by D.A. Dean
The Ways of Eternity
By D. A. Dean
Copyright 2013 D. A. Dean
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Table of Contents
Foreword: Are You Ready?
Prologue: Isis' Plight
Chapter 1: The Lights
Chapter 2: Shining Against the Dark Horizon
Chapter 3: Horus' Vow
Chapter 4: To Save Them
Chapter 5: Transformed
Chapter 6: Seht Despises Failure
Chapter 7: The Damn Boy
Chapter 8: The Watcher
Chapter 9: The Way Of The Flame
Chapter 10: Followers of a Dead King
Chapter 11: Land of Unseen Creatures
Chapter 12: Garden of Isis
Chapter 13: Price of the Prize
Chapter 14: Kafar's Descent
Chapter 15: Swept Away
Chapter 16: Essence
Chapter 17: The Warrior Emerges
Chapter 18: Unexpected Encounters
Chapter 19: Tormented Destiny
Chapter 20: Onward
Chapter 21: Hope Under Threat
Chapter 22: Generous Cruelty
Chapter 23: Seeking Safe Entrance
Chapter 24: Demand for Proof
Chapter 25: Trials and Deceptions
Chapter 26: Who Stands with Me?
Chapter 27: A King's Wishes, A King's Wine
Chapter 28: Prepare for War
Chapter 29: You Are Not Alone
Chapter 30: Grave Messages
Chapter 31: An Intersection of Futures
Chapter 32: The Order Must Evolve
Chapter 33: A Dangerous Test
Chapter 34: Promise of the Double Truth
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Dedication
T. and N.,
All I am.
H.
I am Horus, great falcon perched upon the ramparts of the house of he of the hidden name. ...I bring the ways of eternity to the twilight of the morning.
Pyramid Text 148
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Acknowledgements
To TB, enthusiastic and patient patron, editor extraordinaire, and my personal tech department
M/LD, loving giver of roots and wings throughout my life
CW, gold ts
CD, bb++
DD, ssil
And JG, titanium sf
In a multitude of ways, you've offered me support and demonstrated your belief in me and in this endeavor. Your understanding and encouragement, prodding and critiques, friendship and love have enabled me to complete this stage of my work. For this and so much more...I am forever grateful.
Cover Art by Tatiana Vila (https://tat-94.wix.com/viladesign)
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Foreword: Are You Ready?
Come nearer, Beloved, and give me a smile in greeting. Yes, I see you, shining, before me. Do you know who I am?
It is I, Horus, and once again I have come to you.
For eons, I've allowed only pieces of my story to be known, waiting for the time when you might be ready, when you might understand. That time has come. That time is now.
And so, I will share my life's tale. Perhaps you may sympathize with my sorrows, revel in my joys, weep for my losses, wish me well. Perhaps, even, you may remember me with love. We have met before.
I will make all clear for you. Look into my eyes, blue as any sky, and see. Travel with my soul and know: I wait for you.
Into this time, your time, the Last Time, I have journeyed, and to it we will return. But my story begins, as I began, in the First Time.
In the First Time, before the Fall of September.... Before the Abolition of Apartheid, the Circle in the Square, the tearing down of the Dividing Wall.... Before the dreams of Ghandi, the two Great Wars. Before Napoleon fashioned himself Emperor, Robespierre's Reign of Terror, Peter the Great. Before the Old World lay claim to the New, the Reformation, and Europe's Golden Age.
Before the Black Death, Kublai Khan, Genghis Khan, the tribulations of the First Crusade. Before the time of Fujiwara Michinaga, Charlemagne. Before Muhammad, before Attila the Hun. Before the lessons of Christ, the construction of China's Great Wall. Before Hannibal, Alexander, Confucius, and Buddha. Before the Caesars, Shoguns, Pharaohs. Before the pyramids, before the Sphinx...I came to Be.
In the First Time, after Creation and the Big Bang.... After the maps of the stars were planned and the first meeting of sea and sand. After Amen sighed, after Ra walked your lands.
After Isis and Osiris moved among you, building order from chaos, bringing the Ways. After Seht, full of envy and enmity, fell upon your lands, culling followers, bargaining with shadows. After The Murder ended the Golden Days...I came to Be.
In the First Time, during the Shadow Days when even the gods fell to their knees....
I came to Be.
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