The grieving man in the dark clothes and hat sits slumped over on the wooden cemetery bench, still distraught over the death of his 16-year-old son.
The youth drowned in the Sacramento River 133 years ago.
"He's depressed," says Nancy Matz, pointing to the bench. "He's a nice-looking man."
She invites the men and women gathered around her, staring raptly at the bench, to reach out and gently feel his warm presence.
He didn't mind. He, too, had died -- many years ago.
Ms. Matz is a psychic who leads a popular tour through the Sacramento Old City Cemetery, a historic California burying ground that dates back to 1849 and is the resting place for 25,000 to 30,000 souls, give or take some due to faulty 19th-century records.
The group with Ms. Matz on this hot summer night are people of all ages, but more women than men. Some are clearly believers who eagerly step forward to touch the spirit, while others observe with amused smiles.
Ms. Matz, 48, from Pollock Pines, Calif., worked for a telephone company in an analytical job until six years ago, when she says she accepted her psychic abilities. She says she is an intuitive medium or clairvoyant.
"I spent all my life wondering what in the world was wrong with me," she tells the group. "Why didn't people see what I saw? Now that I've accepted it, I love it."
The Old City Cemetery Committee holds more prosaic tours on most weekends from May through September, but its special tours draw the largest crowds.
Ms. Matz has been leading periodic psychic tours for the committee for three years. She also participates in the committee's Moonlight Tours just before Halloween, when many participants come in costume.
The psychic tours, which cost $5, are usually sold out. There is a maximum of 150 participants.
Several days before the tours, Ms. Matz walks around the cemetery with John Bettencourt, tour coordinator for the committee. Mr. Bettencourt then hits the books, learning the stories about the spirits Ms. Matz says she senses roaming around the cemetery.
There are many colorful residents. The cemetery was established in 1849, with a donation of 10 acres from John Sutter, the pioneer who built Sutter's Fort and owned the foothills sawmill where gold was discovered in 1848.
His son, John Sutter Jr., who planned much of the city of Sacramento, was buried in the cemetery in 1897.
So was Hardin Bigelow, who built the city's first flood-control levee in 1850. Mr. Bigelow was elected mayor, but died six months later of cholera.
Mark Hopkins, one of the "Big Four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad, is entombed under a 350-ton red granite sarcophagus.
One visitor this night is Lavon, a woman from suburban Antelope, Calif., who says she doesn't have a last name. Why is she taking the tour?
"I had to," she says, "because I'm going to activate John Sutter (Jr.) in his 100-year resurrection."
Ginger, another visitor, says, "I've always been fascinated with cemeteries. I go to ghost tours and cemeteries."
The first stop is the bench where sits the grieving man. As believing members of the group touch his essence, Mr. Bettencourt tells the story of the teen buried beneath a modest marker:
Melchi Cox Gray was one of four children who moved with their parents from Iowa to California in 1849. His mother died in childbirth. His father, the man on the bench, was a circuit-riding preacher.
In June 1864, 16-year-old Melchi, not a good swimmer, tried to cross the Sacramento River. He didn't make it.
Nearby, Ms. Matz says she senses an angry man, balding, about 50-56, who had been killed in a fight.
He was probably Van Curtin Dodge, Mr. Bettencourt says. Mr. Dodge was killed on March 22, 1902, in a gunfight with a younger man on the Yolo-Sacramento railroad bridge. The younger man had impregnated Mr. Dodge's daughter and refused to marry her. Mr. Dodge had lain in wait for the man to try to force him to do the right thing, but lost the gunfight.
Later, Ms. Matz says she senses an accident, with blocks falling down and several people killed.
Mr. Bettencourt points to a tall memorial shaft for Silus Perry, who was one of seven people who died on Nov. 18, 1876, at Moore's Opera House. The opera house -- really a bawdy burlesque theater -- collapsed when overenthusiastic patrons began stomping their feet to get the show started.
