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An ancient prediction will rock the modern world... Almost six thousand years ago - before the wheel, before paper - sages predicted that in the 6th part of the 6th millennium humanity would begin to tap into a well of infinite wisdom. The prediction was recorded in the Zohar, an ancient 13th century writing containing the words of sages from millennia past. Hazael, his grandfather Aaron and a Buddhist monk Vajrayogini dedicate their lives to studying and analyzing mathematical structures within these texts, certain that at a point in time sophisticated computers will be able to produce coherent patterns of information that will resolve into a beautifully simple explanation of our raison d'etre. At the point where some clarity becomes apparent, Vajrayogini co-opts two additional mathematicians, Jewish and Muslim, to help them fast track the project. Their groundbreaking work is to air publicly for the first time at an international conference in Jerusalem. But is the world ready for what the texts have to say? Fragment of Truthis a thrilling work of adult fiction that begins in 1948 but concerning the present day and the imminent future.

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Publié par	Troubador Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	28 avril 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781784627119
Langue	English

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FRAGMENT OF TRUTH
JOHN DAVIES
Copyright 2015 John Davies
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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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For my incredible family, past and present,

for those whom are written but not yet born.
Fantasy enables us to produce new things from those already in existence; it is not the counter pole, but the extension of reality.
Thomas Gruber
Summaria
The idea proposed in this book is structured as five primary elements - Beginning through to Words; flanked by two complementary elements - Sunset/Moonrise the point of conception - Sunrise, the sixth part, the period when global thought will begin to merge as a precursor to the setting of the sun.
Author s Note
Acknowledgements
0 Sunset Moonrise
N Beginning
Progression
Guardians
Numbers
Q Words
D Sunrise
Epilogue
Appendices
Author s Note
The end-date of a 5125-year-long cycle in the Meso-American Long Count calendar, the so-called Mayan prediction, was on 21 12 2012. A possibility at the time, that created a billion-dollar film amidst press speculation aimed at those who find fascination in doom and gloom; those naysayers who use every opportunity to find reason to pronounce that the end of the world is nigh.
Almost four thousand years ago, before the wheel, before paper, ancient sages predicted that in the sixth part of the sixth millennium humanity would begin to attain the capacity to tap into the well of infinite wisdom. This was subsequently recorded in The Zohar , a word meaning radiance whose mystical ideas are encapsulated therein.
Such a prescient vision has been preserved for all this time within the ancient, unique and sustained culture of the People of the Book, and is imminent given accelerating quantum leaps in technology driving humanity to coalesce rapidly towards the point called Singularity.
This is a story about an idea giving consideration to this ancient prediction in the context of the extraordinary set of circumstances playing out in our world as I write; an attempt to try to understand the rules set in motion before the beginning; to anticipate the end-game in which we are still, and will remain, merely players. To be able to create and understand an idea, a thought, is an essential part of being human - in Ren Descartes own words, Cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am .
Some numerical complexity is vital to convey the idea construct, mathematics being a universal truth, but do not concern yourself if you are not so inclined; going with the general flow of the concept is the key. George Orwell wrote 1984 , using as his title a variation on the year in which he wrote the book - 1948. His reasoning in so doing was simply the future is here . Modifying this concept slightly, the essence of my story is simply - the future was written before the beginning .
This project is complete; my preoccupation with its themes will continue. As you read, please consider the following: -
Why not reveal everything in time through the inexorable process of accelerating thought?
Why not bury the key to reality within the plain text of ancient and seemingly simple stories that have persisted throughout the sweep of history and yet are continually debunked by modernity on the basis of being irrelevant to our time?
My hope may be encapsulated in the words of Benoit Mandelbrot - My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact
John Davies
