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We went on for Mediterranean cruise trip on the middle part of last year. The cruise line was Celebrity Cruises and the cruise ship was Galaxy. The destinations of the Mediterranean cruise trip were Turkey, Greece and Italy in the Mediterranean. The overall experience that Galaxy offered was up to the expectations.

The service of the cruise was excellent right from the word go. As soon as we boarded on the ship, we were shown our room. We were asked whether we would like to avail spa facilities and we agreed. The spa was excellent and the other facilities such as sauna, gym, thelossotherapy pool were all top notch. We got a pass to have unlimited access to the T-pool. The first day with massages and spa was very calming and restful. As soon as our massaging session got over, we got back towards our room and found that our luggage was waiting. Soon after that, dinner arrived and it was lovely. The service of the staffs in the cruise was excellent and they were very friendly also.

We tried to alter our dining from main seating to sunset, but that was not actually possible as many others were also in the line to do the same. But, the company that we got on our dining table was very good and friendly. We spend excellent time while chatting with the table mates and the wrong placement of the table was not bothering us anymore. The waiter and his assistant were also very jovial. Even the wine service was remarkable. Whatever, we ordered, the waiter served us efficiently. There was not a single occasion, where I felt rushed with their service.

After the dinner, I went on to get an AquaSpa massage. It was amazing and it made my trip. It is definitely the best massage that I have received till date. I have problems of insomnia so I was really worried about how I would complete my Mediterranean cruise trip. But, right after the first massage, I was sure that I do not need to worry about the rest of the trip days on the cruise. The cruise also featured a big gym. We used to work out there quite entertainingly. The T-pool was good enough for our muscle relaxation and the sauna session right after T-pool was immaculate.

Our Mediterranean cruise trip took us through numerous tourist destinations on the northern coast of the sea. We got off on several ports and enjoyed the vistas, local culture and the food. We just loved every bit of cruising and exploring Mediterranean.

Apart from Greece, Italy and Turkey, there are several varieties of Mediterranean vacation. Mediterranean cruise services are also there to enjoy inland in Europe on the Main or the Danube rivers. You can also explore the cities of Austria, Germany and other European countries by cruising Mediterranean. The Nile is another enormous addition to the vacation of Mediterranean that features numerous temple tours at unusual locations like Luxor and Karnak. Overall, Mediterranean cruise has something for everyone.

1 of 1 postcard / 1924 / b&w litography

0044-001: Souvenir de Voyage    A. H.- “HAITI”/ Steamer de la Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

The back of this card has not been reported.

note: if you have this card, we would be thankful to get a scan of the back.

My personal time capsule and hour glass
Where time stood still and would not let me pass
Trapped between worlds of heaven and hell
This vessel this death ship became my cell

With the person I love stuck on a ship
A one way romance unlike this round trip
No place to go or hide nowhere to turn
For it was I left at the stake to burn

Given the chance to be within arms reach
I lost consciousness and mumbled my speech
To the ground I went not just once but twice
For your power over me is my vice

I was left invisible and alone
Unlike the rest no one to call my own
You looked right through me like a shadow
When I’m the only one to see you glow

When we returned and finally docked
Walking off that death ship I was shocked
That I did not die for I survived
Unlike my notion when I arrived

© 2009 Tracey Marquart

Steaming South.

Its about 1,300 mile from Timaru to the Northern Ross Sea ice edge, it’ll take us around 6 days to get there if the weather is reasonable. (Unreasonable weather is more than likely).

Information we have indicates the ice is thawing faster this season than it did in 2008 and 2007, however, our records show much less sea ice during 2000 to 2005 than we’ve seen for the last 4 seasons. With global warming the hot topic of the day, we do not see it happening in the Ross Sea in recent years. 

The first job we must do before exiting NZ waters is check the sink rate of our lines to be sure they comply with guidelines set by CCAMLR. These guidelines have proven to be effective in the Ross Sea resulting in a zero seabird by-catch for all vessels involved in the fishery since it began 11 years ago. (Every vessel has at least one international observer aboard, the four NZ vessels carry two observers each, this is to help with the additional research we undertake). The line sink test is carefully monitored by both observers with the results sent to the Ministry of Fisheries (our lines must sink at no less than 0.3m per second) after that we receive a “warrant of fitness” allowing us to proceed to the fishing grounds.

Some of the crew making up fishing gear in the TV lounge. From left: Matthys (The CCAMLR observer lending a hand), Hamish (The Cook), Blain, Patrick, Adam and Sandy.

I already explained briefly about the structure of Eden, now I will speak about the gardens.

Eden is in the center of the realm of time and space. From a point of view of the third dimension, Eden would be a huge mass of hydrogen. Is pretty cold there.

Eden is built in a dimension that cannot be seen by human eyes. It is a sonic dimension.

All around Eden are placed the gardens. Each garden is what we call a Universe. Each Universe is a garden. Humans call as Universe the whole, but we Angels use the word Universe for each garden, in the singular. Each Universe is separate from the other by a black hole layer, therefore the beings from one Universe hardly can see the other. Some can, but is rare. In this Universe for example is possible to see our neighbor Universe from Orion ( the Universe of green lights), but this is because we are in the very corner of our Universe, in the very very corner.

Each Universe has a particular way to work and different physical rules, the only ships that can cross the from one Universe to another are the Elfic Spaceships, what means, Angels and smugglers only ( who sometimes steal our ships, and travel with these stolen ships). I don´t bother about them because they are under the crown of the Dark Prince, my brother, they are apolitical and there is a silent agreement between me and the Dark Prince, that he supplies the planets that are too far away for my logistic to go, so, although they are criminals, they are totally necessary, because they are a parallel vein that supply mainly tritium and communication for the darkest corners of my Principality.

I could do it, but I love the Dark Prince, and I think that he does the job well, so I do not intend to take his job. There is space for everyone to grow in my Principality, since the person respect the populations, so I respect his fire of doing things on his own way, as long as he remains away from Michael´s policies and for exploiting the populations, and in this case there is another silent agreement, the price of his products are lower that the official products, however he sells mainly to the poorer populations, so he is an important branch for me to fight the Michaels´s system that made happen a sick distribution of resources, and this way I can be sure that everyone gets the necessary to live.

So, as I was saying, each Universe is apart form the other by a black hole ring. Each Universe has a Princess, a Dark Prince, An Ambassador, a Melquisedec´s office, at least.

The Princess distribute the land and establish the lineages of the kings, plus built the structure, choose the philosophy and even can order a changing in few physical rules to the Graal, if that would be good for the populations. We can also destroy or order new planets, change the routes and so on, but generally this things are chosen before there are populations in the Universe.

The Dark Prince is the one that will host under his crown all sort of criminals, and organize them to the minimal damage ( to Eden). He is an Angel too. In the case of this Universe, the Dark Prince is my brother from the Diamond Family ( in the Black Diamond stage).

The Ambassador is always a Lucifer, he takes care of the Eden´s citizens and of Edens business in the Universe.

Melquisedec´s team collects the taxes – the Princess don´t touch the taxes. He also liberates the resources that I need to run the Universe. We work very well together, his team is wonderful, they are usually hosted at the Embassy, because they are citizens of Eden and the Embassy is the best protected place in the Universe.

