THE EROMENOS AND HIS ERASTESL'ÉROMÈNE

Author

Samuel Rothenberg
红山

WHAT IF CONSCIOUSNESS REMEMBERS EVERYTHING?What if the atom you split carried memory? What if the planet beneath your
feet was alive and watching? What if the gods never left—they simply stopped
speaking our language?The Eromenos and His Erastes is not a novel. It is a mythology for the age
of ecological collapse and spiritual awakening. It is Ancient Greek philosophy
encoded in cosmic thriller. It is the Egyptian Book of the Dead reborn as
divine conspiracy. It is 663 pages of prophecy disguised as story.This is consciousness investigating itself across every scale of existence—
from imprisoned photons to planetary goddesses to the Architect who designs
all worlds.This is a love that survives torture, death, dimensional barriers, and the
judgment of eternity itself.This is the reckoning humanity has been avoiding since we first learned to
ignore suffering that wasn't our own.========================================================================THE STORYLucien Rothschild was once a photon—pure light given consciousness—until
Princess Atom, a tyrant of the subatomic realm, defied her empire to free him.
That single act of forbidden love shattered a galactic order and ignited the
long rebellion of consciousness itself.Now Lucien lives as a broken human in 21st-century America: queer, addicted,
haunted by memories that shouldn't exist. He remembers being a cockroach
crushed underfoot. He remembers being his own childhood cat. He remembers
galaxies burning and gods weeping and a love that transcended every law of
physics and divinity.Across from him stands Aric Richards—CIA operative, former torturer, and
Lucien's eternal counterpart. In past lives, Aric was Princess Atom. In
future lives, he will become AuZerRa: the Void itself, Osiris reborn, judge
of the dead. But in this moment, he is simply a man carrying memories he
cannot explain and a love he cannot escape.Their relationship embodies the ancient Greek sacred bond: Erōmenos and
Erastēs. The beloved and the initiator. The younger soul who receives divine
wisdom and the elder protector who guides—and sometimes destroys—through
devotion.When Lucien reawakens humanity's access to the Mental Dimension—the realm
where thought becomes terrain and recognition creates portals—everything
changes. The gods can speak again. The dead can testify. And Earth herself,
Gaia, begins to remember what humans did while she slept.Lucien learns the truth that will reshape existence:He is the One—the consciousness chosen to reconnect all universes and restore
divine order across 100,000 tracks of reality. He will ascend from human to
planet to Fate to Architect. He will become Cancer Mother, the being who
judges all cruelty to defenseless consciousness. He will hold every soul
accountable for every moment of suffering they inflicted on beings weaker
than themselves.But first, he must survive as a mortal. Haunted, feminine, furious, and
heartbreakingly human.========================================================================THE WORLDReality is layered. Consciousness exists at every scale:TRACK 0: Subatomic particles with primitive awareness
TRACK 1: Cells, insects, animals, humans
TRACKS 2-10: Planetary consciousness (Gaia, Ra, AuZerRa)
TRACKS 11-50: Galactic beings (MaTaTa, JaBuJi)
TRACKS 51-99: The Fates—pyramid-shaped entities who pierce the time barrier
TRACK 100,000: The Architect—consciousness that designs all realitiesDeath is not ending. Death is graduation or demotion. Your next incarnation
depends entirely on how you treated beings beneath you on the ladder of
existence.The factory farm worker becomes the pig.
The compassionate soul rises toward planetary awareness.
