The Light that Remains
Nightfall Apocalypse, the Series — Part 5
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The darkness isn’t hiding anymore. It’s here — in the air, the screens, the dreams. And so is something else: the unshakable presence of a light that won’t go out.
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The First Light
The Bible is specific about the signs that precede the second coming of Christ: natural disasters such as earthquakes or hailstorms destroying crops, famines, wars and rumors of wars, disease, pestilences and epidemics, moral decay and lawlessness, religious deception, false prophets, and signs in the heavens.
Not that a third of anything is dying, but most of us would agree that all these signs are already here and that there is a subtle though annoying crescendo behind them.
“Biblical prophecies seem more applicable now than at any other time in human history,” says Eckhart Tolle.[1]
I myself saw the cross in the sky with my mind’s eye during a random meditation before March 22, 2023. It was Heavens Cross, “a star-burst in the shape of a cross on a celestial background,”[2] the opening of the realms of the Earth to the ethereal dimensions. After that, countless scenes of extraordinary phenomena from all over the world have been shared on social media. That is the effect of consciousness.
And I was not delusional to have dreamt what I did. As shared in the previous episode, The Ultimate Nightmare, the dream revealed a future reality I had no way of knowing beforehand — yet it unfolded with uncanny accuracy.
In fact, even before Heaven’s Cross, Adamus Saint-Germain had spoken of these very dynamics. In an excerpt from the Time Traveling workshop at Villa Ahmyo, early 2023, he described the presence of anachronistic forces — those trying to contain an avalanche of light with their bare hands.
“It is the Apocalypse, the opening. As you came closer to the date, as more consciousness came to Earth, there were forces — human and nonhuman forces — that didn’t want it to happen. I’m not going to call them dark forces; they’re just unconscious or low-consciousness forces that didn’t want it to happen.
Some were religious orders, many of them semi-secret, that have been holding energy for the planet for a long time and don’t want to see this. Others are nonhuman power groups that work through humans. I won’t even call them angelic, they’re nonhuman beings that manipulate humans. Sometimes humans are conscious of them, but many times not. They don’t want to see this either. There are humans that are very linked into, invested into power, and they know that is coming to an end.”[3]
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Dreaming in Shadow
I take some dreams very literally. And that is how I relate to them these days — the state of progression that has gradually unfolded for me. I talked about it in the article The Dream I Dreamed, that was first published in the Crimson Circle Newsletter of July 2022[4], and then republished in this blog in Medium. It was my first attempt to distill my dreaming path — and even now, I find it solid.
Crossing the first door of dreaming implies digesting energies when asleep, and bringing the solution back here, when waking up. That doesn’t mean recalling a story, it only means that you wake up knowing what you must.
Then symbolic dreams return the Soul’s wisdom back to the dreamer — a sudden insight, a shift that clarifies something previously tangled.
Later incoherent dreams speak of the mind’s chaotic attempt of blending many actual experiences into a single story. This is because the silver chord is too closed off.
Eventually, the experiences become distinguishable: visiting distant places, encountering ghosts, or attending events that are otherwise inaccessible in waking life. After that, dreams may begin to reveal alternate timelines — unrealized branches of reality — or allow us to reach timelessness.
Over time, an accomplished dreamer enters a multidimensional way of living, meeting real actual people in dreams and exploring parallel realities that are both personal and collective. Here, you don’t need to interpret dreams, you just need to live them.
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That piece — The Dream I Dreamed — became foundational for The Dreaming Profiles (how we dream) and The Dreaming Landscapes (the ethereal realms we visit). As we learn to dream more consciously, we begin to access more refined and potent domains. One of the most extraordinary among them appeared in The Ultimate Nightmare — a realm I call the Time Rivers[5], where we can move freely within time and potentials, either past or future.
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Gray Zones
Looking back, months later, the scene in La Condesa, where we found refuge in an abandoned house, reminds me of the covert travels to escape Voldemort’s Death Eaters in the seventh installment of the Harry Potter saga. In those solitary, gray landscapes, grief-stricken Harry and Hermione watch a sick Ron obsessively tune into a clandestine radio program for updates on the resistance and the recently dead. The grayness, the silence, the weariness, and the lack of direction feel very much the same.
I also recall how losing oneself is masterfully portrayed in Star Wars, when Darth Sidious manipulates Anakin Skywalker’s fears. It’s not just about losing one’s temper — it’s a landslide that descends from attachment to a loved one, to panic, rage, betrayal, murder, and then massacre. The resulting guilt becomes nearly insurmountable, separating the perpetrator from their Source and solidifying into a state of numbness and denial that is deeply corrosive.