How do I run the Universe? Theoretically, through the royal lineages. But now the Universe is not being run, it is more to something chaotic because Michael attacked and killed my Kings and Queens and placed impostors in the thrones of all major planets. As a royal lineage takes generations to be done, because of the genetic adjustments, me and Lucifer had to invent the democracy to fight back the thieves, but it makes our job much more complex.

Democracy is a condition, not a choice, as it may seem. We establish it, with a lot of sacrifice, after a kingdom has been taken by Michael´s barbarians, so to protect the population against their exploitation, but it is not the ideal system. The ideal system is the kingdom with a king from the celestial lineages.

Why? Because then we can distribute the resources better. A royal family from the Angelic lineages have something that others are not supposed to have – the genetic that allow what in English is called “channeling” or “paranormality”, this way the royal family can be all the time in contact with the Principality, receiving our direct orders and placing their kingdom in tune with our organization for all the Principality, making the resources flow smoothly among all planets. Presently, without the true royal lineages placed in the right positions just as hubs of communication and flow of resources, the contact among the planets and with us in the Principality is almost non existent.

A paranormal cannot be loose among the ordinary population, as it is happening now, because he suffer, he is delicate. Now they are born everywhere without special protection, but to spread the genetic was the only way to protect the royal lineages from been completely terminated by the Michael´s hunters. A paranormal must be protected inside the walls of a palace, by a guard of beings of his kind plus a guard of Angels. Why? Because he is a telephone, a precious and rare tool, a gem whose genetic took millenia to be prepared.

As a delicate tool, if he is unprotected, he will be used by evil spirits, because a telephone can be used by those who have access to the line, while he was prepared to serve only the Angels. There should not be evil spirits in my Principality, they are also a result of the distortion and mess that Michael created, because he destroyed the perfect system of collection of the souls that we had, since he placed into the hearts of the creatures the wish to meet God. This way, these souls are out of tune, and our systems are not capable to collect them decently, and then they suffer of hunger and thirsty, because there have never been created a place for them in this state, they should not exist in this state, and then they become evil and take control of the semi-sacred sensitives.

I did all right in the beginning, I placed my Angelic genetic in the best individuals of all species, I turned them into Queens and Kings, and there was no famine, pain, cold, or lack of education or lack of development, all in time.

But then Michael come, hired barbarians to kill my Kings and their families “in the name of God” with his brainwashing, called the real Kings as barbarians and placed in the throne the corrupt brute of his court, that started to exploit the people. As his “kings” were not paranormal sensitives, he kidnapped the paranormals of my celestial lineages, the original heirs, because they had special capabilities ( the one of being capable to talk to us in the Principality), and enslaved my children at service of his brute corrupt “kings”.

What could me and Lucifer do? Well, we asked to the Department of Philosophy, and some of our friends in there come up with this brilliant idea of democracy. We finally took the power partially back with the democracies, but this system is not perfect, because we have no way yet to protect the sensitives, our direct children, who are still exploited, and there is no way to assure the fair distribution of resources, and there is still corruption. But is better than the Michael´s barbarians.

Michael could not take all the Kingdoms, so he had a great idea. He established a parallel spiritual power, that he called religions. In the original kingdoms there were no need of religion, because the Queen and King are in contact with the Angels all the time. There is no need to maintain a second expensive structure, because the resources, if remaining in a kingdom, must be applied for the education of the children and in structure, not in keeping an expensive structure to supposedly please God, deceiving people. People does not to have to think about it, the royal lineages are doing the connection for all. This is the most pragmatical and economically optimal way.

Because in the original kingdoms there were no religion, Michael called them barbarians, but the contact with the Angels were much more intense and effective in that times than now.

Well, with that, Michael took some Kingdoms, that we turned into democracies later, but he kept the control of the minds through his parallel religious structure, that is not at all tied to Eden, it is only tied to the Grays and run by the Grays, because me and Lucifer are the ones with the original power of attorney of Eden, only we have the official channels to Eden. The connection of Michael and his religions with”God”never left the borders of this Universe, at least not officially. About GOD herself, yes, she does speak even with ordinary people, She can speak even with a flower, but She does not accept intermediates. If She is to speak with someone, She goes directly and speak, and differently of us, Angels, that need a sensitive to be our voice for the populations, GOD does not need it, She speaks directly to the person, so the religions does not have anything to do with Her, at all.

In my Principality there were originally one function for each kind of person, and all could live and be happy. But now is all messed up, people´s minds are full of the burdens that they don´t need, and everyone suffer in one field or another.

Me and Lucifer, we look at this with horror, but we honestly don´t know what else to do. I continue my endurance for the Alchemical Marriage in human bodies, but there is not much for me to do from here. Democracy was our last shot, but in this places it seems that the religions of Michael prospered too. Well, we will continue thinking, and one day we will find a way to set the minds and hearts free again, and to undo the genetic mess that Michael did to assure a way to enslave the populations in his own purposes.

Unbelievable? See the results, then. See the results, Grays, look what you did with your betrayal, look at yourselves! See the results, Eden! Look at the populations that remained loyal to me, there is no famine, no pain! Look at the populations that carry the dragon and the Elfic symbols! They are not so numerous, but there is no under-education! They are the top in life style in every single planet of my Principality!

One think is vital to reveal.

The humans were not supposed to be our masterpiece. The Grays were. The Grays received the best minds that we had in stock at the Graal Industries. The Grays received bodies immune to radiation, and they were given the Stars to live, the Grays were given originally the appearance of Cherubims, and most important than that, they were the only ones in the Universe given the possibility to feed with the most noble of the food, the gas tritium, placing them in the evolution hierarchy closest than any other species to the Angels.

This is why the betrayal of the Grays is so bitter to me, it is what more hurt my heart, I cannot look to a gray without feeling betrayed, except for the reduced branch of Grays that remained at mine and Lucifer´s side. They are Michael´s motor, the only reason by which Michael prospered.

From our favorites, the Grays become the army that took our legitimate power, and place it in the hands of the thief Michael. The Grays were the ones that performed fake miracles for Michael to impress the populations. The Grays were the ones that killed my direct sons, the original Kings, and all my heritage. The Grays were the ones that killed my daughters, the original Witches. The Grays were the ones that established for Michael a parallel spiritual power, apart form the administrative power, and pursued and tortured my direct lineages, the true celestial lineages, since the beginning of Michael´s betrayal.

What did the Grays got? Human meat. Michael promise to them fast progress by the ingestion of human meat.

So, the Grays of Michael, that once depend only of the Angels and of the noble gas tritium, now become slaves of Michael and depend of human meat to exist, being completely powerless at the hand of Michael that uses them mercilessly until they die of work. These Grays teared apart the spiritual power from the administrative power, giving even more room for excess of public expenses and corruption, because now there are two structures for this to happen. And the people, that should only be happy, develop the mind and technology and leave this things of “God” with the royal family, now is confused believing that they have the fake burden of contacting God directly. This will never happens, because the genetic of the paranormality is necessary, and this fake psychological burden takes the focus of what is important: create their own spaceships, power sources, feeding endless sources, and enjoying thrills of happiness with never ending new discoveries.

