The Mistery of Belicena Villca
Uncle Kurt was looking at me with pity , no doubt admired to see the irresponsibility with which I took things . According to him , the Druids were fierce enemies not to be feared but not underestimated either . I was not afraid , and that was good ; but it seemed evident that I underestimated the enemy , that I did not realize that I could be destroyed at any moment , that I threw myself into challenging a powerful adversary " without being prepared for it ". I ignore if my attitude of those days reached such a degree of foolishness , but Uncle Kurt believed so and that made him desperate . That ' s why he was willing to consider me an inexperienced soldier , a soldier-in-training in his particular army , and instead of suggesting and discussing with me what should be done , he was ordering the measures that by his judgment were to be taken without delay .
– You will immediately send a series of telegrams canceling all your commitments . Quit your job , your studies , clubs , libraries or any organization you are linked to . Say goodbye to whoever you have to do so by communicating that you are going on a long journey : if you discourage their expectations of seeing you or saying goodbye , they will soon forget you . If you have any property name a proxy , someone you do not know and who does not know you , a law firm for example , and order its liquidation . Proceed in the same way with everything that links you to your old life : cut all the ties , erase all traces , delete all clues . It is not enough that you have died for yourself ; you must also die for the World !
Money will not be a problem for now : I will provide you with enough to carry out this mission . I have spent more than thirty years raising money and the day has come to use it . And it ' s as much yours as mine , neffe . ( Do you know that I had made my will in your behalf ?). Of course , my money solves the problems for the moment , but it is not a definitive solution : I will try , in the future , to teach you the operational tactics so you can always get the money or the things you need . These are techniques , methods to fend for oneself , techniques that every Hyperborean Initiate must be able to apply .
Of course , I did everything he told me to do . I went doing it during my convalescence , during the days when Uncle Kurt told me his extraordinary story . At last , the day we had to leave , nothing remained intact in Salta , from my previous life . Everything I had done in years of effort and work , was now undone : sooner or later , Dr . Arturo Siegnagel would be just a memory ; and then not even that would exist , possibility that enthused Uncle Kurt . I did not want to think about the impression that those measures would have caused Mom and Dad , and Katalina , because it would " loosen my heart " and I was afraid Uncle Kurt would notice : in front of him , I wanted to appear stronger than I was , I wanted to reassure him about my balance and courage . I wanted to catch up with him , to be at the level of his demands , because , almost without realizing it , I had begun to admire Uncle Kurt , to appreciate his great abilities , to appreciate and understand him .
Chapter VI
The day after he finished reading the letter , at 9:30 p . m . Uncle Kurt settled into a comfortable hammock chair next to my bed , and after remaining thoughtful for a few minutes he began to narrate his life to me .
– As it happens to you now , a series of " strange " coincidences had a decisive influence on the first years of my life . In order to appreciate this assertion with greater perspective , I must begin the story many years before my birth , at the precise moment when my father , the Baron Reinaldo von Sübermann came to the world , that is , in the year 1894 , in the city of Cairo , Egypt . That same year , in Alexandria , 130 km . from Cairo , was also born , a person who would be more important in my life than any other . I am referring to Rudolph Hess , whose birthday occurred on April 26 , 1894 .
Despite the distance between the two cities , my father and Rudolph Hess soon met , for Hess ' s parents sent him to study at the French Lyceum of Cairo --the school that Dad attended-- from six to twelve years of age . Childhood companions , they were united by a tender friendship that was consolidated over the years .
At the end of primary school --as many accomodated Germans did with their children-- the two were admitted to the Evangelische Paedagogium of Godesberg-Am-Rheim , city ten km away from Bonn .
When they were both sixteen , that is , in 1910 , they separated to pursue different careers . Dad enrolls in the Polytechnic Institute of Berlin in the Industrial Engineering career . Rudolph Hess travels to Switzerland , to the Ecole Superieure du Commerce in Neuchatel , by imposition of his father , rich exporter from Alexandria , who wanted to initiate the young man into the world of Commerce . Rudolph ' s intention was , as far as possible , to pursue a Ph . D . in mathematics .
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