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ANDREW

Soft of voice, calm in manner,

My angel brother of compassion

Bears messages of God’s love,

            And to tell you, you are never alone.

Gentle, kind, and not without humor,

This angel opens his heart to hear you

In your suffering, your grief, your pain

            And to tell you, you are never alone.

His joyful smile can fill your heart,

His kind eyes hold a knowing,

Carrying a truth he wishes to impart,

            Giving you hope that you are never alone.

Carrying the message of his life

Into the message of his angelic place,

He still will tell you, “God loves you,

            And you are never alone.”

Andrews’s Words

Though my name comes first in the alphabetical scheme of things in this book, I wanted to be last.  This is due to the majority of readers being familiar with most of these other Archangels, but perhaps not me.

For lack of a better name, you can call me Andrew.  Angels don’t really have names, as they are beings of energy, as is your own soul.  But being people need to have a name for things, I will take Andrew.  Part of this is because I was called Andrew (though in a different language) at the time Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth.  So it’s good.  I’ll stick with it.

I recently left the realm of humanity where I was serving as an incarnated angel.  I am an angel of compassion and find that much of my work is with Azrael and Magdalena (the dualistic names of the yin/yang of the one soul, Magdrael) during times of grief, and other times with Zadkiel, who also deals with compassion.  All of the angelic realms do, but these are the ones I find myself assisting most often.  I also work with people giving them a nudge to make the right choices on their path.  Many of these choices have to do with compassion.

Compassion is a big word.  As I have found coming back into the angel realm from humanity, words make things smaller than they really are in an energy sense.  Words limit.  Words label things that cannot be labeled.  It is like trying to call the All That Is by one name – it is limiting the limitless.  So let us look at compassion.  One dictionary says it is pity, inclining one to be merciful, showing sympathy.  You will find it in a thesaurus with pity, sympathy, soft-heartedness, commiseration, mercy and so on.

We looked it up in wikpedia (having been human and being relatively new back on the angel block, I am aware of such things) and it said:  “Compassion (from Latin: "co-suffering") is a virtue —one in which the emotional capacities of empathy and sympathy (for the suffering of others) are regarded as a part of love itself, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnectedness and humanism —foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.

“There is an aspect of compassion which regards a quantitative dimension, such that individual's compassion is often given a property of "depth," "vigor," or "passion." More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another's suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others what you would have them do to you.”

Even with all this meaning, all these synonyms, and even with the Golden Rule, I feel it does not explain true compassion well enough.

Being that I am an angel of compassion, I know what compassion feels like, what it does in action that words cannot possibly explain.  Part of it is that some of you do not understand that you are all one, which is another part behind the meaning of the Golden Rule.  What it isn’t saying in that line above is that what you do to others, you also do to yourself.  Showing compassion is like taking care of yourself along with the person you are showing compassion for.  And it also means in some cases, you are able to look past a mis-perception or prejudice of a person needing compassion in order to give that to them. 

It is easy to show compassion for someone you know, care about, a family member or friend.  It is when you show compassion for the stranger on the street having a hard time, families you do not know misplaced through natural disaster, giving to a soup kitchen (or better yet, volunteering for one), or being a hospice volunteer.  These things show true compassion.

Some show compassion to alleviate guilt.  That is not compassion – that is like making good on a bad debt.  If you feel like you need to use the word “should”  - beware – as in I should go see so and so, because they are sick.  If you do it because you know it will make them happy, that is better.  If it is out of obligation and not out of a place of love in your heart, it is not compassion in the truest sense of the word.  Feeling the “I should do this” usually ends with a feeling of, “but I’d rather not.”  You know in your heart what the truth of this is.  Move yourself into a place of wanting to because it will bring a smile to someone (which will reward you more than you know).  Do it because it will make things easier for them, not because you are looking for thanks or any reward at all. 

That gets me thinking about giving and receiving.  They are the same thing, and one of the other of us gets into that more.  But know what you give, you receive, usually tenfold of what you gave.  What a deal!  And it makes one feel really good to give, and that is a part of the receiving – feeling really good.  We are all created to help one another, for we are all one in God, the Universal Consciousness.  And it is so very true that what you do for another, you do for yourself.  And it is also true that what you do for another, you do for the One That Is All Things.  If you find someone that needs help, but you are frightened, wary, thinking they will take advantage of you, think of this – God resides in that person.  Look for the God and there is nothing to fear once you see it.  Sometimes you might have to look harder than other times, for some people are good at putting masks on, but God is in there or that person would not even be in existence on any level in any dimension.  God HAS to be in there in order for that person to be in this world or any other.  It makes sense if you believe God is All Things, which puts the God within you and all others, including the air you breathe, the birds you see flying, the fish you see swimming.  God is All Things and All Things are connected through God.

