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There are some famous libraries out there. The one that immediately springs to my mind is the Great Library of Alexandria, Egypt. It was part of the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts. At its height, it was estimated to house nearly 400,000 scrolls, but gradually declined through lack of interest and lack of funding - where’ve we heard that one before?
Some of the libraries of the world are as famous for their building as for their books, such as the reading room of the British Museum, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England.
But I want to take this post on a different, unusual route. Let’s start by defining a library as a place where events are recorded, histories kept, and books stored.
We all store our personal history in our personal library, our memory banks, and would complain bitterly if someone took them away from us. It’s the premise of many a story; man loses memory, and desperately searches to retrieve it. Why? Because enshrined within it is his identity, who he is, what he’s done, what he’s achieved. So, memory and history are important to identity.
Is it the same for the planet, the Earth on which we live? Does she store all of her history – including ours? Just as we store our memories in a micro-form, so perhaps does the planet store hers.
Can we moot the existence of an even larger library, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world, and that is what is termed the Akashic Records? Akashic is a Sanskrit term meaning ether or atmosphere.
The Akashic Records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words and deeds, that have ever occurred in the past or present, and that includes not just human life, but all life forms and entities, including organic, inorganic, elemental, angelic, and even supernatural. The Akashic Records are therefore the most complete library of the world.
What about the process of remembering? How can you re-member something? Does it mean you literally give ‘member’ or ‘body’ to a memory, not physically, but in micro-terms? Does it mean that we can re-enliven a memory, an experience, by retrieving it from dormancy? If so, it could be argued that ‘history’ as we know it, is alive, in the sense that the Akashic Records, while they may be dormant, could be re-enlivened, down-loaded, re-engendered. And one wonders if this is the reason why history repeats itself and the origin of the idea of past lives.
Is there any evidence of the existence of this strange, mystical universal library? I mean, it doesn’t have a subscription, it doesn’t have a vaulted ceiling, nor a booth in which to browse the scrolls of life and living at one’s leisure. Or does it?
The evidence is anecdotal.
For example, it’s said that the Akashic Records are stored – like our memories – in micro-form on the edge of the planet’s Van Allen belts. These are force fields that extend out from the planet, and interact with the solar wind, the charged particles that come from the sun. It’s said that the first astronauts, on returning from the moon, and passing through the Van Allen belts, ‘saw’, played out in a vision, vivid pictures and images from the history stored within the Akashic Records.
Then there are the mystics, like the American clairvoyant, Edgar Cayce. While in a deep trance, Cayce answered questions on such profound matters as past lives, reincarnation and Atlantis. As such, he was nicknamed the Sleeping Prophet. So, how could a Sunday school teacher with little formal education answer questions about such a variety of subjects? While in a controlled trance, it’s possible that Cayce downloaded all the answers from the Akashic Records, that bountiful source of all knowledge, wisdom and understanding, and the record of everything that has ever happened.
I used some of Cayce’s writings as source material for my debut novel, The Genes of Isis, in which Akasha, the heroine, is clearly named after the concept of the Akashic Records.
And remember, the Akashic Records hold our collective memory, and therefore they contain humanity’s collective identity. If they were wiped clean, we’d be lost, and we’d have to start again, like the caveman did.
If it were real, and someone could connect to the Akashic Records, think what it would mean. For example, there would be no need for a police force, or a detective agency, because a clairvoyant would connect to the Akashic Records, the World Library, read the scrolls therein, and then declare the truth of what had happened.
The Akashic Records are the greatest history book, and the greatest library in the world.
Hey, who said a library was for boring people?
Following the promptings of an inner voice, Tula, a young woman from the city, trudges into Topeth. Her quest is to abide with the angels and thereby discover the right and proper exercise of free will. To do that, she has to cross the bridge – and overcome her vertigo.
Topeth is in upheaval; the townsfolk blame the death of a child on dust from the nearby copper mines. The priests have convinced them that a horde of devils have thrown the angels out of Unity and now occupy the bridge, possessing anyone who trespasses on it. Then there’s the heinous Temple of Moloch!
The Abdication is the story of Tula’s endeavour to step upon the path of a destiny far greater than she could ever have imagined.
It was late when Tula got back to Geb and Sarah’s and she went straight to her room. She found it hard to sleep and lay there tossing and turning, plagued by the unnerving way the evening had unfolded and then by more squealing noises coming from outside the window.
Witches of Unity was how Irit had described the angels. Now, they were witches from whom the curse on Topeth derived. Her words were another dent in Tula’s faith in the seraphic beings.
The other day, Damien had returned from Unity with a strange object wrapped in a cloth to avoid identification. He had secretly despatched Rufus to the mining lab, so it must have been a piece of ore. Damien’s family had a history of wanting to explore Unity. That greed had cost his father, Marcus, his life, thirty years before. The town of Unity was sacred, as was the land of Suria, so surely that intrusion could not happen again.
Her understanding of the history of the town made little or no sense because some essential pieces of the puzzle were missing. She had no idea where to find them, what they looked like, or was even sure, if she saw them, whether she would recognise them for what they truly were.
The good folk of Topeth laboured under an illusion, that what she believed were angels were in fact devils, terrible entities who protected their domain, their town, their Unity, by throwing people off the bridge or rendering them insane.
His Books
The Genes of Isis is a tale of love, destruction and ephemeral power set under the skies of Ancient Egypt. A re-telling of the Biblical story of the flood, it reveals the mystery of the genes of Isis – or genesis – of mankind. ISBN 9781789014860.
“The novel is creative, sophisticated, and downright brilliant! I couldn’t ask more of an Egyptian-esque book!” – Lauren, Books Beyond the Story.
The Old Dragon’s Head is a historical fantasy and supernatural thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and played out in the shadows the Great Wall of China. It explores the secret history of the influences that shaped the beginnings of modern times. ISBN 9781789015829.
‘The author is an excellent storyteller.” – British Fantasy Society.
Set during the Great Enlightenment, The Coronation reveals the secret history of the Industrial Revolution. ISBN 9781838591885.
“The novel explores the themes of belonging, outsiders… religion and war… filtered through the lens of the other-worldly.” – A. Deane, Page Farer Book Blog.
His latest, The Abdication (July, 2021), is a suspense thriller, a journey of destiny, wisdom and self-discovery. ISBN 9781800463950.
“In Topeth, Tula confronts the truth, her faith in herself, faith in a higher purpose, and ultimately, what it means to abdicate that faith.” V. Triola, Coast to Coast.
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