The 13th Gate - Zagreus, Rex

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Résumé :
An adventurous ride throughout the realms. An old man, a member of the secret society, an ancient Sun Cult, The Order of The Golden Rooster, sits in his haunted room in the retirement home that belongs to the Order. He is reading the cursed red leather book that had haunted him throughout his life. The light, the light! Oh how it has punctured me, deeply from within, oh the madness it has caused, the madness of the Gods! Alone I was left, to roam in the darkness. It is a true story of the grotesque days lived during the late 90s/early 00s following Beverly on his grandest quest for knowledge, and the wisdom to understand it as he explores the darkest, innermost corners of his ever-expanding, Eternal Mind. It was written in blood with the aid of his Guardian, who has allowed him to climb over his shoulders, and reach all the way up to the one who is watching it all from above. It was designed to be understood subconsciously. It's theme is that of pure symbolism, and magical interplay of archetypal forces. It is an occult, Luciferian fairy tale, of the death and rebirth of the man called Beverly. Story starts when Beverly begins his life enriching journey on one fateful evening where he met a certain stranger. Mysterious man was wearing red shoes, asking Beverly if he would like to join him on a journey of a lifetime, in the realm outside of known time and space. Without nothing to lose but himself, Beverly accepted stranger's offer and followed him towards an old, numberless, marble building that was built over the Dragon lines, and was hiding inside another, completely different, obsidian building at the number 666. Inside he meets the beings of blue flame with blue flaming eyes, wearing long black hooded cloaks, known throughout the Earth Realm as Demons, Jinn, Familiars. The novella is riddled with the strongest occult symbology. It's full of themes of magic, mystery, brotherhoods, initiations, incantations, evocations, blood, drugs, injections, madness, insanity, shapeshifting, possession, succubus, numerology, and ancient rituals.