I wanted to speak through Magdrael for a couple of reasons.  You will have read much more about the truth of life and death in Azrael’s writing, so I will not go into that here.  I do want to say that knowing that energy first hand, it is gentle, kind, loving and compassionate, and not at all the frightening character or energy people purport it to be.  That is truth.  The other reason I sought her out was because I am able to understand what she has been going through as an incarnate from the Higher Realm.  Being in human form creates a struggle, as many incarnated angels, angelic humans and lightworkers are going through right now.  They are trying to break through the fogginess of the human mind to re-member who they truly are, feeling they have a great purpose, but having a hard time either knowing who and what they are, and remembering why they are even here.  Once remembered however, things happen fast for them.  And then there is the struggle with believing it even after you remember.  So I thought I could help her, being I was a recent angel in human form myself.  This unified aspect of Magdalena/Azrael has also helped me from both sides of their perspective.

I would like to say here and now, that life is an illusion that humanity gets caught up in, playing the game to the best of their ability, wearing their costumes and masks, believing the parts they play are real.  But human life is more like a movie, just as Shakespeare stated; like being on a stage and all the men and women merely players; having their exits and their entrances.  When we exit, we all come back to the only reality, we all come back to our real Home, we all come back to truth, and we all are created from an energy of pure and total unconditional love.  There are no real goodbyes, so trust and have hope, for God truly does love you.  I know that without a doubt from where I am right here, right now.

Also, in wanting to assist this yin part of Magdrael’s energy in form, Magdalena, I want to explain that she is not the kind of medium or intuitive who finds the secrets or personal facts of someone’s life in order to prove or validate life after death to those in grief who are wanting to contact their loved ones.  Some people need to hear those things, and those are wonderful things to bring to them through that kind of mediumship.  Because of Magdalena’s energy, she speaks with those going into transition, or those passed over, or those grieving for a different purpose than to bring messages.  She wishes to bring the Light, Love and Truth of the Infinite One, and to speak of the truer reality of all of our Being-ness.  This comes from her own remembering, from angels like me, from those she sees on the other side, from some of the Ascended Masters, but mostly from her soul family of Archangels speaking to her and through her.

She tries to teach that the key to freedom is through forgiveness of self and of others.  She also brings messages through us all about the truth of what life is in the now, and how you can live more fulfilling, joyful, and loving lives by being in that now - how you can become the divine power that you truly are.  What happened in the past isn’t important for what we are trying to bring to you for your now. The past is gone and the future is only what you create in this moment, and the next moment, and so on.  Most of the others in this book have stressed this truth, so I do not feel a need to get into it in the depth that they do.  Just know that all you have is this moment in time.  Regrets from the past are wasted energy, and you don’t need the guilt or fear or worry over them to be creating your future, or your future will be more of your past.  Start here, right now, this very second, to see things differently and you can create whatever future you desire – more joy, more love, more peace, more security.  It is really up to you, what you focus on, and what your perspective might be.  You can always change your mind about things, you know.  And changing your mind changes how things appear to be.

I give great thanks for being included in this book, as I wanted to say these few words.  To finish, I would just like to add that if you only knew what truth is in the bigger picture of the cosmos, you would hold no fear whatsoever, for anything.  I can only hope some of my words have helped.  Thank you.

ZADKIEL

As an ancient oak standing in the midst of a forest,

 Wisdom of all time is within his knowing.

    Keeper of the akashic records, he holds all remembrances.

   

We seek him out when we wish to re-member,

  When we wish to know our own power,

    When we wish to become one with the violet flame.

Amethyst is his color,

  Burning like a purple fire within his heart,

    He teaches us to find our own flame within.

He teaches how to hear

  Through the inner ear, beyond the human,

    The voices that guide us gently through love and into truth.

Compassion from an open heart

  Is what he shows as a way of Being

    If we want to follow in Divine footsteps.

