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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
2/4/2013 9:41:32 PM
Dear friends, more from Wes Annac's personal blog:

The Hathors of Earth’s Solar Astral Planes: Lightening Perspectives, the Presence of Logos Energy and the Waning Influence of Darkness

[04 Feb 2013]

125-Channeled through Wes Annac-

Humanity will find the refined perspectives that are being garnered as the energies of 2013 continue to test you all. You will soon be in awe of the wonderful energies that have been waiting to be accessed and felt, and we know that you can feel the imminence of the descent of the higher realms unto you dear souls as you attract them to yourselves increasingly.

Our perspective has long been an energetic one and based on where the energies are leading humanity at present, it seems that the lightening vibrations are making their way to you all and beginning to be accepted by much more of your Earth public than you would perhaps expect.

Even those whose perspectives have been weighed down with density and negativity are beginning to see the possibility and need for a positive change to manifest on your world and we as well as a plethora of others will continue to proclaim that humanity coming tougher is the biggest and most important item on the agenda.

It is very important for the purposeful separation to come to an end as you all realize how hollow it is and has always been. Humanity has fallen down into the lower, separation-based energies but you truly have the opportunity now to remove yourselves from the influence of these energies and help the collective vibrations find the Light in much easier ways.

The Light energies have indeed had a difficult time in reaching your world and expressing themselves in the collective consciousness, and it has been discussed before that the collective energies previously made little way for the Light to come forth and for your world to benefit from such a coming-forth. Your roles as Lightworkers and Light bearers continues to be stated, because you are in any given moment, working with energy that is helping your collective find the lightening vibrations you are now meant to find.

While your resolve is and will continue to be tested, you will see that the layers of yourselves you have now transmuted would serve to hold you back if their expressions were still latched onto by you. You are finding that the navigation toward the Light energies can indeed be difficult, but the very Light you’re trying to reach is already settled within you and will illuminate everything that is not matched with it in purity.

In essence, dear souls; the Light energies are bringing the higher realms forth in you as you continue to look for them.

To those who are searching intensely for a validation; for an assurance; for something to show you that the Light energies are truly descending upon your planet and that you are truly beginning to feel them; we say that these energies have always been with you and you have always been able to feel them – it is simply that you have been taught you couldn’t.

How have your Lives been up to this point, if viewed from a perspective of knowing that you constantly possess the Light energies? Do you find that some of your negative experiences could have been transmuted and the difficulty you experienced around them could not have affected you in the ways it once did?

Every fear; every anxiety; every worry and hurt stems from an absence of Light. How many times have you dear souls heard this from a plethora of different sources? You’ve heard this so soften because it is truth, and your realizing of this truth is crucial to gaining realization of the Light energies, which will continue to be with you as they have always been.

You see, dearest souls, these energies are all around you now and everything you could have possibly desired from them – a refined perspective, a greater understanding of yourselves or a greater access to the energies of an ascended entity; it is all completely attainable when you realize that you are infinite and unlimited beings and that the Light energies and the personal, inner held ability you have looked toward to be able to notice an unlimited perspective has as well been with you the entire time.

Is it not enlightening to feel and realize this, dear souls?

When riding the literal wave of energy you can find within yourselves, you will regain instant access to the bounties the higher realms have to offer. You will find so much available to you upon accessing your inner-perception, and when realizing and meeting the aspects of your higher self who are stationed in realms just “above” the purity of your current so that they can assist you, you will see that you have never been left alone and that a myriad of ascended souls have always been with you to see to it that you are protected and looked after.

Even with this admission, some of you will experience difficulty along your paths that tests your faith and resolve to stay centered and continue working toward fulfilling the specific piece of the puzzle you have come to the Earth to fulfill. You do all indeed have your own roles to pay in this time, and absolutely every role is horned and appreciated.