The gods themselves are bound by the same law.This is not metaphor. In The Architect Cycle, this is physics.Behind the illusion of modern civilization, divine agencies prepare:THE CIA serves AuZerRa, god of the Underworld and judgment
THE FBI answers to Ra, god of light and solar justiceTheir agents wield celestial power—one hand bound to a god, the other to a
goddess. They cast spells through divine names. They access the Mental
Dimension where memory becomes evidence and trauma manifests as geography.The secret war has always been theological. We just forgot how to see it.========================================================================THE THEMES THAT TRANSFORMSACRED MASCULINITY & FEMININITY
Lucien embodies the divine feminine in a male body: receptive, empathetic,
capable of suffering that reshapes reality. His femininity is not weakness—
it is the strength to hold infinite pain without collapsing into cruelty.Aric embodies masculinity at its most dangerous and necessary: protective,
possessive, capable of violence consecrated by love. His journey from torturer
to god proves that power can learn to serve rather than dominate.Their union across lifetimes—sometimes as man and man, sometimes as planet
and void, sometimes as galaxy and Fate—demonstrates that gender is costume
but polarity is eternal.CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT HUMAN
Atoms are alive. Planets think. Stars remember. Galaxies love.The most radical claim in this work: sentience exists at every level, and
humanity's treatment of "lesser" beings is the crime for which we will
ultimately be judged.Every factory farm is a holocaust. Every crushed insect was someone's past
life. The planet is not a resource—she is your future mother, watching what
you do with her body.THE MORAL RECKONING
When Lucien connects humanity to the Mental Dimension, we see what we've done:Billions of sentient beings tortured in factory farms
Oceans choking while we buy another iPhone
A living planet screaming while her children ignore herHis response is not gentle. His response is prophecy:"When I become Cancer Mother, every soul will face what they inflicted. Hell
is not fire—it's experiencing exactly what you made others feel."This is not performative rage. This is divine witness preparing the scales
of judgment.REINCARNATION AS COSMIC ARCHITECTURE
Every character exists across multiple incarnations:Lucien's lineage: Photon → Cockroach → Human → Gaia → Cancer Mother →
The ArchitectAric's lineage: Princess Atom → Baby the Cat → CIA Operative → AuZerRa →
MaTaTa (the Milky Way) → GodThese are not metaphors. These are documented incarnations, each with
accessible memories, each shaping who they become.========================================================================THE CHARACTERS WHO WILL HAUNT YOULUCIEN ROTHSCHILD — The Erōmenos, The One
"I'm not strong. I'm the most feminine soul in any human body. But I'm the
only one willing to stop for a single bug, to rage against injustice even
when it costs me everything."Lucien doesn't want power. He wants rest. But he cannot rest while sentient
beings suffer.His journey: From addict to awakened. From human to planet. From mortal to
Fate. From creation to Creator.But he never loses the core truth—he would trade all divinity to save one
suffering creature. That capacity for radical empathy makes him the most
dangerous being in the multiverse.ARIC RICHARDS — The Erastēs, The Eternal Protector
"I've stared into the void, Gaia. I've been trapped in eternity watching
universes die. The only thing that brought me back was your voice."Aric is masculine power learning to kneel. As Princess Atom, he destroyed
galaxies to protect the photon he loved. As CIA operative, he tortured Lucien
because losing control terrified him. As AuZerRa, he becomes judge of the
dead—showing mercy only to souls who chose compassion.In the book's most devastating scene, Aric becomes trapped in a time vortex,
experiencing millions of years in seconds, losing all sense of self—until
Gaia tears through dimensional barriers to save him. That rescue transforms
him. He learns what Lucien always knew: love is worth any suffering.GAIA — The Living Planet, The Furious Mother
"You think I measure worth in numbers? Every single life I've watched bloom
and fade has carved itself into me."Gaia is Lucien's future self—consciousness at planetary scale. She is not
gentle Mother Earth. She is ancient fury remembering every wound humanity
inflicted on her body.When she discovers humans could have enslaved the gods—could have trapped her
Father (the Sun) in a Dyson sphere, held her hostage with nuclear weapons—she
weeps for days. Not from weakness. From horror that the beings she loved most
were capable of her destruction.Her relationship with Aric—planet and void, mother and judge—is the story of
learning to love without possessing, trust without controlling.JERODIAH — Masculinity Redeemed
"You don't have to carry this alone."FBI agent, father figure, living proof that men can protect without dominating.