Ms. Matz says that on one of her earlier visits she met the ghost of a volunteer firefighter who was decapitated in 1858 when his horse-drawn engine rushed under a low railroad trestle. He was hanging out around his grave, she says, waiting for his wife and children, who were buried elsewhere.
"He was so glad to see someone recognized him," she says.
"I had a serious talk with him. I told him, 'You can't wait around any longer.' "
When the latest tour goes past the volunteer fireman's plot, she notices that he is gone.
As an evening breeze comes up, Ms. Matz says she senses more spirits.
"I see children who died, a lot of water everywhere and reeds," she says.
Mr. Bettencourt points to a small double tombstone announcing the deaths of Willie Weaver, 14, and his 11-year-old brother, George. The boys had been picking crops on Aug. 30, 1883, and stopped at the river to cool down.
Willie was caught in a submerged hole. George tried to help him, but both went under.
Throughout the walk, Ms. Matz says she sees random spirits, many of whom appear very interested in particular individuals in the group. She says a blonde girl spirit seemed to like a woman in a long blue dress.
"I felt her earlier," the woman says.
Ms. Matz says one spirit no longer had a humanlike form, but was shaped more like a ball.
"It's almost as though he's forgotten what he looks like," she says.
A woman reaches out to feel. "It's running in all different directions," she says.
"It's in a circle," adds a young woman with black fingernail polish and lipstick.
"Now it's coming to me," says the first woman.
The cemetery tours are a hit. But Ms. Matz says it isn't necessary to go to a cemetery to see spirits.
"The mall is just as spooky," she says.
"The spirits are everywhere. There are things around us that we have a hard time even understanding."
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Asking for Guidance
by Nancy Matz
In the reality of what we call life, each one of us wants to accept total responsibility for our actions, and we call this our "Free Will". Every one of us had a childhood; hopefully your childhood was guided and nurtured in a loving environment. With a growing consciousness of impending adulthood, we stood with our heads up and stated to the world, "I am ready -- give me freedom to start my life as an adult!" No matter where we walked into society, we learned about life, the hardships and the rewards.
Most of you reading this article, and many others outside of the metaphysical world, have also learned that we can ask for divine help to gently guide our lives; show us the essons we ar to learn, and teach us the passionbfor life. The first time we asked for help, whether in a fit of anger, weeping, or out of sincerity, we hoped that a God force did exist and there might be someone listening. At that time did you ask with a whisper, a shout or quietly in your mind for personal help or guidance? During that moment that you turned over your trust and faith to a greater force, you learned one of life's greatest lessons -- belief!
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The Angels Heard My Call
Good News Magazine - Nancy Matz Winter 1997
We need to create magic every day. We should strive to be alive each moment of our lives. How many people do you know that get lost in their work and life? We all do. We all get caught up in the trials of maintaining our lifestyles, relationships and families. Sometimes, we lose perspective on why we are here. Shouldn't we live each moment enlightened, letting in the light, and accepting help from our angels?
June 27, 1997
What a week! What a month! Free time off? What is free-time off? I'm pooped! I love my career because helping people makes me feel wonderful! I must have asked God for this work and I'm grateful for this opportunity. My intuitive work is rewarding, and all- consuming at times. Of course, it's OK to take time off to reward ourselves for our efforts. Today, I chose to give myself a catch-up day. I started this morning, already tired from a very busy month. One day off, with many thoughts of how to prioritize chores around my house in so-many hours. It's overwhelming, I thought, pouring a 3rd cup of coffee to get my brain in motion. I reached for yesterday's mail and picked up an art supply catalog, remembering how much I once like to draw and paint. Art pieces placed around the house reminded me of the many compliments I've received in the past. One thought went to another, and I quickly forget about my chores. My thoughts became "I need to start drawing the visions I'm seeing for my clients", thinking of my mom who lives in Portland, Oregon.
I picked up the phone. And called, wanting to be put back "on purpose." I needed to touch base with my mom, who loves me just "because." She retired a year ago as a professional artist in her working career, and I was thinking of her because of this art magazine. She reminded me of a painting that I did in 1974, of myself running on a beach. She then said, "You should start drawing again."