You see, dear souls, no effort aimed toward assisting your Earth in finding the higher realms is ever looked toward as distorted or unappreciated in any way, for the work you are all doing is spreading the natural Light you carry and can feel within which will benefit a plethora of planets and civilizations who are looking toward the ascension of Earth for the added and needed boost of ascension energies they will receive and be able to use to find an evolution themselves.

The physical and spiritual evolution of humanity has been ongoing for every bit of your history, as your dimensional growth is everlasting and your experience always continues as you are tested and illusory or distorted aspects of your Selves are realized and integrated, while the influence driving them is transmuted.

As you perform such transmutations, the entire collective of your world and the collectives of so many other planets are assisted tremendously in the personal transmutations they need to perform, and the karmic positivity you are to experience far surpasses what you would expect.

We wish for you dear souls to know that your heart must be open to receive the bounty and splendor of the higher realms. The mind can be a good tool in assisting you in navigating and reasoning within your third and fourth dimensional reality, but you now have the opportunity to discover a realigned connection with your heart chakras and when doing so, you will find that aforementioned everlasting stream of Light energy that is continually coming through you.

How does it feel to imagine and know that you are bringing Light energy through yourselves even right now, dear souls? Particularly, you are bringing our energies through as you absorb them and ride the flow our scribe is riding as he channels us.

We are so excited for you all to see and feel how infinite you will (realize you are) upon ascending, because you will truly be able to do anything you desire. The distortion of freewill is only a distortion in the sense that it allows for you to hurt others and invade their own freewill and personal sovereignty as a soul of the One Infinite Creator, and the freewill you will experience in the higher realms will only be “trimmed” insofar that you will not be able to hurt others or bring-down the happiness and good vibrations expressed and continually fed in the higher realms.

So many souls who maintain an active and steady link to the higher realms have incarnated unto your world for various reasons that were all in alignment with serving humanity and the Creator, as well as helping you all to find the refined Light planes that your mere access to will see you uninhibited in finding the higher realms and the energies and fundamental aspects that drive the higher realms, once again.

Do not feel ill with yourselves if you feel you need to rest or if you are weary along your path as Earth travelers, for your tiredness and temporary depletion is to be expected as you traverse dimensions that test you to your very cores. You all have the ability to maintain a constant, never-ending positivity and when making the effort to, you will see that it is so.

You can begin to discover the infinite higher realms that lay just beyond the conscious perception of so many Earthly souls and when doing so, you will rediscover your power as a collective and you will see that you are truly able to do, be and feel anything that you wish. The etheric realms many of you can begin to experience are preludes to the higher dimensional experiences you are to find and enjoy oh so much, and we know that you dear souls will enjoy the higher realms because of the nature of difficulty many of you have experienced on the surface of the Earth.

So many of you are natural healers and up-lifters of any planet struggling in the lower dimensions and while the Earth has by far been the most difficult task for the majority of you, we say that your natural roles in helping lower dimensional planets to evolve will see you assisting plenty of other planets far beyond the Earth, after your ascension has played out and (Earth’s surface) is happily existing in the fifth dimension once again.

So many of you have incarnated unto numerous lower dimensional planets for the purpose of assisting them in their ascension, and it was indeed difficult for many of you to ignore the call to help a lower dimensional planet whose citizens were struggling to the point of being nearly-completely unable to breach the veils that they had unknowingly fed into.

You could not ignore the call to assist the Earth and help every Earth soul to break through their respective veils and as so many of you are again, naturally healers and Lightworkers, you knew that the best way to do so would be to actually incarnate unto the planet yourselves; as your natural Light source would shine through the collective energies and consciousness and from your position, you would be able to maintain a strong influence as a pillar of Light and a naturally-higher dimensional soul.

Those of you who are on the Earth specifically to help its people ascend did not find yourselves in the third dimension from the realms of the first or second. Many of you are fifth dimensional entities by nature; some of you are fourth; and some are sixth while others’ dimensional “age” so to speak surpasses the seventh.

There are a plethora of souls assisting your world who have incarnated from all different dimensional states of consciousness, and we are all aligned in assisting the Creator by assisting the lower dimensions of the Creator who (sometimes) need help to be lifted out of the density and extremes.