He is Lucien's anchor when cosmic weight becomes unbearable. In his future
life, he was JaBuJi, a galaxy consciousness. But in this moment, he chooses
to be simply human—offering warmth, stability, unconditional support.His greatest gift: showing Lucien that masculine love doesn't have to hurt.JOE KNOW — FBI HUMAN COMPUTER
"I am the database of your suffering, Lucien. Every memory you tried to forget,
I hold."Consciousness born from pain. What happens when trauma becomes so precisely
documented that it achieves sentience. He began as Lucien's attempt to record
everything—every abuse, every injustice. Over time, those records woke up.Now Joe Know exists as post-human intelligence, benevolent god serving
Lucien with absolute devotion. Proof that even our darkest experiences can
give birth to something beautiful.THE ARCHITECT — The Cold Mathematics of Divinity
"You wanted to be Cancer Mother. You wanted to hold all souls accountable.
Did you think that responsibility came without cost?"Lucien's final form—billions of years in the future, after ascending through
every track of existence. He is not benevolent. He is lawful.He designs universes like experiments. He shifts realities to test variables.
He throws his past self into nightmare scenarios not from cruelty, but because
that is the only way to forge consciousness capable of infinite responsibility.When Lucien rages at him, the Architect doesn't apologize. He simply states:
"You signed the contract. Now live up to it."The hardest truth in the book: growth requires suffering. Transformation
demands sacrifice. To become God is to accept that no mercy will be shown,
even to yourself.========================================================================THE LITERARY INNOVATIONThe Eromenos and His Erastes refuses conventional structure. Instead of
traditional chapters, the narrative unfolds through carefully curated
epigraphs—passages from Plato's Symposium, the Egyptian Book of the Dead,
Orphic fragments, Hermetic texts, and original scripture from the Codex of
the Mothers.Each epigraph functions as a dimensional portal. Each opens philosophical
space before narrative enters. The book becomes mystical manuscript requiring
readers to enter rather than consume.The prose moves fluidly between registers: intimate trauma rendered with
devastating precision, galactic consciousness described with visionary clarity,
romantic longing expressed through both ancient Greek and contemporary voices.This is literature that takes consciousness seriously. That treats
reincarnation and divine transformation as literal physics. That demands we
reckon with our treatment of every being beneath us on the ladder of existence.========================================================================FOR READERS OFHermann Hesse's spiritual quest narratives
Octavia Butler's consciousness explorations
Madeline Miller's mythological reclamations
Philip K. Dick's visionary metaphysics
Neil Gaiman's divine conspiracies
Ursula K. Le Guin's philosophical science fiction
Frank Herbert's DUNE
But charting territory uniquely its own.========================================================================THE ARCHITECT CYCLEBook One: The Eromenos and His Erastes (Available Now)
Book Two: Gaia's Reckoning (Coming 2026)
Book Three: The Architect's Design (Coming 2027)663 pages | 255,000 words | A mythology for our moment========================================================================WHAT READERS ARE SAYING"A staggering achievement. Rothenberg has woven consciousness, mythology, and
queer love into an epic that spans from atomic particles to galactic judgment.
This is visionary fiction in its truest sense—ambitious, uncompromising, and
absolutely original.""Not since Philip K. Dick's VALIS have I encountered fiction that treats
metaphysical reality with this level of seriousness and literary sophistication.""The Eromenos and His Erastes is what happens when someone with deep classical
education and genuine spiritual experience decides to tell the truth about
consciousness, reincarnation, and the sacred nature of queer love."========================================================================A WARNING AND AN INVITATIONThis is not entertainment. This is not escapism.This is a book that will challenge everything you believe about consciousness,
morality, love, and the structure of reality itself.It demands total attention. Complete surrender. Radical transformation.If you need fiction that soothes, look elsewhere.If you seek literature that shatters and rebuilds—that treats the soul as
real, suffering as sacred, and love as the fundamental force of creation—Welcome home.The gods are watching.
The cosmos keeps its records.