My angels were at work, creating synchronicity, because as I was thinking of drawing and setting up an area to start painting again. Mom said, "How interesting you should call now, I was reviewing a book on how to start painting, '11 Secrets of Artistic Success' written by Greg Albert.
I'm really getting excited with painting again and creating magic in my life. The angels knew I would need a book just like that right now! She reminded me that just being alive was truly magic. That even at her age, her reference to being retired, to find our on-purpose was magic. I said that doing what brings happiness to our lives, brings purpose, if we want to truly live and experience continual magic in life.
Mom reminded me of Grandma Moses who started painting at 75 and continued until her death at 100. Look at all the magic she continually created for herself and others. Grandma Moses truly understood what being "on purpose" meant.
Sometimes we try too hard to find our purpose for our lives. If we relax and allow our angles to work, they will direct us to contact the ones who will give us that little push, and the art of synchronicity will happen.
We humans need and want to know that we are not alone and that the angels do hear our call. In a moment of true invitation they will hear. We need not shout, complain or speak of not being heard. When they give us a thought, it is up to us to follow through.
Thank you my dear angels for hearing me.
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Life After Cancer
An Inspiring Story - by Bob Cox
Good News Magazine
"I was only 39 when I got it. They said I had it for 6 years. I had 2 types, the slow moving and the fast moving. I knew there was something wrong with me and if I had waited six months later it would have been all through my body. I knew there was something wrong, but I didn't know how bad it was."
What "it" was, was cancer. How bad it was for Nancy Matz nearly 11 years ago was bad. Her condition would require 3 surgeries. Nancy was told by her doctor that she had malignant breast cancer and her best hope for survival was immediate surgery. After losing her grandfather to cancer, she had a powerful fear of the disease. "I always associated cancer with death. The first things I thought about were 'I wonder how bad it is and how bad it's going to get.' Disbelief was probably the first thought. My second thought was 'I wonder how bad it's going to get.' I had it worse than they thought, so I was put back in the hospital for a second surgery. So, when they told me the second time I'd have to go back, that was a very frightening thing. At that time, I had gone through a lot of personal crises. I was taking care of my blind grandmother, and I had a child I was going through "tough love" with. So, I had a lot of personal traumas around me all the time and I didn't know how I was going to handle the family issues and the cancer. I didn't know how to do that," explained Nancy.
After the surgeries, Nancy had a long recovery period. She took the time to reflect back on her life and seriously examined the choices she made. She looked particularly close at the ones that were creating an inner conflict in her life, choices that perhaps were the cause of her dis-ease, including her 20 year marriage. I don't know if it's because we grew up together ( we met at 15); but I knew we weren't happy in our marriage. When I got cancer, it was almost like God said, "If this is what you want, you can have this. If this is the only way you can change your life, you can have an out." I realized that I didn't want to die," recalled Nancy.
Nancy began her recovery by making some positive new choices. Her first choice was to embrace life after cancer. Next, she set out to resolve her long and unhappy marriage. "I couldn't see that we'd ever divorce. So, did I create this, maybe, I don't want to say for sure because I don't want people with babies who die of cancer feeling that the child created it, heavens no! But in my case, did I create it? I don't know if I didn't," explained Nancy.
"I was so unhappy. We were Catholic and we had a family. I just couldn't see any way of being happy. The cancer motivated me to realize that if I wanted a life, then it was up to me to do something about it. I saw that as a wake-up call, I call it the red brick effect. Like, how big of a brick do you need (to fall on you) to get the point! Well, I got the point that if I wanted to be happy, no one's going to do it for me. The cancer was a way of me saying, ok you can stay there and be miserable, or you can change everything. So I did and 6 months after cancer surgery I left him (her husband)," Nancy said.
