“Your mother made me promise to send you this box if she did not return from her expedition... she wanted to ensure you would find the answers you needed to uncover the truth about your destiny.” The Grand Collectanea is where it all begins... When SaRiah receives a mysterious parcel from a grandfather she never knew, she can’t resist learning more about what she finds within. A family heirloom left by her mother, lost years ago on a top-secret space expedition, has everything SaRiah needs to uncover the truth about her family and her destiny. With the help of friends and the Collectanea, a blueprint is created leading her on an epic adventure that builds a bridge to her mother’s path. A journey that will test her resolve, and her relationships as she uncovers secrets lurking in the past... and the future.

This book is a collection of shorter books and other writings by the same author. Using a literary term, the book may be called a collectanea, or, using a common term, simply a potpouri of writings. The subjects of the writings are varied and mixed. The reader will find mysteries and unsolved homicides in High Stakes, the story about the dark side of professional gambling. The reader can read in The Money Changers about greed, cheating and fraud in the market place, including some of the sophisticated methods now used by predators to cheat others. The author has included in these stories a mix of satire and humor about some current social and political issues. Various sins are necessarily part of the subject matter of these stories. Sex is not a significant ingredient in the story mix, although it might have flavored or spiced up the other ingredients in the recipe. The author has also included in this collection and shares with readers items of a personal nature, including letters written to his children while they were at school away from home and parables written primarily for children.

The Collectanea Hermetica is a collection of Occult Hermetic books edited by the founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, William Wynn Westcott. This collection presents the secret work of the Hermetic philosophy wherein the secrets of nature and art concerning the matter of the philosophers' stone and the manner of working are explained in an authentic and orderly manner. Contents: Hermetic Arcanum The Divine Pymander The Hermetic Art Aesch Mezareph Somnium Scipionis The Chaldaean Oracles Euphrates Egyptian Magic Sepher Yetzirah Numbers