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Revelations of the Aquarian Age
A well-researched work of fiction from bestselling author Barbara Hand Clow
• A contemporary spiritual and erotic thriller that reveals esoteric teachings on Jesus and Mary Magdalene, holy relics, sacred sexuality, and art
• Contains hidden secrets on the use of crystals as well as extraordinary information about secret societies
• Continues the story from Revelations of the Ruby Crystal
• From the bestselling author of The Pleiadian Agenda (98,000 copies sold) and The Mayan Code (57,000 copies sold)
Shortly after his wedding at his family’s ancient castle in Tuscany, sophisticated and mysterious Armando Pierleoni reveals his richly symbolic painting of the love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene to his bride Jennifer. Deeply affecting all who view it, the alchemical portrayal leads Armando, Jennifer, and their friends on a contemporary journey into the esoteric mysteries of divine marriage, sacred sexuality, the Black Madonna, and the transformative power of holy relics.
The group of friends--Jennifer’s journalist brother Simon, his mystical wife Sarah, Jungian analyst Lorenzo, exotically beautiful and insightful Claudia, and Armando and Jennifer--discover past-life connections and the power of sacred sex as a path to the divine. They explore how the Knights Templar collected the bones of the Jesus family from the Talpiot tomb in Jerusalem and eventually placed them in reliquaries throughout the world--including within the Medici Chapel in Florence and in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.
When Armando’s magical painting of Jesus and Mary Magdalene goes on display in the Medici Chapel and is viewed by thousands, the painting’s power coalesces with Aquarian vibrations to trigger a mass kundalini rising within the Chapel, activating the sacred bones in the reliquaries. The activated bones enable the Light to flow into the world, awakening Christ Consciousness around the globe.
• A contemporary spiritual and erotic thriller that reveals esoteric teachings on Jesus and Mary Magdalene, holy relics, sacred sexuality, and art
• Contains hidden secrets on the use of crystals as well as extraordinary information about secret societies
• Continues the story from Revelations of the Ruby Crystal
• From the bestselling author of The Pleiadian Agenda (98,000 copies sold) and The Mayan Code (57,000 copies sold)
Shortly after his wedding at his family’s ancient castle in Tuscany, sophisticated and mysterious Armando Pierleoni reveals his richly symbolic painting of the love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene to his bride Jennifer. Deeply affecting all who view it, the alchemical portrayal leads Armando, Jennifer, and their friends on a contemporary journey into the esoteric mysteries of divine marriage, sacred sexuality, the Black Madonna, and the transformative power of holy relics.
The group of friends--Jennifer’s journalist brother Simon, his mystical wife Sarah, Jungian analyst Lorenzo, exotically beautiful and insightful Claudia, and Armando and Jennifer--discover past-life connections and the power of sacred sex as a path to the divine. They explore how the Knights Templar collected the bones of the Jesus family from the Talpiot tomb in Jerusalem and eventually placed them in reliquaries throughout the world--including within the Medici Chapel in Florence and in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.
When Armando’s magical painting of Jesus and Mary Magdalene goes on display in the Medici Chapel and is viewed by thousands, the painting’s power coalesces with Aquarian vibrations to trigger a mass kundalini rising within the Chapel, activating the sacred bones in the reliquaries. The activated bones enable the Light to flow into the world, awakening Christ Consciousness around the globe.
- GenresFiction
320 pages, Paperback
Published February 13, 2018
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Barbara Hand Clow
61 books149 followersBarbara Hand Clow is an astrological counselor, an editor of books on New Consciousness, and a ceremonial teacher at sacred sites. She lives in rural new England.
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July 14, 2020
Book Review – Revelations of the Aquarian Age by Barbara Hand Clow, Rochester, VT: Bear & Co., 2018.
After reading and reviewing Barbara Hand Clow’s Revelations of the Ruby Crystal I had to read the Aquarian Age. I have read a number of her non-fictions books, but with the breadth and complexity of our journey in entering the Aquarian Age I cannot imagine how this book could have been written other than couched in the fiction of a novel. The nine primary characters of this book each bring a different dimension or perspective to this journey.
In my earlier writing I have identified five characteristics of the New Age or the Aquarian Age:
• Regaining the ability to commune with the world of the spirits through an altered state of consciousness.
• Dissolving the separation caused by dualistic thinking.
