This time the parable is looking at the human perspective from an angel’s view point; to see how angels view the human perspective and all our trials and tribulations. Two angels or spirit guides, Angenon and Verhehu, were very, very thrilled, in a high state of joy that was making them vibrate. Why? Because they were off on their new mission. What was their mission? They were going to meet this soul who was planning to take birth, and they had been given the task of being the guides for this soul. So they were thrilled because here was another new soul whom they could help and serve. Angenon had been in human incarnation before. And his energy showed that; that he had mixed with his energies, the energies of himself as a human being. Verhehu had never been a human being. Verhehu was an angel guide and had always been an angel, never had taken any other incarnation. And so the energy fields of both these, though luminous and bright, were distinct from each other. But both were as joyous and as excited about this great new mission.

When they reached the destination they were supposed to reach, they looked around and they knew that their energy fields would tingle when they had encountered the energy field of the one they were supposed to serve. And they saw all the many souls around and suddenly and simultaneously, their energy fields began to tingle and vibrate so fast that they knew they had ‘met’ their mission.

They saw the soul entering the chamber of planning and they rushed in and in warm embrace the three waited for a few moments, before they sat down to plan; planning for what this soul would be doing, what this soul wished to do, wished to learn, wished to experience, in this next new incarnation. As they sat, they watched the soul go through the process of reviewing all its past incarnations. And they knew that this reviewal process had already been done alone by the soul and this was like a quick summary, so that the soul would again have full recollection. Then the soul wrote down the main lesson that the soul wished to learn. And the lesson was ‘CONTROL… from a male perspective’. Now this was wonderful because this soul had been male, for several, several incarnations, and although the soul did not know it, Angenon and Verhehu had picked up in their energy fields from the very first moment they had felt the tingle, the knowledge of all the lifetimes that the soul had gone through. So they didn’t really need to see the Akashic Records but they waited patiently.

They wondered now how the soul desired to tackle this one large lesson that the soul had decided upon; control from a male perspective. They waited because the first step has to be taken by the soul, and that first step is the determination of the ‘sex’ of the incarnated soul. And they waited wondering whether the soul would again choose ‘man’, because the lesson was ‘control from a male perspective’, and they were joyously surprised when the soul chose ‘woman’. As soon as the soul made this choice, the two spirit guides knew instantly what the soul would do next. And lo and behold, it was exactly that. The soul decided to take some severe lessons, as a woman, to experience abuse of control from the men in her life. As soon as the soul had decided to be a woman, Angenon and Verhehu called the soul Her. Then came the task of choosing, asking, sometimes getting rejection, sometimes getting an agreement from souls who had to help this wonderful new friend of theirs during her incarnation.

The soul pondered long over this and then came up with a list of other soul friends who she (now we will also refer to her as ‘she’), considered the best to help her out of this. On reading through the list Angenon and Verhehu saw that there were a large number of souls who were still not in embodiment, just as there were a considerable number who were already in embodiment. Verhehu knew that it was now its task, as the angel, to contact and connect with all the angels of those who were in embodiment; all the guardian angels, to ask them to allow the higher souls of those who were in embodiment to meet with them in this chamber of planning. As soon as this was done, all the higher souls came around. The ones who were not in embodiment yet were already present, because it was easy for Angenon to connect to those and bring them in.

Then started the discussion…who will help, in what process, and how. The ones who were not in embodiment had to agree to take embodiment in order to help her learn. The ones who were already in embodiment had to agree, to meet her at a certain time, in a certain way, at a certain place so that her future would unfold as she wished it to. But the guardian angels and the higher souls knew that the plans already made by the embodied souls could not go into disarray because of this. And so there followed a long time of ‘yes’ and ‘no’, changing dates here, changing a little bit of the role there, literally seeing the whole picture and then cutting it into little jigsaw pieces by ‘craftsmen’ like Angenon and Verhehu. Then the two stepped back and allowed her, the soul, to enter the cave of creation. They knew that into this cave, only the soul can enter. Only that who wishes for human incarnation enters that cave. And they waited while the process turned this disembodied soul ready for the process of embodiment. And they waited while this was complete.

Soon the day, date, and time that she had decided to make her entry into the human world neared, and they made preparations to see that they would be present with all their angelic helpers to ensure that her birth into this human world would not be traumatic. Why? Because she had not decided so. She had decided on an easy entry into the human world. The date decided by her was 1^st September, because the astrological sign would give her all the feminine attributes she required. She had already chosen and made an agreement with those who would be her mother and the father.

As 1^st September dawned bright and clear, Angenona and Verhehu waited for that moment chosen by her, to ensure that nothing would go awry by even a microsecond. And at the right time, the right place, the right moment, she was born, and Angenon and Verhehu waited on either side of her. They knew that now for a number of years, their task, their service, would involve only patient waiting.

