by Don P. Bick
LOTUS ISLE
Key the First: The Vulcan’s Price
By
DON P. BICK
Copyright 2011 by Don P. Bick, all rights reserved.
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For those who believe there are other levels of life out there.
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Table of Contents
1. Part I
2. Chapter 8 - midway through Part I
3. Part II
4. Chapter 15 - halfway through book
5. Chapter 30 - midway through Part II
6. Part III
7. About the author and his website
ORACLE OF THE FOURTH ORDER
For it shall come to pass: when those arriving in this world will accomplish the necessary prerequisites; move into peace and tranquil freedom; into a Golden Land of plenty. The alternative is darkness and death.
When a representative arrives from each of the seven major globes during the same year they shall face the challenges together. If successful, they will unlock the secrets and enter the Ring of Fire.
The path to this Golden Land lies across the magical Bridge of Seven Colors. One end of this Bridge begins within the Ring of Fire. The other sets in the Golden Land. The Bridge spans the gap for all the dead and dying to cross: thus they enter into a land of pure being, into a world of eternal life – the Golden Land.
A quest to gather the keys which will unlock the secrets of this Bridge shall be lead by one who arrives in the Golden Flower - a representative from globe the fourth. He will be accompanied by the illusive one and the red warrior. The rest of the members will be determined by calling upon the initial guidance of the mystical cave. This mystical cave lies at the head of a creek that replies to all who speak - the seven will be revealed there.
Solve the secrets of this Bridge and the doors to death will be closed forever. Fail to solve the riddle and the Lotus Isle will become a place of torturous evil and darkness, an unspeakable world of corruption.
Seven golden keys are necessary to unlock the final door, admitting entrance into the Ring of Fire. Each of the seven quest members must possess one of these keys to gain entrance through that final portal.
KEY THE FIRST: The stone door, barring the way to this key, is opened when it is realized the door is an illusion. As the south wind blows and the eastern mountain peak radiates its whiteness in the west, so shall the pass to this key be revealed. The eagle in the west holds the key in his mighty talon.
KEY THE SECOND: The dying flower shall be revived by the giver of beauty and life. The flower grows in the west, south of the living lake, north of the wind. The wind blows its bowed head toward the living. Its roots search in vain for fertile soil. There is only rock, surrounded by water. When the flower raises its head, and smiles, the key is given to the giver.
KEY THE THIRD: The animal's hatred is discharged by the red one, leaving an open path for the retrieval of the key. The animal's passion surges to the fore when speared through the heart. His lair is in the southwest at the base of the golden peak. The slain one yields up its key to the slayer.
KEY THE FOURTH: The fruit of the golden flower moves upon the lake of fire until the cool center is reached, and thus the key. The flower's seed blossoms into a master among men when the key is grasped from above. The volcano lies in the center, waiting to send out its new life to all things dying. The fruit of the golden flower creates his key from the union of the dead and the living. As in the manner of arrival, the fourth is the last, the seventh.
KEY THE FIFTH: The illusive entrance into the cave of darkness lies midway between noon and midnight. The reflection of the shining stone reveals the key and the way. Only the quickened one sees and responds. The shining stone lies in the north where the river issues forth from the mountain lake.
KEY THE SIXTH: Submerged within the lake of night lies the lighted jewel. When blue smothers the light the key is rendered unto the newly enlightened one. Deep within the dark bowels of rock there exists a placid lake of night. Light upon the mystery of its location reveals the exit.
KEY THE SEVENTH: The dark chamber explodes in terrifying beauty, revealing that which has been hidden, the key to the Bridge. At the moment of shattering the key is given. They know it not, but proceed to take up the fourth.
The quest is sanctified before the Ruler of the Waters. The seven members pledge themselves in uniform purpose.
Let it be known:
1. The Plutonian brothers shall remove the dead ones.
2. The Vulcan on Serpent Isle will exact a price for their contribution.
3. Death will be revisited, while the mystery of the Sun shines forth.
The mysteries are deep, the rewards great. To fail is to live a torturous and painful death, forever. To succeed reveals the way of life, and thus truth and purpose.
PART I
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