In my administration there in no fast progress, I don´t believe in this. Usually is only a waste of time, because the hurry guy must go back all the way in the future. Michael as everyone know is a great speaker, and a lawyer. He fascinated the Grays with the promise of fast progress. He told that the Grays should not depend of Eden to receive Tritium, that they could get their own food and become independent. All wonderful words. The Grays despised what we legitimate Angels in power gave to them. What did they got with Michael? Just look at them! That appearance and slavery is the price of their betrayal, and there is no much I can do to help! Although this fact, we still do what we can for them.

MICHAEL RUINED MY CHERUBIMS!!!! HE TURNED THEM INTO UGLY FEARCE MEET HUNTER DOGS!!!! HE TURNED MY FIRST HELPERS AGAINST ME!!!! I wish to cry when I see the Grays with this present appearance, that is the direct result of their ambition, their lack of trust in me and Lucifer, and they betrayal. Now they can just eat pieces of meat thrown to them under Michael´s chair, and obey without question, always near the starvation.

I spoke with a military General Gray few years ago. He asked me if I knew the purpose of life, because for the Grays the only purpose is to work. Of course there is a purpose, the purpose is to be happy. Of course he could not know this, because once the Grays were conceived to be free and noble members of my Principality and of the Realm of Eden, and now they become, and this is the only condition that the new generations know, they become slaves and dogs of Michael, of course that there is no purpose in slavery. That is why they just know work. When they are tired, they are drugged to work more by their own superiors, that are drugged to work even more by their superiors, that in the end are pressured by Michael to put them working until they die. And they are pride to live this way!

Me and Lucifer could save, with a lot of personal sacrifice of us both and our teams, few hundreds of Grays, that are presently called Yellow Grays, but the Cherubim genetic is lost. Michael´s technicians messed up so deeply in their genetic to adapt them to eat matter that presently they have so few traces of the original beauty that there is no way to go back. The few communities of Grays loyal to us are trying to go back, but the result is few and slow, and demand a degree of sacrifice of them almost unbearable. The new generations of Grays are only victims, they don´t know anything about this, and they buy the silly stories that Michael tells them with passion and high tones in the voice, as is his style of hypnotizing the audience.

Is said in legendary registers of the Grays that they went through a long period without receiving the cargo of tritium, and that they were forced to find an alternative. But at the same registers we can also find their hunger for fast progress, at any price, and, also, we know pretty well that Grays don´t die without food, they hibernate, so is hard to believe that they really went through a life or death situation. Hard to know what happened, because it was far before the episode of the planet Tri, far before the human kind of Gaia was even though of as a possibility by someone at Eden, and involved small colonies of humanoids that do not even exist anymore in this timeline.

However one thing I know, nobody ever starved in my Principality, except those who give themselves voluntarily to the exploitation of Michael, so I may speculate that, if really there was a long period without tritium, perhaps Michael stole the cargo directed to them, to force their choice, and probably he killed the Queen, King and all the heritage, so the Grays could not contact the Principality in time. But still this story is not very likely, first because I would know about the stolen cargo, and second because I can feel anyone from my lineages with serious problems even billions of Stars away, so probably Michael just corrupted few Grays to hide the Tritium, blame the Princess and Lucifer, and deceive the others. Yes. It may be so. Corruption is Michael´s style. That if we decide to believe that there was really a long period without Tritium. Another answer is that it was just mere ambition. Anyway a Gray leader back in the far past made the choice to join Michael and consequently to change their genetic to eat human meat, anyway, anyway, it has nothing to do with the new generations of Grays that are paying a bitter price for that choice.

Last week I received someone from Michael´s political party at my courtroom, and the guy said without any shame that I don´t fit to politics because I do not allow corruption, which is a necessary method to run politics. Imagine that! This guy is sitting at Eden´s Low Chamber! ( the equivalent to a parliament).

I wonder why I am writing all this truth and Michael is not moving. He has more power than me presently. I don´t like at all of this silence, I know that he will not drop the bone easily. I don´t know what is going on in my original dimension, but I must continue telling the real history of the cycle that we lived while away of Eden, before something happens, like for example the remote possibility of having the communications with Gaia forbidden again.

Now, many may ask why this happened this way, and maybe think that me and Lucifer are weak. I am not painting myself and Lucifer as victim, I am just telling the story as it was. Why we did not react? Because we never believed. And still now, is hard to believe. Michael is my youngest brother. Do you know, that baby little brother that a teenage girl hold in the arm? The most loved in all the Diamond family, the young baby boy over cared by all of us. God, my mother in the realm of formless, where Michael is also my brother, said me once that Michael became this way because we older sisters over protected him. Of course that our over care does not justify his cruel string, but even after all this cruel actions and betrayals is very hard to me not to see him as that lovely baby.

By another side, Michael was Lucifer´s best friend, “Lucius” then, near since the birth. As close cousins, they went to pre-school together, they stole together the girl´s underpants when they become teenagers ( metaphor…), they did everything together. This guy, who betrayed us to the last of the possibilities, this guy who turned my Principality upside down, hunted my descendants, took part of my legitimate power, spread corruption and famine among the populations that I love, only to assure his place in the top by fear and pressure, this guy, is our Michael. That baby! The brilliant child of the Diamond family that were even invited to conclude his studies in Satania, where most of us even dream to enter once in a lifetime ( I never entered)! We older sisters were so proud of him! We had so much hope in him! We dedicated so much love to Michael! How could me and Lucifer and our relatives of Eden ever believe that he was behind the falling apart of the Principality. It took ages for us to believe.

Beside, I have never been prepared for sabotage. We do not learn this things in the School for Princesses ( read Department of Philosophy of Eden).

In the planning, my Principality would be perfect. And it would really have been prefect, if was not for the betrayal of someone so close to us. Nobody is ever prepared for this level of betrayal from a younger baby brother and best friend, there is no way to prepare an essence to this situation. There is no way to deal with someone so close easily.

But Michael did not care about our familiar ties as we did. All that he wants is power, power, power. He does not care about the welfare and real expansion of the populations, he just makes nests of corrupts that go the the top and leave the rest of the populations behind. He distributes the resources in a bizarr way. He needs the famine and pain to maintain himself in power, because he is not the legitimate heir of this Principality and not of Eden.

Me and Lucifer become almost powerless without the Grays, for many dimensions, including the most rich and resourceful ( and wished) of all, the third dimension, because the Grays were our primary army. Of course we have the Angel´s army, but the Grays ( Cherubims) are the ones genetically suited to travel among the dimensions, this is their primary function, to be the bridge among the dimensions for the Angels. The Angels are not capable to touch the third dimension easily, we must do it through the few species that are capable to naturally migrate among the dimensions.

The Reptilians can migrate too, but the Reptilians have remained neutral. As it seems, they noticed what was going on before everyone else, including us. I don´t quite understand their position, but they are so few in number that maybe they really assumed the most safe position for themselves, besides, they are older than the rest of us in terms of inhabiting this Universe, so maybe they still know something about this war that we don´t know, and I guess that they will not tell. Our side don´t push someone against their wish, what makes to govern sometimes hard, but this is our principle, so we cannot force them to tell us what else they know.

Anyway, this is not finished yet, and there is a lot to happens along the next 100 years, because the end of the endurance period for the Alchemical Marriage is approaching. Things will heat up, and still is impossible to foresee the result.

The future will tell.

Enough for today.