• Living in a world of peace and harmony.
• Working together in community.
• Growing in creativity.
As our journey brings us closer to the Aquarian Age we will likely find more ways to describe this journey, but these five characteristics are very much central in Clow’s story of this journey into the New Age. In Ruby Crystal the struggle and pain that occur in the process of forming healthy relationships without the destructive feelings that separate us is very evident such as the feeling of jealousy. In the end, in preparation for entering the Aquarian Age each couple experiences a deep sense of healthy love without jealousy. All involved become close friends. The one new person to enter this story struggles to let go of her jealousy, but with its dissolution she eventually becomes part of this close community of friends, a change that brings her into a healthy sense of peace and harmony.
Again, as with Ruby Crystal, Aquarian Age partly concerns the Catholic Church with its deception and denial of truths in order to maintain its patriarchal addictive control over its congregants, control that go back to the earliest times of the Church. But in this book the addiction of the extreme conflicts and violence in the Near East between Christianity, Islam and Judaism as currently seen in the Age of Pisces have created a world of chaos that lacks the peace and harmony that will be found in the coming Age of Aquarius. These global problems also exist and are resolved at the personal level in the relationships between each of the characters of this book. Sarah, living in Rome to have access to the Vatican library, is a Bostonian who upon completing her doctorate with a thesis on the most ancient history of the Catholic Church has become a writer and continues in her journey of personal growth. Simon, a New Yorker, is a successful journalist for the New York Times covering the religious conflicts in the Near East and recent archeological discoveries in Israel. Armando is a successful artist whose paintings reflect the Aquarian Age in contrast to the false claims of the Catholic Church, and his wife Jennifer, the sister of Simon, is new to this continuing journey. Lorenzo is a Jungian Therapist who leads several of these individuals in their personal growth, and his wife Claudia is a psychic who owns a clothing boutique. Armando and his father Pietro are of an ancient and important aristocratic family of Italy who hold much important information about the Church and ancient Italy. William, Sarah’s father and Pietro are long time friends through their involvement with Opus Dei and the Catholic Church, and David, Simon’s father, each play a prominent role in this journey into the Aquarian Age.
The frequent coming together of these friends, each offering what they have researched and know, opens the world to the revelation of what the Catholic Church continues to hide in order to save its power over its communicants, the Church’s need to portray Jesus as celibate and above being human, a believe that promotes child sex abuse and its cover-up. The evidence to counter these beliefs becomes very clear through the actions of each of these individuals. Jesus was truly human with brothers and sisters, married and with children to carry on his heritage, is a person who shows the world a life of love, a life alien to the teachings of the Church. His teachings of love will bring the world together in a community of peace and harmony, a world that is not limited to the five senses but is alive spiritually, a community of people with a great diversity in knowledge and skills that requires each of us to rely upon each other to survive in a beautiful new world of creativity. The intertwining of these friends so well presents this complex message of the journey into the future of the Age of Aquarius.
The chaos and violence seen across the world is vividly portrayed in this story, the chaos of our current age as we evolve into the Age of Aquarius, chaos that motivates this group of people to regularly come together to seek deeper understanding of what is now happening and why. One writer who I frequently refer to in my writing is Jean Gebser, the writer of the book The Ever Present Origin, who describes the five era of the evolution of human consciousness beginning with the archaic era when our hunting-gathering ancestors lived in a dream-like state of consciousness. Our consciousness then evolved through the magical, mythic, and rational eras to the era into which we are now moving, the era of time-free diaphanous transparency, the Aquarian Age. The rational era, the Age of Pisces, has spawned the chaos and violence we are now experiencing with the racism, the battles between the three religions of Abraham, and the spawning of the COVID virus because we have ignored and not listened to the needs of our Great Mother Earth.
Barbara Hand Clow has apparently read Gebser’s book as seen in Claudia’s description of the evolution of these eras. Near the end of the book Claudia describes to the others where she sees the world going using these same words, moving from the archaic and magical age to the creation of mythical stories, through the current era that culminates in the power of the computer, before moving into the Aquarian Age when everything becomes diaphanous and transparent. She also describes this evolutionary process as coming from our ever-present origin, the title of Gebser’s book.
