<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473073" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Book</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have found myself searching for a book in my father's attic.<br>A book that he meant to burn, but instead hid away.<br>On his deathbed he told me categorically to destroy it, <br>by burning each page come what may.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The book was a Greek translation from ancient Aramaic text, <br>which was discovered in eastern Turkey in 1886.<br>The goat herder that found it sold it for a few Turkish lira<br>to a Greek mountain climber and archaeologist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Athens he read it and told a learned friend about its contents, <br>his so called friend told someone else and so did he.<br>This inevitably led to the book being stolen and repeatedly sold, <br>until my father bought it from a French soldier in 1943. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a young man my father studied ancient Greek at university<br>and soon realised what the book contained.<br>It was a powder keg of mind blowing revelations about the psyche, <br>its development and expansion were explained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It detailed the mind control of others, mysticism, and the occult.<br>The practice of spiritual and angelic communication.<br>The transportation of the body to other dimensions, <br>and life's process of perpetuation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My father read the book though didn't practice it's teachings, <br>he realised the enormous threats to life it contained.<br>But for many reasons he found its destruction impossible, <br>so it's fate with me remained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Orlando+Belo">Orlando Belo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473073" data-title="The Book de Orlando Belo" data-description="I have found myself searching for a book in my father's attic. A book that he meant to burn, but instead hid away. On his deathbed he told me categorically to destroy it, by burning each page come what may. The book was a Greek translation from ..."></div> </div> </div>

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