Revelations of the Ruby Crystal

by Barbara Hand Clow

  Instead of putting the ring back on her finger, Sarah held it in her palm. She met Claudia’s gaze. “Claudia, tell me my visions of the timeline under the basilica. Then I will tell you more about the stone.”

  Claudia raised her eyebrows slightly in an expression of respect. She understood Sarah was giving her a test. “Well, see the patio out there on the other side of the dining room? I was sitting out there on a Sunday morning when my body began to buzz. I knew a vision was coming, which by the way is unusual for me. Luckily I was alone with no distractions.” Claudia got up from her seat and walked over to an exquisite Renaissance cabinet enameled in ornate gilt, ruby, amethyst, and emerald. “This cabinet belonged to Olimpia Maidalchini, the consort of Innocent X, who was a vestal whore,” she said pointedly, watching Sarah’s eyes widen. Claudia opened the mysterious cabinet, reached in, and drew out a large crystal ball around six inches in diameter. She set it down on a pink alabaster stand on the coffee table in front of Sarah.

  “On that Sunday, I got out the crystal ball and took it to the patio with me, stared into it, and waited. The first thing I saw on the quartz planes in the ball was a beautiful face with limpid green eyes. When you came here with Simon, I recognized it as your face. I was astonished when I saw you. Within this crystal ball, your face passed into a mist, and then I saw the visions like a book of short stories moving through time. Your eyes darkened and became emeralds lingering in the mist around the crystal like the cat goddess of Atlantis. I could tell we were seeing the same time sequence. It was the dream of my life to see visions of human interaction with the Vatican power vortex going back fifty thousand years! Maybe we can figure out how they control the world. They do, you know, with their mind-control programs and global banking system.”

  Sarah studied Claudia’s earnest face and knew she was speaking the truth. Sarah asked, “But why would I see this? Why would you see it? I have to know because I intend to work more with this stone.”

  “I am sure you do; I’m sure Simon would not have given it to you otherwise. Just imagine what a treasure it is in their family!”

  “Yes, and actually Simon’s father, David, gave it to Simon so that he would give it to me. You say he is a magus. But what do you have to do with this, Claudia?”

  Claudia leaned forward. “That is why I tried to talk to Simon about the end of the world and the Mayan Calendar, but he wouldn’t listen. He does that. You will become accustomed to him. Until he figures something out himself, it’s not real to him and certainly not credible. He took Harvard way too seriously. Regardless of what he thinks, something is going on with this crazy end-time thing, and you and I both know it. Sometimes I think the Maya held a secret that was not available to Europeans and Asians. But I don’t want to divert to that now; it is too complex. Perhaps we will talk about it when the time comes, maybe even be together on December 21, 2012? Now I answer your question about us. I am the dark and you are the light; I am a vestal whore and you are a vestal virgin. You were pure until you had sex with Simon, weren’t you, darling?”

  Sarah laughed a deep throaty laugh. “Yes, but that is long gone. So what?”

  “It is nothing, really,” Claudia replied. “But I want you to understand the way we balance each other. You will discover that you can totally trust me because I am the dark. We are twinned archetypes that resonate through many lives. I penetrate the dark side of things; you see the light. We are both blind without each other. Armando triangulates between the two of us, but that is for later. Armando is not a lost soul, not yet. We are all vessels for dimensions that extend when light penetrates the underworld. You are not superior, though some people think light is better than darkness. One cannot exist without the other. The interesting thing is the edges—the field planes between the dimensions. See the planes inside this crystal ball? Visions can be viewed on these planes like the ones you saw. Your ruby crystal opened you to the second dimension below this one, and you detected its timeline. Once you accessed the second dimension, then you watched fourth-dimensional movies generating forbidden rituals in our solid world. After December 21, 2012, these visions will be seen by many people, which will make them crazy.

  Claudia held Sarah’s gaze. “I participated in rituals to discharge their control over innocent victims, people who are possessed by them. But until you ripped open the Vatican timeline, I was never able to observe these rituals, only to partake in them. These things cannot be understood without seeing them, so your vision has freed me. I have been tortured by demonic forces because I got pulled into darkness by Armando when I was only nineteen. Armando unleashed demonic forces just like those I later tried to neutralize through the Black Mass. Now that I see what’s being replayed over and over again during the Black Mass, I see the only way out of this circular game for me. These fourth-dimensional movies will continue to control our planet until enough people see how this works. It is so difficult to explain. What I am trying to say is the second dimension can be felt in rituals, but the fourth dimension must be seen, very much like television images.”

