Angel. Let us go on to the fourth angel …
12 “And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.”
This passage reminds me of a kind of concatenation (1) of stories about eclipses here … eclipses of the moon, eclipses of the Sun … that is what it seems like.
So basically, the first four signs … the first four angels that are sounding … are saying that the natural order of things is interrupted by signs … signs from the heavens, and signs from Earth too … like volcanic eruptions; perhaps a comet lighting up the skies; and maybe eclipses of the Sun and moon. But the description in this Chapter 8 is much more dramatic than that.
Ways to Cope with Sky Signs and Earth Signs
So, in general, I would say: As the Light comes in, this November and December … as the Light of Solstice comes in … the thing to do is to get out of the mental mind … get out into nature … meditate in nature … and if possible, place crystals on Earth, and let them absorb the sunlight all day long … say a little prayer [looks up; sees a rabbit; laughs] that the sunlight will come straight down to the Earth, and bless everything on Earth, including our minds, you know? … everything on Earth: all the people, all the animals, all the rabbits, all the waters.
Pretty soon we are going to be doing Chapter 9. I can only imagine what interesting things await us. [laughs] Until then, do not let the mind get the better of you. We could go with all different kinds of scenarios of the mind; or we can just step out, into the natural world, and ground and experience the ecstasy of creation. It is up to us: We get to decide.
On Seeing Signs in God’s Creation
The other thing I am thinking is, I did see a sign. I look for signs all the time … like the Native Americans do. I look for signs in everything; not just sunlight, but in the way the wind blows, in the way that people smile, in the way that the green grass comes up on Earth … Everything that I see is a sign, to me, of the way that the Creation is going, and that God’s blessing to Earth is coming in, and like that.
Sometimes I see wonderful signs. And sometimes I see signs that are the product of the mental mind that is causing humanity such woe, you know? Because the mental mind, if it likes anything, likes to stay the way it is, [laughs] And now, everything is changing!
Signs of Anger Last Week
So what I saw, in the last week, were signs of anger. I was in a store in a small town near where I have a summer home. And just after, there had been two young ladies … relatively young ladies, I think … I was told this story … who had gotten into a fist fight in a parking lot! And I am here to tell you, this never happens in our community; it just never happens. And so that was a strong sign.
When the Light comes in very strongly, one reaction that people can have is irritability … physical irritability. There are ways to manage anger that do not have to do with acting out: If you are the ones that were there doing that, I would like you to know that you provided a good milestone for the rest of us, because others are having that trouble too, right now. I appreciate that you provided that milestone for us; and I hope that we will be able to deal well with feelings of irritation and anger when we cannot get out into nature.
So there is that; just a reminder. I think that the trouble that happened in Paris just a little while ago, had to do with anger too. And so, it could be that what is clearing, right now, is anger.
On Transforming Anger through Neutral Mind
For those of us that are wayshowers and Lightbearers, the thing to do is to sense the anger of other people, sense our own anger, and then sit, and transform all those emotions through the heart. And that will allow us to distance the empathetic feeling through neutral mind. So, heads up! …
Conclusion
Chapter Eight … I have been delaying! And that is because I do not want anyone to feel fear. That is the one thing that we need not do … because through faith in Christ, and hope in Christ, and if we feel Christ’s love, and believe and understand theunconditional love expressed through Christ’s life, and that manifests right now, in Earth and in many wonderful human beings, why should we ever feel fear and anger?
We are human; we do these things. But let us pull back from it, the moment we can, and turn to the New … and turn to the great wonder of the love and Light and joy.
You all take care, till next we meet.
Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Sunlight on Water
[“Prelude No. 20” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0
Sunlight on Water videoclips by Alice B. Clagett, CC BY-SA 4.0]
In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars
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FOOTNOTE
(1) Concatenation: a series of interconnected things or events
The question came up … why can’t the power of positive thought (or ‘mind control’, when we project the power of positive thought clairaudiently toward other people) erase samskaras, untie the tangles in our etheric net, and heal our Soul wounding?
Here are two analogies:
The Analogy of the Mental Mind and the Moldy Cake
Suppose you have a cake that’s moldy, and on it is icing that’s moldy…. So you replace the icing with fresh icing…. What have you got? …. cake that’s still moldy, right?
Most of the cake is still moldy, even if we replace the icing. And most of our many bodies are still tangled, even if we untangle our mental body or that of someone else through the power of positive thought.
