"Seth attacked the farm yesterday and stole some of the animals."

Ast stood up, her eyes filled with sadness and concern.

"Why does he continue to seek revenge on us at every turn? Isn't it enough that he killed Osir?"

"Don't you see mother, he wants to rule this planet? Isn't it clear to you that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants? Seth seeks only our demise. He does not want us here at all. He knows that our continued existence is the only real threat to his power."

"You must find a way to stop him Ra or he will destroy us and all that is good and beautiful in this world. He is drunk with the power of evil. The strain of the long voyage coupled with the terrible consequences of his miscalculations must have made him go mad! Please ask Mon to come here to take council with us. It is time to draw upon our sacred magic to contain him."

Ra left the room and walked down the long dark hallway towards Mon's laboratory. As he walked, he thought about the beauty of their old home, the solar system where they came from so long ago. Gazing through a window at the darkened landscape of the New Earth he thought of the great culture that they had achieved. Even now, in the dark night sky, he could see the reddish glow of their home star some 8.7 light years away.. They called that sun, their star, the 'God-Star' now. Ra remembered the 350 year long trip it had taken for them to get from the God Star to this shiny little planet, the third one away from it's central star. The Great Ship, which was over two thousand miles wide and perfectly round was constructed for that prolonged voyage. It's insides had been made hollow. They had placed many thousands of people and animals inside so that they could repopulate the New World once they arrived. . The hull of the ship was composed of twenty miles of hardened metal and rock. This would protect the travelers inside from the dangerous radiation and occasional asteroid hits that were prevalent in deep space. To create false gravity, so that the people inside would not have to adapt to weightlessness, they spun the ship. And so, as they journeyed to their new home, the people of the God Star lived on the inside surface of the Great Ship in relatively safe and familiar environment. They had lakes, forests, streams and cities in their Great Ship. It was, indeed, the proudest external achievement of their race.

Osir, Ra's father, steeped in the traditional ways of the ancients ruled the ship with great care. Seth, a recent initiate in this tradition, was the chief navigator and engineer of the ship. He and Osir always spent part of their days discussing the vagaries of the voyage. At first Seth appeared to be content with his work and the task at hand. Like all of the others he did practices to keep his body and mind clear, flexible and strong. In accordance with the secret instructions of their tradition, every morning and evening they would give themselves over to meditation and prayer.

In the beginning of their long voyage, Seth spent a portion of his day with them in meditation, contemplating the outer beauty of the universe and inner beauty of the spirit. As the newest initiate he wanted to prove himself worthy. And so, it seemed as though he had prepared himself well for the long and arduous journey. But as the years passed by, and they began to approach the New World, Seth seemed to miss the God Star more than the others, constantly bemoaning its loss. The vast emptiness of space did not help either. While the residents of the Great Ship lived their lives in the wise and compassionate manner that they always had, Seth increasingly became irritated, agitated, and intolerant of others behavior. Soon, with his mindstream muddied by these negative thoughts and actions, Seth lost the ability to give his full attention to his jobs as chief navigator and engineer. Ra, as his young friend and assistant, tried to help him keep his mind occupied and focused upon the task at hand. Both Osir and Ast noticing this disturbance tried to assist him as well. His beautiful and loving wife Nefer also did her best to comfort and amuse him. But with increasing frequency, Seth rejected their assistance preferring to keep his own council.

Ra remembered the meteor swarm that almost destroyed the ship. They were nearing the new sun when the huge rocks began to hit the ship. It was strange, but as the ship came closer to the new planet that would be their home, Seth's inner conflict appeared to grow greater and his heart seemed to close down to them even further. It was obvious that he was no longer in control of himself and several times Ra's father Osir was forced to take corrective actions.

And then one day, the inattention to detail and the emotional energy spent, came home to roost. In his navigational calculations, Seth had somehow missed the meteor storm. Ra, as his apprentice, discovered that the Great Ship was going to enter the storm but by that time it was too late to alter their course. Ra's calculations had revealed that there was a cloud of hardened objects that swirled around just on the outskirts of the new solar system. This cloud was a huge, dense field of rocks, comets and other debris. Knowledge that he had led the community into a disaster fell hard upon the shoulders of Seth. It was at this point that he seemed to crack completely. Like a man possessed, he headed directly into the storm, his voice screaming with anger and frustration. Osir, and Mon had to literally wrest him from the controls so that the more levelheaded Ra could take over. But to their dismay, the meteor storm was much worse than even he had predicted. Literally thousands of hard rocks and comets rained down on the outside of the ship. At first, the twenty-mile thick hull withstood many of the hits. Large round pockmarks covered its face but the integrity of the ship held up. But one rock, which was much larger than all of the others, appeared to be heading straight for them. And there was no way to avoid it. As Ra discovered, it is no small task to maneuver a two thousand-mile wide ship. The rock was three hundred miles across and over one hundred miles thick when it slammed into the side of the Great Ship. Its impact was so great that a hole pierced through the hull of the ship and almost all of the people and animals were killed as the atmosphere inside quickly escaped. Ra, Osir and Mon managed to repair the Ship but it was too late for the people inside. Only Ra, Ana, Osir, Mon and Seth, who had been in the navigation room at the time of the collision, managed to survive.