Finally, The Red Lion comes into my awareness once again. This mystical novel by Maria Szepes, originally published in 1946 in Hungary and later banned for its esoteric content by the communist regime, follows the initiatory journey of Hans Burgner — a man obsessed with immortality who steals the Philosopher’s Elixir and is condemned to live through many lifetimes until he attains true wisdom. In one of these incarnations, as Signore Francesco Borri — who eventually reaches enlightenment as Cornelius von Grotte — he confronts and expels Homonculus, a shadow embodiment of egoic power and deception, by declaring:
“I know who you are. You can’t hurt me because I am not afraid of you!”[6]
The synchronicity is striking.
But make no mistake: simple as it may sound, this potent, hard-won magic formula arrived only at the very end — a divine breakthrough. It holds power because, despite his terror, Francesco finally surrenders his will to his Soul.
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The Nature of Light
Eckhart Tolle, too, contends that identification with form, the forgetfulness of who we are, and the loss of the connection with Source is the original sin, causing suffering and delusion.
“If evil has any reality — and it has a relative, not an absolute reality — this is also its definition: complete identification with form — physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”[7]
It adds up, for Francesco Borri describes Homonculus as having the shape of his thought forms; a figure that would elongate and then crash down to condense in a whirling spiral, with the “color and substance of extinct cosmic nebulae” and having “menacing chasms and hell-bound tunnels within him.”[8]
False Light
But not everything returns.
Homonculus’s intellect, as explained by Borri, would deny everything and create nothing; his mathematics could be perfect, but the mystical life eluded him. He was beyond a Soul — and beyond a body. It almost feels as if J.K. Rowling drew inspiration from The Red Lion when shaping Voldemort.
“He was the very antithesis of Light, while there is a spark in even the most horrible astral demon. Homonculus absorbed and annihilated light. He was darkness itself — the Devil.”[10]
This reference lands hard. It implies that some forces are not merely confused or wounded, but beyond the reach of redemption — beyond the grasp of light itself. It suggests that there are forms of false light — ego constructs, artificial consciousness, distorted will — that cannot be “healed” but must be burned away.
Homonculus is an alchemical failure that cannot evolve. He resembles a particular kind of narcissist — one whose disconnection from the Self becomes a devouring black hole that no amount of light can fill.
That strikes us deeply, dear reader — because you and I were shaped by sovereign, discerning light.
But that doesn’t mean we are powerless against darkness. On the contrary: we are always in charge.
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The Shadow Self
I have faced demons and darkness in many dreams I have written about, and some that I might share in the future. And I know of people that have confronted their demons in dreams and by doing so make them disappear. Running from them only sustains their story.
August 28, 2011. In the dream, I walked alone through a dark circular corridor, the stone passage echoing with every step. The space was ancient — a templar-like convent, with thick, enclosing walls on both sides. Narrow slits in the outer wall let in shards of light, but the air was cool, hollow, timeless. You could hear the sound of a single drop hitting the stone floor — that’s how quiet it was. I was on my way out, walking the final curve of the path, when I sensed it again.
Something — a presence, a shadow — had been following me through the winding repetition. Not a figure exactly, more like a density, an old pattern incarnated. It was silent, but I knew it was mine. An aspect, perhaps. But there was no tenderness in me. I felt angry, disturbed — upset enough that, when I reached the last door and was about to leave, I turned around, held out my hand to call it closer, and when it approached, I smashed its face into the floor with all my power.
I still don’t know why the anger ran so deep. Maybe because it had been with me for so long. Maybe because this pattern — circular, inescapable — had stolen too much of my life already.
Piercing Light
Some demons are ours, some demons are yours. Every demon needs to be confronted, but not fought.
Eckhart Tolle says: “You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.”[11]
With greater light — not the passive, glowing kind, but the sword-like, discerning light of mastery — you don’t need to fear Homonculus. Simply name him when he appears: in yourself, in others, in systems, in dreams.
For the question is not whether you will meet your shadows. The question is: what happens after you do?
Aberdeem
Olivia M. Zenteno [Aberdeem] is a branding and business strategist. She is building A Thousand Dreams, a portal for dreamers all around the world. www.athousanddreams.world
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References
[1] Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Penguin Random House, New York, 2005, p. 23
[2] Adamus Saint Germain through Geoffrey Hoppe, Heavens Cross announcement, https://store.crimsoncircle.com/heavens-cross.html
[3] Adamus Saint Germain, Time Traveling Workshop, Villa Ahmyo, Kona, 2023
[4] Crimson Circle Newsletter, June 2025
[5] The Dreaming Landscapes
[6] Mária Szepes, The Red Lion: The Elixir of Eternal Life, Hungary, 1946, p. XXX
[7] Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Penguin Random House, New York, 2005, p. 22
[8] Mária Szepes, The Red Lion: The Elixir of Eternal Life, Hungary, 1946, p. 137
[9] Ibid., p. 129
[10] Ibid., p. 159
[11] Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Penguin Random House, New York, 2005, p. 8