Thought is a linear process, bound by time and space, yet our bodies are multidimensional, not bound by time and space. There is much more to our ‘cake’ than the mental icing. Yet, from the perspective of linear thought, that left-brain process often identified with masculinity, linear thought is the typical modus operandi.
Of course, from the overall human perspective, there is also the right brain, the intuitive brain to consider. And the back of the brain, the visual brain, and so on.
Then from the perspective of the New Human, there is the cosmic brain … connecting us through our revitalized axiatonal lines with the entire Universe … yes, even with the farthest Star in the farthest Galaxy!
So it’s clear that, even from the perspective of the mental body of a human being, there’s much more to us than the left-brain, linear thought process.
On to the Second Example … From the World of Sound
As mentioned in previous blogs, we are not just human physical bodies, but also bodies of light. It is our bodies of light that create the hologram, the illusion of a physical body.
Sound is a tool that heals and transforms our body of light. But, a look at this Sound Chart shows…
… that the range of human hearing … about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz … is a lot less than the total sound range. I believe the graph is logarithmic, which is good for graphing purposes … if we were to show the arithmetic range of human hearing, against a background of available sound range, we’d be hard pressed to find enough paper to make a graph, and we’d have an awful time conceptualizing it.
But here in the graph we have, in neat numbers: say, 10,000,000 available Hz, subtracted from approximately 20,000 Hz available to our human ears = 9,980,000 Hz that we can’t hear.
Dividing this by the total 10,000,000 Hz, give 99.8% of available sound that’s unavailable to our hearing.
So by inference, that’s 99.8% of the sound we might use to heal and transform our bodies of light unavailable to our vocal cords. Or maybe 99.6%, if we were to include the clairaudient sound range…
True Value of the Power of Positive Thought
To be completely truthful, I’ve found that what the power of positive thought (and of mind control, when directed to others) actually achieves in 3D is:
… It suppresses the samsakaras increasing the density of Soul wound, and its tendency to accrue more damaging sounds of the same resonance. These ‘gloms’ occur through attraction from the Unconscious Thought Cloud of the World.
… In the emotional body, suppression of emotion occurs, and in the subconscious realm … in 4D … the emotion turns negative and creates great negative turmoil in the unconscious thought cloud of the world during dreamtime.
…so, basically, the ‘cake’ of our beingness gets a little moldier.
That Rudderless Feeling
It seems to me that the reason this time of transition to New Earth is causing such subconscious turmoil is that the Ego of our beingness feels rudderless. We feel ‘at the effect’ of the tremendous changes taking place in the Universe today.
And so we try, by what means we can imagine, with the resources of our logical mind … whether it be the power of positive thought, or mind control, or devising mental landmarks to locate our whereabouts in the ever changing scenery of the New … to do what we can to steer our way to a positive outcome.
But these ‘safety nets’ are at best ineffective. And at worst, they can turn us against the tide of the New, so that we bob and whirl and gasp for air in a smoothly flowing stream of light that has only our best and highest welfare in the very heart of it.
On Turning to the Sea of the Cosmic Soul
How much better might it be to turn our faces toward that great Sea toward which all this River of Light would so gently ferry our Souls? Then with faith, and with Sweet Love, we may float easily on this surging tide, seeing all the while the greatness of our destiny, the Sea of our Cosmic Soul, on the horizon.
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So I tried it on myself, and guess what! My gut brain stopped talking to other folks [gut brain telepathy … see footnote (2) below]. I guess all I had to do was say ‘I love you’ to the physical me.
I am guessing I will have to keep up with this tummy massage for a few minutes every day, as I have noticed my physical body has a very short memory, together with a tremendous capacity to feel simple, straightforward joy (3).
(2) Link: “Instinctual Telepathy,” by Alice B. Clagett, with reference to Djwhal Khul through Alice Bailey, 14 August 2013 … http://wp.me/p2Rkym-5Sl ..
(3) Link: “Body Cells that Sing” by Alice B. Clagett, 2 June 2013 … http://wp.me/p2Rkym-6zx ..
