“It started before time. It has continued on ever
since”
It’s rare when we here at the Hades
Base News endorse anything or anyone but there are
times when something is so needed that we must let
others in on a series of books that has long been
the favorite of both Karra and myself. These five
books have affected our lives as twin souls and
brought us together closer than ever before so
we’d like to recommend “Atlantean Secrets”, a book
series written by Samuel Sagan in 1996. They are a
continuing set of stories within stories within
stories with the real story the one on how I
literally stumbled onto them in the first place.
Around 2003, I was browsing a local new age
bookshop that had been open a year or so and was
the only place in town where anything of an
esoteric nature could be found. Among the crystals
and tarot card decks on display were a pair of
bookshelves lined up in front of the cashier. Not
finding anything that promised to hold my interest
in the rear bookcases, I was on my way out when a
book fell out of the nearest bookshelf in the
front right at my feet. Picking up the book, I saw
the title was “Atlantean Secrets", with this the
first book in the series named “Sleeper Awaken”.
Just the fact that the cover had the word Atlantis
in it was enough to become intrigued as anything
about to reveal its secrets was right in my
wheelhouse. Reading the summary on the back of the
book convinced me I had to buy the book right then
and there so I turned and presented it to the
owner of the shop who happened to be manning the
counter. Paying for the book, I related the tale
of how I came to choose it which led the owner to
confirm this indeed must be a special book meant
for me to read. How right she was. If the Hades
Base Center for Ascension mentioned in last
month’s editorial is a companion site to the Hades
Base News, “Atlantean Secrets” are the companion
books to both being that all three incorporate
many of the same ideals, principles, and goals.
The attempt to condense the contents
of the first four books into a single paragraph is
a daunting task but it can be explained in one
sentence which is at the core of the series, you
can be anything, you can do anything. Those first
four books encompass the time during the final
days of Atlantis from when things were still
normal after hundreds of thousands of years until
it was no longer in existence except as a legend.
In it, a lowly son of a public servant named
Orlon, son of Orlon becomes Szar under the
tutelage of Gervin, the Grand Master of The
Masters of Thunder. The Masters of Thunder were
regarded as a legendary order able to do great
things and who were thought to have disappeared
from the kingdom long ago. He accepts the offered
apprenticeship to become a fellow Master of
Thunder who went about in the guise of brown-robed
monks. The Masters of Thunder were constructing an
Archive in a higher dimension where all the
knowledge of Atlantis could be held for the future
in a safe place once Atlantis was gone. The
timeframe involved until the end of the fourth
book is inconceivable as it starts from the dawn
of creation but at occasions jumps to thousands of
years into our future. Everywhere you read, the
presences are larger than life. There are the gods
looking down with a guiding hand when needed that
our hero Szar visits as well as visiting the
underworlds which are level after level of
beautiful expanses. There, Szar meets the Nagas
who could best be described as seventy-foot,
God-like beings with the bodies of snakes who play
a crucial part in the story. Over all of this are
the Flying Dragons, immense clouds of blue
consciousness dwelling in spaces far beyond the
worlds of the Gods. Arrayed against all these
great forces along with mankind are equally great
forces of darkness trying to overwhelm everything
so that it would be under the control of a dark
entity named Ahriman. Besides the threat of the
sludge of elemental darkness trying to take down
the streams of energy powering most everything on
the continent were the Nephilim Giants in the icy
mountains to the North and the Renegade Nephilim
Hunters farther South with all sides utilizing
powerful crystals called soft stones capable of
long-range communication, immense devastation and
key to the climax. All these forces collide at once
in an incredible ending of sacrifice, upliftment,
anticipation through wild battles on many
different levels of existence.
