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Lange

by Beth Cheth (Hugh Russell)

446 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0651; ISBN 1-55369-838-X; US$33.00, C$37.50, EUR27.00, £19.00

"Lange" by 'Beth Cheth' is a fascinating factual fantasy fiction filled with fun dialog and descriptions of the 'here' and the 'hereafter'.
Let Lange and Rhyme conduct you on a tour of "Athe", the land of your dreams, where you will become conscious after your transition.
Learn what the 'afterlife' can be like for you if you prepare yourself for it.
An essential to this is improving your life in the 'here' and 'NOW'.
To do this you will need the 'Two Keys to the Universe'.
These are pointed out for you in "Lange."
"Lange" is great entertainment, but it has an important message, informative and educational.
The 'Theme' is the "Hermetic Tradition" which predates 'Christianity' by several millennia. In fact it is the source for much of the 'Pentateuch'."


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About the Book

Lange has recently returned from a tour of duty with an oil exploration and pipeline company in the Near East. He had been incarcerated in an Arab jail for a number of months under almost inhumane conditions. Wrongly.

While in the Arabian jail, to preserve his sanity, Lange had developed the ability to induce OOBE's. He didn't understand what was happening to him, he thought they were merely hallucinations.

The setting is the Gulf Coast of Mississippi in the late 1980's when the U.S. oil giants had pulled out of the Arabian Gulf area. He was now back in the States looking for a job.

Rhyme, a lovely young woman, is the ward and 'strong right arm' of George Westwood, an entrepreneur involved with the development of a fabulous new technology that turns out to be a system of communication with other time frames.

Rhyme hires Lange and is attracted to him in spite of the differences in their ages. She is a student of the occult and lays the Tarot cards about Lange. They promise her 'Happiness and Joy'.

Rhyme seduces Lange and decides he is her soul mate. She had been striving for OOBE's for a number of years, unsuccessfully.

She learns that Lange can achieve these conditions. They work on it together, very successfully.

On their first 'real journey' they manage a trip into the far future where they are put in touch with a team of doctors who assist them in rejuvenating Lange so he eventually becomes the same age as Rhyme.

On their next attempt they visit an 'Orientation Platform' in the Astral World where they meet with Rhyme's grandmother, Cynthia, who, before her death, had been a major factor in Rhyme's early life. Rhyme's mother had died at childbirth.

Lange introduces Rhyme to his best friend, Roddy McPhail and Roddy's wife, Lottie. Roddy goes to work with Lange at the laboratory.

Lange moves in with Rhyme. There are a number of excursions into the Astral realms. On two they are given rides in a UFO. The first of these is an excursion into the adjoining territories of 'Athe'. On another occasion they take a friend along and they are given a tour of the two lover levels. The 'Orientation' is on the 'third level'.

Lange and Rhyme move in with George, who is a bachelor with a housekeeper, Katrina, whom Rhyme considers her best friend.

They do get married at the end of this book and leave for a short honeymoon in New Orleans. This is where 'Book Two' begins.

This story adheres strictly to the "Hermetic Tradition." There is a rather complete explanation of these tenets and the story does not deviate for their principles.

Also included are seven treatises, the result of a number of meditations by Lange, and by Rhyme, independently and together.

We have here a pretty good guide to achieving the same results (OOBE's) by your own efforts, if you care to try these tenets and the story does not deviate for their principles.


About the Author

I was born in 1919 in Clarksburg , West Virginia. I grew in Appalachia, Southern West Virginia. The mining companies were very supportive of the Boy Scouts, I made Eagle Scout at 14.

I was a member of a First Aid Team, a big thing around the coal mines. My group, affiliated with the Boy Scouts, competed with some of the Company groups at "Meets" held at fairs, etc. during the summers.

While in high school, I worked summers and some times weekends, with the engineers, doing surveying in and out of the coal mines. My father was a mining engineer and arranged things so I could.

Still in high school, I studied with NRI, a correspondence course in radio, at that time, radio was about as 'high tech' as one could get.

After high school, a TV school in Chicago, then the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Uncle Sam gave me further training in electronics.

Back home in Southern W. VA., I worked nights as an electrician , mechanic. I liked to fix radios, there was no TV yet, I liked the pay working in the mines.

I had become interested in Astrology and the Tarot. I studied with a California group that taught these subjects, passed all their courses and became a "Hermetician", the highest classification.

I bought a radio shop where I had been working, ran the shop there for several years then moved to South Mississippi and opened a TV shop there. T.V. had become a big thing by then. We were in sales and service, also music and other electronics.

I managed to get married, twice. The first marriage, unsuccessful, produced one son. By the second, a very successful marriage, I acquired two more great children, another son and a daughter.

LANGE is largely a product of meditation and dreams, and not a little inspiration. All authors are inspired in some degree.

I am happily married to the love of me life, and retired in South Mississippi.