  Sarah frowned, trying to understand what she had just heard. “Okay, Claudia, this is a complex way of thinking for me. I am going to be very open and frank with you. I don’t understand very much about what you’re talking about but it resonates with me. I do sense layers of influence in what goes on around me; they vibrate at different frequencies, like stations on a radio band. Maybe the planes in crystals access these layers? I sense I’m getting in touch with the second dimension when I have sex with Simon. So what is this second dimension, or fourth dimension? Are you talking about Einstein and the quantum?”

  Claudia crossed her legs and gave Sarah a knowing smile. “Darling, I’m sure you are in the second dimension when having sex with Simon, but going any farther with that is indelicate at this time. If you’d had sex with Armando, you would have gotten stuck in the second dimension, like Persephone taken by Pluto down into the underworld for half the year. The dimensions are easily defined, and Isaac Luria was famous for doing it very well. No wonder this stone works so well; it’s his tool! Anyway, here are the basics: The first dimension is the iron crystal in the very core of Earth. The second dimension is the world below the crust of Earth down to the first dimension. The third dimension is our solid world, and the fourth dimension is above the third dimension. The fourth dimension is the realm of the collective mind, the thoughts and feelings of all humans, the archetypes. We are all plugged into it, so when you say you resonate with something, actually you are detecting the thoughts of others.

  Claudia noticed that Sarah was hanging on her every word. “People in power use the fourth dimension to manipulate our thoughts and feelings. Think of a master computer used by game masters in the sky. They project them onto the refracting planes in crystals, and if a crystal is made into a sphere, such as with this crystal ball, seers can watch the movies. Also when ordinary people stretch their intelligence, they can detect the programs. Stopping them, however, is very difficult since most people just give in and go with the programs. Around 85 percent of our species are sheep—dumdums who wander out of their keep in the morning, chew on grass all day (compulsive shopping and eating), and then go to sleep drunk on the media after stuffing themselves. The fourth-dimensional control programs tell the masses what to believe; then they do not have to think. They gratefully pay the elite for the latest inventions they believe can save them, such as medical testing and guns.”

  Sarah thought Claudia was getting a little far afield. “Claudia, excuse me, but anybody with half a brain cell knows about the global elite game. But what I don’t get is the power vortexes under the Vatican, the rituals, and the second-dimensional influence, that is, how they play it.”

  Claudia stared into the crystal ball for geographical information. She couldn’t see what she was looking for, except she noticed a silvery crystalline plane that sliced the exact middle of the ball. I wonder why it didn’t split into two halves long ago? She brought herself back to
answer Sarah’s question about the second dimension. “As I said, the second dimension is the realm of tectonic forces under the crust that are stronger and weaker in various places around the globe. Sacred sites and temples are located to access the special energy that exudes from the tectonic realm. They are strongest in places where the crust is thin, such as Rome down to Naples. Notice Italy is a mountainous ridge that lies above the ocean mostly at 9 to 16 degrees East longitude, and there is a division line of Earth’s mental plane located at 12 degrees East. The ridge accesses the second dimension, the tectonic.” Claudia now saw rainbow spectrums when she glanced at the dividing plane in the crystal ball. “The fourth-dimensional programmers have been using this division line to control people’s beliefs for over five thousand years. This line is the key to freeing the people from hierarchical control systems, such as the Roman Church.”

  Claudia tapped her long fingernails on the crystal ball. “I tried to tell Simon about this line last year when he was harping about East/West tension, but he laughed at me. Regardless, scientists finally described the geophysical attributes of this divisive structure of our planet a couple of years ago. This 12 degrees East line runs through Gabon in Africa, up to Tunisia, through Italy, Germany, and up through Sweden, and the most powerful section is right through Rome and the Etruscan sites. That is why Constantine built the original basilica here, where we now have the Vatican! The tectonically active section is Naples, close to Mt. Vesuvius and Lake Avernus, the cave system used by the Sibyl of Cumae to prophesy.”

