This is our second and for now final excerpt from Almine’s A Life of Miracles book. It is a follow-up of yesterday’s fascinating account of an encounter with the being known as Lucifer and it is recommended you read that post first.
“…Later, I received the following information about Lucifer and his role: A game of illusion was designed to help us gain perspective of our nature as pure light, by experiencing that which we are not. To assist with this game, one-third of the angelic hosts, under Metatron, played a neutral role. One-third, under Archangel Michael, did everything in their power to help us return to Source. The other third, under Lucifer, did everything in their power to keep us from returning to Source. The result of these opposing forces was the perfect timing of the birth of higher levels of awareness, much like a butterfly emerging from the chrysalis at the right moment.
“I was told that the third that had volunteered to play the light retarders had no ability to feel. I wept for them, marveling at their courage to descend into density and forgetfulness where they aren’t able to feel love or engage passionately in life…”
Thanks for bringing that one to the fore again Niels, it’s fascinating. Do you know the piece from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”where Lucifer first descends into hell? Thanks for all your good questions, you are a marvellous host in the radio shows!
“Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,
Said then the lost Archangel, “this the seat
That we must change for Heaven?–this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid
What shall be right: farthest from him is best
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,
Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,
Infernal world! and thou, profoundest Hell,
Receive thy new possessor–one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reigh secure; and, in my choice,
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
John Milton, 1608-1674, extract from “Paradise Lost “
Hello Arrenike,
Thank you for leaving a comment…
The questions are just a pleasure to ask and see where Almine takes them.
This is a beauty of a piece, isn’t it? A Life of Miracles truly deserves a bit of spotlight action.
Thank you for sharing John Milton’s piece. I didn’t know it, but will read it with interest.
Niels
Team Almine