The Sybil of Cumae and Prophecy for Our Times

In the ancient world, wise women were known as Sibyls. It was a title for an oracle. The Sibyl of Cumae was the most renowned of all the ancient oracles. She lived in a complex system of tube-like, volcanic caves in Vesuvius, Italy. It is believed that the ethylene gas from the volcanoes caused her to go into a psychedelic state, where she would begin receiving words and writing them down. She wrote highly accurate prophecies on oak leaves, and left them out at any one of over 130 cave entrances. If no one found them, they just blew away. The prophecies on the leaves were so accurate that word soon got back to Tarquin, the king of Rome, as of 539 BC.

The Sibyl ended up channeling nine books of information that she said contained the “entire future history of Rome” within them. After three rounds of intense haggling, Tarquin bought the last three volumes. The Sibyl had burned three of the nine books each time the deal collapsed on the first two rounds. [My guess is that she was psychic enough to plan out the whole thing, and the remaining six books were probably blanks.]

Right away, the priests noticed prophecies of impending future events. However, the data from the texts did not seem to help them solve these problems. In many, if not most cases, any actions they took to try to stop the prophecies from coming true would actually cause them to happen.

This is the apparent origin of the legend of the “Leprechaun Wish,” where you have to “be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” This legend may also partly stem from people foolish enough to mess around with the demonic, and try to gain benefits, only to be consistently tricked by the entity.

The accuracy of Sibyl’s texts became so legendary that they were seen as the greatest treasure in all of Rome — highly guarded in the Temple of Jupiter on Capitoline Hill. The Romans would literally have spent an entire basketball-sized room filled with gold to try to re-create the six missing books that were burned.

Many other oracles were consulted in an attempt to reconstruct the missing texts, but those efforts were unsuccessful. After Rome experienced collapse, some of the texts were leaked to the poet Virgil, who then wrote their words into his Eclogues. The fourth eclogue of Virgil contains astonishing prophecies about Ascension and light-body activation, occurring in our present-day society.

Here is some of what I wrote in Source Field about this enigmatic story. It is fascinating to consider that the United States was founded for a secret purpose from the very beginning - which appears to be directly related to the end of the Great Year and the prophecies of a coming Golden Age. The Great Seal of the United States now appears to be only the most recent version of this ancient symbol - which was featured prominently on Greek and Roman coins. The “secret and august body existing in Europe” appears to have originated in Sumer, Babylon and Egypt, and has hidden techniques that help awaken the pineal gland.

Lieutenant Totten’s letter described the exact content of the Sibylline text that “Novus Ordo Seclorum” comes from. The Sibyl of Cumae broke up history into a series of “ages,” and in this passage she refers to the coming of the last age in her story - which is referred to as the “Cumaean song.” Here’s the exact translation of the Sibylline mystery text as Totten wrote in 1882 - these are the exact words quoted, in shorthand, on the back of the U.S. dollar.

The last age of Cumaen song now comes. (Novus Ordo Seclorum altered from Magnus Soeclorum ordo), A mighty order of ages is born anew. Both the prophetic Virgin and Saturnian kingdoms now return. Now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens. Favor, chaste Lucina, the boy soon to be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end — and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth.

Reviewing some of the astonishing elements of this passage: “The last age . . . now comes. A mighty order of ages is born anew. . . . Now a new progeny is let down from the lofty heavens.” The word progeny means “offspring” - so this may be describing some sort of transformation of the human species as we now know it, at the end of a great Age. What exactly might this new progeny be like? The answer may come in the next passage: “The boy soon to be born in whom the iron age shall come to an end, and the golden one shall arise again in the whole earth.” This implies a prophecy where humanity as a whole is transformed—not just a single messianic figure.

There is also a suggestion that other groups will assist this process when we read the line, “Both the prophetic Virgin and Saturnian kingdoms now return.” When we go on to read the rest of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue, from other available translations, even more detail is given. Bear in mind that in ancient Greek and Roman traditions, “heroes” are demigods - born from one human parent and one parent who was a “god” - and this unique genetic heritage apparently gave them abilities we would now consider to be superhuman.

Under thy guidance, whatso tracks remain of our old wickedness, once done away, shall free the earth from never-ceasing fear. He shall receive the life of gods, and see heroes with gods commingling, and himself be seen of them, and with his father’s worth reign o’er a world at peace. . . . Assume thy greatness, for the time draws nigh, dear child of gods, great progeny of Jove! See how it totters - the world’s orbed might, earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound - all, see, enraptured of the coming time!

From this passage, we see that the gods are indeed predicted to return - and that humans on earth will “receive the life of gods” themselves. This is the Great Seal of the United States printed right on the dollar bill. Clearly we are expected in these prophecies to be seen as gods ourselves once this process is complete. These Sybilline prophecies therefore represent a bold prophecy of a coming Golden Age, in which “the Golden One shall arise again in the whole earth” - meaning everyone who is here.

by David Wilcock in The Michael Prophecies, Book 2, pp. 420-424