The decision for Nancy to leave her husband of 21 years, plus her daughter (19) and son (15) and her home was a supreme test of faith. Faith in her belief that her creator wanted her to lead a life filled with passion, courage and integrity. Faith in not selling out to the fearful advice of well-intentioned friends by staying put in the security of her home. "I walked away from him, the house and the kids. The 19 year-old was already out. The 15 year-old was a heartache, but I had to do something," sighed Nancy.
Above all else, Nancy realized that her absolute first priority was to get well. She knew deep down that if she stayed stuck in her old way of living, that she'd have nothing of value to give to her family or others, except her life. "First off, I took all responsibility for me being unhappy. It wasn't him (her husband) who made me unhappy, it was me that made me unhappy. If you're unhappy in a relationship, you cannot put all the responsibility on your partner. It's your interpretation of the information given to you," stated Nancy.
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Time for His Heart to Heal
Good News Magazine by Nancy Matz
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor Airplane Crash
September 24, 1972 - 3:30 PM:
"Get myself together, must hurry to meet Grandma with son at the air show. I can just see him running around the vintage airplane show, and wearing Grandma out. Where are my sunglasses? Darn - left them at Mom's after stopping by to find out where to meet Grandma at the airport. Being only a half block away from Mom's, I'll go back to get my sunglasses." Bruce's thoughts were of his son and Grandma as he drove to meet them.
He had happy thoughts of seeing them at the air show and then going across the street to the ice cream parlor. Bruce was driving east on 35th Ave and came to the railroad crossing at the sewage treatment plant. Within a split second, Bruce saw an older Saber jet skid across the intersection, shearing off a fire hydrant. The Saber had failed its take off, crossing the street at the end of the runway. His eyes then froze upon the scene ahead of him, watching the plane crash into Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor - the time was 4:00 PM.
Bruce could only react - he drove his car into the parking lot and hurriedly parked. Bruce was the second person at the accident scene; the first was an airport firefighter. Together they broke out the parlor's front window; assisting the pilot (who climbed out of his jet) and walked over the tables to safety outside. Time seemed to freeze as Bruce helped the injured to safety.
Unknown to Bruce was a birthday party to be held at the parlor that day. He later found out that a buddy of his was to be there with his family. Among the injured was his friend's badly burned wife, and with the dead - their two children.
His life completely changed that moment.
Present day:
Bruce's life has been full; he married, raised two children, and has managed a couple of successful businesses. He can say he has had only a few life regrets. However - when reflecting back to this accident, this strong, assertive businessman softens his demure voice and with a sense of some invisible guilt says, "I wish I could have done more."
September 1997:
Often a client becomes a friend and refers their friends to have a session with me. Lynn accepted this offer and made an appointment with me. She enjoyed our session together and purchased my book, "Two Worlds". She quickly read my book and was moved
She took the book to work and told her boss (Bruce) that she enjoyed it and offered it to him to read. She told Bruce that I was a psychic, and with an uncertain look of "curiosity" said "Her book? I'll read it". He read the preface and called within a few days. Hesitantly he said, "Your first story, you were almost involved with an airplane crash. That story has brought up so many feelings, I really need to meet you. To have found someone else who was there, can we talk?"
I said that I did psychic counseling - was his interest to have a session or to just visit? I needed to know how to arrange my calendar. (I can only do a few hours a day of psychic reading.) He said he had never talked to anyone like me and was interested in both. We spend the next fifteen minutes attempting to coordinate my calendar and his. We finally settled on Wednesday at 4:00 PM the next week.
On Wednesday at 4:00 PM, we talked of his family, business and friends, and I sensed he enjoyed his first psychic reading. Then we talked about the "accident." I remembered that day 20+ years ago and my reaction after receiving our ice cream at the parlor and within a couple of bites knowing I had to leave. My daughter was strongly protesting us leaving. My sister saying it was probably my being pregnant making me nuts. I told him that my daughter was in the back seat of the 63 VW I was driving and approximately three blocks from the parlor my daughter called out and said there was a "big bang and lots of smoke" visible from the back window. Then I admitted, "I wish I could have known why I needed to leave. I have had a feeling of guilt for so long." I went on, "I have come to believe that the saddest of all events are part of a master plan." We parted that day, our spirits connected by a special event from the past.