After this tragedy, Osir was forced to demote his old friend Seth. Needless to say, Seth did not take this very well. As the ship was nearing into it's orbit of the New World Seth attacked and killed Osir.

Seth escaped the ship in a smaller ambassador ship and was the first to arrive on the new planet. Ra and Mon parked the giant ship in orbit and then descended to the surface of their new home.

And what a magical place it was! Teeming with life and bubbling over with possibilities, this New Earth was nearly a paradise. Using their advanced forms of magic Mon and Ra soon constructed the first pyramids, the same sacred structures that their race had developed on their last home, the Old World of the God Star. They built these magnificent structures using the advanced science of sound, vibration, measurement and geometric proportion that had been handed down to them through the long ages of their former civilization. On a plateau that existed in one of the highest mountains ranges on the planet, they built these pyramids. Coming from a planet with a lower gravitational pull the high altitudes made them feel more comfortable. As Ra continued his musing, Mon suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "Where are you heading Ra?" Mon's clear blue eyes revealed a sense of great inner wisdom. His warm smile immediately relaxed the whole situation. "Seth has now killed some of the animals. Probably for food"

"Yes, his ways have deeply altered since our arrival. His mind has continued to spiral downward along the path of personal power and corruption. Now he prefers to kill and consume the flesh of innocent animals rather than live on the plants, grains and seeds that we are accustomed."

"As you know, my mother has been deeply affected by this horror. She asks that we find him so that his influence can no longer taint the beauty of this world."

"I share her desires Ra. But what can we do? It's a big planet and Seth is extremely cunning."

"I have sworn my revenge on him for the murder of my father."

"As your mentor and guide in the ways of our people, I must tell you that it is not good to be ruled by a sense of vengeance. It is an element of the same dark force that has possessed Seth and if you are not careful, it can draw you into its web of evil and corruption. Look to the light for a solution, my boy. Look deep into your heart, goodness and mercy is the true path."

While Ast was the great healer, artist and keeper of their sacred mysteries, Mon was the sage, magician and scientist. It was Mon who had discovered that their home planet would eventually be destroyed as their sun, the God Star, turned into a Red Giant. He had devised a plan to build six gigantic ships and use them to escape their dying world. When Mon approached him with this terrible dilemma and its possible solution, Osir realized that his calculations and his recommendations were correct. It was then that he ordered the construction of the six Great Ships. Within a few years they were ready. The people of the Old Earth were split up into six groups, and each group was assigned to a different ship. Families were kept together and it was believed that the cohesion of the society, built upon thousands of years of tradition, would keep the old ways alive. Seeking possible places of refuge, actually planets that could sustain human life, each ship had journeyed in a different direction.

Now that the meteor swarm had nearly destroyed their own Great Ship, and their communication equipment had been destroyed, they had lost contact with the other five ships. If a tragedy such as the meteor storm had overtaken them, perhaps the others could have met with similar fates. Ast, who was a great seer, frequently traveled in the subtle realms of the Dreamtime claimed that some had made it to the other new worlds because she had seen them there. She said that even now there were many new races created and beautiful places constructed on at least one of these worlds. Perhaps, after their difficulties with Seth were over and they had peacefully settled into this new home, they would attempt to contact their brothers in the other star systems. This was in keeping with the long-term plan of Mon's and the elders of their former planet. He often spoke of making sure that their children, the race that they would create on this planet, would always remember their sisters and brothers in the stars. He would also lament that the race they would bring forth, although made in their likeness, might never have the capacity for insightful thinking that the residents of the God Star possessed.

So Mon, through the power of his insight would eventually devise a system that would explain the ancient secret to future generations. This system would be constructed in such a way that the very process of attempting to decipher the message itself would open up the synapses needed to fully understand - at least in a rudimentary way - the sacred science and ancient visions of the people of the God Star. He decided that they would build great monuments, made of stone, which would last for eons. These monuments would be constructed in such a way that any inquisitive and sincere soul who sought to understand the symbols of that particular monument would eventually come face to face with the incredible scientific and spiritual insights of the First People who arrived here at the First Time. For encoded in the both the proportions of their construction and carved upon their walls would be symbolic messages, which contained special vibratory frequencies.

But there were many difficulties for this and other plans. Mon, Ra, Ast and even Seth himself were too weak to withstand the environment of this world. Perhaps they had spent too long in the relative comfort of the Great Ship. Perhaps there was something about the dense and heavy gravity that existed in this New World. This density made things move slower, clear thoughts and actions were made more difficult here.

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