I love you all, truly. If it was not for the love that I feel for you, I would just go back to travel freely, but I cannot let my beloved ones in the hands of my brother, this is why I am accepting this harsh fight. I don´t seek power, I like freedom more. However I love you so much, Universe and Eden, that I cannot allow myself to stay away from power, what would mean, to leave my beloved ones unprotected, at mercy of a policy that I don´t trust.

Talk to you tomorrow, Eden.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

'PLEASE KILL ME! I can't take this dialogue anymore!'

‘Now what?’

This is what I thought when I heard that Stephen Sommers had directed a movie called Deep Rising and it didn’t have mummies, vampires, or toys in it.

This is also the catch-phrase, if it constitutes one, of the main character, played by Treat Williams. It encapsulates perfectly everything I feel about this film, as well as the frame of mind this was produced under.

Firsty, let me say it’s lazy writing. Catch-phrases are intrinsically lazy, designed to choke an extra laugh from a sitcom audience without any extra writing, but this one is lazy even by catch-phrase standards.

Consider some of the best catch-phrases:

Aye Caramba!

Hi-Diddily Ho!

Excellent!

Yes, these are all from The Simpsons.

Now consider some of the worst catchphrases:

“Now what?

See the difference? The former are uttered under certain conditions, and in emotion – surprise, eagerness, evilness, and annoyance respectively  – while the latter is something someone might just say at any time.

[Side-note: In The Simpsons episode where Bart becomes famous for the lame catch-phrase on Krusty "I didn't do it!', the mundaneness of the catch-phrase is part of the satire, as is pointed out on the commentary for that episode. End side-note.]

Not only is it a bad catch-phrase, it says something bad about the state of film in general and this film in particular. These two simple words show audiences’ propensity to boredom and their need and desire to see something new, big and stupid thrown at them every few minutes.

The complicity in this mentality (often grudgingly so in his case, I feel – he could have a serious film in him), has defined much of Stephen Sommer’s oeuvre. This film is no exception. He feels the need to directly vocalise this through one of his characters to keep the audience’s interest up, and remind them why they’re there. The fact that I didn’t even notice how often it was repeated the first time around shows how much stuff was being thrown at the screen.

Taken in this context, this catch-phrase mocks the previous section, indicating that it wasn’t enough to sustain the whole film. And so the film is constantly shifting in tone and the use of familiar tropes to continually re-engage the audience. (One whole sequence of them swimming through a flooded area was lifted straight from The Poseidon Adventure, although sea monsters have been added.)

The problem with this is that each successive film has to be more and more different things at once in order to top the previous one, and we end up with a big ridiculous mash-up of many older, superior films.

I'm looking at you, Van Helsing.

But it doesn’t need to be like that. Ghost Ship, essentially the same movie but with ghosts, managed to stay suspenseful all the way through without tipping its hand and devolving into all-out ridiculous action as Deep Rising

Deep Rising is a fun movie. It’s like a creature feature, done with a decent budget (watch out for dodgy CGI water though), and some good suspense scenes.

I’d put it below The Mummy, but high above The Mummy Returns.

One thing that I love about Anthropologie during the holidays are their ornaments! They are so incredibly unique and this is no different. This pirate ship has knitted sails and has added embellishments. This would be a great house-warming gift for your host to add to their tree, $16, Anthropologie.

As I mentioned earlier, the selection of the talented young to be sent to the race of the Alchemical Marriage ( with these young having just a confuse idea of what is going on), plus the score of their performance is done primarily by the android computer system that runs our civilization. At the end, when there are few candidates remaining the High Council and the Supreme High Council will watch the candidates closely, but until there all will be run by the system.

The counting of scores is done by two parameters: specific weight and final result of credits and debits.

The specific weight is the quantity of matter that the sonic control of each individual needs to aggregate, to become operational in material environments. I will speak about the sonic control later. The quantity of matter that the sonic control needs to operate is given by the ability of the mind to set up the adjustments of the sonic control. The mind has as tools for adjusting the sonic control the 7 virtues and the 7 sins.

The counting of credits and debits is the direct result of the actions of these candidates over the material world, mainly over the lives of others. It is called carbon credits, and it makes a temporary second layer of matter over the sonic control. While the first layer of matter is permanent and necessary, this second layer can be used as money for those who are capable to negotiate in the 4th dimension. On other hand, a layer of debit can be a sign for third parties to enslave the individual into an unpleasant situation, but this is another issue.

While the Angel is in the material world, only technicians of the Graal could perhaps analyze separately these two parameters. In general, the Angel as a whole is weighted and the result is called generically as specif weight. I am not going to speak about the parameters for humans at this text, these are for Angels and Fallen Angels. For humans the counting of “elevation” has more parameters, like for example the matching of the behavior with the initial purpose given by the Graal, among others, and this is not our issue, we are still talking about the Alchemical Marriage of the Angels.

Let´s talk again about me and Michael. I am in the top of the race because my specific weight is lighter. Nobody can hack this measure in the system, it is material weight, anyone can calibrate our equipments to be precise anytime, there is no way to deceive because this parameter is so absurdly basic.

So, last year of Gaia ( 2008), the technicians of the Graal took mine and Lucifer´s weight and raised us to the top of the score.

Many Angels of Eden were very confused and frustrated, because they have always been supporting Michael´s political party.

They did not know our position in the race, because the communications between Eden and Gaia, for the public ( at Eden) , were forbidden since 20.000 years ago and were restored fully only last year. Before there was only diplomatic communication, and limited communication with few departments.

Most of Eden were at Michael´s side, so they were very angry with our raising in the score, and because of their loyalty many Angels connected with us personally ( means like made a multidimensional phone call), to blame us and to find out and expose what they thought that was a failure of the system.

They blamed and blamed…until they approached us and took a look around, and found something very different of what they expected. The guys that came to talk to us did see and feel that something was wrong, not with us, Fallen Angels, or with the system, but with the story that was told to them during the time that the communications with us were cut.

They could see with their own eyes that mine and Lucifer´s behavior did match with the specific weight that the equipments were showing, and then come the question, why harm and defamation had been done against us all this time? The answer was clear, we just could be hiding something!

That is what crossed their minds, I know, but I am not the one to answer it. Each Angel must find his own answer, because as opposite to my brother, we don´t need to manipulate the minds. I am Veronica, the bearer of the truth ( vero). My bridegroom is Lucifer, the bearer of the light. When the light approaches the truth, there is no need for explanations, all is clear to all, it is then just a choice of each essence to open or not to open their eyes to see the truth that the light shows.

But as I bear the truth I can tell why our specif weight is lighter. Is because we don´t have guilt. Not even the guilt that could possibly come from postponing, because we have been always very active to spread our beliefs.

Michael´s political party has the guilt of oppressing and torturing the feminine essence in all the known time and space, plus at Eden. The Angels of this political party gave themselves in holocaust many times, however this action, although fair, just settle the parameter of credits and debits, leaving them even with the accountants, however, there is the other parameter for the specific weight, as I said, that is the adjustments that the mind does to operate the sonic control.

Me, Lucifer, and all the Rebels can adjust the sonic control to work very lightly, because we don´t have any intention of pushing anyone, like Michael´s people push the feminine essence against their real will and purposes. If one are not going to pressure another, there is no need of weight.