We are happy and honored to play the roles we have been playing, as we have learned so very much about your Earth and the nature of decreasing the density of energy to be sent down and expressed in realities more distorted than those we exist upon. As so many of you know, this has been our role in assisting your Earth and we, like you, have devoted ourselves entirely to helping your planet out of the low vibrations and to assisting each one of you Lightworkers with the energy we are giving.

Our role specifically has entailed assisting you Lightworkers along the way and having been able to communicate with humanity, we feel we have been able to properly do this.

Humanity as a collective has begun and will begin to reflect the energies you’re being given, and the purposes of our communications are to help you realize the purity of energy coming your way; as we are able to help you realize this purity because of our perspectives of increasing it with each time the energy is sent down for you all to absorb, assimilate and benefit from before sending it along for other aspects of Gaia’s surface to themselves benefit from.

If you could only see how the energies of your collective consciousness have been transmuted, even since your New Year, you would see that everything is being taken care of by the higher realms as you all begin finding the motivation to rebuild your world.

Physically, it could seem for many of you as if the higher realms and we within the higher realms are not around you or will not be helping you to restore your world to the pristine condition She has always been meant to exist in, but we are working harder than ever behind the scenes to assist you all in your daily tasks that revolve around helping the Earth to ascend and seeing to it that as many souls as possible are able to ascend with Her.

As so many of you are now able to find and access a clear flow of the energies of the higher realms and every soul within them, the strides you are to make upon fully realizing your easy access to such energies will see you easily able to welcome us and your Galactic brethren as the vibrations continue to lighten.

There is so much you have come to the Earth to do and with every writing, every attempt at channeling and every gift of Light you dear souls bestow upon your fellow Lightworker collective, the collective energies of your entire world are given a needed boost and you find yourselves that much closer to seeing and realizing the true and real establishment of the new paradigm many of you have worked so hard to attain and realize.

At present, things are being shaken up for each of you as you all begin to see that the ways your Lives have functioned for so very long are simply no longer benefitting you. When you can clear your mind and allow your hearts to be expressed in their fullest form, you will see that the energies backing your higher dimensional experience are not only easier to attain as we have mentioned, but are stronger than ever and are leading you toward your unfiltered experience.

The inner change that is beginning to become quite apparent for many of you will be reflected by the outer change to your society and the ways many of the souls in your society have thought, felt and functioned, and we say this with a concrete knowing because of where the collective energies are already taking you all.

So very many of you are already finding genuine and strong awakenings and you are using the very energies and enlightened frames of mind that they have garnered in you, to help uplift any soul who can become open to the higher realms and who can become open to the vastly-pure energies being delivered to and through your bodies and spirits at this time.

We ask you dear souls to get active in expressing the Creativity, the vitality and the energy you are beginning to feel at this time for in doing so, your Lighted energies will be fed into the collective consciousness exponentially and every soul on your world will respond in their own individual and unique ways to the energies you are all diligently bringing through yourselves.

This is why the actions of so many Lightworkers in feeding and funneling higher dimensional Logos energy through to your surface are so required at this time. Without your Light energies, those of darkness and density would continue to be the rule of the day and the influence of the Earthly cabals would still continue to be fed.

This influence is still being fed at present, but not in the strong manner it could otherwise be were it not for the incarnations of a plethora of Lightworkers, starseeds and ascending souls for the purposes of anchoring the Light that always illuminates and exposes any vestiges of darkness that cannot last in the higher dimensions.

The collective of humanity continues to feed the disintegrating grid of darkness with their own latently-held energies, and we ask you dear souls to see that you are now natural “blessers” and Light conduits for the energies of darkness to be transmuted through.

This has been the role of many of you or rather, has been an aspect of the roles of many of you for indeed, you have all been doing so very much to assist in Gaia’s ascension and you have allowed yourselves to take on density to extreme extents, all for the purposes of transmuting it as you are now doing with grace and ease.