On Friday, while at the office, I was reviewing the clients coming that day and Sunday. I reflected back to my session with Bruce and the day we chose to meet and was startled. On Sunday, I collected myself and made a call to Bruce. To his answering machine I said, "Sorry to have missed you. I need to tell you something. The appointment you set with me to talk about the airplane accident was September 24, at 4:00 PM, twenty-five years to the day and hour of the Farrell's accident. I think your angels want you to know they are taking care of you and feel it is time for your heart to heal. The best to you, Bruce."
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"What am I doing In this body?"
The Story of Baby Rebecca
Written by Nancy Matz - for Rebecca
Late August, 1997: Laura has been a friend and client for over four years. She called with anxiety for her sister Aljean and asked if she would be all right in the upcoming birthing of her second child. What was concerning her was the possibility of a larger baby and that the child was already a week overdue. I did not feel stress of a problem delivery and told her so.
September 2, 1997: The baby is here! Rebecca weighed in at over 10 lbs.! She was a very angry baby and cried so hard that she ruptured the sunt valve! Laura explained that this was the valve that the unborn baby has reversing the blood that is changed in accordance with the needs that breathing would take.
Late November 1997: Laura called to announce an upcoming Christmas party and I was invited. December 20th was free on my calendar and I accepted. We usually talk every day and on the day of the invitation I asked how her sister and the new baby were doing. She said the baby was really growing fast and that she already was the size of a six-month-old.
December 20, 1997: After an unusually long workday, I was really looking forward to the Christmas party at Laura's mom's house. Her mom, Grace, has a lovely home in Granite Bay that's filled with wonderful Christmas decor. I was tired and after having met some people, I found a comfortable place to stand and sip coffee while enjoying the decorations.
I was very happy to meet Laura's mom and was looking forward to meeting the new baby Rebecca and her mom Aljean. Shortly after finding my quiet place to sip my coffee, a family of four came through the front door. After all the hellos were said, Laura proudly introduced Aljean's family to me. The three-year-old happily ran to Grandma Grace and made happy noises of wanting this and that. Momma Aljean disappeared and attempted to lay Rebecca down after changing her. The child clearly was out of sorts, and Aljean thought better of this and brought her into the front room to see the guests.
I was standing quietly, watching the guests talk to each other, when Aljean walked in and stopped next to me. I turned and noticed Aljean was holding this unusually large baby, three-month old Rebecca. Rebecca was being held so that she was looking at me. I smiled at her and noticed how intensely she was observing me. She started talking to me in an unusually strong baby talk. My mind filled with anger and disbelief, pictures exploding in my mind of a life as a man from a foreign culture. "What am I doing here," she wailed! Did I hear right! Again, "I don't remember being born, I don't want to be here in this body!" I know that the entire room disappeared for me and all I could do was look at this angry person. "Do you know why I am here? I am forgetting my lifetime of before. Did my family come with me?" How was I to talk to her, my body sent to her an invisible hug and a soft feeling of "It's ok, you are wanted." Was that enough of an answer?
Just then, Laura walked up to me and asked why was I looking so surprised. I pulled her aside and briefly told her what happened and said I'd tell her more tomorrow on the phone.
As promised, we talked on the phone the next day and I gave her ALL the details. She was as surprised as I was in telling her Rebecca's story. I told her I wanted to interview the child and see if more information would come to me. Laura attempted to set up time for me to get together with Aljean and Rebecca. Much to my dismay, several attempts and each time something stopped us from getting together.
My belief in God and of a divine order of events has helped me to understand that if I were to have more information, I would have seen Rebecca immediately. I have given this situation a lot of thought. In the time that I have been a counselor, a belief in reincarnation did not come easily to me. What if I had immediate access to my last past life, to know I was born again and have karmic lessons with past loved ones? What would happen if I had immediate knowledge of wrongs done by me or to me? How would I react to my life? Would it prove to be as valuable? As for Rebecca, has she been born to her family? Or is she to create the karmic family?
