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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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