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The truth appeared like a great candle \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This interior “vision” came to me in 2007, and has “stuck” in my soul like a note on a fridge. It was ever-present on my heart as I wrote\u00a0<\/em>Satan’s Golden Hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n When this vision came to me eighteen years ago, the “unnatural” and “false, deceptive light” remained somewhat a mystery. But today, with the advent of artificial intelligence and how we have been coralled<\/a> into technology, we are getting perhaps a glimpse now of the dangerous temptations humanity faces.<\/em> The deceptive light is indeed<\/em> Satan’s Golden Hour<\/a>… <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I saw the world gathered as though in a dark room. In the center is a burning candle. It is very short, the wax nearly all melted. The Flame represents the light of Christ: Truth<\/em>. [1]<\/sup><\/a>Note: this was written seven years before I had heard of the “Flame of Love”<\/em> spoken of by Our Lady through the approved messages to Elizabeth Kindelmann. See the Related Reading.<\/span><\/span>
\nlighting the whole world with its brilliant flame.<\/strong>
\n\u2014St. Bernadine of Siena <\/span><\/p>\n
\nA<\/span>powerful image came to me… an image that carries both encouragement and warning. Those who have been following these writings know that their purpose has been specifically to prepare us for the times which lay directly ahead of the Church and world<\/em>. They are not so much about catechesis as calling us into a safe Refuge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Smoldering Candle<\/h5>\n