www.fragmentoftruth.com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I give thanks for life and my deep appreciation of language / words, which in keeping with the idea of this book I suggest are the creative impulse for everything; Rogan for his painstaking scrutiny laced with humour that served to lighten the initial editing task; Margaret for her exquisite Latin translations executed with such deft precision; Vivek for his sharp focus with the shloka; Alex Yee for his confirmation of Pi sequence location; Lee, who on reaching nirvana gave of his time and altered a name; Gail for her relentless pursuit of detail; brilliant authors of hundreds of books and tomes too numerous to list, all of whom have formed an essential part of my psyche - it is my belief that every book is influenced by all the books written before it; My special family for their attention to detail and useful suggestions in reading the first manuscript.
I acknowledge you, the reader, for sharing in my fantastical interpretation of an idea arising from an extraordinary prophecy made thousands of years ago. A prophecy that could conceivably materialise in one form or another, given the incredible rate at which the world at large is gaining access to information, and the fact that we are indeed on the cusp of the sixth epoch.
TZIMTZUM
0
is a number 10 0 - 10 0 that comes from the Sanskrit word nya, meaning empty or void . Zero defines the lack of a positional value and in ancient times was shown as a space between numerals.
Tzimtzum is the notion that there is a contradiction between the infinite and the finite. If the Creator is everywhere, how can anything else exist? The very act of creation involved a self-limitation on the part of the Creator, whose presence contracted so that finitude - space and time and the things that occupy them, could emerge.
Were it not so, we would not be!
SUNSET
When the community of Israel was exiled from its home, the letters of the Divine name flew apart. But in the sixth millennium the letter V will resurrect the letter H. In the sixth part of the sixth millennium, the gates of supernal knowledge will open above along with the wellsprings of secular wisdom below. This will begin the process whereby the world will prepare to enter the seventh, Sabbath, millennium, as man makes preparations on the sixth day of the week to enter the Day of Rest, when the sun is about to set.
The Zohar.
El - Hakkari Road, Old City Jerusalem, Israel Palestine 1200 hours Sunday April 19 th 1998 CE (5758 HC)
Sharon Abendstern, face haggard and drawn from several days of stress and lack of sleep, sat on the edge of her husband s bed gently stroking the back of his wizened hand. Aaron s eyes opened but were glazed over, causing an icy horripilation on her skin. Recovering quickly she asked in a soft voice how he was feeling.
The the frr he tried to say, his voice hoarse, faltering.
No Arly, it is all right please try to be quiet, she said, stifling her desire to cry out and engulf him in her arms.
Thin traces of salt marked her cheeks, each one a sign of the torment raging within her small frame as she watched her husband dying slowly before her, in incremental, inexorable, tortured steps. A tear fell from her soft brown eyes and onto his hand. She felt she was at the lowest ebb of her life.
The room they were in was set high above the ancient, narrow, cobbled street of El - Hakkari. A muezzin calling the faithful to prayer in the Arab quarter reminded her of Aaron s fondness for the sound. Three days before, Aaron had collapsed towards the end of an International statistics conference in Jerusalem and had been rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. After heated argument the doctors eventually agreed to Sharon s wish for him to be able to die in peace within his home surrounds.
A dog barked in the street just below them and she stood up to look outside. A figure in a black burqa shuffled across her view and disappeared around the corner opposite their apartment. Something in the way the person moved heightened her sense of awareness. She waited, keeping half an eye out for Aaron.
The person reappeared and walked slowly towards them. Her body tensed as the dark eyes behind the burqa glanced up and fixed on her. The person hesitated, and then continued walking towards their building. There was a light knock on the door. Sharon turned towards Aaron, unsure as to what to do.
Aaron cried out in a soft but firm voice Sharon, let her in! It s all right, let her in please.
Sharon was amazed on hearing Aaron speak coherently for the first time since his collapse.
What are you saying Aaron? Who is it? she asked, perplexed as to how Aaron could know that the stranger was a woman. Do you know who it is at the door?
Aaron smiled and tried to speak, but no words came out at first.
Arly how do you know who it is? she persisted, holding his hand and squeezing it, delighted that her husband was again communicating.
I know I jus just know. Let her in please, Aaron rasped.
Sharon crossed the room and opened the door. The person was a woman as Aaron had said. She was clearly Asian. She indicated for the woman to enter and motioned for her to take a seat, then went back to Aaron.
Arly Arly, wake up ! Sharon held his head to her chest and rocked back and forth, crying.
Aaron opened his eyes and tried to focus on Sharon. Smiling, he parted his dry parched lips just enough to whisper.
Hazael Hazael where is he? he rasped.
Shhh Arly. He isn t