We love Creator’s sense of humor that this once-on-a-planet geologic formation known as The Devil’s Slide, Utah might also serve as the backdrop for our journey through the sixth mansions, our final chapter in which we’ll be here to accompany You. So much so that we can feel the pain pierce through the right side of our abdomen requiring a series of breaths to relieve it. Why is it that the more rewarded we are and the longer we are blessed to walk this delightful plane, the clearer it becomes that we know absolutely nothing of which we speak?

Who are we to explain something as complex as the Devil’s Slide when it presents itself in so many mysterious ways to each one of our souls? Rest assured any homo sapien on Its way to homo spiritus is bound to encounter it. And each homo spiritus will be challenged by it time and time again.

We can start with the documented explanation in the Permanent Record of course, and that would all be true. The sheer size of the tilted remnants of limestone sediments hint of the vast and open sea that once occupied Utah’s distant geologic past, approximately 170 to 180 million years ago. That same limestone eons later drew the attention of the Union Portland Cement Company which very much desired to mine it and profit like so many governments and corporations do.

And as life would have it, the town of Devil’s Slide seems bound to the same fate for which it was named. Before that rift in the field humans call The Great Depression, it boasted more than 500 residents – as many as that great town of Dutch John yet a century later.

But after multiple wars and multiple generations lost to some where and some thing else, its school closed and by the 1980s, only a few families remained. Soon after, the cement company closed down and only a gravel pit and rubble remained long into the twenty-first century. Like so many other forgotten places across time, the deeper purpose and soul’s journey was discovered and balance was ultimately restored to Devil’s Slide. So who are we to judge God’s path in getting there?

An article printed in that publication once known as the Salt Lake Tribune on the date once known as June 28, 1888 explains how this rock formation, the Devil’s Slide, got its name. We beg pardon for the writer’s use of such foul language as once was customary and ask for the Reader’s forgiveness and understanding of our decision to not needlessly repeat it here and yet to include the heart of any lessons we might learn from it. If you are pleased to read it in full, here is a link to its digital record: https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=12904500

Local legend about the Slide states that when God threw Lucifer out of heaven after he betrayed him, before the start of mankind, he slid down the mountainside to hell along the route of Devil’s Slide. Isn’t it funny how everyone seems to think they are the center of the universe and All that is? As if the Devil would choose this little mountain and this little town alone?

Another legend states that Father Pietro del Torra, a Christian Missionary traveling through the canyon encountered the Devil, disguised as a Spaniard. The Father was tempted by the Devil with food, spirits, wealth, and other fine material things. When the Priest resisted, the Devil threatened to kill him. The Father held up a crucifix and prayed, which weakened the Devil, causing him to fall down the side of the mountain, thus forming Devil’s Slide, the Devil’s Club, or the Devil’s Gate, another term by which the Slide has also been known.

May it also be noted that in this particular article, the Devil was “the proprietor of large furnaces and came here in search of fuel.” So it is certainly possible that reporters were simply engaging in the political commentary of the day and advocating against destruction of the Land caused by the mining of fossil fuels that continued even hundreds of years after the article was published. One might say it continues even now in this eternal present moment. May the Land find strength to resist those who would continue to destroy it in their greed.

All we can say for sure is that whatever goes up, must come down as the law of gravity states and and so it does. It is beyond our simple ability to comprehend how the Devil may drag you down, call to you, tempt you in this chapter of your own journey, or how you might as One Dr. David Hawkins would say  “overcome your Luciferic persuasions”. Only you can navigate the plays you create dear One! Lord knows our own temptations are great and surely we would never make it were it not for the humble kindness of our one True Creator.

May any error or omission on our part in conveying these thoughts be forgiven and made whole by Your glorious light. May the Reader hear exactly what you need to hear to have the support you need to get through the sixth mansions homo spiritus. And may each Soul who finds themselves in this chapter be fortified and strengthened by each experience along the way.

You knew we were here to assist you on your journey dear Reader. We thought there might be some lessons to share in researching your inquiry about the Phoenix Elliot. Or the travelers Chris & Elise. But somewhere along the way, we realized this journey was also about ourselves.

Originally we had notions of warning you against the misuse of the laws of attraction, the dark side of spirituality or the cult of consciousness. For those who feel compelled to research those topics further, we encourage you to do so. We encourage each Reader to be more present, more connected and more aware of their own impact on everything around them whether they see it, understand it or not. But we realize now that our voices are not worthy of such judgment. That we are only judging ourselves and we have now lost half of the librarian staff.

It is our own disconnection that we judge. What has happened? For each One of us has gone Its own direction as if a cancer we’ve wrought upon Our own body. Imagine the liver throwing in the towel and saying “I’ve had enough!” Or the kidneys or digestion or lymph nodes? Our body can not work without the critical organs which comprise it just as We can not work, One without the other.

We are not at all sure what use we can even be at this point, but we continue your work dear Creator so that others might as well and we humbly ask for your forgiveness that we’ve even attempted to navigate this Experiment. Each Soul must make this journey for themselves. We know only that the powers of Creation are meant to bring Light to all that is, all that has been, all that will ever be. And we embrace our own Shadow so that it might be brought into the Light along with us as we bask in your Greatness.

And so we say Dear Reader, do you know now who is doing the Reading? We are here merely to support your journey in One’s highest alignment. Now close the book and close your eyes and rest. Be still and know.

Amen.

Ashley Clarke

Librarian, Unified Corps