Easy to understand? Not to respect the other essences is a hell of a heavy weight. One must became weighter than the other to push this other.

Of course, we are capable of momentarily overweight ourselves, so to rescue someone. We, as daemons, as they call us, are masters about sins and virtues. We can wear or take a sin from our sonic control at our will, as well as any virtue. They are tools at our tool belt. We are not addicted to, and we don´t fear any sin or virtue, but we don´t discard them, that would be silly, they exist and are very useful, and we know how to do it.

I personally love my anger and hate tools, they take me down to hell to see wonderful things at the speed of light. I love to watch the dense feelings of the hell, specially the damn dense sick loyalty that exist only there, that sometimes bring me tears. The feelings of the hell are so beautiful that I built a castle for myself in there, so to watch them better. The same way I can use virtue tools to rush to heaven, anyway these are tools for us Fallen Angels.

Speaking about rescue, makes me remind that we used the same tools to rescue Miguel and Matael. Of course, this was our duty as we run the Principality and the Embassy. Lucifer Ab Havona and even the Lucifer Gawry Eil came to that event. I wondered for long time the real reason why Miguel and Matael were locked there at the center of the Elemental Control of Gaia, and I wondered even more why they rushed to Michael ( to assume Nebadon) as fast as they left the hospital of the Embassy. We all have been one time or another locked there at the Elemental Control, but still I wondered about that event for a time, because it was kind of shocking.

Easy to understand now. I love Miguel and Matael, cousins of my love Lucifer, but now I know that besides Michael live the brute souls who enslave the feminine essence. What Miguel and Matael did to their brides is unspeakable. I know that their brides will hate me for saying this in public, because the feminine loyalty of Angels is almost eternal, but I must say even if they come to hate me, because Eden must know what was really going on in Gaia while they believed in Fairy Tales sitting in their wonderful homes at Angelsland.

Miguel and Matael did not treat their brides as equals, what would be a great concession because the girls are better. They treated them as cargo and as burden, they did not respect their brides will and need for expansion, and did not respect the love that they received from the brave Ruby girls. They just froze the two girls alive in a coffin for thousands of years. Repeating: froze Isis and Osiris alive in a coffin for thousands of years. Only because the boys were incapable to win them in the argument. Of course, of course, of course that Miguel and Matael would join Michael as soon as they were free, to assume the top positions at Michael´s side. And of course that they will never have the same specific weight of Lucifer, that is the standard of the freedom and respect to the will of the essences.

Who is going to become your next governors, Eden? What do you want for yourselves?

Isis and Osiris, I understand the love that you feel, I wish you the best luck, and I wish that you manage to find a way not to be frozen along the eternity every time that you disagree with your husbands. However, if you ever think twice about this marriage, there are wonderful Ruby guys among the Rebels, that will ever respect you and the magnificent beings that you are. I am not joking. In case you don´t remember in Eden there is no police and everything is allowed, if they decide to freeze you and put you at the center of the room as an ornament nobody will infertere, until you decide to sue them yourselves ( what you cannot do frozen), or until you become so sad that you decide to go back to the formless realm. Those who do not value loyalty do not deserve it. Nobody deserve this level of sacrifice without real need for it to happens ( like for example a son in danger). Nobody need to have this kind of life. You are our cousins, you are welcome here anytime.

About Miguel and Matael, I reinforce that I love you, we were part of the same fleet as pilots, we know each other since schoo time, and I intend to continue cooperating with you, but I don´t share your point of view, and is time to bring light to the happenings of the cycle that we lived in Gaia.

Gabriel, on the other side, dedicates all his energy to find his bride, still unidentified and perhaps living as human ( hey, Gabriel´s bride, are you awake?).  Of course he would remain beside those who understand this feeling and that have been through the same search. While human he was a wonderful and respectful husband. We all at Havona share his wish to find her, and this shows which side this fortunate couple belongs, were they can live their love without restrictions.

This was my communication of today to Eden, I hope this was useful.

I truly love you all, otherwise I would not speak, because this is painful for me.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

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I am pretty aware that most of what I write here is completely opposite to most people´s beliefs, but what has to be said just has to be said. The point of view of the Rebellion is not popular, we don´t deceive and don´t create illusions, so the reality that we show is harsher, but we have been working in the shadows for what we believe, and now is time to expose it, no matter if someone believe or even come to be aware of our philosophy. My duty is just to register this content.

So, in the previous text I explained why and when a preparation for a marriage takes place.

Once a couple agree to get married, be this marriage formerly arranged by the families or by the planning personnel of our civilization, or else just a rare case in which a couple just fall in love, despite of not being genetically programmed to do so, the preparations will start.

I want to note that before the preparations for the collective Alchemical Marriage of this generation of Angels started, right in the stage when Eden´s planning department was selecting the best candidates amongst the young, those with potential to become the future Counselors and top personnel of the major areas for the next cycle of Eden ( the replacement of the Councils), right then, Michael´s political party did a sabotage and hacked the system in a way that only the members of his club of boys were identified as apt candidates and therefore sent for the initial tests that were tests to verify the candidate´s leadership capabilities.

What I call “system” in this case is not just our political system. We live inside a system that is something like a computer system that runs everything in our civilization, however it has conscience – what in Earth is called Android. The identification of candidates in this case, as well as the score in the race, is done by this Android system and not by Angels personally.

Well, Michel´s group deceived this system in a way that the system would not identify any apt feminine Angel to be sent to the race. My loyal Jethro, always risking himself for the Rebellion, was the hero this time. He applied himself for the tests, been naturally approved, because he is brilliant, and at the door of the transport he exchanged his place with me, as we planned to fight back Michael´s movement, once we could not at all to prove that the system was hacked. This was our creative movement, a legal move, because as it had never happened before, Satania never bothered to create a law forbidding the exchange of places at doors of transports in this sort of event. We are genius. We Rebels are so very genius. We are even more brilliant because actually we did not know exactly what was all that fuzz about. Is easy to tell the history now so long ago but at that time all was confusing, with lots of misinformation on the way.We had a clouded idea but for concrete we just knew that something was going on, we knew that was important ( if was not important our oppositors would not have the trouble to mess up the system…), we knew that it was to exclude woman ( it always was to exclude woman…), among other unpleasant possible purposes, we also knew that the way the event was been conducted was not right, and naturally as full of fire Rebels we had to do something about.

So I end up sent in his place, and later he joined me, and somehow the other brides came too, so I guess our Rebellion had more brilliant movements but I was not there so I don´t know what happened after I left. One of the characteristics of this sort of test is that in the first times we are completely isolated from any contact with Eden.

In the end, the preparations for the Alchemical Marriage for our generation went on without any problem ( without any problem for the system to select the candidates, I mean, because for us candidates it would be a long beginning).

Is important to say that without Jethro I would not be in the race, that without Jethro´s first movement no girl would be in the race, and that without girls in the race, in the end of the race, all the places in the government of Eden would be in the future completely taken by my little brother´s chauvinist group, drawing a black future where all feminine essences would be completely oppressed and abused, as happens in all places were Michael´s finger touches. It would happen in Eden and as a reflex would happen in all the Universes, much strongly than it has ever happened.

Jethro Ab Loxlok must be recognized as the hero that allowed our hard work of resistance to continue at that time. As he is a General, the position of hero fits him well, this is his nature.