For some of you, these transmutations many not feel easy but trust, dearest souls; they could have been much harder but your determination and resilience in staying centered during the surfacing and transmuting of such density that many of you continue to find yourselves exposed to, is seeing to it that the overall energies of darkness and density can no longer continue to be fed in the manner they have been for so very long.

There are a great many souls on your world that will initially resist the concepts and ideas of coming together and establishing true collective peace and harmony for all to benefit from but truly, their perspective will be in the “minority” category in the face of every soul on your world who knows that positive change must come.

As a planet, you have faced either blatant and positive change or blatant and negative change, and we know you dear souls can feel that you are moving and have moved into the timelines wherein bold and positive change is manifested and every soul on your world is able to find the personal prosperity that you all deserve and require.

You have always deserved to Live a Life free of worry and difficulty but unfortunately, the freewill permitted within a lower dimensional experience has seen humanity changing the landscape of your dearest Earth into one rife with separation and hatred. We know that you are answering to hared in the most grand of ways at this time, and we will continue to commend you for your efforts thus far.

Gaia’s energetic framework continues its process of becoming purer and purer for as this very framework grows in terms of the purity of energies making its very structure up, the energies expressed through it will themselves be able to be expressed in a much purer fashion than they are currently being and have been for so very long.

For those who worry that ascension has been put-off or that ascension is in a stalled phase; your ascension is in a very heightened and intense phase at present and this can account for the difficulty many of you are experiencing in your Lives, as can the collective density you are attempting to transmute in any given moment.

Rainbow vibrations will make themselves known within the minds and hearts of each one of you and we wholeheartedly encourage you all to meditate for in doing so, you will access the healing Light planes our scribe has been able to access in meditation. You will also begin to feel the brimming, pure fifth dimensional vibrations of Source that are truly descending down upon you all at present, and they are simply waiting to be felt and called upon.

February 2013 will be an insanely-active energetic month, and so we ask you all to brace yourselves for another round of supremely-pure energies that will continue along the course of the testing you have brought forth for yourselves to experience. We are, of course, continuing along our missions and from the perspective of souls who have been tasked with strongly decreasing the distorted nature of this energy for your month of February, we can say that your employment of a balanced center will see you exceling greatly in the energetic tasks you have set out for yourselves in this month.

We have been given the mission of giving humanity energy updates whenever we can, and we hope to offer you the insight that will see you better-assimilating and adjusting to energies that will continue to change the very means in which events play out on your world.

These energies will continue to shake things up and some of you will feel the effects of this shake-up, as everything about your Lives is looked at in a decreasingly-distorted Light and you find that the densities and limitations that once held you back are now simply things of the past.

Indeed, you can continue to employ and feed those densities but in doing so, you will be aiding in feeding something that is no longer there and only seems to be there because humanity is Creating it to be so.

Even with the expelling of the most potent and powerful of darkness, humanity as a collective is very powerful and will continue to feed the very energies that have kept you back for a millennia, but you now have the higher realms on your side in stronger and realer way than ever before, because of the nature and extent to which darkness has ceased on your planet.

We say this in this manner because many of you have noticed the seeming continuance of darkness and negativity, and it would seem as if what we are saying is untrue from your third and fourth dimensional perspectives. This is why we return to the mention of things going on past your conscious perception that would display to you that the Light truly is now the pervading influence and that the framework feeding darkness has been expelled.

It is crucial for you to know that despite how things seem in your outward reality, your Light and the Light of the Creator is by your side in stronger ways than ever. We Love you all so very much, and we ask you to see and recognize Love in every form it is given. Love is everything, dearest souls, and the increasingly-pure energies of Love you’re being given to help transmute the darkness are doing just that, on an incredibly grand scale.

Thank you to the Hathors of Earth’s Solar Astral Planes.