In my reading of Gebser he describes the transition between each of these five eras of consciousness as been full of conflict and violence with many hanging on to the old ways in their attempts to save their world as they have known it. Though this book was published in 1949 in German with the title Ursprung und Gegenwart, one particular quote well describes the world of today: “Soon we will witness the rise of some potentate or dictator who will pass himself off as a ‘savior’ or healer and allow himself to be worshipped as such. But anyone who does this in the days to come, and is thereby confined to time and is visible in it, has nothing to do with the true manifestation of the one who, in time-free transparency, will make the ‘future’ present (Gebser, p. 297).”
Barbara Hand Clow carries us into the coming Age of Aquarius, a complex journey that is beautifully portrayed in the fictional characters of this book.
After reading and reviewing Barbara Hand Clow’s Revelations of the Ruby Crystal I had to read the Aquarian Age. I have read a number of her non-fictions books, but with the breadth and complexity of our journey in entering the Aquarian Age I cannot imagine how this book could have been written other than couched in the fiction of a novel. The nine primary characters of this book each bring a different dimension or perspective to this journey.
In my earlier writing I have identified five characteristics of the New Age or the Aquarian Age:
• Regaining the ability to commune with the world of the spirits through an altered state of consciousness.
• Dissolving the separation caused by dualistic thinking.
• Living in a world of peace and harmony.
• Working together in community.
• Growing in creativity.
As our journey brings us closer to the Aquarian Age we will likely find more ways to describe this journey, but these five characteristics are very much central in Clow’s story of this journey into the New Age. In Ruby Crystal the struggle and pain that occur in the process of forming healthy relationships without the destructive feelings that separate us is very evident such as the feeling of jealousy. In the end, in preparation for entering the Aquarian Age each couple experiences a deep sense of healthy love without jealousy. All involved become close friends. The one new person to enter this story struggles to let go of her jealousy, but with its dissolution she eventually becomes part of this close community of friends, a change that brings her into a healthy sense of peace and harmony.
Again, as with Ruby Crystal, Aquarian Age partly concerns the Catholic Church with its deception and denial of truths in order to maintain its patriarchal addictive control over its congregants, control that go back to the earliest times of the Church. But in this book the addiction of the extreme conflicts and violence in the Near East between Christianity, Islam and Judaism as currently seen in the Age of Pisces have created a world of chaos that lacks the peace and harmony that will be found in the coming Age of Aquarius. These global problems also exist and are resolved at the personal level in the relationships between each of the characters of this book. Sarah, living in Rome to have access to the Vatican library, is a Bostonian who upon completing her doctorate with a thesis on the most ancient history of the Catholic Church has become a writer and continues in her journey of personal growth. Simon, a New Yorker, is a successful journalist for the New York Times covering the religious conflicts in the Near East and recent archeological discoveries in Israel. Armando is a successful artist whose paintings reflect the Aquarian Age in contrast to the false claims of the Catholic Church, and his wife Jennifer, the sister of Simon, is new to this continuing journey. Lorenzo is a Jungian Therapist who leads several of these individuals in their personal growth, and his wife Claudia is a psychic who owns a clothing boutique. Armando and his father Pietro are of an ancient and important aristocratic family of Italy who hold much important information about the Church and ancient Italy. William, Sarah’s father and Pietro are long time friends through their involvement with Opus Dei and the Catholic Church, and David, Simon’s father, each play a prominent role in this journey into the Aquarian Age.
The frequent coming together of these friends, each offering what they have researched and know, opens the world to the revelation of what the Catholic Church continues to hide in order to save its power over its communicants, the Church’s need to portray Jesus as celibate and above being human, a believe that promotes child sex abuse and its cover-up. The evidence to counter these beliefs becomes very clear through the actions of each of these individuals. Jesus was truly human with brothers and sisters, married and with children to carry on his heritage, is a person who shows the world a life of love, a life alien to the teachings of the Church. His teachings of love will bring the world together in a community of peace and harmony, a world that is not limited to the five senses but is alive spiritually, a community of people with a great diversity in knowledge and skills that requires each of us to rely upon each other to survive in a beautiful new world of creativity. The intertwining of these friends so well presents this complex message of the journey into the future of the Age of Aquarius.
