The Moon and The Gryphon

<p><strong>Griffin MacRobbin the Director of ���e Institute for Antiquity is enticed by his doctoral candidate Anastasia into a realm of cosmogonic mystery in this multigenerational thriller that melds action history philosophy and mythology.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Stevan Romanov is sent by his guardian the Montenegrin Gnostic philosopher Herak to study Egyptology at University College London; but often Stevan spends long weekends at Cismontane the estate of Herak's colleague Charles Graves. There Stevan meets Graves' daughter Marian and soon they fall in love. As war in the 1940's engulfs Europe Stevan and Marian take off for Stevan's homeland Montenegro in a restored WWI flying boat. Forced to land on the sea in a storm they enter a cove on the Portuguese coast where a mansion looms above. Inside lives the Demiurge a celestial being who has fostered human chaos and strife throughout the centuries. In the persona of a politician the Demiurge learns that Stevan is a prot��g��e of Herak and the coterie that has opposed him and weakened his once invincible powers. Under duress Stevan and Marian flee the mansion but not before engendering the wrath of the Demiurge.</p><p>In 1945 Egyptian peasants unearth a cache of papyrus texts and Stevan obtains several but the Gnostic codices lie untranslated in academia for almost 30 years until...</p><p>1974 Claremont California: Griffin MacRobbin the Director of The Institute for Antiquity notices his doctoral candidate Ms. Romanov is alive to every moment yes very competent but because she's almost too knowledgeable about the esoterica of their Gnostic-codex translation project well he suspects something's up with her. Soon MacRobbin is drawn by Anastasia Romanov into a realm of cosmic peril as she relies on the codices to follow her late father's dangerous path to a world-shattering clash with the Demiurge.</p><p>The Moon and The Gryphon explores ideas of forbearance versus vengeance; knowledge versus intuition; intuition versus chaos; and it speculates on the melding of opposites through the gentle influence of love.</p>