Again, I have learned a wondrous lesson; the divine order of the universe is again perfect. For those of us that have a need we can seek out those to assist us in finding out past lives-if it helps us to learn our lessons. But most of all for the rest of us who desired a journey with purity of innocents, we are given the gift of forgetfulness at birth. Thank you God.
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Reading Given by Edgar Casey about the Second Coming
More on John Peniel, Second Coming,
Hall of Records, Old Age Senility & May 5, 2001
You will have before you the Records and the inquiring minds of these people gathered here, the nation of Japan and the Records related to World Prophecy. You will give relationship to Universal Forces and comment on purpose and direction. Please allow for translation by stopping after each sentence. Please answer questions as I now ask.
Q-1. Please relate the growth of the soul to the growth of the Universe.
A-1. Yes, we do have these records and may we say that in answer to relating the growth of the individual to the growth of the Universe, that all of our answers to these questions taken as a whole will allow more clarity than we shall give in the immediate answer.
We will say in the immediate answer that you should think of an individual on this planet as a cell, a single microscopic cell with the Earth, the planet itself being the smallest portion of a small gland in a great body. Even that you consider your solar system should be taken to relate to nothing more than a small organ within a much greater body.
The planets in their orbits, in relation to the Sun, might even be seen on such a small scale as the elements of an atom, a single atom in a great body. From that perspective, see that the body itself, that is greater than what you know as a Universe, the Universe of Universes, is a body which grows and which has initiations of its own.
As there are initiations in the growth of each soul, so the planet itself, herself, has initiations. Thus all that happens upon this Earth is of relative insignificance to the growth of the entire Universe of Universes.
With that comment as a basic pretext or theme, we will continue with other questions.
Q-2. We are told that in the near future, after worldwide disaster, that a savior will come. What kind of person will that savior be? Please describe in a specific way, when will the savior appear and how to distinguish a false savior from an authentic savior.
A-2. Yes, first, as relates to disasters or catastrophes which occur before the savior comes, we would have it seen in this manner, that there are three witnesses to His coming. Two of the witnesses or brothers, that symbolized by the swastika and the feminine side, and that symbolized by the sun have come.
And we must warn you here that we will answer these questions on both symbolic and literal levels. So you must consider that there are also three individuals who will come.
Those which have already come, and to which we have referred, are world events of the nature of destruction and catastrophe. The coming of the third witness also bears a relationship to a world war, and you will look for the signs in these ways.
That is, there is destruction on the Temple Mount and the beginning of reconstruction of a temple. And as there is a worldwide religious war, you will know that these events are upon you.
There will come two, then, who appear as saviors. This, then, will be the difficulty, to distinguish who is the world savior. During the time of this bloodshed or confusion, look for another event which will distract the attention of the entire world. This is a celestial event, the coming of a light from the sky. This event will be so great in magnitude as to distract the attention of the world from war and from fighting. It will give to all men common cause, greater than that which is the concern of the war. For it will seem to every man that the very existence of the earth will be endangered.
His light as it comes in the sky will be brighter than that of the Sun. Because of the magnitude, the Sun will appear to turn black. It will be as if it had collapsed giving its power to that which comes.
Then two will stand, one drawing attention to himself as it he were a savior of the world. He will seem to have answers and means of protection. His approach will be one which will attempt to destroy the incoming object.
Then you will know the savior by the fact that His attention is turned to the individual. It will seem foolish to most that man will be invited to accept and to welcome the incoming light. But keep in mind the ancient prophecy of His coming. You are warned that when others say, "Lo, He is here. He is there," you will then know, it is not correct. For to point here or there is to point with-out yourself, outside the self.
As the true savior comes, He comes within you.
