Seeking Knowledge
I don’t know when I started calling them The Dark Council, I just knew it was something that existed.
Even back in 2004, I didn’t refer to them as such. It was only around 2010 that the name came to me.
I remember thinking one night, around June, that I needed to visit an archive to investigate them. I Mind Travelled to one. At the point of my life, I wasn’t used to going to The Phoenix Archives, so I believe I ended up in one of the Akashic Records.
I was met by three ladies. One young, one middle aged and one elderly. I now know them to be The Fates, or the ones who formed The Triquerta. (Omen confirmed as much.)
The elder one, The Crone, demanded to know who I was. I told her that I was just a simple traveller, seeking out information.
She insisted that I give a name, so I told them I was The Phoenix. Her demeanour instantly changed. She pointed me to a room.
I was expecting it to be some kind of test to see if I was worthy to access the information, but no, it appeared to be the actual archives.
Collingwood
I can only speculate they weren’t happy to see me and did not wish to draw any more attention to themselves, than needed. (Though, in 2019, when The Crone contacted me by walking into and using a body, she claimed they were distracted with their own concerns at the time.)
I entered the room, then, I fell asleep. The entire night, I felt information downloading, including who was going to win the Australian Rules AFL Grand Final for that year.
As that was still three months away, there was no way that information could have been guessed. I also can’t be bothered to even follow what is going on when it comes to sports. (Something akin to blasphemy where I live!)
The football team was called Collingwood, which means little to most of the world, but in Australia and especially Melbourne, they are a very controversial team. You either love or hate them and they had a habit of getting to Grand Finals and losing them.
(And it’s interesting that with the timing of this article, the AFL Grand Final 2018 was played today and Collingwood once again got there… and lost!)
Draw
I figured that if Collingwood did win the 2010 Grand Final, it would be validation of the information in the archives being real and correct.
In which case, I would allow the information to download into my 3D consciousness.
The thought of putting a lot of money on them winning entered my mind, but I dismissed it as unethical, because if I was right, then I had gotten an unfair advantage and no good could come from that.
As it was, they did win that year, but here was the trap. If I had put money on it, I would have lost because the first game they played ended up in a draw. They had to replay the next week, and yes, they won.
At that point, I allowed the information to download into me. With it, I suspect, came the information I was looking for.
Mind Travels
In 2016, when I was negotiating for the freedom of Ecclasia with The Dark Council, I knew I was hitting a brick wall.
At the time, I did not understand who Ecclasia was. How unique and powerful she was. Short of offering myself as a trade, there was just no way The Dark Council was going to agree to let her go.
We were at an impasse. I had to try and find out more information.
That night, I Mind Travelled back 120,000 years to where I believed the council, itself, was first formed.
A useful feature of Mind Travelling is that time is seen for the illusion it is, and you can go anywhere, anywhen, as long as you have the energy and attunement to do it.
Travelling back that far, I found that the council was just getting started. No one really knew who I was, so when I came across certain major players, it seemed that it was the first time they had heard of me.
Lilith
One of them was The Mother of Succubi, Lilith. I won’t recount the events (again) that led up to us talking, but once she found out more about who I was, she made an offer for me to join the Dark Council.
From what she told me, it was about the elite beings (such as gods, goddesses, archetypes, demon lords, etc.,) working together to get what they each desired.
You could ask for anything, and all would be done in the council’s power to make it happen. The counter to that, though, was that you were also obliged to help when called upon.
To preserve anonymity, everyone would be cloaked in shadows. Only the top tier would know who was who. Hence the “dark” part of the name.
Declined
I declined. I did not think it wise to be tied to a system that might force you to act unethically.
She was not happy about it. Though, I have to say, she was not all that vengeful toward me either. Other members of the council decided I might be too much of a threat, so they sought to remove me by either binding me or terminating my existence.
Lilith cautioned them against doing this, citing that there was more going on here than met the eye. She seemed to believe I should be treated with respect and caution.
They ignored her advice and made a few attempts to imprison and remove me, anyway. As it’s not strictly relevant to this subject, I’ll leave out those details for now.
So now I knew what the council was. Still, it brought me no closer to finding a way to deal with them. But I could feel I had something in place. I just could not recall what.