Sample Excerpts

PREFACE
      
       Let us first consider the title, "Lange."
       In German "Lange" means "a very long time."
       The implications here are several. These are developed in the narrative, but first it seems to indicate that he, Lange, will be with us for a "very long time."
      Also, "Lange" is an anagram of "Angel." Again the implications are several. These are, too, I think better left to development in the story.
      "Rhyme" means "beautifully arranged, well organized."
      Rhyme is a beautiful young woman with a very well ordered mind. Her surname is
      Bachtal, which in German means "teacher." In the beginning Rhyme 'teaches' Lange.
      She teaches him the factors that have been missing in his character, that have been restrictions in his life, his development, his growth.
      Naturally Lange contributes dramatically to the development of Rhyme's character, also. They do complement each other.
      The 'pen name', Beth Cheth, is particularly significant. These are the second and the eighth letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
      'Beth' in Hebrew means 'House.' It is represented in "The Book Of Thoth" - "The Sacred Tarot" - as 'The Magician' practicing his magic in a 'bower' of roses and lilies. "Sensuality" and "Emotions" are symbolized by the red of the roses, "Purity" by the white of the lilies. The Magician is receiving 'inspiration' from 'above' as indicated by his 'wand' raised and pointing toward 'the heavens'. (All writers receive inspiration, in one way or another.)
      "Cheth" in Hebrew meaning 'fence', or 'an enclosure', is depicted in the 'Tarot' as a man in a 'War Chariot' on guard at the approaches of his city. The chariot is drawn by a pair of 'sphinxes', one white with a very pleasant countenance, apparently very easily approachable. The other sphinx is dark with an unpleasant appearance, with a scowl or frown, seemingly in an ill mood. Obviously some are to be accepted, others will be rejected.
      An accomplished Tarot card reader might interpret this card combination thus: "A rose covered cottage with a white picket fence."
      The significance is that, but there is much more.
      The gate is open to new comers and to new ideas and information. The gate is always open, welcoming. But there is always that guard! Much as the 'Tyler' of a 'lodge'. Not
      all ideas are to be admitted!
      Any may be admitted to the 'biruni', the outsider's area of a Persian or Islamic home, but only after close scrutiny will new ideas, or visitors, be admitted into the 'andaruni', the inner rooms of the Iranian house.
      The visitor(s) to be admitted into the 'house,' 'the presence', are the thoughts, the ideas that present themselves at 'your gate,' to your Mind.
      Many of these are not to be admitted. But - they must be examined! Examined as does the 'Tyler' of the lodge examine those seeking admittance to the lodge.
      But not all are to be denied admittance, either.
      We must be open to Learning, to Lore, indeed, to Love!
      So, I say the gate is always open, at least until the visitor can advance and be recognized.
      Where do you go when you dream?
      The circumstances and conditions you find there are much like those you will find in your "Next Life." - With a few major exceptions!
      Many, probably most, are afraid, afraid of this world of their dreams.
      Why should this be so?
      The real reason for most is that they realize they lack 'control'!
      "The Mind goeth where it listeth!" And the body follows!
      The Christian Religions teach that one must be 'born again' to enter the 'Gates Of Heaven'.
      There is an analogy here.
      When you were born into this life you were helpless, totally helpless. You had to depend completely on others to meet your needs.
      You had no control over your organism.
      It will be the same in your next life! You will be totally dependent on others. Until one learns to control their thoughts they will be unable to control any of their circumstances.
      Eventually the 'sub-conscious' will take over this duty and it will become as automatic as breathing, or your heart beating. Until then we will have very little stability in our lives.
      The "Athe" we experience in 'Lange' is a platform in the next life specifically meant to deal with this problem. There are 'secret societies' here, and now, that teach this ability, this control.
      So, there is no need for fear, you will find help.
      The 'Neophyte' will be cared for. The only question is: By whom? And what will be their motives? How can one choose a proper platform, the most appropriate group or system?
      This is one of the purposes of this story. To help one examine his/her options so he may choose wisely from those available to him.
      No specific choices are offered, but after reading Lange you will be much better prepared to judge, to understand and evaluate the choices that are open to you.
      In the final analysis it should be the purpose and responsibility of one's religion to prepare him for making a choice among these options. The orthodox religions do not do a really good job of this.
      The problem is that they discourage one from examining the options! They recognize none but their own. When it is obvious from the diversity of the races that there must be more than one possibility.
      It does seem obvious the trend throughout development of life on this planet has been toward 'diversity', not toward simplification, unification. It seems obvious that life started with 'one celled' organisms and developed into the complexity we now see everywhere.
      No two of us look alike, act alike or think alike. We are not alike.
      We are all on different paths - together. We all make different choices many, many times a day!
      Why? Because we have different priorities, different interests - different obsessions!
      We are individuals! We are unique!
      We must learn to make our own choices. We are learning to be individuals!
      Do not be afraid to make a mistake. This is how we learn.
      This is why we are here!
      So! Come, Explore! Explore with Lange! And with Rhyme!
      Explore beyond your present limits of imagination!
      Imagine! Imagine some of the wonders God and continuing life have in store for you!
      Imagine! Imagine - and abolish the fears you have of the devil. The fears you have for your own future - your future life after this one!
      Lange and Rhyme are true 'soul mates' in the most real sense. But, their 'Time Lines' have gotten 'out of sync.' They realize this, and manage, with a lot of help, to bring their lives back into synchronization.
      One purpose of "Lange" is to show that No One Religion can possibly satisfy ALL peoples. We are much too diverse. Also, I point out the subtle difference between 'A religion' and 'A Philosophy.'
      So - read on. Enjoy, learn, have fun. Above all, have fun!


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