Aug 20
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IN THE BEGINNING (11)
SECTION 2
Jeanne Stockwell Re-Appears
(From the final page of the original Leapfrog):
Arne spoke up again, “Do any of you have a sense of what is next for this building and the group at large?”
There was a long silence and then Brad finally spoke up from his chair where he remained seated:
“We know that events will soon happen which will have an impact on the thinking of people in this country and the rest of the world.”
…I (Darlene Adams) received the okay to say what was on my mind. “We have been told not to speculate about what these events will be…but Spirit wants each of you to remember that you heard here that the first of these events will happen very soon, in fact, within three days. Many changes will take place, and Leapfrog will become a significant publication for the future.
“Know this, nothing much will happen until after the dust settles and that will take some time.”
Three days later we understood both the prophecy that Rachel had uttered some three weeks before and the foregoing words that ended our first gathering …on September 8, 2001.
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“Did Darlene have any idea of the magnitude of what she was saying would happen within three days?”
I was putting the question to the group which had now grown to an assembly of about four hundred people sitting in a large hall on folding chairs placed in a semi-circle.
I had asked the same question of four of the men from that original group which had met right here in this building for the first time just three days before September 11, 2001. The four men whom I had invited to lunch were Will Barry, Vic Schneider, Emmanuel Patrick and Darlene’s husband, Jack Adams. Darlene, of course, was the one who received the insight referenced above which so vividly spoke of what the entire world forever-after would refer to as, “9/11.”
Vic had said, “rather than any of us answering that question, why don’t we schedule an open meeting for everyone and have Jeanne come and share …and maybe even open her talk with the question to everyone in the entire assembly?” The other three agreed eagerly and almost in unison said: “Let’s do it!”
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The large, two story building in an industrial section of Jacksonville, Florida had been donated to “the group” which was assembled in what had formerly been a huge showroom on the ground floor of what had been an earth-moving machinery dealership – the rest of the complex, originally belonging to the dealership, spanned over thirty acres upon which a variety of departments of the dealership, including maintenance and fabrication facilities, had all now been leased to a variety of companies; those various spaces were now separated from this building by an eight foot high, concrete block wall surrounding the building and the entire parking lot which originally had been primarily for employees of what had been the main location of one of the largest heavy machinery dealerships in the U.S., with branches at Orlando, Sarasota, Pensacola, all in Florida and with one branch in Alabama in the city of Montgomery. The parking lot had 260 parking spaces and was now almost full, as well as all the available street parking for several surrounding blocks, because of the people in attendance for this assembly.
The man in whose last name the dealership had operated for several years as: “Patrick Tractor and Implement Co., Inc.” gave the introduction to my time before the assembly.
“As many of you know, my name used to be Michael Patrick, but through a rather amazing process my first name was changed to Emmanuel and my wife’s name from Pauline to Elizabeth. Most of you also know the significance of the name change as it relates to some ancestral stuff on both sides of Elizabeth’s and my family dating back to the 1400s in France, Wales and Ireland, the latter, which you can tell, being where I grew up” (Emmanuel had a pronounced Irish brogue).
“My introduction,” he continued, “to the group began late one morning, when several men in a dark green, 10 passenger van, drove onto the parking lot, right outside this building” (gesturing with his right hand), “which was empty at the time, while I was standing and talking to one of my employees. We’d had a sign company put up a huge sign they had painted onto a solid curtain of vinyl hanging down from the roof that was offering the building for lease.
“Basically the men introduced themselves by one of them asking if I was the owner and if I could give them the particulars on the building.
“When I asked for what purposes they wanted the building, and I found far more than merely intriguing that he said, ‘our Master has need of it.’
“Will Barry, one of the men in the van, later handed me a copy of the Leapfrog Manuscript which was an interview of Brad Cullen conducted by way of e-mail exchange between Brad and our speaker this afternoon, Jeanne Stockwell, who is a professional, free-lance writer whose articles and series have been featured in a variety of major magazines.
“For those of you who have not been here before, or have not read the manuscript and would like to obtain a free copy, please see Will, Colin, Vic Schneider or me after the meeting.
Leapfrog is the written foundation of what we refer to simply as ‘the group;’ which all of you present are members just because you are here. Okay, that’s enough out of me …Jeanne please come and share whatever is on your heart.”
In Freedom,
Brad