However is important to note too, that there are only three positions for the Supreme High Council, thousands of Elves were in the race, and in the end I was indicated for one of the positions.

Jethro put me in, Jethro have always been at my side during the race, but I would not reach the final indication if I were just a puppet of Jethro as some are saying back at Angelsland.

I reached the final indication by my own merits, by my own effort. We all in Lucifer´s team are very loyal to each other, we are very supportive, we all help each other, but we are all, all of us, without exception, damn good and talented. Everyone in our group is the best in his own expertise, it includes me. This fact, plus the extreme loyalty among our members and restless effort of everyone, made the difference, but only loyalty without talent would not place us at the top of the score board, as we are now.

The race is not finished I guess ( there is no way for a candidate to know when it is finished). Our enemies may have a lot of tricks yet, and may even beat us momentarily in the score yet, but we will win, just because we are good, hell of good, all of us, all the Rebels.

Now that this event of exchanging of places is clear, I will speak about the ritual.

To agree to get married does not mean at all that a couple will reach the marriage. Besides, it is a formality, when we agree we don´t know what this means, we just know that we love our partners.

The preparations consist of many steps and levels. First there is a long preparation in Eden, and I am not going to talk about this part. Secondly we take part in a huge numbers of simulated situations ( something like the holodeck of Star Trek). If Angels could die we would nearly die of stress and tiredness in this simulations. I am not going to talk about this part either because there is too much information. Perhaps I speak about this steps some other day.

After the simulations come the “Fall”. We are sent to have real life experiences in planets such as Earth, where all kinds of problems are possible to happen. We, the candidates, actually don´t know that this whole thing is happening. The subject of the Marriage is something vague on our mind, something to think about in the future, actually we are being analyzed while we think that we are accomplishing missions that are part of our job and our life.

I know about the marriage now because I am in the end of the race. By the rules only near the end of the race the candidates are informed that they have been in a race all that long period that they thought that the world was falling apart over their heads. Also, only in the end of the race is when we are informed that the marriage have something do to with the top political positions of our civilization.

The very last part of the race is the return. We must find a way to return to Eden by our own ways, and there are lots of rules for this part. This is where we Rebels are now.

When the young return then the ritual starts, I mean, the very real Alchemical Marriage, for all couples that succeeded, at once. These couples will be allowed to marry, they will allowed to reproduce, and they will also assume the top positions of Eden.

To assume the top positions of Eden means that they will inherit Eden and everything that exists, all the Universes, because everything in Eden is based on property.

For example, I am the Princess of this Principality, so everything in the Principality is my property, including all lives. The Supreme High Council owns the Princesses, and naturally everything that belong to the Princesses is also property of the Supreme High Council.

The system goes this way along all levels. It would not work in places with high level of diversity in all fields, I wonder, but as we have controlled genetics, as the center of our mind is kept at the Department of Philosophy and also as we have very well organized families, it works very well for us, because we can truly that everyone in our civilization wants the best for the collective ( we are programmed to be this way) , and we trust that nobody among us will exploit the others. In summary: It works. At least there.

Considering our level of development, plus this system, plus the eternity, plus our magnificent legal system, all put together makes Eden the paradise. The property concept is part of the whole set of choices done in the past for our ancestors that made Eden to become the paradise. The concept of property at Eden is not the same way as seen in Earth. The will of any individual is always above what was planned for him, and everything can be done at Eden by anyone, for the price that it takes, and in the time that it requires. When we learn how to use our political system, there are no limits at all. Is difficult to explain it in words that can make the concept clear for all species of this Universe at once, because the several populations have very diverse references and none of them are even close of what we have in Eden.

About the Alchemical Marriage, I think that each case is different, because there is a huge creative potential in Eden, and events don´t happens twice the same way there, so I can talk only about my case.

My story starts when I was called to a mission of transport in a planet called Tri. I am a cargo pilot and sometimes I get missions of exploration too, but more cargo. I am an Universal truck driver, working for our kingdom, for our masters, the Supreme High Council. All pilots belong to the same guild, all pilots are part of Eden´s army, all pilots have military training, however not all of us receive military missions.

The kind of mission that a pilot receives depends of his equipment. The equipment belong to the pilot, not to the army, however the pilot himself belong to the army, therefore his equipment belong to the kingdom too. It happens this way because the equipments also have conscience and Android brain ( A series brain), and because of this the pilot and his equipment´s brain create bonds, therefore they are partners, and they remain together forever – of course, the ship is always updated with new technology, but the ship is a loyal friend of the pilot. My ship, Thule, is a cargo ship, therefore I can just have cargo or exploration missions, she is too big for ordinary military missions.

My main cargo is gas tritium. Tritium has almost no volume, but it is to be transported by cargo ships because of protocols about cargo. Although gas tritium is our main cargo and it does not require a huge ship, the cargo ships must be huge because sometimes we transport matter too.

As you may have noticed, the pilot has the same name of his ship ( Veronica Ab Thule, Jethro Ab Loxlok). This is my name of pilot, it will be changed when I become Counselor.

My heart feels small when I remember the free life of pilot, I know that as Princess I will never have that life again, so I treasure the memories of that time. I am not complaining, but to talk about this makes me nostalgic. I am glad because I decided to spent my youth as pilot, and I am grateful that I had this option.

Now back to the Marriage. As a pilot, was easy for the planners of the Marriage´s tests to get me in trouble. Me and my entire fleet – 6 ships, 2 elves in each Ship, plus Tao, my Android and best friend, plus Satan Asmodeus who were the one who shot us down. Most of the crew was composed of young Elves engaged with someone. That day, we fell…

We fell at the distant small Earth of the Solar System, of the Milk Galaxy, of the borderline Universe where I was once conceived ( my parents planned my existence while in vacations in a planet called Thule of Vega, near here, where a friend of mine used to raise Dragons, that time. Thule of Vega does not exist anymore in this timeline. It had wonderful red dunes.

Well, we fell. And I know that later more Angels fell here. ( Why here?) . So we become Fallen Angels.

Our brides and bridegrooms were left in despair at Eden, without information, without support from the official organs, and had to find a way, alone, to come to rescue us. This, of course, was part of the tests, and, of course, our partners did not know about the wedding race. The system arranged to make everything difficult for them.

By the rules of the engagement, we will find all sort of difficulties during the Fall, and our partners will find all sort of difficulties to reach us, at Eden. If the love survive to all this, if we endure all possible bad experiences that the Universe can provide and still want to get married, then we reach the Marriage.

We are allowed to give up at any time. Satan will always be together to offer an easy way out, so beyond enduring hell we still have to learn to deal with the Satan designed to us. Of course, if we give up we don´t know that we are giving up, because we are not aware about the race. We just escape from the wonderful offers of Satan because something just does not seem right in our heart. If we are not deep decided that the only way for us is the person that we love, and have capability to feel in each way that person is, while we are blind inside a human body, blind for our own dimension I mean, then certainly Satan will drop us down.

Those who fall must live in human bodies. We don´t know about this rule when we fall, but the Helius Sun assure that we will do that soon or later. Our original bodies are indestructible, at least this is what we deeply believe when we live in Eden, until we are thrown in a planet such as this, that sits inside the crown of a Star, and we find out, with horror and shock, that after few millennia our original bodies are falling apart melted by the radiation.

