MASTERS OF THE MAZE.

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/maze.html - about the book.

I brought this book recently called "Masters of The Maze."

It was printed for the first time in 1965 by a guy called Avram Davidson, and published by Pyramid book's.

http://www.pyramidbooks.com/

^ check out there logo.

The artwork on the covers by: John Schoenherr

http://www.bpib.com/illustra3/Schoenherr/Draft.html

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On the very first page, as soon as you open the book is this:

INTO THHE MAZE

"Nate Gordon entered the inner room, closed the door, pulled up the wall, stepped through, pulled it down after him.

He took five or six uncertain steps...

Afterwards, though how long afterwards he knew not, he came out into the temple of en-lil in ancient Mesopotamia, where the priestess was waiting...

Then, ice and snow gusted on a plain where the great red mammoths fled away...

And he stood facing men with green beards at a strange crossroads on another world...

And the maze had not yet done with him.

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And a "Petrarch" qoute.

"Unless the past perishes, i cannot be safe."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/petrarca.htm

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There is a short disclosure a page before the first chapter, the first and second paragraphs' read;

"Elias Ashmole thought that he had discovered it. Oxford lawyer, courtier, soldier, astrologer, alchemist, historian, mystic, pragmatist, devotee of the new learning as well as the old; first gentleman freemason, founder of the first "public museum of curiosities" in england: Elias Ashmole, floreat 1617-1692.

The Maze was, is, and will be. when the magnablock exploded into infinity, the maze was formed. "There was light"--and the light shon upon the maze. Coeval and coexistent, neither of the same substance nor the same essence; having the attributes, the incidents, the accidents of neither terrene nor contraterrene matter, the Maze is both immanent and transcendent of both. It traverses space, it transects time. ancient of years, the worlds form around it...."

Ok, going to actually start reading it now.

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