  Sarah was mesmerized by the rainbows flashing on the planes in the crystal ball; Claudia could see her face and green eyes again reflected there. But the mention of the sibyl shocked Sarah. She lurched forward and her knees struck the side of the table, almost knocking the crystal ball off its stand. Claudia was about to say something about Sarah’s reflection on the crystal plane when Sarah said in a husky voice, “The Sibyl of Cumae? What do you know about her?”

  Now Claudia was truly challenged. What do I say to an innocent vestal virgin who intuits her own past lives but hasn’t woken up yet? Claudia could see a person’s past lives roll by like a movie on a misty screen behind their head if she looked. “Sarah, how much do you want to know about these things? I must be careful with you. Maybe you should just be normal, get pregnant, and focus on family? You are on a fast esoteric learning track, but this knowledge could be too much. Perhaps you need time? The Sibyl of Cumae is no big deal. Everybody knows about her, so why did you react so strongly? You almost crashed my crystal ball!” I do wonder what she really knows. “I must understand such an extreme reaction on your part before we go further. After all, we cannot endanger this lovely crystal ball.”

  Recovering from her surprise, Sarah replied, “Well, Claudia, who are you to say I must take time when December 21 is only three weeks away? Who says anybody has time? You and I both know something is going on that means something important. But I don’t know what it is, do you?”

  Claudia laughed her throaty laugh, stuck a cigarette in a long ivory holder, and lit it. She sucked it until the tip burned hot, then stood up, took the crystal ball, and put it back in the cupboard. She sat back down and tapped her cigarette into an obsidian ashtray carved with Maya hieroglyphs. “Let’s do a trade. If you will tell me what the Sibyl of Cumae means to you, then we can have a drink and share what we know about the end times. By the way, that ashtray you’re staring at was carved in 750 CE and was used for burning copal. It was found in the Courtyard of the Nine Bolontiku at Palenque.”

  Claudia offered Sarah a glass of wine and she took it, shrugging her shoulders. “I wish I could tell you! You startled me because I met Simon at an archaeological site reputed to be the Sibyl’s family home in Rome, that is all.”

  Claudia laughed again. “How funny, how interesting, and how synchronistic. I’m sure you realize the importance of synchronicity?” Sarah nodded. “Then since the Sibyl’s oracle is near Baia and Lake Avernus near Naples, we must drive down there. I’d like to see what you feel there, and it’s only a two-to-three-hour drive. Rituals have been conducted down there for at least three thousand years, probably more. Sometimes I think it is more potent than the area under the Vatican. It may be the antidote to Rome’s poison. Do you think Simon would mind if I took you there?”

  “Even if he did, I’d go if I wanted to,” Sarah said indignantly. “So what do you think about the end of the Mayan Calendar? Or are we just too tired? Should we save the discussion for the drive to Naples? I would love to go to the Sibyl of Cumae’s oracle! If we go in a few days, it will be around the time Simon is visiting the Tomb of Mary in Jerusalem, a meaningful synchronicity.”

  “Darling,” Claudia said, expelling a thin wisp of cigarette smoke after sucking down a huge cloud and flicking the ash into the Mayan artifact. “Synchronicity is always meaningful, especially our connection—the vestal virgin and the vestal whore. As Simon visits a place of great light, you and I explore the darkness.”

  28

  Lake Avernus and Baia

  While packing a small suitcase for the trip to Naples with Claudia, Sarah thought about her thesis. She felt like she’d finally found her voice and her ideas were flowing. Meanwhile, she wondered what Simon really thought about her trip with Claudia. Sarah had been reluctant to mention she was going because she wasn’t sure how he’d feel about her getting so friendly with Claudia, but when he called last night, she had told him their plans. His reaction took her by surprise. He was excited about the prospect of visiting the Tomb of Mary and was happy to hear she had such a wonderful opportunity while he was away. Simon is such a great partner! He truly wants me to be free. It was silly to think he’d feel Claudia is a bad influence. I’m sure Daddy, however, would keep his eye on Claudia.