As soon as she was born, she forgot the chamber of planning; she forgot the cave of creation. She forgot her embodied and disembodied friends, and Angenon and Verhehu had the task, sometimes a little painful, of placing veil upon veil upon her, knowing that each veil that they placed upon her, she was fading away more and more in the human realm and leaving behind only her higher soul in the etheric realm. And it’s painful to them, when they see a friend depart.

For 47 years they stood by her, not saying a word. Not raising a tiny feather in their wings to help her. They saw her first being sexually abused by her father. They saw her witnessing and experiencing a very, very painful divorce between the mother and the father. They waited without helping her when she was sexually abused by her step-father. They waited again offering no help when she was sexually abused by her step-father’s brother. They waited silently as her anger built up. They did nothing when in her human interaction with men, she spewed out hate and tried to control them in any way she possibly could. They waited as they saw money pouring in, because abundance was not an issue for her. It was not a lesson she had chosen, and they watched as money and wealth and business and success came to her easily every step of the way, till finally in her early 40’s she was the head of a large corporate enterprise, having male subordinates whom she hired and fired at will, enjoying subjugating them. Her anger against the men in her life, who had abused her, had a wonderful opportunity to be released in hatred, and malice and deliberate cruelty against the men who were working now under her. They waited as she herself experienced two bitter divorces because she couldn’t sustain any kind of healthy relationship with any man. Through it all they didn’t lift a feather to help her.

As she neared her 47^th birthday, Angenon and Verhehu felt the same anticipation and thrill and joy as they had felt those several years ago, when they were first going to encounter their new mission, because they knew now they would have to work in service rather than wait in service. But they knew that their work could not start till a very important event took place in her life. And as she signed an agreement form to take part in a huge corporate seminar which was going to take place between corporate heads from all over the world congregating at one place to talk about finance, they felt a joy. She was one step closer to that important event. They had waited in trepidation for a week, because she was not sure whether she wished to attend or not. And they couldn’t tell her what to do. And as she signed on that form, there was joy. One step closer.

As the seminar took place, Angenon and Verhehu waited, silently waited. The doors opened and closed and hundreds of leaders of industry entered. And then the door opened one more time and in walked a lady, impeccably dressed, in the most expensive outfit possible. As she walked in every head turned towards the door. Not because she was so beautiful, not because she was one of the most important leaders there, but she had something emanating from her which the hard headed corporate executive all picked up. And they were drawn to her as she took her seat.

Our little soul friend also saw her. The seminar was to last one week. Intensive work from morning till night. And through that week our soul looked at this woman in utter amazement and admiration. And as Angenon and Verhehu saw this in her, they were thrilled because the big moment still hadn’t arrived. But they were ecstatic that she had been so deeply touched by the energy emanated by this woman. She had been one of the disembodied souls who had agreed to meet our soul friend at this time, in this place, in the 47^th year of this soul’s life. And it had all come together. Now only one thing remained. Would the soul approach the woman? If she did Angenon and Verhehu knew they would have a lot of work to do. If she didn’t, they knew they would have to continue to wait in service.

On the last day, much against her will, our little soul friend found her feet being almost magnetically pulled towards this woman. And she felt very foolish inside because by now she had become a very hard- headed, not to say hard-hearted, individual. But in the tea break, she walked up to her and said, "How do you do it? I know who you are and I know how many men you have working under you. How do you manage to stay so calm, so peaceful? How do you manage to stay out of stress when there are so many stupid men around you?" And with this question Angenon and Verhehu were in bliss. The moment had taken place. She had asked the question and for the next five years, this lady would help our soul friend understand male ego, male control and the truth of what is POWER.

As she met her more and more often, our soul began to see and acknowledge the anger within her. She began to see and acknowledge the roles played by her father, step-father and step-father’s brother. And one day thinking that she was all alone, not knowing that Angenon and Verhehu had never left her side for even a moment, she cried out from the depths of her soul, "God, help me to see and overcome what I am going through." And as soon as these words were out Angenon and Verhehu had a celebration. And our little soul didn’t realize that the reason why she had such a sleepless night that night was because Angenon and Verhehu and their freinds were having a marvelous, joyous celebration all around her bed. Intent had been put out. She had invited the universe to open its doors to her. She had taken a decision to remove one after another, the veils that Angenon and Verhehu had put upon her.

As the veils were lifted, our friend went through trial upon trial, and test upon test in her emotional life, till finally at the age of 53 she got married for the third time; this time not to dominate but to have an equal loving relationship. And then Angenon and Verhehu knew that it was time for them to depart. Her soul had grown so vast that now they were not the guides meant for her.

They invited the archangels and they invited the ascended Masters to bring to her those guides necessary for her. And giving her one last feathery kiss, they departed in joy after having been with her for 53 years. But they knew that before the next masters and guides came in, our soul would have to be alone without support for 90 days. It takes 90 days for guides to change.