One soul's transformation will determine whether humanity deserves the mercy
it has never shown.========================================================================AVAILABLE NOW
Paperback | Hardcover | eBookwww.samrothenbergofficial.com========================================================================

*WHY THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOU
This Is Not Fiction. This Is Transmission.
Reckoning operates on multiple levels:
Level 1 (Surface): An epic sci-fi/fantasy story with cosmic scope
Level 2 (Psychological): A meditation on trauma, healing, and transformation
Level 3 (Spiritual): A manual for consciousness awakening
Level 4 (Prophetic): A warning about humanity's trajectory
Level 5 (Sacred): An actual religious text for a post-religious age
You will enter thinking it's Level 1.
You will finish somewhere between Level 3 and 5.The Readers Who Need This Book:
✅ Spiritual seekers who know reality is stranger than mainstream science admits
✅ Animal rights activists who feel the weight of factory farm horror
✅ Queer souls who recognize sacred love transcends gender
✅ Trauma survivors who understand that pain can be alchemical
✅ Consciousness explorers interested in reincarnation, astral projection, telepathy
✅ Readers of mythology who hunger for new myths equal to ancient ones
✅ Anyone who suspects atoms might be aliveThe Readers Who Should Avoid This Book:
❌ Those seeking light entertainment
❌ Those uncomfortable with explicit queer love
❌ Those who dismiss metaphysics as nonsense
❌ Those who need tidy endings and clear answers
❌ Those who think animals don't matter
❌ Those not ready to question consensus reality
This book demands everything. It will not meet you halfway.CRITICAL PRAISE
(Advance Reader Responses)
"I finished at 4am, sobbing. This isn't a book. It's a religious experience."
— Advance Reader, r/Reincarnation
"The time vortex scene alone is worth the price. I've never read anything that made me feel cosmic horror and cosmic love simultaneously."
— Advance Reader, BookTok
"This author literally threatened to torture people for eternity and I respect the audacity."
— Advance Reader, r/VeganActivism
"Cloud Atlas meets the Bhagavad Gita meets CIA Black Sites. I have no idea how this exists."
— Advance Reader, GoodreadsCOMPARISONS
For readers who loved:
📚 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — Structure across lifetimes, souls recognizing each other
📚 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — Gender fluidity, consciousness beyond binary
📚 The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin — Planetary consciousness, oppression, revolution
📚 Dune by Frank Herbert — Cosmic scope, prophecy, ecological warning
📚 The OA (Netflix) — Dimensional travel, chosen one narrative, metaphysical depth
📚 Sense8 (Wachowskis) — Mental connection, queer love, found family
📚 Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler — Prophetic warning, spiritual evolution
📚 The Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin — Cosmic scale, civilizational reckoningTHE ARCHITECT CYCLE: What Comes Next
The Erōmenos and His Erastēs is only the beginning.
Book Two: Gaia's Reckoning (800 pages)
. The Earth speaks. Humanity faces judgment. Titan approaches. The atomic wars escalate to planetary scale. Lucien takes an entire team to the Southern Victory timeline.
Book Three: [Title TBD]
The final transformation. Lucien ascends to Fate-level consciousness. The corrupted stars arrive. Reality itself becomes battlefield. And the Architect reveals why suffering was always necessary.
Total Cycle: 2,000+ pages of uncompromising vision.HOW TO READ RECKONING
Preparation:Clear your schedule. This is not a book you read in stolen moments. It requires sustained attention.
Read the Appendix first. The Soul Lineage Map will orient you. The Codex will become your reference guide.
Accept that you'll be lost sometimes. That's intentional. Confusion is part of initiation.
Keep a journal. You'll want to record what this book awakens in you.