The chaos and violence seen across the world is vividly portrayed in this story, the chaos of our current age as we evolve into the Age of Aquarius, chaos that motivates this group of people to regularly come together to seek deeper understanding of what is now happening and why. One writer who I frequently refer to in my writing is Jean Gebser, the writer of the book The Ever Present Origin, who describes the five era of the evolution of human consciousness beginning with the archaic era when our hunting-gathering ancestors lived in a dream-like state of consciousness. Our consciousness then evolved through the magical, mythic, and rational eras to the era into which we are now moving, the era of time-free diaphanous transparency, the Aquarian Age. The rational era, the Age of Pisces, has spawned the chaos and violence we are now experiencing with the racism, the battles between the three religions of Abraham, and the spawning of the COVID virus because we have ignored and not listened to the needs of our Great Mother Earth.
Barbara Hand Clow has apparently read Gebser’s book as seen in Claudia’s description of the evolution of these eras. Near the end of the book Claudia describes to the others where she sees the world going using these same words, moving from the archaic and magical age to the creation of mythical stories, through the current era that culminates in the power of the computer, before moving into the Aquarian Age when everything becomes diaphanous and transparent. She also describes this evolutionary process as coming from our ever-present origin, the title of Gebser’s book.
In my reading of Gebser he describes the transition between each of these five eras of consciousness as been full of conflict and violence with many hanging on to the old ways in their attempts to save their world as they have known it. Though this book was published in 1949 in German with the title Ursprung und Gegenwart, one particular quote well describes the world of today: “Soon we will witness the rise of some potentate or dictator who will pass himself off as a ‘savior’ or healer and allow himself to be worshipped as such. But anyone who does this in the days to come, and is thereby confined to time and is visible in it, has nothing to do with the true manifestation of the one who, in time-free transparency, will make the ‘future’ present (Gebser, p. 297).”
Barbara Hand Clow carries us into the coming Age of Aquarius, a complex journey that is beautifully portrayed in the fictional characters of this book.
May 29, 2022
A 4.5-star rating.
July 15, 2020
This is a sequel to the Revelations of the Ruby Crystal. It is written in a similar fashion, as a book of fiction which introduces the reader with several controversial theories about Abrahamic religion, the Mayan calendar and the occult societies. I actually found this book a little better than the first installment. The characters are the same in both books and their lives are now very conveniently intertwined.
But, I have to remind myself to stop regarding this as a classic work of fiction. As such, it is not very exciting. The plot is just not interesting enough in itself to carry the novel, the characters are still very unrealistic. In a way, this is more similar to Sophie's World for lovers of mysticism and various esoteric traditions, but much more narrow in scope and oriented primarily on the legacy of the Catholic church.
I am a bit more forgiving on judging this book as I recently watched Barbara Hand Clow's interviews about both of the books in this series. I was not aware that she is writing these books on a timeline as world events occur and provide a background to the plot of both novels. While I still believe that some of the connections BHC is making are a little far-fetched, I am more inclined to focus on the positives.
Lately, it seems that some of the "outrageous theories" are becoming more accepted among mainstream historians. This book focuses on the new paradigm, the shift needed in the Abrahamic religions to establish the Golden Age - the Age of Aquarius marked by the beginning of the new precessional cycle of Earth. BHC covers the widely spread theory of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their possible holy matrimony (inspired by the occult tradition and the discovery of the controversial Talpiot ossuaries), touches on the teachings of Ahmed Osman about the Jewish-Egyptian relationship and explores the traditions of Knights Hospitaller. Of course, there is a fair amount of Mayan calendar symbolism and the teachings of the astrological ages. There's even an interesting connection made with the work of Antoni Gaudi. If you tell someone this is a book about all those things (and much more) it seems like a complete mess, but it actually works at some level.
I am really curious about what the next installment of this series is going to bring and how Barbara Hand Clow will portray this year in the light of her teachings. Even for those who may be skeptical of these theories, it can be refreshing to keep an open mind, change perspective and give these books a try.
But, I have to remind myself to stop regarding this as a classic work of fiction. As such, it is not very exciting. The plot is just not interesting enough in itself to carry the novel, the characters are still very unrealistic. In a way, this is more similar to Sophie's World for lovers of mysticism and various esoteric traditions, but much more narrow in scope and oriented primarily on the legacy of the Catholic church.
