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"I hope children that the Mandate helps explain your existence in the scheme of the Universe.
There are further explanations in the documents I have in my possession and it is from one of these written by Jamie's father dated the 27th of March in the year he died that I'm about to read an exert.
This exert relates to the 'Ancients', the fourteen immortal High Priests of King Abdula, who ruled the planet Aseeka in our galaxy thousands of years ago. Thirteen of the 'Ancients' are known to us as the High Priests of the 'Secret Society of Crines' and the fourteenth is their ruler, Sissnaska.
Listen carefully James these are your father's words as told to him by Asa!"
I, Eric Samuel Peters, son of Stephen Eric Peters, have discovered many things pertaining to the origins of the 'Power of Three'.
I have learnt that their ancestry goes back many thousands of years ago to the time of King Abdul, the esteemed king of the Aseekiens from the planet Aseeka which lies in our galaxy. The Aseekiens were then the most powerful race in our Universe.
King Abdul had been worshipped as a God of mysterious powers by his people. None knew that these powers came from the' Holy Scepter'; given to him by a mysterious stranger who inexplicably arrived on the planet Aseeka from a mythical zone he called the 'Circle of Time'.
With the powers of the 'Holy Scepter' King Abdul was able to control the 'Dark Energy' which all feared would accelerate the expansion of the Universe and those beyond.
And as he'd pledged the mysterious stranger, King Abdul formed alliances with the planetary powers of each of the known galaxies in our Universe. This alliance was known as the 'Great Universal Council.'
This Council consisted of a representative from each of these planets and governed all known life in the Universe. Each of the member planets hosted alternately these agreed meetings.
It was upon one of these meetings that it was decreed that a Universal Police Force be formed with supernatural powers greater than those of the known. Universe's fourteen greatest Sorcerers who, after abandoning their dying planet Estray had become King Abduls High Priests.
The Mandate of the 'Power of Three' was made law; and the quest to develop beings with supernatural powers empowered by the' Holy Universal Mathematical Equation of Thirty Nine' known as 'Moon Harvest' was begun. This mystical event occurs in the heavens every three hundred years on the thirteenth cycle of Universal interplanetary shifts.
With laws in place the 'Great Universal Council' decreed that King Abdul's fourteen High Priests, headed by the most powerful of all Sissnaska, implement the Mandate.
To ensure the secrecy of the creation of these super beings King Abdul used the powers of the 'Holy Scepter' to grant his fourteen priests immortality as it had been bestowed upon him. They alone throughout the ages under the jurisdiction of the 'Great Universal Council' were to create these super beings. These fourteen High Priests came to be known as the 'Ancients'.
However the Mandate was to be strictly governed and its bylines be enforced by the powers of the 'Holy Scepter' which alone could exterminate those granted immortality.
'The 'Ancients' as the Mandate decreed, genetically designed beings and for many years these entities were inbred for purity of their bloodline and subjected to the criteria of selection decreed by the Mandate of the 'Power of Three'.
The chosen six, the forefathers of the 'Power of Three', were then sent with the Kings most trusted confidante among the immortal 'Ancients', Sissnaska; to the planet Venuta which was next to align in our galaxy with the 'Holy Universal Mathematical Equation of Thirty Nine', ninety two years into its future.
Here on the planet Venuta, the forefathers of the 'Power of Three' secretly assimilated into the ruling life form of the planet, and bred as the 'Mandate of the Power of Three' decreed for three generations.
Then on the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the third month of the ninety-second year of their inhabitation on the planet Venuta, the third generation of these beings turned thirteen. And as genetically programmed, at this, the date and time of their birth; the planet Venuta aligned in the heavens with the 'Holy Universal Mathematical Equation of Thirty Nine', awakening the dormant rudimentary powers of the first of the 'Power of Three'.
These three teenagers, the first of the 'Power of Three' who would later become the 'Elders' of the secret Universal Police Force known as' P3', accompanied by Sissnaska, travelled in time to the planet of their inception, the planet Aseeka where under an assumed identity they attended the 'Universal Wizard Academy'.