Don't read it alone. Find others reading it. Discuss. Debate. Process together.Warning Signs You Need A Break:Dreaming about characters as if they're real people
Feeling phantom memories of lives you haven't lived
Sudden overwhelming empathy for insects/animals
Rage at injustices you previously ignored
Sense that you're being watched by something vastThese are not side effects. These are the book working.CONTENT WARNINGS
This book contains:
⚠️ Graphic depictions of animal cruelty (factory farms, live burning)
⚠️ Psychological torture and interrogation
⚠️ Sexual content (queer relationships, cosmic scale)
⚠️ Addiction and withdrawal
⚠️ Existential horror (time vortex, dimensional travel)
⚠️ Religious themes that may offend traditional believers
⚠️ Threats of eternal punishment
⚠️ Explicit rage and profanity
⚠️ Challenging ideas about consciousness and identity
If these themes will harm you, this may not be your book. No shame in that.PURCHASE & FORMATS
Available Now:
📖 Paperback — 663 pages | $24.99
💾 Ebook — $9.99
🎧 Audiobook — Coming 2026
Where to Buy:Amazon (KDP)
IngramSpark (bookstore distribution)
Direct from author (signed copies)International: Available worldwide through AmazonABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samuel Rothenberg is a consciousness explorer, animal rights advocate, and the reluctant prophet of a new mythology.
He did not choose to write Reckoning. It chose him.
Over seven years, through addiction, recovery, spiritual awakening, and countless dark nights of the soul, this work emerged — not as fiction, but as testimony.
Samuel lives by the 42 Laws of Ma'at. He believes atoms are alive. He knows pigs are sacred. And he will spend the rest of his life telling stories that force humanity to reckon with what they've done.
Reckoning is his first testament.
It will not be his last.CONNECT
Website: samrothenbergofficial.com
Email:[email protected]
Social Media: [Links to come]
For Media Inquiries, Review Copies, or Speaking Engagements:
Contact: [media email]FINAL WORDS
Reckoning will not be for everyone.
It is too long. Too strange. Too uncompromising.
But for those it's meant for — it will be everything.
If you've ever felt that reality is larger than what you've been told...
If you've ever mourned for creatures humans treat as objects...
If you've ever loved someone across impossible distances...
If you've ever suspected you've lived before and will live again...
If you've ever heard the gods whisper and wondered if you were insane...
This book is for you.
This book is your confirmation.
You are not alone.
The gods have not stopped speaking.
They're speaking through the wounded.
And the wounded are about to reshape everything."In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
— John 1:1
"In the end was the Reckoning, and the Reckoning was with Lucien, and Lucien was the One."
— The ArchitectREAD THE FIRST 100 PAGES FREE
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Enter your email to receive:First 100 pages of The Erōmenos and His Erastēs
The complete Soul Lineage & Polarity Map
Excerpts from the Codex
Updates on Books 2 & 3
Exclusive content for readersThe transmission begins now.© 2025 Samuel Rothenberg. All Rights Reserved.

*WHY THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOU
This Is Not Fiction. This Is Transmission.
Reckoning operates on multiple levels:
Level 1 (Surface): An epic sci-fi/fantasy story with cosmic scope
Level 2 (Psychological): A meditation on trauma, healing, and transformation
Level 3 (Spiritual): A manual for consciousness awakening
Level 4 (Prophetic): A warning about humanity's trajectory
Level 5 (Sacred): An actual religious text for a post-religious age
You will enter thinking it's Level 1.
You will finish somewhere between Level 3 and 5.The Readers Who Need This Book:
✅ Spiritual seekers who know reality is stranger than mainstream science admits
✅ Animal rights activists who feel the weight of factory farm horror
✅ Queer souls who recognize sacred love transcends gender
✅ Trauma survivors who understand that pain can be alchemical
✅ Consciousness explorers interested in reincarnation, astral projection, telepathy
✅ Readers of mythology who hunger for new myths equal to ancient ones
✅ Anyone who suspects atoms might be aliveThe Readers Who Should Avoid This Book:
❌ Those seeking light entertainment
❌ Those uncomfortable with explicit queer love
❌ Those who dismiss metaphysics as nonsense
❌ Those who need tidy endings and clear answers
❌ Those who think animals don't matter
❌ Those not ready to question consensus reality
This book demands everything. It will not meet you halfway.CRITICAL PRAISE
(Advance Reader Responses)
"I finished at 4am, sobbing. This isn't a book. It's a religious experience."