Zadkiel’s Words

My energy feels heavy to the one who types here.  Oddly, I sit at the ninth energy center and am associated with the violet flame.  Being I hold energy in the ninth energy center, and being so high, I am lighter, no?  I am up higher than most.  I am smiling.  Yes, I guess my energy could be construed as heavy as I am a transformer of lower energy to higher energy.  I am here to teach you how to learn and then to teach what you learn and to tell you that teaching and learning are one and the same.  I am here to transform and devour any negative energy you are willing to get rid of.  I am here to help you transcend.  I am here to teach you compassion, mercy and forgiveness.  And I am here to teach you how to “hear” messages within yourself.  So, let’s set about the task at hand.  And let us move into this with joy, for there is great joy in freedom of the soul, is there not?

I believe compassion, forgiveness and mercy must come first, or the others cannot follow.  You must learn these to even be aware of negative energy, and then to listen and learn and teach.  Magdalena knows me well, as she is Lady Mercy, and the unified aspect of she and Azrael are all about transformation, and so they are also part of the violet flame and have worked with me from Creation.

Compassion is feeling love in the heart for another being, which is all things upon this earth, and holding that being in a light of wishing all good out of a pure heart.  It is like being a bodhisattva in holding a true desire for the highest good for all, which is sometimes takes the form of food, shelter, health and security.  Sometimes it is a desire that the soul in question be awakened to the Divine within their own being.  It is a desire for all beings to be treated out of a place of love and to have their needs met, no matter what level that may be.  It is feeling the place in your heart where the Christ within resides and sending love out from that place.  It does not mean that you put yourself in that place where they are so that you, too, suffer from their plight.  It means understanding that place and allowing that place, but holding the desire within your heart to rise them up from that place according to their own soul’s needs and purpose, which in most cases you do not know.  It is holding them in the Light of the Divine.

Mercy and forgiveness can go hand in hand.  What many do not understand is that forgiveness must first come from the heart toward self, for unless you forgive self, how can you offer it to another.  I will say here and now that guilt is a wasted energy.  Guilt actually puts you above what you might have done to the other, for in feeling that, you are thinking their thoughts are only about what you might have done to them.  They might have already forgotten about it.  You may not be the center of their universe.  Guilt is of the ego, for a person will only let you do to them what they are allowing you to do.  But if you feel guilt, then one way to alleviate it is to ask for forgiveness.  If you find this difficult to do, then forgive self and right what you see as a wrong by never creating a like situation again.  And in forgiving others for what you allowed them to do to you, because you had a part in bringing it to yourself through beliefs or through a soul’s contract or karma, you not only free you own soul, but free theirs as well.  Forgiveness is a pretty thorough emotion when it comes from the heart.  It heals all and is the key to freedom.  It does not mean you agree with what has been done, but that you are willing to let go of it and move forward and release the doing in your heart.  And it isn’t true forgiveness unless it is released totally.

Mercy is a part of forgiveness.  Showing mercy is a willingness to overlook something deemed wrong, an allowing of an offense.  However, other than in the duality of third dimensional beings there is no real right or wrong.  And beware - feeling you are giving another clemency can be ego-feeding for putting yourself in a position to have power over another.  But true mercy is forgiveness, no matter what.  You see how compassion, forgiveness and mercy are all tied together?

When you hold an open heart and can be in a place of compassion, forgiveness and mercy are all there with that compassion.  Now the heart is open, the being can be free to learn, to be open to what the higher parts of its being are trying to tell it.  Now you can hear the soul, or guides from a higher vibration, working with you to help you transcend, to become enlightened, to follow your soul’s purpose.  Until your mind is free, for it is not when it is shackled by grudges and negative thinking, you cannot hear what your soul needs you to hear.  That is why I say forgiveness is the key to freedom.

Once in this level of higher vibration from giving out forgiveness, compassion and mercy from an open heart, you have also opened it to a higher love.  This is a level at which if you listen, you can begin to hear your inner voice, your intuition, and those from loving beings in other realms guiding you to your soul’s purpose.  It is then you can trust that what you get from this voice inside self, for it will be validated for you.  You inner ears, not the human ears, will hear gentle and loving guidance that will move the soul forward into its bliss.  Of course, you have to be willing to take this guidance, but trust that if you are coming from a place of an open heart holding love, the guidance will bring you to great joy in your life, for it will feed your soul.  When the soul is fed and nourished in this way, all other levels of your being enjoy the benefits.  This inner hearing is tied into the fifth chakra.  Working with that chakra, especially through speaking from your authentic self, your inner truth from the heart and not the ego, will help to open up the channel so that you “hear” that inner voice more clearly.  Hearing this voice will benefit all areas of your life in that it will guide you to make right decisions, help others that come to you for healing if that is your calling, and benefit the highest good for self and all others associated with you.  All you need do is carry an open heart – love, hold compassion, forgive. 

