EXCERPT Introduction
I felt the need to write an introduction to this work of fiction because quite
simply, I am not known for writing fiction. Instead I am better known for
writing books on ancient mysteries, history, the occult and of course the
worship of the serpent. It will therefore come as a surprise to those readers of
my previous books that I have entered into the world of fiction in this way and
even at all.
The truth is that there are often a great many things that one wishes to say in
a factual book and yet are restricted from doing so. One publisher, whom I shall
not name, actually forced me to remove whole sections from a book because it
pointed blatantly towards the Catholic Church as aggressors, manipulators and
downright liars in our history. This fact is not unknown to the Church itself
who have often admitted that they have ?in the past? been at odds with various
parties throughout the world. They set up inquisitions and slaughtered tens of
thousands of perfectly peaceful people; they aided and abetted nation states in
the invasion of free countries and stole the land and riches from beneath their
feet; they instigated wave after wave of Holy Crusade into the Holy Land and
today we still have a war-torn land. The blood of millions is upon the hands of
this rich, powerful and supposedly Holy Church. That said, I personally know
plenty of Catholics who are members of the Church today because of their own
inner spiritual quest and upbringing and much of the Churches past is that,
past. But the issue I had was that this factual historical truth was taken out
of a book through fear and to me there should be no fear of truth.
The truth is, that mankind?s history is not all about a strange preparation for
the coming Messiah in Jesus Christ. This is a peculiar outcome of St. Paul?s
influence on the early Christian writings and his allegiance to Rome. In fact,
all the evidence of this particular period points towards Jesus being a pretty
normal Rabbi, if he existed at all in anyway we would recognize today.
The history of the world is a massive subject and the religious history only
part of it. It is this part that I have focussed upon in my books and what I
have always seemed to find is that the standard text books never really tell the
whole truth. All we have to do is dig a little deeper and we discover that there
is more beneath the surface. The true religious history of mankind will be found
in perfectly ordinary things and related entirely to survival, the evolutionary
instinct and the struggle with consciousness. You see, ever since man began to
think for himself and of himself he discovered that his consciousness caused
issues of right and wrong, black and white. Over the course of thousands of
years he grappled with this concept and his place in nature and developed
language, symbols, structures, texts, art, music and religion to come to terms
with it. In each stage of man?s progression the peculiar mystics would emerge
who claimed access to the Divine (what some today may term the unconscious in
touch with the Godhead). These mystics themselves were very often caricatured
forms of the ultimate duality ? being starkly good and bad and yet powerfully
aligned. The rest of man listened to the intuitive sparks of light that seemed
to erupt from this hotbed, wrote down the words and utterances and eventually
did something very odd with them ? they literalised them. By this I mean that
man took the words and metaphors literally and in time we really do end up
believing that a man walked on water.
Now, in the twenty-first century we have new Gods in the form of celebrities
and stars, whether they be film stars or sports stars, they are held up as our
new ?shining ones.? This, to me is far worse than in times gone by, for we are
worshipping flawed, divided and often, foolish humans. No longer do we at least
have the moral guidance of a dogma and doctrine, of a Law or Commandments.
Instead we have replaced them with an alpha dominant doctrine of dog eat dog; we
have made idols of dragon chasing confused individuals who are themselves being
manipulated and used by the power brokers who sit behind the scenes and
unwittingly form a new world. These executive producers and boards of directors
are forcing us all down a road where the few have and the many do not ? and yet
all the time they build the desire and inner turmoil in a Western capitalist
society that simply must have a world of unseen starving masses to fund the
show.
When will the world learn? Who knows, but the fact is that there has been a
truth discovered by mankind and the producers and directors in robes who walk
the corridors of Churches and Cathedrals has called it heretical. The truth was
known for millennia and kept sacred by countless cults, secret societies and
individuals. It emerged in time through the seeming nonsensical symbolism of
alchemy, hidden and occult, from the unseeing eyes of the literalists. That
truth was simple and yet profound in depths that take a lifetime to work
through. Gnosis ? the knowledge of the Divine in the self; the working through
balance in every part of our lives and the discovery of the greatest secret
known to man ? the true Self.
The discovery of the Self is the greatest treasure hunt we can enter and it is
the real core truth of all our fables and tales of journeys and quests. Those
who wish to have power over us do not wish us to discover who we are, because it
is the most empowering process an ?individual? can do. The discovery that we are
individuals will not feed the mouth of the gaping jaw of capitalist greed nor
religious intolerance. Instead it gives us what we should have been allowed all
along, and in fact had if only we knew it ? freedom and will to do what we wish.
The individual who thinks for himself is like a rogue particle refusing to be
categorized by the quantum physicist.
Our ancestors had many thousands of years to think this process through and
told us in many ways how to access this freedom, we just lost the will and
knowledge to see it. Discovery of self, love and compassion in balance, these
are true words, not buy now pay later or confess thy sins and say ten Hail
Mary?s.
This book is a tale that may be taken literally or esoterically. You may see
only the story of a man and his exploits or you may see the journey of the soul,
but whichever way you take it, I hope you enjoy it.
At the end of the book I have included a Timeline for those who wish to look a
little deeper into the history, which underlies this novel. Further reading on
the subject may also be found in my books and DVD?s Secrets of the Serpent,
Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon?s Temple Revealed, Gardiner?s Forbidden Knowledge:
Secret Societies, The Serpent Grail and The Ark, The Shroud and Mary.
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