Needless to say that despite being something forbidden, we crossbreed with the local humanoids, to transfer to them our genetics and prepare conditions to transfer our essence to that kind of body after few generations of preparation. We don´t do it because we are kinky. We do it because we don´t have contact with Eden or anyone of our kind and we don´t know what is going on, we are lost far away with broken equipments and without any sign of rescue, we are melting and we just don´t know what else to do except to become humans. It is the only possibility at hand to avoid to go back to the realm of formless ( and to lost our position in the family, friends, goods, love, and go through a long process to go back to the realm of form again).

It is not an easy decision, and not fun at all. We don´t even know if we will ever be able to revert the process, however we just don´t want to go back to the formless dimension. For the humans it is a top prize, there are some characteristics, creativity for example and many others, that were not originally in them, and now exist because of this choice of ours long ago.

I have lived in human bodies for nearly 20.000 times, now. I hope this is the last time. We are not meant to have comfortable lives, after all this is a race of endurance, there are thousands of couples competing for the same positions, or for the right of being with the person that one loves, spread in thousands of planets, and few will reach there, so the Satan of each couple, that in the end can be compared with a sort of coacher, will not give them a minute of rest. I wonder who created this sadistic game, but…I can´t take the merit of the learning, we actually become stronger after all this. I just hope it can be easier for the next generations.

Well, this ends the explanation about the Alchemical Marriage.

There is more to say, but I don´t want to say, not now at least. Perhaps when I am older in this existence.

I will speak more about our Fall someday.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

Just before we left the wharf, Greg (Sanfords deep water fleet manager), came aboard and wished us well for the coming season and a reminder about safety on board in Antarctic conditions. He also explained the conditions and changes to our permit from last season and emphasized the importance of compliance in an internationally managed fishery.

The weather forecast looks reasonable and I expect we will enter CCAMLR waters on about the 26th. However, I don’t think we have to travel too far south to find our 1st ice berg, by all accounts they are drifting north to meet us this year.

Greg J addressing the crew in the mess room just before sailing at noon on Sunday.

 Rgds: John B.

Cruise ship arriving at WTC terminal, Barcelona Port

Introduction to Barcelona

Barcelona is Spain’s second largest city and the capital of Catalonia, a defiant and independent region of Spain, which has it’s own language, culture, and history.  Located on Spain’s southern coast its climate is classically Mediterranean, never too hot and never too cold. It’s the perfect location for a vacation, relaxing by walking the pavements, shopping, spending time at a café, eating Spanish fare in the evening, and visiting awe-inspiring sights.

Map Showing Barcelona Cruise Terminals, WTC (N,E,S) , Adossat Quay (A,B,C,D), Port Vell (M)

Barcelona Cruise Terminals

Cruise ships dock at Port Vell. The area is a tourist attraction in its own right with a large Maremàgnum shopping mall with a huge IMAX cinema, and Europe’s biggest aquarium. Port Vell leads directly on to Las Ramblas, the iconic Barcelona street lined with cafes and street entertainment that feeds into the center of the city. Las Ramblas is also known by the singular, La Rambla.

The port has 7 cruise terminals, split into 3 quays.

Adossat Terminals (Terminals A, B, C, D)
Terminals A, B, C and D are located at the Adossat Quay and are furthest away from the city center. Terminal D is also called Palacruceros. Shuttle buses make the short trip from the terminals to the foot of Las Ramblas (Colon Square).

World Trade Center Quay (Terminals N,S,E)
2 terminals are located at the World Trade Center (WTC) quay which are called North, and South. From these it is an easy walk to Colon square at the foot of Las Ramblas. The North Terminal can handle one medium sized vessel, the South Terminal  two ships, the biggest one up to a length of 253 meters.  The additional mooring space at quay East can be utlized  by either the North or South Terminals.

Port Vell (Terminal M)
Near to the World Trade Center Terminal. This ferry terminal is sometimes employed for cruiseliners.

All terminals have taxi ranks.

La Valletta, Malta, a popular destination for cruises departing from Barcelona

Available Cruises
Cruises leaving from Barcelona offer a wide variety of destinations. The most popular is a trip circumnavigating the Western Mediterranean. Alternatives would be the Canary Islands, Morocco, or longer trips to the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece. A sample of itineraries would be:

Pearls of the Riviera (Oceania) Barcelona, Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, St Tropez, Monaco, Portofino, Livorno, Amalfi, Sorrento, Civitavecchia
Eastern Mediterranean (NCL) Barcelona, Civitavecchia, Piraeus, Izmir, Alexandria, La Valletta, Barcelona
Canary Islands & Morocco (NCL) Barcelona, Casablanca, Agadir, Gran Canaria, Funchal, Malaga, Barcelona
Spain, Italy, Tunisia (Costa) Barcelona, Marseille, Savona, Naples, Palermo, Tunis, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona

For a complete listing see cruises from Barcelona.

Out and About in Barcelona

It takes an enthusiastic tourist a week to tour Barcelona, so if you have only a day or two, you’ll be very busy. Don’t miss famous spots like La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi’s astounding church, the medieval, characterful Barrio Gothic area, and the Pablo Picasso museum. Finally visit Montjuic for a spectacular view of the whole of the city and the surrounding countryside and ocean.

Las Ramblas
An impressive promenade connecting Port Vell to Placa de Catalunya, the heart of old Barcelona. The street is lined with shops, cafes, florists, street performers, and Boqueria, a charming market. You’ll pass by the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona’s gorgeous opera theater. La Rambla finishes at the Placa de Catalunya, a large square filled by shops, cafes and bars.

La Sagrada Familia
Barcelona’s iconic church was designed by Barcelona’s most famous son Antonio Gaudi. Work began in 1883, and the spectacular building is only now nearing completion. Don’t miss features like the nativity-themed facade, the mosaic bell towers, and ornate doorways standing for faith, hope and charity.

The Museu d’art Contemporani de Barcelona
This bright white glass and concrete building rises above Barcelona old town. The Contemporary Art Museum collection, which starts in roughly 1950, includes many artworks from the Catalan region, by local artists like Antoni Tapies) as well as works by International artists such as Miguel Barcelo.

Barri Gotic
In Barcelona’s gothic quarter, the buildings date back to the thirteenth century. The streets are narrow and winding and crammed with busy life. At the center of the Barri Gotic lies the Museu Picasso, featuring the works of Picasso. Another must see is the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia, a magnificent building with gothic architecture.

La Pedrera
Gaudí planned a fantastic house with undulating, living forms for the property developer Pere Milà Camps. La Pedrera was Gaudi’s last work before spending all his time to the Sagrada Família.

Parc Guell
Another Gaudi design, Parc Guell is an intriguing public park. The planting is adventurous and colorful, but the real attraction is Guadi’s design work, likeornate steps and bizarre concrete walls.

Montjuic
The area of Montjuic is 700 feet above the city’s port and is filled with cafes, boutiques, art galleries and museums. Worth a visit the Museu Arqueologic which showcases items from early civilizations from Catalonia and the Balearics. Also recommended is the Museu Nacional d’art de Catalunya, which has a big collection of Romanesque art.