Learning and teaching go hand in hand, as giving and receiving go hand in hand, for it is a cycle.  You are always a student and always a teacher, you are always giving and always receiving – at least when you allow it to flow as it should.  You cannot teach what you have not learned and what you want to teach you must learn, but what you want to learn, you must teach.  Ah, you wonder about that last statement.  It is true that what you focus upon is what comes to you.  If you want to learn something, you put out a focus, an energy toward that thing.  What better way to draw that very thing to you than through teaching it?  All kinds of information will then flow to you about that very thing.  You see how it is a cycle?  All things are energy – that is the foundation of the Universal Law.  Energy in – energy out.  Energy out – energy in.  What vibration or energy you put out is exactly what is returned.  If you wish to learn more about something, begin to talk about it, bring it into your life, tell stories about what you know of it.  It will show up, I guarantee, for your focus and energy is on that very thing.  Of course, doing this for the higher good for all will bring it as great rewards and learning.  Doing it to use against another will bring something quite different that you probably don’t want.  So keep it for the highest good, something that will serve the highest good, and the Universe will smile upon you.

Some people are born teachers, but I say everyone teaches - through their example in how they live, how they treat themselves and others, how they perceive the world.  I am not saying all are good teachers, as there are those that do not teach for the highest good for all, but all are teachers.  In that case, all are learners.  Once you get to a point where you feel there is nothing more to learn, you are no longer a teacher.  Think on that.  You cannot shut down one side – learning – and expect the other to continue to flow.  You see, things keep changing, forming, manifesting, rising, expanding, so how can you know it all?  Learning is never done, and because of that, teaching is never done.  It is as the tides in the oceans upon the earth, rising and falling, coming and going, changing the shape of the sand beneath it.  It is the same with teaching and learning, as it changes the fabric of all things it touches.  The ocean constantly changes the fabric of what it courses over, as does a river, and so does teaching and learning, for it changes the hearts and minds of those who are touched by it.  In turn, a new idea comes into being which flows out like the tides.  Rather like a butterfly effect. 

One of the greatest transformative tools you have is a willingness to change.  As soon as you put that out unto the Universe, the Universe will help you to change, especially if it is for the highest good.  Opportunities will come your way, doors will open, different people will be drawn to you for exactly the purposes you wish to change for.  Desire to transcend is a powerful energy and is always answered with an equal, if not greater force, for the Universe is based in the energy of love and when love is put out from an open heart, it is like the greatest of all music to the Universe.  It hears and responds.  It will respond to discordant notes as well, but you already know that as you can see the state of the world around you.  But in your desire to open yourself to the Divine, it is like a celestial song that goes forth and the Universe smiles upon you for it is the resonating energy of the Universe.  We have been given special tools to help those of you on this path.  One of them, and one of the most powerful, is the violet flame.  This is the flame that transforms negative energy such as fear, into love.  And it is simply done by invoking it, decreeing that you are a being of the violet flame, and picturing oneself within this flame, transforming all fears into those of love.

Sit quietly in a meditative state and breathe deeply.  Say to self or out loud, “I AM a being of the violet flame (or fire); I AM the purity God desires.”  The words don’t matter so much as the intention, though you can find many mantras used to call this unto you for many purposes.  The words or mantras call the violet flame to you and decree that you wish to be and are a being, which is a part of that.  Then imagine yourself with the violet flame all around you, within you, coming from hands and heart, transforming all within you.  If you wish to meditate on this flame around the earth, do so, speaking words that send it out into the world with love, with the intention of healing, peace, compassion.  The violet flame can work no other way, as it is pure and from Divine Consciousness.  There is much written about this flame and how our beloved Ascended Master St. Germain, brought this to the earth for use in transformation.  It is the flame of forgiveness, for creating peace where there is hate, for creating understanding where there is prejudice, and for undoing negative karma.  It is used to transmute negative into positive.  It can be used to work within yourself, or to send it forth out unto the world, and therefore rippling out into the Universe.  It is a tool of great power for the good, as it is from the Divine.