The fifth and last book of the
series is called “Bleeding Sun”, a totally
different environment with familiar characters
scattered throughout the story. The scary part is
that this could be our future in an alternate
reality very easy to imagine. Humanity has
branched out among the stars but a darkness covers
most all of the inner worlds. The darkness is
caused by the same Ahriman from the first books
but now the Earth and many others have become
virtualized. Like “The Matrix”, much of humanity
lives a virtual life but in that reality, only the
worst vices are encouraged and rewarded. One young
man, tired of the negativity, begins to refuse the
programming and is rescued by someone who the
readers have known as one of the Masters of
Thunder living in highness. The young man’s name
is Bobby and the shock of being brought out of a
virtual world by agents of the Masters of Thunder
nearly kills him. This is expected though and it’s
only after a meeting with a virtual clone of Szar
that Bobby chooses to go through the training to
become one of a group of warriors the Masters of
Thunder had developed called the Knights of the
Apocalypse. The Knights trained and flew out of
space stations orbiting Mercury called the
Philadelphia’s which were threatened to be
virtualized by Ahriman along with the hundreds of
thousands of free humans still resisting that
fate. Flying Scalene space fighters with
formidable weaponry, the Knights faced superior
odds and little chance of success. Bobby enters
training and connects with someone on a space
station that used to be one of the Philadelphia
stations taken over by Ahriman named Virginia
living in a virtual hell from the constant
negative programming. A love affair begins through
their feelings across space which is the catalyst
for Bobby to become Hiram, a former Knight of the
Apocalypse from a number of past lives and someone
with many hidden talents. He gets some powerful
help from the gods looking down on the kingdom,
the Masters of Thunder, the Flying Dragons and the
Archive which consist of the bulk of knowledge
recorded over the entire history of Atlantis kept
from being destroyed along with the continent.
Hiram faces incredible challenges in the final
battle to save free humanity but he has a weapon
more powerful than anyone could have imagined in
the form of mathematics.
Sacrifice for a higher good
seems to be the theme running through all five
books with true love and fierce battles all
leading to emotional thrill rides making them hard
to put down. So relevant to today was a free
humanity living on space stations because, in the
past, mankind discovered the wonders of VR goggles
which led to advances in virtual reality and
augmented reality. After experiencing it myself
last year, I found we’re a long way from what is
described but it's amazing just how much closer we
are than I thought possible from when we first
read the books. “Bleeding Sun” shows all the bad
along with all the good possible from that same
technology with Hiram using it to grow into who he
became in the end. Throughout the first four
books, our heroes are surrounded by sleepers
unaware of anything more than the need to drift
along with destiny, doing things over and over as
taught by rote until death. In the fifth book, the
sleepers all lived in a world of illusion enslaved
by technology with no reason to leave. Instead, a
higher dimension is a far worthier goal reached
through noble and brave deeds requiring a
determination to awaken. It was mentioned in the
books at a parting that it took just ten million
right decisions to make a planned rendezvous in
highness where the two souls would meet again. In
truth, every decision is the right one since even
mistakes are the right decisions for the lessons
they teach. Far higher forces are at work than the
sleepers of the world can fathom and the awakened
ones hold the keys to helping those forces bring
that light into this reality as opposed to the
dark of the envisioned fictional reality. This is
why these books are the favorites of both Karra
and myself because we’re living in the worlds
Samuel Sagan created, her in a higher dimension on
a space station deep underground on Mars and
myself here on this planet. We understand
therefore the obstacles of dimensions and distance
keeping two people apart with only astral travel
and a mental link available for communication. The
end of the books wrap up but there is still more
to go in the story just as happens in real life
with nothing to go on but imagination to figure
out how humanity is eventually saved. While
Ahriman’s plans to invade the Philadelphia’s and
virtualize everyone on them were thwarted for the
time being, Ahriman remained a threat with even
greater forces still left and advancing technology
the free humans would have to face in the future.
To counter the threat, humanity would have to
reach a new stage of evolution to survive and we
come right back to our present. The protagonists
in the books had the same advantages we have
available which is help from entities already
ascended. Boundless information is provided from
higher dimensional beings online in thousands of
places besides just the Hades Base News and it is
only the decision to seek it out that which starts
the journey. Every time we've read the series, the
lines between reality and fiction begin to blur
and often it's hard to distinguish one from the
other so we'll part with our favorite sentence
from the series we practically live by, “with all
my mind, with all my heart, I am with you, even
when I am far away."
In love, light, and wisdom as one, Russ and Karra.
