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Magnetic Metaphysical Fantasy Dec 04, 2002
By Rebecca Johnson
"The Rebecca Review"
THE STONE OF ALEXANDRIA spans a immense time period from Atlantis to present day New York. The story focuses on the lives of a few individuals caught in a world of desire, power and intrigue. While dark forces attempt to use these individuals for their own purposes, Michael Valens has been chosen to protect a small smooth stone first discovered in Atlantis.
"The Stone of Alexandria" in this book might also be known as The Philosopher's Stone. Yet, in this novel, it can be used for good or evil and is controlled by the mind of the person who possesses it. The Philosopher's Stone is said to have a universal binding power that unites minds a souls and encourages the highest realm of pure thought and altruistic existence.
Lleu Christopher does not present the stone as a substance that can turn baser metals into gold and almost laughs at the absurdity of such insignificance. He presents it as a powerful object similar to "The Ring" in the "Lord of The Rings" movie. This object has a mind of its own and almost protects itself by moving from one person to the next giving them each temporal power. Michael Valens is chosen as a "keeper of sorts." First, he has to find the stone!
Michael is thrown into a fantasy adventure by his own curiosity and search for spiritual significance. His curiosity leads him to a magickal society. This book is more fantasy than occult manual and is a metaphysical fantasy about secret societies. It turns into more of an adventure in which Lleu Christopher paints vivid pictures of a fate already decided since the beginning of time.
As Michael stands watching his own life, his fate is decided. He must now embrace his new task for the good of the world that is now threatened by the power of thought and intention of the evil ones looking for the stone.
Craig Matthews appears as a rival and unlikely candidate to protect an item so powerful as the Stone of Alexandra. He develops a curiosity about "The Network" and an interest in this magickal stone. The Network protects this magickal object.
Lleu adds a touch of romance here and there and effortlessly blends myth with reality and time travel with dark conspiracies and mystical stones. He creates suspense with a kidnapping and draws characters into the story that have emotional significance to the other participants. You can see Michael change from an observer to a highly responsible soul who accepts his mission willingly.
"Sara was leading him on yet another journey into unknown realities. This, however, was quite unlike his recent dreams and otherworldly travels, where he had felt as much a hostage as a visitor. Where he went with Sara - the terrain changed too quickly for him to focus clearly, but he saw and felt impossibly turquoise seas which blended into scarlet skies, through meadows with kaleidoscopically bright flowers, and black space lit by blue starlight-he would not have traded for anything." Pg. 323
Sara is an intriguing character who is actually a faerie creature who captivates Michael's attention. Lleu Christopher draws from his experiences while living in New York City and often used to take the subways in the course of everyday life. He encountered many "street people" and found out there was a virtual underground city beneath the subway system. He explores subterranean homes briefly in this novel.
Lleu Christopher is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction and also reviews various works here at Amazon, including Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece.
His essays can be found online and he brings perspective to world issues with the use of the theoretical philosophy of being and knowing. He is a writer, philosopher and sociologist and calls himself a "fringe dweller." He is interested in Western and Eastern mysticism.
Lleu Christopher weaves a story of magick, secret societies, faeries, reincarnation and other ideas in-between a web of intrigue. He introduces each character and develops them fully before weaving their lives into the intricacies of the story. He has an exceptionally intelligent writing style and a background to compliment this novel. He obviously has insight into the nature of the Philosopher's stone.
While many see the Philosopher's Stone quite differently and this novel takes many ideas and weaves them into a intriguing plot, it is interesting to consider that the universal binding power which unites minds and souls could in fact be the Son of God. The Philosopher's Stone might not really be a physical substance, but perhaps a spiritual experience in which you accept your destiny through your own spiritual decisions and move towards eternity. After all, to the mystic, the Philosopher's Stone is perfect love. The Hermetic Stone is Divine Power.
"He who possesses the Philosopher's Stone possesses Truth, the greatest of all treasures, and is therefore rich beyond the calculation of man; he is immortal because reason takes no account of death and he is healed of Ignorance - the most loathsome of all diseases." (The Secret Teachings of All Ages)
Rabbi's know of a white powder of gold which is somehow connected to Philosopher's stone, but no one knows how to make it since the knowledge was destroyed along with the first Temple of Solomon. In Ancient Egypt they also believed you had to feed the spirit so it could become enlightened. You would then have various gifts, telepathy, knowledge of good vs. evil, levitation, walking on water, ability to think about where you would like to be and you immediately appear or disappear and would live forever. You become a fifth dimensional being. Some of these ideas are explored in this novel and woven effortlessly into the story. Characters move from one reality to the next. They live between the inexplicable and unpredictable.
The Characters in this novel are seeking the stone to protect it or to gain power for evil purposes.
Intriguing and Completely Unique!
~The Rebecca Review
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
stone of alexandria May 19, 2009
By James P. Casey
Lleu Christopher's book "The Stone of Alexandria" is a Celtic knotwork of a book, weaving in and out of different times and realities in a suspenseful and provocative way, sort of like Quantum Physics meets Rod Serling meets The Seth Material meets James Patterson. I found it a good read and I was especially intrigued with the a-moral character Craig Matthews and his nihilistic take on the world. There's political intrigue, conspiracy, New Age vs. New Rage, Druids, Fairies, Sorcerors, a glimpse of what the ancient library at Alexandria might have been like. We speed back and forth from present day NY & California to Atlantis to subway caverns to Alexandria and otherworldy dimensions. If you're tired of your everyday best seller, and want to experience suspense, murder and mystery mixed in with a quantum physics mind toggling view of Time-Space with Parallel Dimensions and reincarnation, then this book might rattle your current Belief System in a readable, understandable plot twist and turn. And aren't each of us in our own way responsible for the survival of our 'World'. Mr. Christopher has crafted a modern fantasy, that makes our 'reality' seem like fantasy, and has left the end open in a way for a possible sequel, which may be hovering about out there in one of those parallel worlds or lifetimes. Who knows. Is your belief system better than mine? Or Mr. Christophers'? Only our shadows know.
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