As Jonathan approached the entrance to Dahlia’s apartment he looked up at the balcony again then down towards the front door and noticed that all the flower pots were made with some kind of glass that he had never seen before. Each of the four sides of the pots had double clear panels, about a foot square, with space in between them that housed small rocks and shells, with sand at the bottom. The base that was holding the panels in place looked tree trunk like, with branches coming out of it that looked as if they had grown up the four corners of the encased collections. Only the material used wasn’t the color of wood. It was a black and white marble looking substance and as the branches had reached the top, they had been cut neatly straight across and polished.

Jonathan stepped inside and spotted five large palm trees in similar but larger housing, only the petrified looking branches were the color of tiger’s eye so the root-like base would blend into the design of the floor that had been made to look like a lagoon, using blonde wood for the sand, and large multi-toned aqua colored tiles for the water that lead up to a fountain, then around it, extending out the two doors on either side of the fountain leading to the end of the very large balcony. Looking at the view of the ocean, it was difficult to tell where the fake lagoon ended, and the real ocean began.

Redirecting his eyes back inside, he followed the graceful curves of the potted trees up to where their fronds comfortably spread out under the forty foot ceilings. They happily swayed in the breeze from the large horizontal windows. The windows were uniquely engineered to open and close and displayed a huge expanse of the sky giving the you the feeling that you were outdoors.

After surveying the entire room, he began his examination a little more closely. He could see that the planters where like partitions around the base of the large potted trees making the normally very arduous task of moving heavy plants relatively effortless. Dahlia watched him as he studied them. “I got the idea from the portable play yards I used to set up around my children when they were very little.”

“What is the clear material?” he asked.

“It’s new. It’s called diamondine because it’s so is strong,” she responded.

Looking along the wall above the couch, there where large black and white sketches and photographs in flat diamondine cases with a three inch wide divider for the rocks and shells — all blues, and whites, and shades of gray — that functioned as the matting, nestled inside the chrome-like frame. The finish of the metal varied slightly for each piece. The tables on either side and the coffee table were all the double diamondine cases, displaying the same rocks and shells, with the chrome-like trim. All of the table’s four chrome legs had four inch wide diamondine feet with sand inside. The couch and chairs were white leather. They were simple, so as not to distract from the art, but with the diamondine feet containing sand to match the tables, only a little wider to support the larger furniture.

“Dahlia, I’m an architect but the design of this room is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. It’s incredible.”

Dahlia set her purse on the table. “Thanks. I’m really proud of it. It gives you a wonderful feeling, doesn’t it?”

“Yes. It’s great.”

Jonathan looked at the pictures down the hall leading to the kitchen. The color of the rocks and shells were warm to match the color photos they were displaying. “Is that Neuschwanstein Castle?”

“Yes.”

“I went there yesterday in a time machine and met King Ludwig II. He was a little eccentric, but not crazy like the history books say. He was a misunderstood brilliant visionary.”

“I knew King Ludwig was rare and exceptional.” Dahlia motioned Jonathan with her hand, inviting him to
follow her further down the hall. “I think these two pictures next to the Castle will interest you.”

The frame around the picture of the castle was so large it had hidden them. Jonathan moved to where he could see them. They were of the Ark and the Sphinx. “How did you know?” he asked.

Dahlia smiled. “I have connections.”

Jonathan didn’t know what to think. It didn’t matter though. She was herself the mystically correct word she used for the King — “rare” and “exceptional.” They’re not abnormal, odd or crazy. Such people are quite the contrary when seen through the eyes of one another, those who know themselves to be tomorrow’s normal when everyone’s soul has entered the Dark Night.

They walked into the kitchen which was also the warm colors. Dahlia took a pad of paper from the desk in the corner and they sat at the kitchen table which was the most beautiful piece of all. There was a photograph of an island coastline in the middle of the table surrounded by the rocks and shells ‘matting.’ The finish on the chrome-like border and legs was in swirls to match the swaying of the trees in the picture which was a holographic, so no matter where you were around the table, you would always see the picture from the right direction. And because it was holographic the trees swayed.

Dahlia had Jonathan sit opposite her in front of the pad. “You don’t have to take notes. I just want you to feel like you can. Go to the beginning of what happened yesterday and let’s find everything you need to know from it.”

Jonathan’s mind was still in a knot about the events of the previous day and spending all night researching. He started at the beginning. “I met a scientist named Michael a couple days ago at the book signing. He wasn’t normal either. He was extraordinary and he took me out to lunch in his amazing car and told me he had built a time machine that would take people back to their previous lives. It was like going on a treasure hunt through my lives finding some things I needed to know in order to finish my evolution. First I was Japheth, the son of Noah. He was a wonderful father. Then I was a young boy at the time the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids where being built. I met a very large frightening looking man on the outside but gentle within. He explained the riddle of the Sphinx in a way you never find in books. The last visit was to Neuschwanstein Castle. I was the King’s musician. It was such a magnificent place.”

Dahlia had listened intently as Jonathan describe his journey then asked him, “What did you learn?”

Jonathan realized that it was just the one thing. “I knew why I had become an architect.”

Dahlia knew that Jonathan must have completed all his past life healing since that was all he mentioned.”So why are you here?”

“Because my mind is still running around the filing cabinets.”

“Filing cabinets?”

