HEAVEN SHATTERED VOLUME III AUTHORITY TAKEN Authority Taken is the continuing saga of The Angelic Rebellion, and a prequel to book one, The Reluctant Warrior. The Holy Empire has become fragmented, the harsh realm of Earth, has fallen under the control of the savage Samuel and his Associates. Authority Taken brings us full circle to the formation of the Lion Squadron. The struggles in Authority Taken reflect my own personal quest for answers for as long as I can remember, that has taken me on many journeys to find a way home. I grew up in a rough neighbor, fearful every day of the bullies at school, and the predators that lurked in shadows of the inner city housing complex where I grew up. There were many Samuels in my life as I grew up, Samuel in the story represents all individuals who utilize subversion to rule others, from neighborhood bully who begins his reign of terror in the playground, and expands to encompass corrupt authority figures so often found in religion, law, politics, and industry, people entrusted to the care and responsibility of others, manipulated, protected, and fully endorsed by the dark forces. We have all been given the right to self determination, a gift bestowed on us by God. Through subversion and trickery, we have been fooled into surrendering this gift to others, which empowers them, and diminishes us. We have learned to either submit to their will or suffer the consequences. This is not a world of light, as some would believe, but a world governed by darkness. This is not heaven, it is hell. When we search out good people like ourselves, we find them in the least expected places, in made of outcasts and loners, a very small group, where becoming a member promises to make life even more difficult. How do we navigate in a world governed by fear, by oppression? For the first time in our history, technology now ensures the dark ones total victory. Our every movement can be monitored, logged and retrieved at a moment's notice. As a spiritual seeker it's easier now to look back and make sense of it all. It's easy to put the blame on others, to explain my troubles away by past life influences. It's not that past lives are not valid, I've noticed it has been twisted into yet another way the dark ones use to ensure that the karmic cycle of debt, thus the reincarnational cycle continues, keeping us perpetual hostages. So how do we make a clean break? It's a conscious choice - to find the faith that what God has given us what no other has the right to take away. It's as simple as never forgiving and never forgetting. To never forget their transgressions, not against us, but against God, this moves the notion of karmic debt to an entirely new arena, and stops our debt from accumulating further. It's time to release ourselves from these influences of the past. The need to be involved with the final judgment and control the outcome is what keeps us here forever. The story of the Reluctant Warrior as about the process that each of us go through to find ourselves on a path to uncovering the lies that we have accepted, and by doing so we finally move ourselves back on to the right path to home. The Angelic Rebellion is not about angels falling from grace, as much as it is a way for us to discover how to finally break the karmic debt and reincarnation cycle that keeps us trapped on earth. Authority Taken is about understanding that God is supreme and man is not. Our resurrection takes place through our discovery that we have been co-authors of this rebellion, and everything that has come since.