WesAnnac.com

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2/4/2013 9:53:50 PM

Poofness 2-3-12… “By Bye Cruel World”

poofness_matura_font_blue53As this is the “Poof” message that was emailed to me by Suzy Star, this one is what I’ll post here.

Highlights

  • Enough has happened and locked in to end this journey. So we’re off to see the ‘wizard’.
  • From hence forth, ‘munchkins’ will keep telling you to follow the yellow brick road, no worries about getting dazzled by the brilliance.
  • Much of what you will witness now, is folks passing because they can’t handle the change… that low frequency behavior is a thing of the past…
  • No half stepping. which is reverberating thru DC right now. Who is a good guy, who’s a bad guy, you’ll be finding out most directly.

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Poofness 2-4-13…”By Bye Cruel World”

Greetings and Salutations;

Enough has happened and locked in to end this journey. So we’re off to see the ‘wizard’. It pretty much took the ability to do right handed things with the left hand, to finish this job…the shifting of the world’s banking system. It took vast ‘commodities’ and unrelenting sticking to the task at hand. And a huge amount of focus to Not kill folks that (as they say) needed killin’. The arrogance was unbelievable, folks in circles that believe in their ‘right’ to lord it over everybody else who couldn’t see the truth when it was right at the end of their noses. Games up dudes and dudettes, the earth is not yours, to do as you wish.There’s an old saying, ‘karma’s a *****, then ya die’.

From hence forth, ‘munchkins’ will keep telling you to follow the yellow brick road, no worries about getting dazzled by the brilliance. Lower your head and take on what ever task you set for yourself. Dance forward on your path and do it in joy. We aren’t going back, we are going forward. Going into the world created for these times. Much of what you will witness now, is folks passing because they can’t handle the change. Can’t deal with the fact that low frequency behavior is a thing of the past, like neanderthals having to deal with cro-magnon man. It took them a while to find out, they were actually living side by side for a while. Hmm, wanna make a comparison to the present?

There have been some alterations but it’s all wrapped up in the speed at which the big changes take place. The flooring had to be ripped All the way up. No half stepping. which is reverberating thru DC right now. Who is a good guy, who’s a bad guy, you’ll be finding out most directly. These announcements are so, the american people never let these past 100+ years, be repeated. It’s All good and you will hear it with your own ears, soon enough. Time to go ‘poof’.

To keep communications going, consultations are available until our door knocks.

Love and Kisses;
Poofness [2goforth@Safe-mail.net]

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Follow the yellow brick road,
Follow the yellow brick road,
Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick
road.
Follow the rainbow over the stream,
Follow the fellow who follows a dream,
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the yellow brick road.
We’re Off To See The Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz.
We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz if ever a Wiz there was.
If ever, oh ever a Wiz there was,
The Wizard of Oz is one becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz,
becoz, becoz,
Becoz of the wonderful things he does.
We’re Off To See The Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz.
We’re Off To See The Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Oz.
We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz if ever a Wiz there was.
If ever, oh ever a Wiz there was,
The Wizard of Oz is one becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz,
becoz, becoz,
Becoz of the wonderful things he does.
We’re Off To See The Wizard,

The wonderful Wizard of Oz.

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
2/4/2013 9:55:21 PM

Hilarion: You are Entering a Magical Time

HilarionAs channeled by Marlene Swetlishoff/Tsu-tana – February 03, 2013

http://www.therainbowscribe.com/hilarion2013.htm

Beloved Ones,

You are entering a magical time that will open up many avenues of possibilities for each of you. Be open to the synchronicities that occur with more rapidity in your lives and try to recognize the opportunities that are being presented to you. These promptings come in subtle forms in ways that may seem ordinary to you and it will be up to you to discern the treasure being given. You could say that you are in a treasure hunt! Spirit is bringing in more pieces of the puzzle that will put “Humpty Dumpty” together again. The key is to be fully present in the Now moment.