“Yes, that’s how Jacob Madison describes it in his new book. It’s an association game we play to find answers. Our mind pulls up the similar data we have stored in our brain, and if we can’t figure out the answer, we’re in pain.”

“So you pulled me in?”

“Yes.”

“Filing cabinets. I like that picture. So I’ll give you the answer from one of my files.”

“That’s exactly what he said.”

“It certainly saves us a lot of trouble not having to figure everything out for ourselves. So, here’s the answer to the riddle of your life. Tahl had Noah build the Ark, Solomon, the great Temple, Mughal, the Taj Mahal, King Ludwig, his castles, the Tibetans, their Potala Palace, Gaudi, the La Grada Familia, and even the imaginary created by computer graphic artists — all of these incredibly beautiful places were built as foreshadows of what will be called the Palace of the Nine. Like the Ark, the Palace will be the first to transfer out of Tormen into Enchantra, and, like Taj Mahal, it’s about love, like the Temple, everyone will contribute to the materials to built it, and like Castle Neuschwanstein, the engineering and design will be beyond anything man has ever done, like Gaudi’s Grada Familia, it will have tall towers, and many other pieces of what we have done, including the artwork and statues that decorate them, will be put together for the Palace of the Nine. The work will be done by the greatest artisans on the planet, and their gifts will far exceed anything they have ever produced. Like all of them, the exact instructions, for every aspect of the construction and design, will be downloaded into the minds of men. Neuschwanstein’s design was a combination of the design of Wartburg Castle and the designs for the backdrops of make-believe plays about legends. Where real life ends and make-believe starts will not be discernible in the buildings of Enchantra.”

She took a hand drawn map out of a compartment in her wallet and laid it on the table. The map was of three islands and the middle one had a cross on it.

“The Great Pyramid is a mathematical structure referred to as the Square of Nine and it is another
foreshadow of the Palace of the Nine.

“The apex at the top of the pyramid is 1 and 2 is to its left, 3 is above 2 and the numbers spiral out and down the structure. Every person on the planet has a location on the planet that is numbered. The Queen is 1 and the 8 Kings are 2-9. They are at the top of the structure like a scale of being, the being of Tahl. The first number or person is the highest having gone through the greatest suffering of evolution to fulfill the function of that central location over the Fountain. Tomorrow I will need to teach you about the Fountain and what strings of negative and positive words are that make our moment by moment reality and lives. The Fountain is the source of the strings of positive combinations of words. They flow out of it, through the Queen, then the Kings, 2-9, and are distributed to everyone else in order. The eight Kings are next in terms of how much they need to go through to be made ready to function in those positions. The next level of squares, 10-25, have the next most powerful jobs to do, and so on with each larger level.

“This map shows the shapes of the Palace City Islands that we need to locate somewhere on the planet. The cross is the Palace on the middle island. It has nine towers: one in the middle at the center of the cross, four at each of four ends and four more in between those four closer to the central tower. Looking at it from above, it will be a cross and a star. The entire property will be the size of Happyland. Did you know if you look down on Happyland, you’ll see a cross?”

“No, I didn’t.”

“There won’t be one person receiving the building instructions from Tahl. Each individual involved in its construction and decoration will be given very specific directions directly because the project will be much more detailed than the foreshadows. There will be 1089 people will have their homes there. Once it is complete, it will be the first area of Earth to morph into Enchantra.

“The change will take place in a moment. Just like the ending of the movie Beauty and the Beast, when the castle turned from grey to color and all the people got their bodies, the environment will become enchanted and the people will have their higher frequency immortal and enchanted bodies. After this, what the first 1089 learned, they will teach to the ones who will live on Palace City Islands surrounding the Palace property, and then that part of Earth will make the transfer out of Tormen.

“This will continue from one set of numbers to the next, with everyone helping each other, until the entire Earth is raised to the higher frequency and has transferred from Tormen to Enchantra.

“Like that man you met overseeing the building of the pyramid and the Sphinx, you are to be the general contractor of The Palace of the Nine project. But don’t worry you’ll have a full professional staff of the highest qualified people to educate you in whatever you feel you don’t know well.”

Jonathan didn’t blink an eye as she spoke. There was no doubt what she said was real and he knew it was his destiny.

“When does it start?” he asked.

Dahlia was pleased he could see it so easily.

“Soon,” she said. “But first you need to know what people have to do in order to make the transfer. While the construction is going on on the outside, they have to be remodeled inside so we can operate Enchantra when the earth transfers. You are one of the 1089 who go first. Your home is on the Palace property. I have a lot to teach you and we have to do it quickly.”

“Can you start the teachings with explaining the pain? We know what comes out of it but how does it do it? What is going on when we are feeling it?”

Dahlia was very pleased. “That is a very good place to start. Jonathan, I have another appointment but I’d like you to come back tomorrow and in the morning if possible. You need to see the fountain in the morning light.”

Jonathan stood up from the chair to leave. “How’s ten o’clock?”

“Perfect!” Dahlia led Jonathan back into the lagoon room and to the door.

“If you haven’t seen the movie The Matrix, it would be very helpful if you could rent it tonight and watch it before you come back. Truths have been hidden in movies.”

“I have, but it’s been awhile. I’ll watch it again before tomorrow. Thank you, Dahlia. Thank you very much.”