FOREWORD

  

 

Thank Divine Providence for willing this precious little gift of Love and Freedom onto your hands.

 

We of THE LOTUS CIRCLE, a group dedicated to fostering Man's Material Mastery and Spiritual Perfection, are gratified of our humble role in making the publication of this inspired Volume possible. We attest to the unusual circumstances through which this book saw print --- direct inspiration from God's Special Messenger, Saint Gabriel the Archangel, and his subsequent verification and correction of manuscripts through two-way channels of electro-mechanical communication with the spirit world courtesy of friends and associates of the Lotus Circle who are engaged in various supernatural research projects. For having generously shared their resources with us, they truly deserve our thanks!

 

Mr. Ernesto O. Olano, who served as the channel for these inspired writings, is a businessman for many years. He received his elementary and secondary schooling from the Jesuits and graduated with a mathematics degree from the University of the Philippines. He taught college mathematics for 13 years until he decided to try his hand in business. He had, at the time he received these inspirations, been operating a small commercial press in Quezon City since 1981. He was not, until the dictation of these messages from the second week of September 1988, strongly interested with the subject matter of this volume, being primarily occupied with business-related concerns.

 

Our circle of friends was witness to the channeling experiences Mr. Olano underwent in this two-month period of dictation.  He was awakened every morning (first at about 4:30 a.m. for the first few days, but later on becoming as early as 2:00 a.m. in the closing days) to receive this book one chapter at a time.  The first several chapters were simple and concise, but the writings gradually grew longer and more complicated later on, especially after Mr. Olano gained practice in maintaining receptive mental neutrality that ensured smooth flow of channeled ideas.

 

It may be useful to emphasize the following points to help you appreciate the information presented in this book.

 

First:  Saint Gabriel, through a channel of communication that will be described later in the Preface, has confirmed that the contents of this volume are correct ---essentially at the introductory level in which they are being presented. In fact, several corrections were made by Saint Gabriel on the original manuscripts of Part I presented to him at the spirit communication base in San Pablo City, Laguna. (The dictations were all received in Quezon City, except the chapter on “All Souls' Day” which was received in Gumaca, Quezon.)  According to Saint Gabriel, the writings are to date the clearest conveyance of spiritual messages compared with his previous channeling assignments

 

Second:  Contrary to the practice of selective publication by most channels of inspired messages, we give you these revelations in unexpurgated form. We were in several instances tempted to withhold information which we felt were highly controversial or even potentially inflammatory to some sectors, such as the identification of the anti-Christ, the critique of Communism, and the account of the creation of Eve. We decided to trust Saint Gabriel's better judgment and surmised that Mankind probably is now mature enough to receive these messages anyway.

 

Third:  These inspired writings comprise the first volume of a promised series of mystical revelations that are to be given Mankind in this period, and at the level of his spiritual evolution. As such, they may come as a shock to many --- much similar to the blinding intensity of light brought to bear upon one long accustomed to the comfort and security of darkness, but which later on becomes transformed into illuminating iridescence that affords one a truthful vista of his environs.

 

Thus, it may take a while before the full import of these inspirations may be assimilated.  It would probably help to treat these accounts (at least those which are brutally frank) as welcome fiction, permit them to sink into the fertile valleys of the mind, and allow the workings of  Spirit to nurture these mental seeds into blossoms of truth (if indeed they really are) that can then liberate from within.

 

It is our most fervent hope that these inspirations make each one of us strive ever strongly to become worthy of this precious gift of Love and Freedom.

 

  

CELSO MARCELINO SANt0S

The Lotus Circle Moderator

December 9,1988

 

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