The Revolutions of Time

The Revolutions of Time

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Title: The Revolutions of Time
Author: Jonathan Dunn
Release Date: August, 2005 [EBook #8735] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on August 6, 2003]
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THE REVOLUTIONS OF TIME
By Jonathan Dunn
Note to the reader: The manuscript for this book was found in a weather- beaten stone box on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Its contents were written in an ancient form of Latin, which was translated and edited by Jonathan Dunn.
Dedicated to Bernibus, amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1
: Past and Present
Chapter 2
: Predestined Deja Vu
Chapter 3
: Zards and Canitaurs
Chapter 4
: Onan, Lord of the Past
Chapter 5
: The Treeway
Chapter 6
: The Fiery Lake
Chapter 7
: Down to Nunami
Chapter 8
: The Temple of Time
Chapter 9
: Mutually Assured Deception
Chapter 10
: Devolution
Chapter 11
: The Land Across the Sea
Chapter 12
: The White Eagle
Chapter 13
: The Big Bang
Chapter 14
: Past and Future
...The very men who claimed mental superiority because they were free from superstitions and divine disillusionment were themselves victims of their own sophism, and while they thought themselves crowned with enlightenment, it was naught but the Phrygian caps of their prejudices toward the material state.
--Jehu, the Kinsman Redeemer
The physical manifestation of the spiritual force is not the spiritual force at all, only a bland deception. If you only focus on what you can see directly, than you chase after only the representation and not the object desired. If a bird is flying through the sky at noontime, casting a shadow on the ground below him, and a man comes along, and in the hope of catching the bird chases after its shadow, it is evident that he will never catch it, for when he does reach it, he will find that there is nothing there at all, only the shadow of what it was he desired. So it is with the spiritual!
--Onan, Lord of the Past

Chapter 1
: Past and Present

My name is Jehu. Most probably it sounds foreign and unfamiliar to you, devoid of the qualities of affection and personality which give character to a name. It is a harsh name, cold and inhuman, like something out of the night, an unwelcome intruder into the warmth of familiarity. It inspires no blissful memories, nor does it kindle fond feelings in the bosom of the hearer, instead the heart is hardened to it like the feathers of a duck to water, repulsing it, leaving it to run off into the ditches and by-ways of the long forgotten past, to trickle dejectedly into those stagnant ponds where so many words of wisdom are imprisoned: out of sight, out of mind, out of heart, out of history. Yet while history is forgotten and misconstrued, it is repeated, for what is life without water, which nourishes and sustains it, and what is life without wisdom, which protects and cultivates it?
Jehu is my name, though it no longer brings the quickened pulse and keen anticipation of happiness to the hearts of any, not even my own. For what deference can be given to a name, though not in itself a thing of dishonor, which represents the failure to derail the evitable fate which wrecks the race of man again and again. Not that I myself embody such a failure, nor even that I gave birth to the dreaded fate's latest momentum, but as is seen time and again throughout history, one name is brought to represent the tide of change, for better or worse, the doer of deeds which were done not by him, but by a mass of independent doers, yet it is written in the annals of history as the deeds of but one man.
While I had little to do, consciously, with the doom of the earth, I will always be fingered as the villain, as the ambitious