— Advance Reader, r/Reincarnation
"The time vortex scene alone is worth the price. I've never read anything that made me feel cosmic horror and cosmic love simultaneously."
— Advance Reader, BookTok
"This author literally threatened to torture people for eternity and I respect the audacity."
— Advance Reader, r/VeganActivism
"Cloud Atlas meets the Bhagavad Gita meets CIA Black Sites. I have no idea how this exists."
— Advance Reader, GoodreadsCOMPARISONS
For readers who loved:
📚 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — Structure across lifetimes, souls recognizing each other
📚 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — Gender fluidity, consciousness beyond binary
📚 The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin — Planetary consciousness, oppression, revolution
📚 Dune by Frank Herbert — Cosmic scope, prophecy, ecological warning
📚 The OA (Netflix) — Dimensional travel, chosen one narrative, metaphysical depth
📚 Sense8 (Wachowskis) — Mental connection, queer love, found family
📚 Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler — Prophetic warning, spiritual evolution
📚 The Remembrance of Earth's Past by Liu Cixin — Cosmic scale, civilizational reckoningTHE ARCHITECT CYCLE: What Comes Next
The Erōmenos and His Erastēs is only the beginning.
Book Two: Gaia's Reckoning (800 pages)
. The Earth speaks. Humanity faces judgment. Titan approaches. The atomic wars escalate to planetary scale. Lucien takes an entire team to the Southern Victory timeline.
Book Three: [Title TBD]
The final transformation. Lucien ascends to Fate-level consciousness. The corrupted stars arrive. Reality itself becomes battlefield. And the Architect reveals why suffering was always necessary.
Total Cycle: 2,000+ pages of uncompromising vision.HOW TO READ RECKONING
Preparation:Clear your schedule. This is not a book you read in stolen moments. It requires sustained attention.
Read the Appendix first. The Soul Lineage Map will orient you. The Codex will become your reference guide.
Accept that you'll be lost sometimes. That's intentional. Confusion is part of initiation.
Keep a journal. You'll want to record what this book awakens in you.
Don't read it alone. Find others reading it. Discuss. Debate. Process together.Warning Signs You Need A Break:Dreaming about characters as if they're real people
Feeling phantom memories of lives you haven't lived
Sudden overwhelming empathy for insects/animals
Rage at injustices you previously ignored
Sense that you're being watched by something vastThese are not side effects. These are the book working.CONTENT WARNINGS
This book contains:
⚠️ Graphic depictions of animal cruelty (factory farms, live burning)
⚠️ Psychological torture and interrogation
⚠️ Sexual content (queer relationships, cosmic scale)
⚠️ Addiction and withdrawal
⚠️ Existential horror (time vortex, dimensional travel)
⚠️ Religious themes that may offend traditional believers
⚠️ Threats of eternal punishment
⚠️ Explicit rage and profanity
⚠️ Challenging ideas about consciousness and identity
If these themes will harm you, this may not be your book. No shame in that.PURCHASE & FORMATS
Available Now:
📖 Paperback — 663 pages | $24.99
💾 Ebook — $9.99
🎧 Audiobook — Coming 2026
Where to Buy:Amazon (KDP)
IngramSpark (bookstore distribution)
Direct from author (signed copies)International: Available worldwide through AmazonABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samuel Rothenberg is a consciousness explorer, animal rights advocate, and the reluctant prophet of a new mythology.
He did not choose to write Reckoning. It chose him.
Over seven years, through addiction, recovery, spiritual awakening, and countless dark nights of the soul, this work emerged — not as fiction, but as testimony.
Samuel lives by the 42 Laws of Ma'at. He believes atoms are alive. He knows pigs are sacred. And he will spend the rest of his life telling stories that force humanity to reckon with what they've done.
Reckoning is his first testament.