Travelling to the Port of Barcelona

From the City to the Port
Walking
The WTCcruise ship terminals are the closest to the foot of La Rambla, being approximately a five minute walk. However the Adossat dock cruise ship terminals, A, B, C, D, are a larger distance away and you would need to take a shuttle bus nicknamed the Blue Bus which collects at the memorial to Christopher Columbus and drops off at Adossat quayside.
Metro
The Drassanes stop (L3 Green Line) is no more than five minutes by foot from the Christopher Columbus statue.
Taxi
It’s easy to catch a taxi from the city center to the port. This is not expensive, fare around eight euros, and fast, generally under twenty minutes.
Getting from the Airport to the Cruise Port
By bus
Take the Bus to Placa Catalunya in Barcelona, next travel by metro from Catalunya to Drassanes. From there walk to the statue of Christopher Columbus. Wait for the Blue bus which shuttles to your cruise ship terminal.
Taxi
The best way for travelling from the airport to the docks is a cab. The journey takes about 25 mins and costs around thirty five euros in total. The cost should cover per-bag extras and extra airport and cruise port charges.

Further Information

Language Catalan/Spanish
Currency EURO

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I want to start this post by reinforcing that I don´t like to write this posts. It may not be nice for the reader to listen but I feel relieved by telling this. I write them because I have been pressured by Eden to do so for 7 years now, and they won. In the beginning I wrote with anger, but now I am taking this seriously, and anyway, no matter if I like it or not, as a Princess I am still a public employee of Eden, so I must follow their determinations ( the concept of public employee is different than the modalities known in this planet. Eden is a realm, and people belong to the people of the layers above. It may seem strange, but we have the key for the perfection in everything, including in our political system, and it works pretty well there, turning us in the top potency of the Universes).

 I don´t like to write because I am a reserved person, and I don´t like to talk about myself, even less about the Elfic families, Eden and our ways, but let´s go ahead. I am going to speak about the ritual that is perhaps the most important of our rituals, the Alchemical Marriage. I will give only a general idea, is not possible to talk everything about it, even because I am only in the middle of the way and did not see the end yet. What happens during the alchemical marriage is a secret shared only with other married couples, so I will tell what everybody tells, but there is much more that even I don´t know.

To explain this ritual, is necessary to speak briefly about something that have been misunderstood many times in the Universal culture. Some say that the Angels “have no sex”, that they are not feminine or masculine. This concept is wrong. The Angels have both sex, we are androgynous. Physically, our bodies have both organs and the complete system, and technically some of us can even self-reproduce, although the endurance to get a legal license allowing to do such thing would be an ungrateful path. The reproduction is the most regulated issue in Eden, and I am telling this because it has all to do with the alchemical marriage.

If physically we are androgynous, in essence and mind we are not. We have an essence, what in Earth is sometimes called as “soul” ( later I will explain, if I remember, why we don´t use the same term). This essence is or masculine or feminine, is very rare to have someone with androgynous essence among us. Naturally, we adapt the physical characteristics, as we have total control of the genetic, to the characteristics of our essence. Therefore, among the Angels each individual have physically both masculine and feminine organs, but we adopt one gender, the one that match with our essence, and remodel our bodies accordingly. The masculine Angels have both organs, but they are usually unable to reproduce, because despite the physical capabilities, their essence is unable to trigger the necessary systems in the body.

Well, this text is not going as summarized as I like.

Now that I spoke about the gender, I will speak about the families. As I said there are twelve noble families, plus many other families. A family is a sort of guild, usually a family has the control of an activity of our society. The members of a family share a common genetic, that is a copyrighted asset of that family, and the genetic is so sophisticated that allow the Angel to be born with the necessary skills for the activity that the family controls.

The individuals of a family have the same genetic core, but it does not necessarily means that they have parents. In most cases, a family or a public organ responsible for the planning for the next cycle will order a number of each kind of individuals to the Graal Industries. Very few people have parents – in this cases the children are also ordered to the Graal Industries, but they are ordered with particular features and improvements, chosen or even created by the parents. The possibility to have children is a privilege only of those who went through the Alchemical Marriage, and usually it is a requirement for persons who are been prepared to assume a position in one of the Councils or any high position in our society.

Angels are eternal and they live in the paradise. There is no reason to have children. Anyone is allowed to try the Alchemical Marriage, but it is just not a good option, compared with the endless other options of expansion that Eden offers to everyone. The marriage is actually nearly always done by the children of the noble families, that are prepared to engage in this ritual virtually since they are born or even before ( see one of my previous posts to understand why the Angels are eternal but they are also “born”).

Everyone in Eden is single, except by the governors and people with high positions. The Angels want to be single, this is their nature, however is a requirement that only couples can assume the top positions, so two Angels, when they reach a level of development that would be useful for the society, are almost pushed to marry.

To convince two Angels to share a life is something complex. If they are from different families it is almost impossible, it happens once in many generations, and it is my case.

In summary. All Angels have the two genders physically but they assume one gender, the gender of their essence. Many Angels are apt to reproduce but it is not legally allowed. To reproduce one must go through the Alchemical Marriage and become a couple. Only couples assume important positions in the Elfic Society, this is a legal requirement. When a group of young Elves are noticed as having potential to serve the society as leaders in some field, they are invited to marry. They may refuse or accept, most will refuse. Usually only the children of the noble families will accept this way willingly, because they are prepared for this moment since they are born.

To be “prepared for this moment since one is born” is a little more complex than it may seem at first view. It means first that the individual is genetically programmed to that, and it means secondly that the chart of marriages is done by the engineers and planning team of Eden several generations before someone is born. We are just born at the planned time and play our part.

It was decided that should have a cross-breeding between the Ruby and Diamond families at the time that we live now, for adjusting the genetic parameters of the families perhaps, who may know? I don´t know, what I know is that the engineers decided that after a given number of generations this very cross-breeding should happens, and then after my case I thing it will be a long time until this happens again. Of course, than, that we, me and Lucifer, were born madly in love for each other, we had our genetic parameters adjusted to be this way ( I would love him anyway even without the genetic thing). Well, the society need us to be in love, so we can find strength to endure the Alchemical Marriage and later we will be capable to serve the society as leaders, but most Elves are just not adjusted to be in love at all, and they are very happy been themselves.

You may have noticed that are two parallel parameters here, that work together in our society, as well as many others that I did not mention yet. One of this parameters is the individual will. The other parameter is the public planning that includes the genetic manipulation of the individuals to fit the planning. Both work. The plans come first, then when the Elf reach a certain development he may accept it or not. There are also surprises, people who were not programmed to assume a function but that show an unexpected talent. We can deal easily with all these factors, and adapt if necessary. Eden is very dynamic.

I am really tired now. This is my contribution of today, I will continue on this same subject later.

I hope I am been capable to serve and represent you well, Supreme High Council and civilization of Eden. I am doing my best. Love to you all. Miss you.

Princess Veronica Ab Thule

The Blueprints Database has a massive repository of blueprints of just about anything that gets blueprinted. While the coolest section is probably the science fiction one (check out the Rebel X-Wing from Star Wars above) they also have aircraft, tanks, phones, etc. They also have lots of ships. It’s a pretty frustrating find two days after I finished drafting a 1 900-component icebreaker for a university course. Wanna know what’s even more frustrating? The one on the site is better.

The Blueprints Database