The Secret of the Ancient Alchemist by Yasmin Esack

bible
codes, he predicted a rebirth and gave an approximation.” Hart
lifted his feet onto his centre table. Dressed in shorts and a polo
shirt, he seemed smaller but his face was hard with conviction.
“Newton was quite obsessed with prophecy, matter and alchemy. His
prediction was all about the destruction of ignorance, not the
earth. A new age is coming. Don’t you see? Don’t you see? There
will be a peace. The teachings that were intended for Mankind will
be revealed.”
    “ Really,
Tom,” Marin replied, his cynicism obvious.
    Hart pointed a
finger as he felt frustration rising. “The Prophet Isaiah too had
something to say. From the rising of the sun to the place of its
setting, men may know there is none beside me. For behold I create
a new heaven and earth and the former things will not come to
mind.”
    “ Prophet
Isaiah said that?”
    “ And, I’m
not done. According to Indian scripture, Kali Yuga, or Dark Age,
began its end in 2012. The Ethiopian canon text, The Book of
Jubilees, states clearly there’ll be an era of peace like none this
world has ever witnessed. I truly believe your seismic data will
start changing soon.”
    “ I don’t
understand how an intelligent person like you could say
that.”
    “ I had a
look at Olsen’s Inca data.”
    “ What
about it?”
    “ There’s
reason to believe the Inca were right.”
    “ Yeah?”
    “ Atahualpa, the Inca king, said the dead spoke to his
people. That’s why he mummified them. He created a cross known as
the Chakapa. The symbolic habit of wearing black came from the
Inca. Their god, Viracocha, was sent to earth and walked on water.
Get the picture?”
    “ Information travels,” Marin remarked.
    “ Maybe it
time travels and maybe, just maybe we don’t understand messages
from beyond.” Hart stared, wondering how to convince Marin of a
cosmic link to the beyond. “Josh, what if I told you I was
contacted by a time-traveller.”
    “ What?
You’re going crazy.” Marin had great difficulty in accepting such a
claim.
    “ I’m
not!” Hart yelled. “The truth must be told.”
    “ What
truth?”
    “ The
universe is in us!”
    “ Calm
down, Tom.”

Chapter 18
     
     
    But Hart
couldn’t. He felt as if a whole new world was opening up. The
essence of life and all that it meant was but a whisper away.
    “ Predictions and visions have been around long, since the
time of Moses,” he said. “They mean nothing without a realm. I’ve
found a scientific basis for their occurrence. We can attach
significance to them.”
    “ You’re
asking me to accept an ill-defined realm.”
    “ Ill-defined?” Hart was reeling now. “But, I found it. How
could it be ill-defined?”
    “ You
found it mathematically. It’s of academic interest, nothing
more!”
    Marin’s words
made Hart feel drained of emotion but his eyes reflected untamed
brilliance when he spoke again.
    “ Look in
the mirror and tell me what you see. Nature mirrors everything on a
grand scale. There’s another one of you, another one of everything
and there’s a reason for that.”
    “ And,
what’s the reason?”
    “ We’re
timeless, dammit! We’re locked in gravity, in hell. We need help.
Look, Josh, there’s an ancient text that’ll explain it all. There’s
a realm in us, I know there is.”
    “ You
don’t even know if Olsen’ll find the new age, do you?” Marin
glanced at his watch. He turned and started heading to the door. “I
gotta go, Tom.”
    “ Wait,
Josh.”
    Marin turned
around. “Yeah?”
    “ Olsen’ll
do it. I know he will.” Hart’s anguish had lessened when he added,
“ Don’t dismiss it all as nonsense.”
    “ I… I…
don’t know, I just don’t know, Tom.”
    Marin dropped
his weight in a chair gazing around. For a man who seemed
irrational, Hart’s living space was exquisitely Decor, designed to
create an elegant ambiance. His eyes didn’t miss the Windsor chairs
and the lighted cabinets that housed DaVinci reprints.

Chapter