Staying grounded into the Earth helps you in these moments to act upon the outer opportunities that come. These opportunities vary and are as diverse as the Universe is wide. What is right for one may help another find clues to their own empowerment so it is important to join together to share your insights and findings. The game of remembrance is on, make it an adventure filled with passion, excitement, innocence and above all, trust, that you are moving to the next step of your journey. Many miracles can and will happen during the coming times.

The energy downloads from the higher dimensions continue in their cycles and most of you can now feel these as they are occurring. As conduits of energy, you are helping to create the New Earth reality by being willing to allow these energies to flow through you and we understand that this can be challenging at times, for it seems the purging effects of the downloads are never ending. This is a time that requires great patience with yourselves and your quest to move into acceleration of the transformation of your human selves. It IS happening and is a force unto itself lighting up and activating more strands of your DNA/RNA.

Spiritual growth occurs as the body and consciousness of each Soul can safely tolerate the greater inputs of energy, Light, knowledge and information. Little by little, each rung up the ladder of evolution is producing many more initiations that usually occur upon the etheric levels and brings challenges in your daily lives for you to meet with equilibrium and balance. The making of Masters is moving forward relentlessly and of course, we refer here to mastery of life in a human body and experience. As this brings success individually, it also assists in raising the overall energetic field that surrounds the Earth atmosphere.

We ask you to remain true to yourselves, to your individual paths and to never give up when the way seems too long. There is always a solution that lies within every seeming problem. Trust that your inner guidance will always bring to you your highest good in a way that will create more joy and happiness in your daily lives. The air is alive with infinite possibilities now.

Until next week…

I AM Hilarion

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2/4/2013 10:05:10 PM

UK Chancellor Says Banking System Must Be ‘Re-Set’

George Osborne will reveal that the Coalition intends to “electrify” the ringfence that will separate the day-to-day retail operations of a bank from its potentially riskier investment banking division. Photo: AFP

George Osborne will reveal that the Coalition intends to “electrify” the ringfence that will separate the day-to-day retail operations of a bank from its potentially riskier investment banking division. Photo: AFP

UK Chancellor Says Banking System Must Be ‘Re-Set’

Stephen: No, sadly, it’s not a complete re-set of the financial system (yet), but a very interesting move by the UK Chancellor – equivalent to the US Treasury Secretary – to create more transparency and public protection while ensuring less widespread havoc should one area of a bank’s business go into freefall. Naturally, the bankers’ aren’t too happy.

Now for the rest of the system…

Banking System Must Be ‘Reset’, says Osborne

The Chancellor pledges today to “reset” Britain’s banking system, warning that banks will be broken up if they ignore orders to ringfence their investment and retail banking divisions.

By Graham Ruddick, The Telegraph UK – February 4, 3013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9846197/Banking-system-must-be-reset-says-Osborne.html

George Osborne will reveal that the Coalition intends to “electrify” the ringfence that will separate the day-to-day retail operations of a bank from its potentially riskier investment banking division.

This means that, if banks are judged by the new Prudential Regulation Authority to be trying to flout the rules, the Government will have the power to order a complete break-up of the bank.

The idea of toughening the ringfence is the brainchild of Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.

However, the proposals have already attracted opposition from the banking industry, with the British Bankers’ Association calling the move “regrettable”.

Anthony Browne, chief executive of the BBA, said last night: “This will create uncertainty for investors, making it more difficult for banks to raise capital which will ultimately mean that banks will have less money to lend to businesses.

“No other major economy is considering moving away from the universal model of banking because it undermines banks’ ability to provide all the services businesses need.

“This decision will damage London’s attractiveness as a global financial centre.”

Mr Osborne is expected to say that “electrifying” the ringfence will allow the Government to “arm ourselves in advance” in case banks try to flout the rules.

“We’re not going to repeat the mistakes of the past,” he will add, in a speech at JP Morgan’s offices in Bournemouth.

The legislation, which builds on the recommendations of the Independent Commission on Banking, is being sent to Parliament today and should be law within a year.