Here in incognito they graduated as Wizards and returned to the planet Venuta as the Mandate of the 'Power of Three' decreed to await the 'Great Universal Councils' command. Here they lived aging only until their thirty ninth year, the year in which they would attain immortality.
This first model of the Mandate of the 'Power of Three' was hailed as a great success by the 'Great Universal Council' and Sissnaska was ordered to continue replicating this doctrine.
For many thousands of years Sissnaska dutifully obeyed the Mandate and the breeding of the 'Power of Three' continued. The numbers of the 'Power of Three' grew in the Universe; and as the 'Great Universal Council' had decreed in the reign of King Abdula, the secret police force, 'P3', was formed.
However during this time the seeds of Sissnaska's dark ambitions grew and he plotted King Abdul's death whilst all the while cleverly undermining the Kings Governing Ministers trust in his young teenage son Prince Syard abilities to rule.
As the King's chief confidante Sissnaska knew where the King kept the 'Holy Scepter' and its Scrolls. And one night while the King slept he sequestered the 'Holy Scepter' and using its powers revoked King Abdula's immortality and rendered him dead.
The Aseekiens mourned their Kings passing stunned that the mystical King who'd they'd believed was immortal could die.
The Aseekien governing body knowing that the heir to the throne the teenage son of King Addula, Prince Syard was too young and inexperienced to rule, voted that Sissnaska being the deceased king's trusted confidante be the Keeper of the' Holy Scepter' and its 'Holy Scrolls'.
There within these holy scriptures Sissnaska discovered a parable telling of a mystic super force that had far greater capabilities than the four known forces of the Universe; electro magnetic, weak and strong nuclear, and gravity combined.
This super force the parable foretold had a far greater mutual attraction to matter and energy than the known four forces of the Universe; and therefore had the ability to control all matter and energy in our Universe and those beyond
The parable revealed that the answer to this mystic super force lies in the legendary zone of the 'Circle of Time' from whence the mysterious stranger came. It stated that the location of the entry point to the 'Circle of Time; existed in the bowels of the smallest continent on the planet Earth at the co-ordinates of the third degree of latitude and thirteenth degree of longitude and is revealed at the time of the thirteenth interplanetary shift in the heavens known as the 'Holy Universal Mathematical Equation of Thirty Nine', 'Moon Harvest'.
Sissnaska believed that if he could harness this super power he could rule the Universe and those beyond and he could no longer contain his thirst for power. Needing the greatest scientific minds to help solve the mystery of the location of the' Circle of Time' Sissnaska persuaded his thirteen fellow 'Ancients' to join him in his quest for power
Now obsessed with finding this super power Sissnaska hastily convened a meeting with the 'Great universal Council' to convince them that the threat of dark energy expanding the universe into nothingness was becoming an imminent danger. He convinced them that to combat this dark energy it should be studied at its source; of which he informed them he'd calculated to be outside the gravitational pull of the unknown planet Earth in their own solar system. To do so Sissnaska insisted the planet Earth should be inhabited and an alien city built there by the Aseekien army.
Ignoring their protests Sissnas
ka was quick to remind them that Earth was the next planet to align with the 'Holy Universal Mathematical Equation of Thirty Nine'. And as the Mandate for the 'Power of Three' decreed was to become their host.
Sissnaska insisted that the breeding program of 'P3', be transported there so as he and his fellow scientists, the thirteen 'Ancients', could continue this program whilst studying the powers of the dark energy.
With this persuasive argument the ''Great Universal Council' ruled that Sissnaska be allowed to transport and incubate the six embryos of the forefathers of the 'Power of Three' to a specially built laboratory in the proposed alien city.
