Tananzal, the Demon of Illusion was next. I projected and myself in a pitch black room, with only the fireplace and mantle visible with a low fire going. I “knew” this was a room I had been in before. I also knew that he was in the blackness, watching me. Eventually, a pair of yellow eyes were visible. I knew what the rest of the room looked like by then, but couldn’t see past the blackness.
He made his point.
He knew I didn’t have a target for him and accepted this. I also got the impression he could teach curses to do the same, but didn’t offer any in our meeting.
Letana, the Encouraging Angel, was next. I looked at her face a few times, but can’t really recall much of it. There was someone I knew that could use her help and she agreed as soon as it was out of my mouth.
What threw me off was that she then led me towards an oversized chair and sat next to me. We just sat there and I was totally content just being there with her. I liked the way I felt and wanted it to continue. I’m not like this in the waking world and even when I remembered that as I was sitting there, I didn’t care.
L: “You could use more of this, too, you know,”
Eventually, it started to fade and the meeting was over. I don’t know where the twelve minutes went, but realized that I had finished one song and another that was a little over ten minutes on its own.
I had already met Frontasch (the Spirit Guide) in the beginning and was going to skip over him, to be honest, but felt that I shouldn’t.
When I projected to him, I was shown a scene that I identified as a sort of “map” of an incident I wrote about in another journal on here the other day - a place outside this system, to keep if brief. I felt it was “upper”, for some reason. It wasn’t a map of the exact thing I saw, but was being used as a reference.
He then showed me a similar map, but it led to “lower” placed. I understood that these were references to the light above and the darkness below (not something I’ve followed at this point) - but I also understood that both “maps” stopped at me. I was in between them, the center of them.
As I realized this, I knew there was something I was on the verge of “getting”, but wasn’t there yet. Whether this was an experience barrier, knowledge barrier, or some combination of the two, I don’t know and he didn’t offer. The “on the verge” understanding was relative. It could be ten days or ten years, I don’t know and he wouldn’t give any hints.
He was pleased at this point and it was time for the conversation to end.
Haask, the Angel of the Armory was next and I got a series of exercises from him (three). One is defensive, one offensive, and the other is protective, but not defensive (I know, I know). It was also obvious that these “tools” and “weapons” weren’t as simple as they seemed. Yes, there were exercises for them, but the tools/weapons were symbolic in themselves.
For example, one was a thunderbolt. And as I watched the (partial) demonstration to get me working on it to turn it into a useful curse, it dawned on me as I ran through a mock of it that the thunderbolt (not lightning bolt specifically) had hidden meanings. I then looked at the other two and realized that they, too had additional meanings to them.
He was pleased I had caught onto this, but I’m honestly not sure I would’ve picked it up without mimicking him right away - which isn’t my typical style. I normally mull it over and work things out in my head initially, if they don’t directly tell me to practice it immediately - and he didn’t.
He was done giving me things to work on, so the meeting was over.
This concludes the initial Third Kingdom of Flames work through.