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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Foreword
The Wars of Man
The Contending of Horus and Seth
The Missiles of Zeus and Indra
The Earth Chronicles
The Wars of the Olden Gods
Mankind Emerges
When Earth Was Divided
The Pyramid Wars
Peace on Earth
The Prisoner in the Pyramid
"A Queen Am I!"
Prelude to Disaster
Abraham: The Fateful Years
The Nuclear Holocaust
Epilogue
The Earth Chronicles: Time Chart
Sources
Index
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FOREWORD
Long before man warred with man. the gods battled among them-
selves. Indeed, it was as the Wars of the Gods that the Wars of" Man
began.
And the Wars of the Gods, for control of this Earth, had begun
on their own planet.
It was thus that mankind's first civilization succumbed to a nu-
clear holocaust.
This is fact, not fiction; it has all been written down long ago—in
the Earth Chronicles.
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THE WARS OF MAN
In the spring of 1947, a shepherd boy searching for a lost sheep in
the barren cliffs overlooking the Dead Sea, discovered a cave that
contained Hebrew scrolls hidden inside earthenware jars. Those
and other scrolls found in the area in subsequent years—collec-
tively spoken of as the Dead Sea Scrolls—had lain undisturbed for
nearly two thousand years, carefully wrapped and hidden away
during the turbulent years when Judea challenged the might of the
Roman empire.
Was this part of the official library of Jerusalem, carted away to
safety before the city and its temple fell in
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. 70, or—as most
scholars assume—a library of the Essenes, a sect of hermits with
messianic preoccupations? The opinions are divided, for the li-
brary contained both traditional biblical texts as well as writings
dealing with the sect's customs, organization, and beliefs.
One of the longest and most complete scrolls, and perhaps the
most dramatic, deals with a future war, a kind of Final War. Titled
by scholars The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Dark-
ness, it envisages spreading warfare—local battles that will first in-
volve Judea's immediate neighbors, which shall increase in feroc-
ity and scope until the whole ancient world would be engulfed:
"The first engagement of the Sons of Light against the Sons of
Darkness, that is against the army of Belial, shall be an attack upon
the troops of Edom, Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistine area;
then upon that of the Kittians of Assyria: and upon those violators
of the Covenant who give them aid. . . ." And after those battles,
"they shall advance upon the Kittians of Egypt" and "in due time
. . . against the kings of the north."
In this War of Men, the scroll prophesied, the God of Israel shall
take an active role:
On the day the Kittians fall, there shall be mighty combat and
carnage, in the presence of the God of Israel;
For that is the day which He appointed of old for the final bat-
tle against the Sons of Darkness.
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THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN
The Prophet Ezekiel had already prophesied the Last Battle, "in
the latter days," involving Gog and Magog, in which the Lord
himself shall "smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause
thine arrows to fall out of thine right hand." But the Dead Sea
scroll went further, foreseeing the actual participation of many
gods in the battles, engaged in combat side by side with mortal
men:
On that day, the Company of the Divine and the Congregation
of the Mortals shall engage side by side in combat and carnage.
The Sons of Light shall battle against the Sons of Darkness
with a show of godlike might, amid uproarious tumult, amid the
war cries of gods and men.
Though Crusaders. Saracens, and countless others in historical
times have gone to war "in the name of God," the belief that in a
war to come the Lord himself shall be actually present on the bat-
tlefield, and that gods and men would fight side by side, sounds as
fantasy, to be treated allegorically at best. Yet it is not as extraordi-
nary a notion as it may appear to be, for in earlier times, it was in-
deed believed that the Wars of Men were not only decreed by the
gods but were also fought with the gods' active participation.
One of the most romanticized wars, when "love had launched a
thousand ships," was the War of Troy, between the Achaean
Greeks and the Trojans, ft was, know we not, launched by the
Greeks to force the Trojans to return the beautiful Helen to her law-
ful spouse. Yet an epic Greek tale, the Kypria, represented the war
as a premeditated scheme by the great god Zeus:
There was a time when thousands upon thousands of men en-
cumbered the broad bosom of the Earth. And having pity on
them, Zeus in his great wisdom resolved to lighten Earth's bur-
den.
So he caused the strife at Ilion (Troy) to that end; that through
death he might make a void in the race of men.
Homer, the Greek storyteller who related the war's events in the
Iliad, blamed the whim of the gods for instigating the conflict and
for turning and twisting it to its ultimate major proportions. Acting
directly and indirectly, sometimes seen and sometimes unseen, the
various gods nudged the principal actors of this human drama to
their fates. And behind it all was Jove (Jupiter/Zeus): "While the

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