Full Description
In this initiatic novel, bestselling author and acclaimed spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow weaves an erotically charged story of romance, deep earth forces, psychic powers, the aristocracy, and Vatican world control revealed by an ancient ruby that inspires mystical visions.
Set in Rome in 2012, the story follows Sarah Adamson, a beautiful young Catholic graduate student from Boston studying at the Vatican Library for her thesis on the first Christian heretic, Marcion of Pontus. She is being courted by two utterly different men: Simon Appel, a descendent of the kabbalist Isaac Luria who covers Vatican affairs for the New York Times, and Armando Pierleoni, the scion of an ancient Italian aristocratic family with strong ties to the Vatican. After a terrible encounter with the dark side at a castle in Tuscany, Sarah is given a ring set with a ruby crystal, a powerful stone that was once the third eye of an ancient Buddha statue in Nepal.
With the mystic ring on her finger, Sarah's visionary abilities are ignited. She remembers her past life as the Sibyl of Cumae, a Roman oracle whose powers are now being channelled by the Vatican to maintain world control. As Sarah's research and visions reveal the cause of evil in the Church and Simon's reporting exposes the depth of the sexual abuse scandals surrounding the Vatican, the two form an alliance with an ex-lover of both Simon and Armando, Claudia, who describes secret priestly power rituals going on in Vatican City.
As the heightened energies of the winter solstice of 2012 arrive and 2013 dawns, will Simon and Sarah be able to harness their divine powers for transformation? Will the Vatican seek new direction as it elects a new pope? Revealing the very nature of how evil gets into the world, this novel of romance, mystery, heresy, and spirituality uncovers the esoteric foundations for the emergence of a golden new age.
Contents
PART ONE
The Sibyl of Cumae
1 Rome
2 Reviving the Sibyl
3 Borghese Gardens
4 The Vatican Museum
5 A Visitor in Rome
6 Dinner at Alfredo's
7 A Dinner in Tuscany
8 The Golden World
9 Ossuaries and Etruscan Tombs
10 The Limestone Grotto
11 What about Marriage?
12 Shelter Island
13 Simon Magus
14 Summer Giulia
15 Sister Hildegard
16 A Home in Rome
17 The Lady of Villa Giulia
18 The Ruby Crystal
PART TWO
Armando's Redemption
19 The Parents' Dinner
20 A Stormy Night
21 St. Peter's Bones
22 Caves under the Vatican
23 Old Friends 24 Thanksgiving 2012
25 The Wedding
26 Sarah Meets Claudia
27 December 2012
28 Lake Avernus and Baia
29 Between the Sheets in Roma
30 The Shadow of Moloch
31 The Pierleoni Garden
32 Armando's Analysis
33 Orvieto Cathedral
34 Two Fathers
PART THREE
The End of the Mayan Calendar
35 The Pope Resigns! 36 Claudia and Armando
37 Via Lombardia
38 The First Quartet
39 The Conclave
40 The Painter and the Photographer
41 The Fonte Gaia
42 La Sagrada Familia
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