Published on 23 March 2014; revised and republished on 7 January 2018
HIKING: SIDE ROADS AND PRIVATE LAND
AISHA NORTH ON THE WORLD OF ILLUSION
ON HEARING SAMSKARAS REPEAT ON THE CLAIR PLANE
ON HEARING THE CRIES AND GROANS OF SOULS
THE VOICE OF MY BODY CELLS: LIKE TINY, LITTLE CHILDREN
THE VOICE OF MY DESIRE ELEMENTAL
EXPLORATION OF PHYSICAL BODY SENSATIONS AS A MEANS OF ESCAPING CLAIR CHATTER
Exploration of Physical Body Sensations as a Means of Escaping Clair Chatter
THE HINTERLANDS OF PHYSICAL FORM
Dear Ones,
HIKING: SIDE ROADS AND PRIVATE LAND
I was just reading a great post by Aisha North on the unexpected side roads we might be able to take right now, and hidden treasures we might find within us (1). It reminded me of hiking around Los Angeles. I believe I have trekked down every trail in the mountains round about, with great delight in the treasures of each of them …
Once in a while, I come across a sign marked ‘Private Land: Do Not Trespass.’ Then, invariably, I think how much I would like to go exploring there. Then I think…
What is it like? I’ll never know, I guess.
So when I read Aisha North’s post, I thought …
Maybe we’re at a moment when all the ‘Private Land’ signs have come down. When we can go where we’ve never been before … the places we’ve overlooked because of the ‘No Trespassing’ signs. Wouldn’t that be fun?
AISHA NORTH ON THE WORLD OF ILLUSION
Aisha North said something else that really resonated with me, to do with seeing beyond the world of illusion. She says that, if we do this, we will be able to experience our full potential. …
I thought her words “thin and simple minded illusion” were especially apt. It is a thin and simple minded illusion that I live, when I stick with the daily routine and with what other people expect of me. Bor-ing!
What to do about it, I wondered? How to escape?
ON HEARING SAMSKARAS REPEAT ON THE CLAIR PLANE
Then I got to thinking about my mind, and how utterly entrenched it is in routine ways of thinking. How the samskaras repeat, over and over again. Knowing that they repeat is bad enough, but hearing what they repeat … as I have been doing lately … is much more bothersome.
ON HEARING THE CRIES AND GROANS OF SOULS
And then there is knowing the deep Soul wounding of most of the humans on Earth. Yes, I have read about it … but now I actually hear the cries and groans of my own Soul, and those of others, from time to time. As Daniella Breen (2) mentioned recently, not for the faint of heart! (or words to that effect).
THE VOICE OF MY BODY CELLS: LIKE TINY, LITTLE CHILDREN
And then there is the voice of my body cells, like tiny little children, all upset …
Oh, no! We don’t want to do that! We don’t want to do anything new! We like things just the way they are! Really, we do!
To which I always reply like this …
Well, I never! I really, really, really love you!
THE VOICE OF MY DESIRE ELEMENTAL
As if all this were not enough, there is my desire elemental, going on and on about its needs and desires and fears and terrors and etc and etc. Stridently. I can hear that too.
Who would not prefer bird song, the sound of the wind in the leaves of the trees, the laughter of children, the simple joys of the physical world?
EXPLORATION OF PHYSICAL BODY SENSATIONS AS A MEANS OF ESCAPING CLAIR CHATTER
So, I have turned away from all that clairaudient stuff, and I am exploring my bodily sensations in the here and now. The little aches and pains, stiffness here, a tickling sensation there, in my physical body.
What I have noticed is, unlike the predictable voices of my mind, my Soul wounding, my body cells, and my desire elemental, the voice of my physical body is ever changing.
Far from being a ‘thin and simple minded illusion’, it is a verdant maze of trails through an ever-new landscape, a vast panorama of mountains and lowlands, desert and sea shore, prairies and arctic lands.
THE HINTERLANDS OF PHYSICAL FORM
In witnessing the sensations of the physical body, I found I began to notice the by-roads, the little traveled trails, the roads that used to be marked ‘Private’ and are now open for joyful exploration.
To my amazement, treasures awaited me there, as my awareness of each physical sensation began to open my mind to long-unused connections among the physical body, the emotional body, the mental body, and the light body.
As I began to find and travel each of these so-long-unused roads, these infinitesimally tiny connecting pathways of Light, I began to sense, for the first time in ever so long, the true being that I am. It is that Unity Consciousness thing; the reunion of all the parts of myself; the rediscovery of the majesty of my humanness.
The work is far from finished, for sure. But a start has been made, for which I am deeply grateful.
