![]() ![]() Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best-acting silly and being adored. The coins are messengers, telling the Greystones and their allies that their friends in the alternate world are under attack-and that the cruel, mind-controlling forces are now invading the better world, too.Īfter another spinning, sliding journey across worlds, the Greystone kids must solve mysteries that have haunted them since the beginning: what happened when the Gustanos were kidnapped, what created the alternate world, and how a group of mismatched kids can triumph once and for all against an evil force that seems to have total control. And with the right touch, those symbols transform into words: PLEASE LISTEN. They are inscribed with codes that look just like what the Greystones’ father was working on before he died. ![]() ![]() Then mysterious coins begin falling from unexpected places. As book three of the Greystone Secrets series opens, the Greystone kids have their mother back from the evil alternate world, and so does their friend Natalie. ![]()
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Among the arcane texts translated are the Tibetan teachings of the Thunderbolt Diamond Path, the Mithraic mystery cult's "Grand Papyrus of Paris," and the Greco-Egyptian magical text De Mysteriis. Now for the first time in English Introduction to Magic collects the rites, practices, and knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages. So successful were they that rumors spread throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became quite fearful of them. Their methods: the practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of rare Hermetic texts. Their goal: to bring their individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in which they could act "magically" on the world. In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals formed the mysterious UR group. ![]() ? Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical powers. ? Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first time. The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR group for the use of aspiring mages. ![]() |