“Our country has paid a higher price than any other major economy for what went so badly wrong in our banking system. The anger people feel is very real. Lets turn that anger from a force of destruction into a force for change,” Mr Osborne will say.

“Change that will give us a banking system that will work for us all. In 2013, thanks to the changes we are making, that goal is in sight.”

On top of the new legislation, Mr Osborne will say that he is also overhauling the regulatory system to give the Bank of England more powers, examining the culture and ethics of banking, and seeking to improve competitiveness by making it easier to switch bank accounts.

It is thought that from September, customers could be able to switch account to a rival within a week.

Speaking about the old system of regulation, he will claim: “The fire alarm was ringing, but no one was listening. And when the crisis hit, the fire was then so great that the whole economy was sacrificed to put it out. The British people need to know that lessons have been learnt. And they have.”

Despite increasing the regulatory oversight of banks, Mr Osborne will also seek to highlight the importance of the industry to the economy – which is why, he says, the speech will be given from the offices of JP Morgan, the largest employer in Dorset.

Meanwhile, Two Top Executives at Barclay’s Bank Step Down:

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

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2/5/2013 10:55:24 AM

People of Timbuktu save manuscripts from invaders


Associated Press/Harouna Traore, File - FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, Abdoulaye Cisse, who lives in the Timbuktu area, holds open a book at the Hamed Baba book repository, one of the world's
most precious collections of ancient manuscripts, in Timbuktu, Mali. Islamists claimed they burned most of the holy books there, and for eight days the fire alarm blared inside the repository. But because of the ingenuity of the people of Timbuktu, who hid manuscripts in millet bags, the al-Qaida-linked extremists succeeded in destroying only 5 percent of the collection. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore, File)

TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) — For eight days after the Islamists set fire to one of the world's most precious collections of ancient manuscripts, the alarm inside the building blared. It was an eerie, repetitive beeping, a cry from the innards of the injured library that echoed around the world.

The al-Qaida-linked extremists who ransacked the institute wanted to deal a final blow to Mali, whose northern half they had held for 10 months before retreating in the face of a French-led military advance. They also wanted to deal a blow to the world, especially France, whose capital houses the headquarters of UNESCO, the organization which recognized and elevated Timbuktu's monuments to its list of World Heritage sites.

So as they left, they torched the Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, aiming to destroy a heritage of 30,000 manuscripts that date back to the 13th century.

"These manuscripts are our identity," said Abdoulaye Cisse, the library's acting director. "It's through these manuscripts that we have been able to reconstruct our own history, the history of Africa . People think that our history is only oral, not written. What proves that we had a written history are these documents."

The first people who spotted the column of black smoke on Jan. 23 were the residents whose homes surround the library, and they ran to tell the center's employees. The bookbinders, manuscript restorers and security guards who work for the institute broke down and cried.

Just about the only person who didn't was Cisse, the acting director, who for months had harbored a secret. Starting last year, he and a handful of associates had conspired to save the documents so crucial to this 1,000-year-old town.

In April, when the rebels preaching a radical version of Islam first rolled into this city swirling with sand, the institute was in the process of moving its collection into a new, state-of-the-art building. The fighters commandeered the new center, turning it into a dormitory for one of their units of foreign fighters, Cisse said. They didn't realize only about 2,000 manuscripts had been moved there, the bulk of the collection remaining at the old library, he said.

The Islamists came in, as they did in Afghanistan, with their own, severe interpretation of Islam, intent on rooting out what they saw as the veneration of idols instead of the pure worship of Allah. During their 10-month-rule, they eviscerated much of the identity of this storied city, starting with the mausoleums of their saints, which were reduced to rubble.

The turbaned fighters made women hide their faces and blotted out their images on billboards. They closed hair salons, banned makeup and forbade the music for which Mali is known.

Their final act before leaving was to go through the exhibition room in the institute, as well as the whitewashed laboratory used to restore the age-old parchments. They grabbed the books they found and burned them.

