A Message From the "Duwendes"

ON JAN. 12, 1992, Natacha Kolesar, Ph.D., founder of the Institute for Development of Education, Arts and Leisure in Jaffrey, British Colombia, Canada, received a message from the gnomes (earth elementals known in the Philippines as nuno sa punso or dwende) while she was meditating and praying at the Kortright Park in Toronto.She clairvoyantly saw a whole city of gnomes below the trees, and one of them spoke to her, answering her questions.

"We are in a city of immigrant gnomes," he said. "For a long time we have been living here and we have received many other gnome families that were forced to withdraw from places where man has cut down trees and destroyed their habitation...

There is a chief gnome who is the head of our city, as in each city of gnomes, and he is the most wise, because he knows nature best and his city... I am his right arm, and I possess the most knowledge."We distinguish ourselves from others by our clothing.

The chief is the only one to wear a blue hat and red clothes... I have a yellow hat and green clothes... You (will) especially know our farmers or cultivators or, better still, our gardeners, who wear red hats. Our dentist who cares for the teeth of animals, wears a brown hat. But for certain jobs, especially those (related to) animals and birds, we always use a red hat, because they can well perceive this color.

"UnawareThe gnome said communication with humans was very rare, because people were completely unaware of their existence. They communicated with some children but, for the most part, humans were not conscious of them. The gnome said the last time they communicated with a man was in 1937."

We especially contact the soul of trees, of flowers, of birds and animals. We cannot capture precise and living thoughts as you can. We capture thought forms of souls that are like portraits, and reflections of living images. You capture these images whereas we perceive their imprints or their copies. We are the achievers of these thought forms.

"The gnome said their main holidays were the four cardinal feasts. He added that they were very much linked to the sun and the cycles of the earth, sensing the pulsation of earth's heart and capturing its rhythm, which was like breathing. "We sense it through the air, the prana."As to their relationship with water, he said a quarter of gnomes worked with water. "They water the roots, and make sprinkler installations to water the plants and flowers.

Through the trees, we are linked to the fire. We perceive the etheric fire, and also the flames that you know. In our houses, there is always a fire in the hearth."'Blue mechanics'Gnomes' names, he said, were related to their occupations or talents. They had been called blue mechanics, which to them meant someone who arranged everything, who harmonized and cared for everything, and who put poetry in everything.

The color blue signified that they calmed, appeased and harmonized everything."Certain places on earth, certain mountains or forests receive the name of the gnomes that inhabit them. For example: 'Blue Mountains' (in the south of India)."The gnome said under the earth were very noxious currents that were poisonous. Certain categories of gnomes, with terrible names, worked there."This noxious influence has deformed them, even physically.

They absorb and eat terrible poisons, that render them mean, like Trolls for example. These bad emanations attack the humans that find themselves in these places, like Malpasset, The Gates of Hell, etc. These gnomes use fire to destroy."The gnome told Dr. Kolesar they would be talking for several days about the meeting with her. He said they liked to tell the stories of human heroes, noting that they were more numerous before.

Hilly terrainThe gnome said another category of workers worked with the telluric (pertaining to the earth) currents. "We sense them (currents) and are very conscious that they exist. We very much like terrain with hills where the currents balance themselves. We are not very attracted to flat terrain where the currents are too electric."The gnome said conscious contact with human beings helped them capture more clearly thought forms (portraits) and to better realize them.

They received love from humans like a hot emanation comparable to the wind caressing a cheek. But he said they were disturbed by humans with no respect for nature.He concluded the message with: "We graciously thank you for your magnificent work. We will think of you, we send you all of our love and will come back to visit you.

It may appear to you that everything that we do is primitive, but in reality, these are vital and basic things."The message was in French and translated into English by Oliver Cuoto of Toronto, Canada, and a member of the Ideal spiritual community headed by Dr. Kolesar.

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The secret in "Da Vinci Code"

WHILE abroad, I finally read Dan Brown's novel, "The Da Vince Code," one of the recent bestsellers. Reportedly 6.5 million of seven million copies in print were sold.What makes the book so appealing is the clever and fast-paced storytelling of a murder interwoven with theological and historical facts. Unless the reader is familiar with Church history and doctrine, he will likely consider everything to be fictional. But it is not.

Brown says, "all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate." The Priory of Sion, a European secret society founded in 1099, is real, and so is the Opus Dei, a controversial and militant Catholic organization that, according to the author, is reportedly engaged "in brain washing, coercion, and a dangerous practice known as corporeal mortification."

Its founder Jose Ma. Escriva was recently pronounced "Blessed" by the Vatican, the initial step toward sainthood.Complementary themesThose who read my latest book, "On Christianity, New Age and Reincarnation," told me it was about the same religious topics discussed in "The Da Vinci Code." When I finally read Brown's book, I was shocked to discover they were right! The two books uncannily complement each other! So I became curious about Brown.

In an interview with Evolve Magazine, the publication of the Bodhi Tree metaphysical bookshop in Los Angeles, Brown said he learned of the mysteries hidden in Da Vinci's paintings while an art history student at the University of Seville in Spain.He came across the enigma again while working on another book, "Angels and Demons."After seeing the original paintings in the Louvre in France, Brown said he was captivated and started researching "The Da Vinci Code."The author said the secret, as discussed in the book, had been chronicled for centuries and he drew his materials from thousands of sources.Ancient mystery.

He was also surprised that historians were eager to share their expertise with him. One academic, Brown said, even expressed the hope that, through The Da Vinci Code, "this ancient mystery would be unveiled to a wider audience."As for the novel's being empowering to women, Brown said some 2,000 years ago, the world believed in gods and goddesses. But now women had been stripped of their spiritual power in most cultures just as people then lived in a world solely of gods.

His novel, he said, touched on how and why this shift occurred and what lessons can be learned from it.Brown also said he is a Christian but "not in the most traditional sense of the word," pointing out that people had different ideas about being a Christian.Saying faith is a continuum, the author said that by attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, people debated semantics and missed the obvious - that they were trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and following their own paths of enlightenment.Support from the religious.

Brown said the religious supported his novel, just as there many have opposed it. Opposition comes mainly from the "strictest" Christian thinkers who felt a "married Jesus" undermined his divinity."Much of the positive response I get from within organized religion comes from nuns (who write to thank me for pointing out that they have sacrificed their entire lives to the Church and are still considered 'unfit' to serve behind the altar)," the author added.

He said many priests disagreed with some of the book's ideas but were glad they encouraged parishioners to discuss religion.One Episcopalian priest was quoted as saying "this novel is not a threat (but) an opportunity. We are called to creatively engage the culture and this is what I want to do... Dan Brown... is letting me talk about things that matter.

"This is precisely what I'm hoping for with my own book - stimulate discussion and debate on religious and theological issues, virtually absent in this country. Everybody seems content to unquestioningly follow ecclesiastical authorities. This state of intellectual impotence has to change. We desperately need mental Viagra!

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