This is a symptom of the patterns contained in the band that has just been traversed. It will outpicture as many funerals, many losses, and much sorrow for many of the people in the world. The cause of these sorrows will be losses of many kinds -- loss of loved ones, both animal and personal; loss of jobs; loss of homes; loss of property; loss of health; loss of well-being in all kinds of ways. We have come to you today in the role of comforter, to help you come to terms with the sorrows that will be outpicturing in the world.

A time of tyranny will follow this time of sorrows. It will be the response to the losses and the need to institute order and control, which will be yet another loss -- a loss of personal freedoms. All systems will be stressed to the maximum possible, and many things will be sacrificed that people have come to take for granted. Many things will be in scarce supply, and to control the fear levels that would result in riots and mass hysteria, more controls will be put in place until everywhere you look around the planet, helmets and guns will be seen. These measures will take place against the backdrop of growing discontent and a kind of unleashing of a wild beast. Nations are entities, too, and when an entity is in pain, it lashes out against what it perceives of as the cause of its pain. It identifies the cause of its pain as its enemy, and moves to destroy its enemy in order to stop its pain, but the reality of war is that it does not stop pain -- it increases it. And so a spiral will be set in motion soon, and that spiral will build upon itself until everything appears to be out of control. Then those who thrive on power will institute the controls that preserve their position and the spiral will continue to build until all will appear to be heading into the darkest days ever seen upon the planet.

THE TIME OF SORROWS @ operation terra