It’s Not About the End; It’s About the Beginning
When we mention that we are at the end of a cycle, we are. But we are not going to spend much time explaining how this ending cycle was, we already discussed that in detail. What is done, is done. We are going to put our energy into the cycle that is starting.
In order to understand the threshold we are standing on, we are going to look at two books not related in time or subject, but which provide remarkably useful insight.
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The Two Currents
The first book is The Zelator (published in 1998 under David Ovason’s name), presenting the initiatic autobiography of Fred Gettings (1937–2013), who goes by “Mark Hedsel” in the text.
The second is The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth, published in 2011 by Dolores Cannon (1931–2014).
What stands out immediately is that Cannon and Gettings came from completely different life experiences and countries. While they shared a similar era in the 20th century, their methods could not be more distinct, yet from these opposite approaches, both offer the exact insight we need at the threshold where we now stand.
The Zelator belongs to the Western esoteric tradition at its most rigorous. It is the account of a man moving through the Way of the Fool: the path of the initiate who refuses to bind himself to any single school, taking instruction from Rosicrucian, alchemical, Hermetic, and astrological streams while remaining free of all of them. Its central subject is initiation as a disciplined, gradual transformation of consciousness, the idea that reality is layered, that the visible world is a script written by an invisible intelligence, and that a human being can learn, through symbols, effort, and the guidance of genuine teachers, to read that script.
The book is dense with the machinery of the Mystery tradition: the etheric and astral bodies, the astrological zodiac as a living hierarchy of beings rather than a mere coordinate system, the secret architecture encoded in art and cathedrals, and the insistence that esoteric knowledge is protected precisely because it is transformative. Hedsel’s teachers speak repeatedly of a transition, the idea that the old Mystery schools were custodians of a wisdom that must now, at this point in history, begin to move out of the temple and into humanity at large, because the evolutionary moment demands it.
According to Gettings, the learning process takes thousands of reincarnations to comprehend how our reality works, by learning to discover the symbols left by previous generations in ancient texts, monuments, sacred architecture, and astrology. It is a slow process of steadily opening perception to understand life and the universe, rediscovering what others before us already knew. This book marks the release of that wisdom because the time to open it to the general public is now. What used to be reserved only for initiates is coming into the light.
The second book, The Three Waves of Volunteers and The New Earth, comes from the opposite methodological pole.
Cannon was not an initiate of any formal school; she was a hypnotherapist who, over decades of regression work, encountered a consistent pattern among her clients: souls who had never incarnated on Earth before, who “volunteered” to come here in three successive generational waves after 1945, following Hiroshima, when Earth’s trajectory alarmed the larger community of consciousness.
The first wave came as pioneers who feel alien and profoundly uncomfortable here.
The second wave arrived as “antennas”, generators of calming energy who affect others simply by their presence.
The third wave represents the new children, arriving with upgraded “wiring” and needing little repair.
Their collective purpose, in Cannon’s framework, is to raise the vibrational frequency of the planet so that Earth, and those humans ready for it, can shift into a “New Earth,” a higher-dimensional version of the world. She describes this as an unprecedented event: an entire planet transitioning while inhabited.
The Convergence
Stripped of their individual vocabularies, both books are making the exact same claim: humanity is inside a rare evolutionary threshold, and consciousness itself is the mechanism of the crossing.
Gettings arrives there through tradition, the slow, guarded, hierarchical transmission of the Mysteries, which he notes is now deliberately opening because the epoch requires it. Cannon arrives there through the testimony of ordinary people under hypnosis, a spontaneous, democratic, unguarded flood of the same message. One is the esoteric current descending from above through schools and symbols; the other is the same current erupting from below through the unconscious of housewives, engineers, and teenagers who never read a Hermetic text in their lives.
There are deeper structural parallels worth noting:
Human Potential Unfinished: Both reject the idea that the human being is complete. The Zelator’s alchemical premise is that man is raw material to be transmuted, while Cannon’s volunteers exist precisely because embodied humanity needed reinforcement to complete a transmutation it could not manage alone.
Earth as a School: Both treat Earth as an academy. Gettings views it through the classical doctrine that incarnation is the arena of initiation; Cannon reinforces through her repeated refrain that Earth is the most difficult school in the universe, which is why volunteering here is considered heroic.
Unseen Guidance: Both describe unseen hierarchies participating in human evolution, The Zelator’s spiritual intelligences behind the zodiac and elements, and Cannon’s councils and source-beings coordinating the waves.
Non-Arbitrary Timing: Both insist that this knowledge is surfacing now because the timing is deliberate: the threshold has a timeframe, and we are in the middle of it.
Crossing the Threshold
Both books are less contradictory than complementary halves of a single announcement, delivered in two distinct dialects: the dialect of the temple, and the dialect of the trance.
How do you recognize the threshold you are standing on? Did you arrive here through the slow, disciplined study of symbols and history, or through a sudden, spontaneous inner knowing?
Leave a comment, let’s start the conversation about where we go from here. Remember, this is information to work with; you will know how best to use it.