I am a bit more forgiving on judging this book as I recently watched Barbara Hand Clow's interviews about both of the books in this series. I was not aware that she is writing these books on a timeline as world events occur and provide a background to the plot of both novels. While I still believe that some of the connections BHC is making are a little far-fetched, I am more inclined to focus on the positives.
Lately, it seems that some of the "outrageous theories" are becoming more accepted among mainstream historians. This book focuses on the new paradigm, the shift needed in the Abrahamic religions to establish the Golden Age - the Age of Aquarius marked by the beginning of the new precessional cycle of Earth. BHC covers the widely spread theory of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their possible holy matrimony (inspired by the occult tradition and the discovery of the controversial Talpiot ossuaries), touches on the teachings of Ahmed Osman about the Jewish-Egyptian relationship and explores the traditions of Knights Hospitaller. Of course, there is a fair amount of Mayan calendar symbolism and the teachings of the astrological ages. There's even an interesting connection made with the work of Antoni Gaudi. If you tell someone this is a book about all those things (and much more) it seems like a complete mess, but it actually works at some level.
I am really curious about what the next installment of this series is going to bring and how Barbara Hand Clow will portray this year in the light of her teachings. Even for those who may be skeptical of these theories, it can be refreshing to keep an open mind, change perspective and give these books a try.
April 28, 2026
This book genuinely blew my mind. The spiritual truths and teachings woven throughout are layered, profound, and the kind of thing that sends you straight down a research rabbit hole — I found myself constantly pausing to look things up (the ossuaries alone had me gone for a while 👀).
What I love most is how these teachings aren’t delivered as a lecture — they’re woven into the story of a beautiful, tight-knit friend group who have each been through truly hard things. Their connection despite that is deeply inspiring, and honestly? I wish these characters were real people I could actually meet.
There were multiple moments where I had full body shivers. You know the kind — when something just lands in your soul.
Fair warning though: this book is spiritually dense. Go outside and touch some grass between chapters. You will need it after visiting the cosmic realms 😂
Also worth noting — it gets genuinely spicy in places, and I loved that unexpected twist. It adds a really human, alive energy to everything.
This is a book for lovers of history, ancient teachings, spirituality, and hidden truths. If that’s not your thing, it may go over your head — and that’s okay, it’s just not for everyone.
Absolutely worth the read. Onto book three! 🌌
What I love most is how these teachings aren’t delivered as a lecture — they’re woven into the story of a beautiful, tight-knit friend group who have each been through truly hard things. Their connection despite that is deeply inspiring, and honestly? I wish these characters were real people I could actually meet.
There were multiple moments where I had full body shivers. You know the kind — when something just lands in your soul.
Fair warning though: this book is spiritually dense. Go outside and touch some grass between chapters. You will need it after visiting the cosmic realms 😂
Also worth noting — it gets genuinely spicy in places, and I loved that unexpected twist. It adds a really human, alive energy to everything.
This is a book for lovers of history, ancient teachings, spirituality, and hidden truths. If that’s not your thing, it may go over your head — and that’s okay, it’s just not for everyone.
Absolutely worth the read. Onto book three! 🌌
December 12, 2024
A Brilliant Alchemy
Over the last 82 years, I have thought about… and felt… so many of the elements that surface and meld into meaning in this story. When I finish the trilogy, I may have to go back to the beginning and read it again so I am sure that I am absorbing everything that is revealed. Thank you!
Over the last 82 years, I have thought about… and felt… so many of the elements that surface and meld into meaning in this story. When I finish the trilogy, I may have to go back to the beginning and read it again so I am sure that I am absorbing everything that is revealed. Thank you!
August 18, 2025
I actually did not even finish reading this book. I loved the ideas interwoven within, and the symbolism and messaging shared, but I just found the writing style so irritating, boring and kind of pointless. Maybe if I had read until the end I would've discovered a reason for it all, maybe it tied together somehow. However I simply couldn't bear to read any more of it.
January 13, 2022
Awaking
Beautifully written..hidden secrets everywhere In plain site......as you read many secret doors will open into the world of truth.......what an adventure.....
Beautifully written..hidden secrets everywhere In plain site......as you read many secret doors will open into the world of truth.......what an adventure.....
December 4, 2022
good book
This book brings interesting prospective, however, too much of the authors personal opinions on politics. Certainly brings food for thought!
This book brings interesting prospective, however, too much of the authors personal opinions on politics. Certainly brings food for thought!
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