This does not mean that there will be no presence among you which can be identified. It means rather that your identification of Him will come from inner recognition rather than looking without to some other man. For He is the embodiment of the light which will come, and He will establish a new manner of living, a New Order of the ages.
And His manner will be one of living together in peace, harmony, not only with one another, but with the heavenly bodies on which you stand.
It would do well that you understand the nature of a space vehicle or space ship. For many will interpret the incoming light in that manner. It has been seen by some as a great ship over Jerusalem.
For your better understanding of that you might call a space ship, think of this planet itself as a great ship. For that celestial body which comes will be similar in that manner. Not as if it were a craft, but as it were a celestial object, having more similarity to a meteor than that you think of as UFO.
This will be the coming of His light in the sky, and will bring the dawning of a New Age, a new Eden. The earth will be renewed.
Look toward the building of the temple as your most important sign of the coming of these events. Perhaps further clarification as we continue with the questions.
Q-3. Will the world disaster come as prophesied by Nostradamus at the end of the century in July 1999. If it occurs, how can we survive it?
A-3. Understand that according to the prophecies, the three will come, the true White Brother and the two witnesses. Should they succeed in their missions, the destruction of the earth will not occur, but rather a rebuilding. Much destruction already has come and more will be seen. That final event you speak of, the heralding of the Second Coming, will be at the end of the century.
Would be difficult to date as July 1999, for the reason that many events occur. Understand that we speak of a great war as well as a celestial event. The date to look for the building of the new is May 5, 2001.
Then you will find the beginning of a period of peace.
Q-4. By the prophecy of Edgar Cayce, in 1998, Christ will visit again, but exactly when will this happen? Where will he descend and what time?
A-4. Understand the nature of the prophecy of Edgar Cayce. He did not say the Second Coming of the Christ occurs on that date or that time. He spoke rather of a visitation of the Christ.
Keep in mind that this same prophet spoke of a visitation of the Christ upon the President Woodrow Wilson at the time of the founding of the League of Nations.
Understand that according to the prophecies of the prophet Cayce, there have been times when the Christ has entered a particular individual and caused that individual to take an action which would change the course of history. The visitation of 1998 should be taken in that same manner - a visitation.
This is to be distinguished against or from the Second Coming.
Q-5. What is John Peniel’s work in relationship to the Second Coming of Christ? How does it involve Japan?
A-5. The work of John of Peniel is to end duality and separation. It is the work of this enlightened one to build the capstone of the Mystery School, the re-establishment, as it were, of the capstone, the crown stone of Giza. And the return of the capstone is also the returning of the Crown of Enlightenment to the mind of man.
Thus the work of John of Peniel and those who work with him, including this channel and others in establishing such a school, is the work of making available to every man the Crown of Enlightenment, brain transcendence, the mending of that which is rent in twain, the rending of the veil.
We would have you understand that the tablets which you ask about, the tablets to be brought together again from the prophecies of the Hopi, the tablets can well be said to be the left and the right hemispheres of the brain, which when brought together again by an enlightened initiate, can be made one tablet of wisdom. These are the same tablets brought by Moses from the crown of Sinai. They are the same tablets spoken of by Joseph Smith as Golden Tablets.
Now in the physical dimension, you will also find such tablets of wisdom written, engraved, Smaragdine tablets in the chamber of Records at Giza. Understand that Smaragdine refers to emeralds. The emerald tablets are the tablets of the heart of emerald green.
As the chambers of the heart are one, the hemispheres of the brain are one, a change in the nature of the species to androgynous. Much of these occurrences are beyond imagination at the moment. But understand that all refer to the end of the appearance of duality and the establishment of the Law of One.
Would you continue.
Q-6. Is it true that John Peniel is the reincarnation of John the Apostle? Is John the Baptist reincarnated now? Is Peter reincarnated?
A-6. John of Peniel, as a physical individual, is an incarnation of the one who was called the Beloved, the Apostle of the Christ. The Peniel experience is the experience of each man in his encounter with his Source, with God. Thus we give you interpretation on two levels, an experience and an incarnation of an individual.