What happened to her after that we don’t know, but we do know that she passed all the tests placed before her in those 90 days with grace, acceptance and love. Her future is still revealing itself, just as yours and mine is.

We learn so much of the etheric realm from this little parable. We learn about the process of our choices. And we learn, as Kryon tells us, that there is nothing like predestination. The word predestination suggests some kind of force and compulsion, when actually there is none. It was the soul who decided out of complete free-will that she wanted to be a woman, that she wanted to be physically, emotional, sexually abused by three men in her life, that she would go through the hatred, she would experience the pain, she would experience the abuse of power on her own path in order to understand what true power is. As a man in past incarnations she had not understood power. She had thought that power was control, domination, aggression, suppression of the weak. We are made to see how beautifully the soul planned her life. You see the tests were not on in the 47 years. There were only experiences for 47years. When she was raped there was no test. When she hated there was no test. When she was cruel there was no test. The test came when on her 47^th year she had a free-will choice to meet the soul or to carry on along the same path. That was her test. The others were only her blueprint at work. She had planned it exactly like this. The tests came after meeting that wonderful woman. ‘Should I change? Do I really want to know what power is? Do I want to overcome my hatred of those who have controlled me?’ That was her test. There is no predestination. All that happened was her free-will choice unfolding itself. When that woman came, she had planned that she would meet. And when she spoke, it was her conscious free-will choice to meet, to ask, to start upon her quest. When in complete loneliness she raised her voice to God and said "Help me, I wish to overcome this. Help me to see what I am not seeing" she made a free-will choice to ask for this guidance.

There is no predestination. We write our own story and for many years we live it. And then in our blueprint we put in a very, very vital moment. Unfortunately, it’s only in hindsight that we see "Oh my God, this was the turning point of my life." It would be wonderful if all of us can go home and ponder. "What was the turning point in my life? Did any opportunity come up? Did I let it go?" And if you have let it go, you now have the power to now make intent to the universe that "I wish for such an opportunity to be presented again to me so that I do not let it go the second time around." And if we were not blind to it the first time, let’s give ourselves a joyous hug that we made the right free-will choice when the opportunity came our way; that we passed the test that we placed upon ourselves.

We don’t know how many angels have stood by in silent service, never receiving a word of gratitude because we did not even know they were there. Every time we cried our tears alone, they were there; two of them, one at each side. And as one goes ahead towards the ascension plan, the guides keep increasing in number.

This was a big lesson for me too. I understood now why Infinite One left, and why it was three months before Jade Fire came in. And how beautifully those three months dove-tailed. My test in those 90 days were to give up on attachment. And somehow it took me exactly those three months to do that. 90days for the new masters to come in.

Am I still doing the same thing this time around? I know I am working with far more masters than I have ever worked with. Am I again attaching myself, this time to Jade Fire? Maybe I am, but at least this time, I am not fighting. I acknowledge that maybe there is an attachment here, but this time I know that I have welcomed all the masters, in that welcome has been my letting go of Jade Fire. For years and years I only channeled Jade Fire. Why have all these Masters suddenly been coming? Because unknown to me there was a turning point, which I passed. This time around I didn’t commit the same mistake. I let him go, knowing that there is no letting go. And in that moment the masters have opened up so many doors, and the most beautiful cosmic masters, names I had never heard of, started making their vital presences known to me.

Now which archangel do we use for our tests and guidance therein? When we are like this little soul, going through our experiences and not knowing why, we call upon the Archangel Gabriel.

When I was doing my Reiki III one of the things that I saw, when I was undergoing a regression (in the womb), was a huge white angel, standing there and saying "No, you must go on. This time you will not turn back." I came out of that and she looked at me and she says "Oh my God." I had been only experiencing this internally; I hadn’t verbalized anything till now. "I saw the distinct and very strong presence of Archangel Gabriel." And I said "What?!" She said "did you meet an Archangel?" And she asked me why and I explained to her. And she said, ‘does this mean something to you’ and I said ‘yes it does’. I had fought my birth so the archangel said "no, this time go ahead. No turning back." Why no turning back? Because as a soul I had decided "Don’t allow me to turn back, whatever it takes. I want to experience birth in this manner. I want to experience abandonment, rejection, all of it in the womb. Don’t allow me to turn back." This experience got over and I said "Listen I need to take a break. I can’t go on after this." I went to the loo and there I got four lines which didn’t make sense to me. In fact I discussed it with the Reiki teacher and with Roxanne but neither could really explain it. I understood one line of it today. The lines were "At the feet of Gabriel you will bring all men." It was a very firm voice telling me. It was my mission given to me that day. I realize that now. "At the feet of Gabriel you will bring all men. At the feet of Michael, you will lay their heads, at the feet of Raphael you will bear their souls, and you and Ariel will take them across."