It was decreed that the Aseekins young ascending Prince Syard's coronation be delayed so that his abilities to rule be proven by overseeing the building of this great alien city on an unknown planet. Three thousand of the Aseekien army and its greatest engineering minds were recruited. And so it came to pass that Sissnaska with his fellow thirteen 'Ancients' travelled with Prince Syard's entourage through the Wormhole that Sissnaska's calculations had defined hovered over Earths smallest continent at the co-ordinates of the third degree of latitude and thirteenth degree of longitude,
I interpreted Sissnaka's calculations to be the coastal township of Braden my hometown, in the north eastern state of Queensland Australia)
Obeying his orders Prince Syard oversaw the construction of the great alien city built on the cliffs of what is now known as Apogee Mountain. From this alien base Prince Syard under Sissnaska's direction, searched the heavens for the source of dark energy, whilst Sissnaska waited for the time of 'Moon Harvest' when the heavens would reveal the entry point to the 'Circle of Time'.
During Prince Syards many journeys into space, Sissnaska unknown to Prince Syard had secretly built another laboratory underneath the cities Holy Temple where he studied the ancient 'Holy Scrolls' and gradually unlocked the powers of the 'Holy Scepter'. Here using the untested powers of the' Holy Scepter', Sissnaska and his priests began secretly experimenting with the genetic code of the 'Power of Three'.
Their aim to create a race with greater supernatural powers than those of the 'Power of Three' who could withstand the rigors of time and space was essential to his plan to rule the Universe and seek those beyond.
However the unknown quantity of Earths atmosphere thwarted their efforts in creating Sissnaska's super race, that was, until one day, humans stumbled upon the great alien city.
These humans were pardoned convicts who'd been transported to 'Van Diemans Land', which is now named Australia for their crimes from their motherland England in the late 18th century. They'd become fishermen and had been shipwrecked on the rocky cliffs of the great alien city. They discovered the alien city and were welcomed by Prince Syard and treated royally. Sissnaska needing the knowledge of the human body courted the favors of a doctor among them, Jonathan Braden. The doctor's fascination with creation made him a willing participant in Sissnaska's secret experiment; and before long he'd sacrificed his fellow fishermen in the name of science.
Deeply ensconced in sorcery Jonathan Braden lost all sense of his humanity and using its powers travelled back to his village to coerce his fellow villagers to the great city.
However Sissnaska was never to see the villagers intended for his experiments as Prince Syrad discovered his secret laboratory and realized that Sissnaska was using the powers of the 'Holly Scepter' for devilment.
Sissnaska's powerful sorcery easily overthrew Prince Syard and his army quickly surrendered. However the 'Great Universal Council' was secretly informed by one still loyal to Prince Syard of Sissnaska's treachery and it decreed that Sissnaska be banished from Earth and his immortality taken from him.
Upon learning that an envoy was being sent to bring him and his thirteen corrupt priests to trial before the 'Great Universal Council', Sissnaska ordered his thirteen fellow 'Ancient's ' to use their powerful sorcery to slaughter Prince Syard and his army.
Aided by a mysterious stranger who called himself a 'Greybeard', the mortally wounded Prince Syard escaped. Led by the stranger who knew the location of Sissnaska's secret laboratory beneath the cities Holy Temple, Prince Syard took the incubated six embryos of the forefathers of the 'Power of Three' and the 'Holy Scepter' with its Scrolls to the underground world of the 'Greybeard's that lay deep within the bowels of Earth.
Enraged that Prince Syard had survived and had escaped with the six incubated embryos of the forefathers of the 'Power of Three' and his most cherished possession the 'Holy Scepter', Sissnaksa ordered his immortal thirteen priests to remain on Earth.
Here they were to retrieve the 'Holy Scepter' and its scrolls and continue Sissnaska's breeding program begun in his secret laboratory until such time it was safe for him to return to Earth.
Fleeing through the wormhole into time and space, Sissnaska escaped to the planet Tollain where till this day he rules his subjects there and on Earth.
Shortly thereafter the envoy arrived to find the slaughtered bodies of the Aseekien army and the great city abandoned. Finding no trace of Prince Syard's body and Sissnaska's laboratory a mere sham, the envoy returned to the planet Aseeka to report their findings to the 'Great Universal Council'.
Horrified the 'Great Universal Council' realized that the sacred knowledge of the procreation of the 'Power of Three' had been lost forever to Sissnaska and his fellow traitorous thirteen 'Ancients'. They feared that he might breed the 'Power of Three' to turn against those of their own kind undermining the sanctity of their creation and bring the collective peace in the Universe to an end.