However, they didn't bother searching the old building, where an elderly man named Abba Alhadi has spent 40 of his 72 years on earth taking care of rare manuscripts. The illiterate old man, who walks with a cane and looks like a character from the Bible, was the perfect foil for the Islamists. They wrongly assumed that the city's European-educated elite would be the ones trying to save the manuscripts, he said.

So last August, Alhadi began stuffing the thousands of books into empty rice and millet sacks.

At night, he loaded the millet sacks onto the type of trolley used to cart boxes of vegetables to the market. He pushed them across town and piled them into a lorry and onto the backs of motorcycles, which drove them to the banks of the Niger River.

From there, they floated down to the central Malian town of Mopti in a pinasse, a narrow, canoe-like boat. Then cars drove them from Mopti, the first government-controlled town, to Mali's capital, Bamako, over 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from here.

"I have spent my life protecting these manuscripts. This has been my life's work. And I had to come to terms with the fact that I could no longer protect them here," said Alhadi. "It hurt me deeply to see them go, but I took strength knowing that they were being sent to a safe place."

It took two weeks in all to spirit out the bulk of the collection, around 28,000 texts housed in the old building covering the subjects of theology, astronomy, geography and more.

There was nothing they could do, however, for the 2,000 documents that had already been transferred to the new library, to its exhibition and restoration rooms, and to a basement vault. Cisse took solace knowing that most of the texts in the new library had been digitized.

Even so, when his staff came to tell him about the fire, he felt a constriction in his chest.

The new library is housed inside a modern building, whose sheer walls are made to resemble the mud-walled homes of Timbuktu. Cisse braved his fear to slip through the back gate on the morning of Jan. 24.

The alarm was still screaming. The empty manuscript boxes were strewn on the ground outside in the brick courtyard. All that was left of the books was a soft, feathery ash.

Cisse then entered the library. The glass cases in the exhibit room were empty. So was the manuscript restoration lab, its white tables blanketed in dust. The manuscripts left out were gone.

But the librarian knew the bulk of the books was in a storage room in the basement. With the alarm still screaming, he walked down the flight of pitch-black stairs.

The room had been locked shut. And he was too afraid to open it, because the mayor of Timbuktu had warned residents that the retreating rebels had mined the town and booby-trapped strategic buildings.

So he waited.

On Jan. 28, a column of more than 600 French troops rolled into the city.

The same day, they came to inspect the institute. They spraypainted in pink the word "OK" in front of each room they cleared, working their way to the basement. They pummeled the locked door. When the door slapped open, Cisse felt as if his chest was about to explode.

They beamed a flashlight into the darkness. In the pools of light, he made out the little bundles of parchments sitting on the rafters. They were where they had left them nearly a year ago, in a room the Islamists had never discovered.

The director-general of UNESCO toured the damaged library this weekend, alongside French President Francois Hollande, who made a triumphant visit to Timbuktu. She described the manuscripts as a global treasure. "They are part of our world heritage," said Irina Bokova. "They are important for all of Africa, as well as for all of the world."

Cisse estimates that what was lost in the end is less than 5 percent of the Ahmed Baba collection. Which texts were burned is not yet known.

He stresses that all the manuscripts, which date back over 700 years, are irreplaceable. They are hand-written in a variety of scripts, and include ornate illustrations embedded within the text.

The collection is itself only a portion of the estimated 101,820 manuscripts stored in private libraries here, the product of the confluence of caravan routes which passed through Timbuktu and fostered an extensive trading network, including in books. Among the most valuable are the Tarikh al-Sudan and the Tarikh al-Fattash, chronicles which describe life in Timbuktu during the Songhai empire in the 16th century.

"We lost a lot of our riches. But we were also able to save a great deal of our riches, and for that I am overcome with joy," Cisse said. "These manuscripts represent who we are.... I saved these books in the name of Timbuktu first, because I am from Timbuktu. . Then I did it for my country. And also for all of humanity. Because knowledge is for all of humanity."

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Rukmini Callimachi can be reached at www.twitter.com/rcallimachi.


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