  They left for Naples at the end of the rush hour at 10 a.m. “Oh goddess! It is great to drive south,” Claudia said as she accelerated her vintage silver Fiat and pushed back deeper in her crackled forest-green leather seat. “I hope you will like my plans. I’ve reserved at the Lago D’Averno Hotel, the best place to feel the vibes of Lake Avernus. It can be risky to stay there because the lake is a volcanic crater surrounded by smaller craters. The region often smells of sulfur. Around thirty-nine thousand years ago, a supervolcano exploded and the whole region is still very seismically active. Pompeii, just south of Naples, erupted only two thousand years ago. The nearby town, Pozzuoli, is located in the center of the huge caldera, the Campi Flegrei, which in English means ‘Fiery Fields.’ Last year, a big flap occurred between British and Italian seismologists because the British wanted to test the magma chamber. The mayor of Naples forbade drilling because he thought it could explode the fabled monster. Pozzuoli slowly sinks when the magma chamber lowers and rises when magma flows in, causing days of earthquake swarms. Lake Avernus means ‘Lake of the Underworld’; the whole region is a gateway to the underworld. So I thought we should sleep on the edge of the lake, the crater. I hope you will like this? I’m always amazed anybody lives there, although the beaches are wonderful and the views out to sea are spectacular.”

  Sarah vaguely listened to Claudia going on and on about seismic activity. It seems bizarre to go down to sleep in a hotel on the edge of a crater over a supervolcano a few weeks before the Mayan end of the world! Oh well, if everything is going to blow, this could be the perfect place.

  “How did the Mayan Calendar end date get calculated?” Sarah wanted to return to their unfinished conversation.

  Claudia smiled broadly. “Oh, Sarah, I’m so glad you want to hear more about the Mayan Calendar! Most of what we hear in the popular media uses the traditional date from scholars, the GMT Correlation—December 21, 2012. People got very curious about the Calendar during the 1970s because they wondered whether this end-date indicated catastrophe or enlightenment. A slightly different end-date—October 28, 2011—gained prominence around 1999 based on the writings of Carl Johan Calleman. Have you ever heard of him?”

  Sarah said
no, so Claudia went on. “Calleman writes about a fascinating series of nine calendar cycles that track the evolution of the universe over 16.4 billion years. His ideas attracted widespread interest because he related the Maya cycles to Darwinian epochs and extinction events. Well, how could the Maya have known about these evolutionary cycles a thousand years ago? But what really interests me is an intriguing sub-theme in his books—the divisive force on the 12 E longitude line we spoke about last time we were together. This hypothesis caught my eye because it runs through my city. I took the idea more seriously in 2011 when revolution ignited in Tunisia exactly at 12 E longitude! I think your visions were generated by this strange, potent underground vortex. Calleman says this line generates what he calls ‘the winds of history,’ cycles of historical tension between East and West. His analysis is very detailed and complex, and I find it fascinating. How could a geographical division line generate historical patterns? How does the inner Earth influence our minds?

  Claudia was growing more and more excited and gesticulating dramatically, so much so that Sarah began to wonder if she should offer to grab the wheel. The car’s trajectory remained steady, however, as Claudia continued. “I think the ancient people—Neolithic and Paleolithic—were very aware of this force and intentionally used it to enhance our planet and their lives. Also, thousands of years ago, Earth’s magnetism was much stronger than it is now, so they probably felt it much more than we do. Global evidence exists for an ancient earth science that archaic people used to live in harmony with Earth, for example, the megalithic system of Carnac in France. When history emerged around five thousand years ago, the global elite figured out how to use this force to control people by building temples and pyramids on ancient places of power. Now we’ve come to the point where their recklessness and greed could destroy our world!” As Claudia’s voice sped up in her excitement, so did the car. Sarah discreetly clutched her seatbelt as Claudia turned to her. “And here, Sarah, is where the Church enters the story! Christianity joined with the elite to take this earth science away from the people by demonizing them as pagans. Meanwhile, in secret they use this force for their agendas. We’re down south where this force is free and uncontrolled. The Sibyl channeled during the Magna Graecia when the early Greeks came to Italy. Mysteriously, somebody constructed sacred earth portals, such as near Baia, before the Greeks came, then the Greeks enhanced these portals, such as at Cumae. In those days, the whole world venerated sacred sites with female oracles. We need her voice more than ever! The Gnostics venerated the wisdom of the goddess Sophia, and I think the Sibyl of Cumae was a version of Sophia!”