I waited for this code to be broken and part of it was today, when I read about Gabriel; the Archangel who is in charge of the angels of guidance and purification. "At the feet of Gabriel, you will bring all men." I am taking you to the feet of Gabriel, hoping that you will like this soul want to purify yourself and there Gabriel will take over. I am being guided to teach and impart different things which make you look within. I didn’t realize what it meant. How would I bring all men to the feet of Gabriel, and to do what? I said. To do this, so that then Gabriel and Gabriel’s angels work for you, to purify you. To be like our beautiful Jade Fire and go through the crucifixion of our attachments, of our ego. Our experiences, our trials and tests in fire are our crucifixion. But after the crucifixion is the resurrection; to resurrect as the ascended soul when veils of forgetfulness have all been removed by Archangel Gabriel and his angels.

There is a second connection between Gabriel and me. Gabriel is the Archangel who looks after all water signs – Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. I am Cancer. He is my Archangel, and every time I have done an archangel meditation and said "Archangel, come" Gabriel is there in all the beauty and love, even when I have sometime asked for Michael.

All Archangels have their twin flames, which are their female aspects. The Archangels are the male aspects of the angelic energy. Archangel Gabriel’s twin flame is Hope. What better word for me when I study my life. It has been only HOPE that has given me the faith to carry on when I thought I just couldn’t. Because I knew deep within me "There is HOPE. This darkness has to end. It cannot be possible that I will live the rest of my days in this darkness."

And today I am doing what my Archangel had asked me to do. To lay at his feet the heads of all the men. Heads. The heart is a different Archangel. Head… ego, conscious mind, beliefs, attitudes, concepts, conditionings, right and wrong, good and bad. We have to lay these at the feet of Archangel Gabriel and say "This is yours now. Make from this what you know I wish it to be because I cannot see my blueprint from the veils of forgetfulness, but you can." It’s like cutting off your head and laying it at the feet of Archangel Gabriel and saying "Here is my ego. Expand me so wide that I can live as a Spirit Being in the duality of spirit and ego together, not allowing the ego to contract me, limit me, and restrict me."

Archangel Michael’s chakric task is to work on your base chakra. Head and base. It is the base chakra that rules this part. Our conditioning. We stable ourselves, we ground ourselves, we root ourselves in our ego attachments. His task is to turn the chakra from red, when it is completely in the ego persona, to white when it is in the process of surrender, to platinum when it is in ascension.

So lay your head at the feet of Archangel Gabriel. Surrender to him completely. Archangel Gabriel is not here to heal your wounds. He is not here to apply balm. He is one of the toughest of the archangels. And how wonderful that his twin flame is Hope, because though Gabriel brings to you the darkest moments of your life, in his feminine aspect he brings you HOPE. When you ask the archangel to help you to remove from your ego all that you don’t desire, you ask him to purify you. You must allow the Archangel to purify you in a manner the archangel knows best. The archangel will bring to you instances and encounters and experiences, which will be tough, yes, but if you have HOPE it gives you the opportunity to question yourself "why am I experiencing this. What does Gabriel want me to learn?" And when you can’t understand, ask Gabriel "Tell me, I am open to it but I am still confused. I don’t know what I am supposed to see in this experience. It’s not making sense to me. Help me see it." And you will see it. You maybe standing at a bus-stop and two women will be talking about a problem similar to yours and one woman will turn around and tell the other woman "That’s it! That’s it! I need to see that." Don’t be surprised if you turn around and the two women are not there. (Laughter)

Help is never, never denied. It’s just that help sometimes comes in ways, you and I don’t see as help. When the soul was going through her rape, her abuse, the two angels did help. They stood by her in silent support. Their help was in never leaving her alone. But if at that time the soul was told that that was ‘help’, would she have recognized it as such? She would have said "What kind of angels are these who just stand by and allow this thing to happen to me, not once, not twice, but three times as a child. Are these angels? Do I really need them?" And wouldn’t you and I say the same things sometimes? We shout at the Masters often. I know I do. "You are standing by and allowing me to go through this." Sometimes I go one step further and say "I am doing all your work, what am I getting in return?" And when I get out of that imbalance, I sit and laugh and I say "What am I getting in return? I have got the most beautiful gift of LOVE. I am not talking about ‘their’ love. I am talking about my own."

If you have the desire and the courage, make your intent here and now. If you feel "I did rather wait, think over it, at present my life is too full to have Archangel Gabriel raking up fresh issues" don’t do it. But if you do wish to, take a moment. It only takes a moment to invite Archangel Gabriel and Hope, with their legions of angels of guidance and purity, to take you one step towards your ascension process. See the Archangel big and bright, and just as we have so often laid our heads in an empty gesture at the feet of idols, this time in full understanding let us lay our heads at Archangel Gabriel’s feet.

Thank you.