Immediately the 'Great Universal Council' ordered that the 'P3', the secret Universal police force, comprising all of the 'Power of Three' who'd graduated from the 'Universal Wizard Academy'', be summonsed from their missions on other planets.
Brought before the council they were ordered to search the Universe for Sissnaska and his corrupt thirteen priests and bring them to justice.
Believing that Prince Syard was dead his twin sister Princess Othea who had reigned in his absence took the Aseekien throne. However she believed that Sissnaska still possessed the 'Holy Scepter' and its scrolls and without its powers feared that her people the Aseekiens, would no longer be regarded as the reigning power in the Universe.
Princess Othea was faced with a frightening dilemma, the 'Holy Scepter' had been worshipped as a symbol of the Aseekien monarchy and none but the royal bloodline had been privy to the 'Holy Scepters' powers. And now fearing Sissnaska's misuse of its powers she had no other option than to break the sacred code of her bloodline and reveal the mystery of the 'Holy Scepter' to the 'Great Universal Council'.
Tiago paused and looked up searching the bewildered faces of Katie, Liam and Jamie. He could see how overwhelmed they were and beckoned their guides to calm them.
"Katie, Liam, Jamie, I'm sure all that you've just heard is bewildering and indeed terrifying. However the validity of these documents is beyond question. We will continue the reading of these documents another day. For now all you need to know is that the mystery of what happened to Prince Syard after he escaped with the last six embryos of the 'Power of Three' was solved by James' father and grandfather. And I'm certain that they were murdered because they refused to give up this information as it would lead the Crines to us."
"However we stand here today as testament that the Mandate of the 'Power of Three' was implemented, and if we are to believe these documents than a race unknown to us called the 'Greybeards' appears to be responsible for our existence."
All remained quiet as Tiago paused, consumed by the enormity of those words.
"However children, as we have learnt from this document written by James' father, the last passage of the Mandate is now irrelevant; the knowledge of the 'Ancients' remains with them and is no longer assessable. The fourteen 'Ancients by betraying their allegiance to this Universal Mandate are now traitors and hunted by your kind. We have to find a way to inform the 'Great Universal Council' that thirteen of the immortal 'Anci
ents' remain here on Earth. We know them as the Crines."
"But Dad, er, sorry, Tiago," Liam interrupted apologetically. "What about Asa, who is he? If he told Jamie's Dad all that stuff, then wouldn't he be able to ...?"
"Liam that is a question that only Asa can answer, and, until we find him, it all remains a mystery. It has been a long day, and for now all that you need to know is what you've just heard. The rest of these documents that are in our possession are yet to be analyzed."
With an air of finality Tiago returned the documents to the briefcase and indicated to the parents to follow him. However Liam, Katie and Jamie had other ideas and bombarded him with questions about their mission.
Liam the adventurer was fascinated by the concept of a mysterious zone and wanted to know all about the 'Circle of Time'. Frustrated by his own lack of knowledge Tiago grew increasingly impatient with his sons insistent questioning.
"But dad, sorry I mean Tiago, do you think that this 'Circle of Time' is like a time warp and maybe when we were zapped today in the Braden mansion we'd somehow entered it and that's how time moved forward to the thirteenth hour the time when it was ordained that we would receive out powers?" Liam asked excitedly.
"Whatever are you talking about Liam?" Tiago demanded stunned by what his son had just said.
"Oops, sorry Jamie." Liam exclaimed as Jamie glared at him. "Jamie we have to tell! Tiago this morning when we were zapped we received our powers. At first I didn't believe Jamie until we started experiencing them. Don't look at me like that dad I just didn't know how to tell you!"
"Tiago Liam is telling the truth." Jamie said solemnly
"Tiago did we enter this 'Circle of Time' that you told us about, is that what happened?" Katie asked desperate for answers.
Tiago gave no answer. Abruptly he picked up the briefcase from the table and began walking up the stairs to his study.
Stunned the other parents ordered the stone guides to take charge of their children and followed.