As to the appearance of John the Baptist, he is, was, Elijah. It has been said that as the Savior will come, as the Messiah will return, Elijah will appear. We would compare this experience, the appearance of Elijah, with the appearance on the Mount of Transfiguration and Ascendance of the Christ. Understand His appearance with Moses and Elijah, and understand this meaning that John the Baptist had completed his cycles of incarnation and does not return born of woman, but returns in descension of the heavens as he ascended to the heavens in that experience.
There is, however, one who will act in a role similar to John the Baptist, a harbinger who will work together with John the Apostle, Paul the Apostle, who is before you, and Peter who is incarnate on your plane in this time.
Understand that these three will come from three distant corners of the world, and their coming together with one from these environs of Japan will be three witnesses who will usher in the dawning of a new day particularly through the establishment of the Order of Initiation allowing the Crown of Enlightenment. Thus will be fulfilled the dream of restoring the Temples of Initiation, and this must come within the generation.
Q-7. Will an ether generator be discovered in the Hall of Records in Giza, Egypt? Please describe the principle of this device.
A-7. An ether generator is particularly difficult description. Understand that your physicists, your scientists in this time have developed some small understanding of ether. The elusive bodies theorized, not precisely proven, perhaps referred to as neutrino, come as near to the understanding of ether as man has come.
What you have seen in dream or vision as an ether generator, is rather an instrument which gathers this energy of the ethers and because the structure of the ether is, in comparison with other structures, small and round, can pierce between those spaces which are described as separating the particles or the charges of atoms, molecules. Thus an instrument so energized, may move freely through what you think of as atomic structure or matter.
It is rather such a ship or instrument which will be found, which you have seen, in dream and vision.
Q-8. In the prophecy of the Hopi, is the True White Brother and his followers the three people who enter the Hall of Records. It is said that one will bring a swastika on a stone tablet and the other a symbol of the sun. Where are those two tablets brought by the followers of the True White Brother?
A-8. Yes, we have described these both as the hemispheres of the brain which can be brought together as one tablet. Massed together, they become a key.
That self same key is the only key which will open the Hall of Records, and within that Hall of Records, literal tablets, the Books of Wisdom, the Laws of Hermes.
Q-9. Is it wise to control the genetic code now or in the future?
A-9. It is not possible to overcome the genetic code in the most literal sense. Even though gene separation and gene splicing is possible, the genetic code is a record, a book, a tablet of karma. The slashing of a page or a part of such a Book of Life or karma can only delay or complicate the karma of a soul.
Thus the attempt at controlling genetics by tampering with genetic code can only complicate the karma of mankind.
Q-10. Please explain age-related diseases that cause mental deterioration, memory loss and senility. How should medical science treat these?
A-10. Best to understand age-related disease, particularly senility as the attempt of a soul overcome by fear to escape reality. Rather than a dis-ease in the truest sense, such should be understood as a technique of the soul for managing or relating to reality by attempting to escape it.
Should be treated with kindness and with love. Sufficient application of relaxation of fear, of the application of music of light, of color and of peace, will often allow for such a soul to heal the self and be willing again to encounter what you think of as reality. Better that you learn to prevent it by learning early to bond the soul with love and to overcome fear.
See the revolution which comes in medical science in this time, in the understanding of the relationship between thought and that which is embodied, that which produces dis-ease of all kinds. For the process known as aging is, in itself, a dis-ease process that, in itself, may be healed by the overcoming of fear.
Now, what will you do with that which you have been given? You are given here keys. If you will apply them to the situations before you, you will create the opportunity for the opening of the Hall of Records.
Thus rather than asking the role of John of Peniel as an individual, let each one ask, "What will I do to accomplish the Second Coming?"
The task that is given is yours, not his. The reading from these Records for him will be given to him. The reading of this record this day is given to you.
Always consider that you ask before you ask it.
That is sufficient to the reading of this Record. We are through for now.
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