Legacy of Crystal Island Book Two

Colleen O'Flaherty-Hilder

Description

In Colleen O'Flaherty-Hilder's second book, Orla has returned to Crystal Island after her Crystal awakening. Alongside her promised consort, Finn, she is tasked with choosing new leaders for the seven Federations of the Earth. They will replace the Chief Generals who are controlled by the dangerous Shadow and have led the planet down a path of greed and destruction for many decades. Fourteen new leaders are chosen - seven men and seven women - with the potential to access their buried Crystal Wisdom. But first, they must remove the influence of the deeply embedded Shadow.Under this new leadership, will the planet be able to heal?

Sujets

• Fantasy (canción de Mariah Carey)
• Mysticism
• Fantasy

Informations

• Publié par: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Date de parution: 28 septembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781838599829
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

About the Author



Colleen O’Flaherty-Hilder has been a Health and Wellness Practitioner for over 35 years. Her initial training in Mind Dynamics in 1981 prompted her interest, which became a passion, in how emotions affect physical health. After extensive research, trainings and personal experience she created Alchemical Transformation Programmes TM, which embraces a confluence of modalities to facilitate profound change on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

www.colleenoflaherty.co.uk



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Contents
The Story So Far...

CHAPTER ONE
Orla Comes Home
CHAPTER TWO
Choosing The First Pioneer
CHAPTER THREE
Choosing The Next Six
CHAPTER FOUR
Seven Become Fourteen
CHAPTER FIVE
The Gifts
CHAPTER SIX
The Responsibilities
CHAPTER SEVEN
Crystal Strategy
CHAPTER EIGHT
The Crystal Initiations
CHAPTER NINE
The Generals Of The West
CHAPTER TEN
The Next One Hundred
CHAPTER ELEVEN

The Chief Generals
The Story So Far...
Crystal Island appeared in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after the last ice age. The intelligence of the mineral-rich ocean created a Crystal Fortress around the island that protected it from the cumulative effects of man-made pollution and destruction that had occurred on the Earth over the centuries.
Shortly after the formation of Crystal Island, a species of supra beings arrived on Earth, the Crystalanders, the Guardians of Eternal Wisdom, who brought Gifts of Creation to the Earth. They genetically introduced Crystal Wisdom to twelve women of the island who became the Royal Family of Crystal Island, and at the end of the 22nd century, Queen Maeve and her consort, Patrick, are direct descendants of those first crystal-humans.
Princess Orla is their fourteen-year-old daughter and future Queen who must undertake a seven-year journey of initiation to the seven worlds of Crystaland to awaken the ancient Crystal Wisdom in her memory, equipping her with the necessary qualities to spearhead the healing of the planet
Her grandmother, Grace, as a royal Crystal Elder, accompanies Orla for the initial part of her journey with the Diamond Elders who give the young princess the first understanding of her destiny. She is also introduced to Unicorn who is to be her guide and mentor through all of the Crystal worlds.
After leaving the Diamond Elders, she embarks on her journey. Each world is defined by the specific coloured crystal that holds unique qualities of Crystal Wisdom: Violet and Turquoise – Sound; Green and Yellow – Sacred Geometry; Sapphire and Silver – language and numbers; Ruby and Iron – Courage; Coral – communication; Emerald and Copper – Health; Golden – Beauty.
In each world, she is given a piece of crystal jewellery that embodies the qualities of those worlds. She also experiences the original Crystaland Gifts given to the Earth: Energy; Health; Intelligence; Courage and Leadership; Song and Intuition; Words and Communication; and Support.
The Crystalanders eventually leave the planet in the capable hands of the crystal-human Elders. But, after thousands of years, man begins to lose his connection to Crystal Wisdom and his primitive side resurfaces which attracts Shadow, a dark force from the deepest part of the cosmos.
In the final part of her journey, Orla travels to the Turquoise Crystal world where she is shown the fear myths created by man under the influence of Shadow which has contributed to Earth’s downfall.
Before leaving for her awakening, Orla is promised to her future consort, Finn, who has a direct lineage to the Ruby Crystal world.
CHAPTER ONE
Orla Comes Home
Orla woke suddenly from her dream to the sound of familiar voices. As she opened her eyes, she immediately realised that it was Finn talking and laughing with John under the window of her first-floor private chamber. Identifying the voices, she relaxed and smiled. As she unconsciously massaged her expanding abdomen, she took a moment to absorb every detail of her private sanctuary, relieved to be in this safe space and not still in the dream.
This room has given me so much comfort and wonderful memories , she thought. She slowly rose from her daybed and walked to the full-length window overlooking the green carpet of lawn stretching from the palace walls down to the river that swept through the island.
Orla rested her head on the window frame as she reflected on her dream, recalling those early days when considerable effort had gone into reversing the apocalyptic trajectory that Earth was pursuing governed by selfish and hapless leaders. The Diamond Elders had warned her of the challenges she would encounter, but nothing had prepared her for the intensity of hatred that man expressed towards his fellow man. Indeed, in the latter part of the 22nd century, hatred had become the default emotion expressed by humanity. Orla cringed as she remembered the images of savagery she had unveiled whilst accessing the ancestral memories of the Chief Generals, the leaders of the Federations. For Orla, this disturbing experience had confirmed, unequivocally, that those Generals would never be suitable leaders of a world based on Crystal Wisdom.
The new life inside her kicked, protesting at those dark memories, forcing her back to the present and the impressive view from her window; the sunny spring afternoon was playing host to a concert of birds singing their praise of the sun’s rays caressing the branches of the trees, coaxing the new buds from the seclusion and comfort of winter. Orla looked down fondly at the two men below who were still chatting and laughing in a comfortable and easy manner. They were from very different worlds, but their friendship was based on a strong foundation of mutual respect and trust, developed over the years from the many challenges they had experienced together. Orla gave thanks, as she often did, for John and the other pioneers. Those first pioneers bravely joined forces with the royal house of Crystal Island to spearhead the restoration of the noble gifts that the Crystalanders had bestowed upon the planet thousands of years ago.
The luxury of time she now had, for the first time since her return to the island, allowed her to reflect on the years that had followed her initiation into Crystal Wisdom. She had been fourteen when she left the island – an innocent young girl with no notion of the future, and no concept of the terrors encountered by the world outside of her island – returning seven years later, a woman who had been exposed, albeit in a censored way, to the bleak reality of the state of the planet. There had been such a deep level of degeneration in the world that even now, at thirty eight, she found it difficult to comprehend how the whole notion of Crystal civilisation had turned a corner centuries before and disappeared down a rabbit hole of bitterness and hatred.
Conscious of the important role that her collection of crystal jewellery had played in helping her to navigate so many challenges, Orla walked over to the clear crystal case that protected it whilst it was inactive. She opened the lid and lightly touched each piece, conscious of their unique connection to each of the Crystal worlds. Her mind drifted again as she remembered her return to the island from Crystaland, her reunion with Finn and her subsequent exposure to the full extent of the planet’s destruction.
Orla returned to her daybed, rearranged her numerous cushions, and eventually relaxed into a comfortable position, which was becoming more challenging as her body changed shape to accommodate the pregnancy. She allowed her mind to run loosely and randomly over those events and eventually settled on the memory of the warm welcome she received from her parents and Finn on her return from her Crystaland awakening.
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After her reunion with her mother, Maeve, in the Secret Garden, Orla realised how much she had missed her parents over the seven years and hurried to the palace, eager to see her father, Patrick.
As she entered the palace gates, Orla saw her father, broke away from her mother, and ran