Now that we have talked about compassion, forgiveness, mercy, teaching and learning and the transformative tool of the violet flame, there is one other subject that I wish to touch upon, and that is re-membering.  Most have forgotten who and what they are in truth – that is a soul, an essence created by Divine Consciousness that has chosen to take form to expand themselves, and in doing so, the very Consciousness they were created by.  Before a soul comes into form, they remember their oneness with this Divine One, know what they wish to manifest to grow and expand in the love that they are, know who will be in their lives assisting them to do so, know what sacrifices they might make for helping another to do so, and then they forget when they are incarnated.  A strange series of events here, but that is how it was created for this third dimensional place called Earth.  It is all about re-membering who you are and where you came from so that you can do the expanding you came here to do.  With the earth moving into a new dimension and the beings upon the earth moving with it, it won’t be so difficult.  Many of you might be remembering much more easily already.  But putting the pieces back together is a great game that you all are playing at, and as you open yourself to expand, the more you re-member.  The more you re-member, the more you expand and are able to transcend.  For what you are re-membering is that you are part of the Divine, a spark of that Consciousness of the Creator.  Once the separation of forgetting turns toward re-membering, fears diminish, for you no longer feel separated from that which created you.  The fear of death diminishes as you re-member that the soul is eternal.  The fear of lack diminishes because you remember that you can manifest through your energy all that you need.  Re-membering is about love – separation is about fear.  Coming back to the love of the Divine within and re-membering, or bringing that part of yourself which is Divine back into the core of your being, releases fear.  I am about this bringing the parts back to the whole, helping you to re-member who you truly are.  So call upon me for assistance in doing so. 

Even those that have come into form at this time that are of other energies such as Archangels, Ascended Masters, Lightworkers, Angelic Humans, Universal Beings of Light - all must re-member due to the density of the earth.  All have assistance in doing so at a certain point in their lives.  They get a nudge, and if they do not remember, a gentle shove.  All souls do, but some are more awake than others.  Some are coded to hearing a call and will respond, as that is why their souls were created – to serve.  When the call goes out, they answer and begin to remember why they are here.  Others question their place on this earth from childhood, feeling as though they are on an alien planet and their true home is elsewhere.  Through this feeling of alienation, they search and come to find their true reason for being here, why they came into form.  But there are not many who remember at first.  Even Ascended Masters do not always remember immediately upon birth who they are and why they are here.  But a lesson is brought to them early in life and it sparks the memory.   You see, there is much help from those in the higher vibrational dimensions that are always watching over this earth, always involved in the transcending of those that wish that for themselves, and in doing so, for the earth.  It is all about re-membering the truth.

It is obvious to us in the higher dimensions that many on this earth wish to transcend, wish to bring that Divine Consciousness back to their lives, wish to re-member that the Divine is the true core of their being, and wonderfully, that they wish this for the entire planet and all thereupon.  We are working with many to do so.  This is a time of a great shift for this planet and all beings and it pleases us so very much that there are so very many that have heard this call and have answered.  The way is being paved for a new earth and way of being with the earth, being upon the earth.

And the last word I want to bring into this is joy.  Pure joy, lightness of heart, the ability to laugh, to be in bliss about life and all you do in your life.  If there isn’t joy in what you are doing, perhaps it is not what you should be doing, for alignment with the authentic self creates joy.  If your heart is joyful, your whole outlook is joyful and that spreads like a wildfire during a drought!  Ask yourself if you feel joy in your work, your relationships, your place of residence – anything that is in your world.  If you don’t feel joy, you need to change your perception of these things and see them in a different light so that you can feel joy, or you need to think about changing them.  Once you re-member who you are and why you are here, the heart will seek joy and will draw it to itself, and trust what I say, joy will find you when you are open to it, seek it and by giving it out, for joy will replenish itself as does love.  Be lighthearted, learn to laugh at self, learn to find joy in simple pleasures like opening your eyes to really see the beauty of the sunset, the flight of birds, the wonder of life.  Children are joyful because they see things with new eyes.  Re-new your eyes!  Open your eyes.  Many go through life with blinders on to the very things that could make them smile.  And from where I see you, I’d rather see smiles.

With all those thoughts to spend time mulling over, I will say one more thing to you – know you are loved.  That is one truth that you need to remember, dear ones – you are so very loved.  Step into the violet flame and feel that love and spread it all through you and out from you into the world. 

Yours in great joy ~ Zadkiel