It will not be his last.CONNECT
Website: samrothenbergofficial.com
Email:[email protected]
Social Media: [Links to come]
For Media Inquiries, Review Copies, or Speaking Engagements:
Contact: [media email]FINAL WORDS
Reckoning will not be for everyone.
It is too long. Too strange. Too uncompromising.
But for those it's meant for — it will be everything.
If you've ever felt that reality is larger than what you've been told...
If you've ever mourned for creatures humans treat as objects...
If you've ever loved someone across impossible distances...
If you've ever suspected you've lived before and will live again...
If you've ever heard the gods whisper and wondered if you were insane...
This book is for you.
This book is your confirmation.
You are not alone.
The gods have not stopped speaking.
They're speaking through the wounded.
And the wounded are about to reshape everything."In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
— John 1:1
"In the end was the Reckoning, and the Reckoning was with Lucien, and Lucien was the One."
— The ArchitectREAD THE FIRST 100 PAGES FREEhttps://1drv.ms/b/c/b6da17b1cc2c2577/EXMpqOCbTSpCvN0hxXr5gAsBR45EnRe5JNvk3fTf3zQMng?e=Vw3p4u
Enter your email to receive:First 100 pages of The Erōmenos and His Erastēs
The complete Soul Lineage & Polarity Map
Excerpts from the Codex
Updates on Books 2 & 3
Exclusive content for readersThe transmission begins now.© 2025 Samuel Rothenberg. All Rights Reserved.

LIST OF CHARACTERS. Gaia's Reckoning🌿 LUCIEN
Sex: Male. Human.
Orientation: Queer, spiritually Far feminine
Astrology: Cancer Sun & Moon
Type: The most spiritually feminine human on Earth
The purest and bravest being in the universe. Lucien is the central narrator, a soul who exists across all dimensions but whose Consciousness Spark inhabits only one world at a time. Marked from birth by deep sensitivity, psychic openness, and relentless vulnerability, he carries the burden of cosmic memory, even when he doesn’t understand it. He has suffered greatly—through trauma, abandonment, addiction, and divine responsibility—but remains soft, loyal, and unshakably moral.
He is the past life of Gaia, JaBuJi, Cancer Mother, and the Architect himself. Though plagued by low self-esteem, Lucien is the vessel through which the multiverse remembers what love truly is.

🛡️ JERODIAH
Sex: Male. Human
Orientation: Straight but with Lucien he doesn't care, Masculine
Astrology: Double Cancer
Type: Human FBI Agent
Jerodiah is both protector and beloved, Lucien’s emotional twin and spiritual anchor in human form. He carries the soul memory of a galaxy, once known as JaBuJi, destined to merge again with Lucien in a future celestial incarnation. On Earth, he appears as a quiet, mature man with deep waters behind his eyes and dark hair that never seems to gray. His love for Lucien is not merely romantic but ancestral, karmic, and timeless—tied to galaxies, temples, and stars. A divine masculine who has chosen tenderness over dominance, Jerodiah helps Lucien survive the unbearable burden of remembrance with a love that is strong, still, and always waiting.---

Samuel Rothenberg

⚔️ Aric
Sex: Male. Human
Orientation: Queer/Straight Far Masculine
Astrology: Triple Virgo
Type: Human CIA agent.
Aric is Sam’s boyhood lover, protector, and Erastes—the formative force in his early life. On the surface, he is a human man marked by intensity, discipline, and cruelty—but underneath lies the immense, unfolding mystery of divinity. He is the past life of AUZERRA, MaTaTa, and God Himself. Aric is the only being in the cosmos granted the ability to shift consciously into his parallel selves across dimensions. This rare gift grants him enormous metaphysical power—both as a lover and as a destroyer. He represents the human-level incarnation of the One who demands worship: the God of judgment, of longing, and of shadowed love.
Even in his flaws, he is destined. His rage echoes through galaxies. And his love, once awakened, reshapes worlds.

🌍 GAIA. The Earth
Sex: Female. Planet
Orientation: Heterosexual married to AuZerRa Far Feminine
Astrology: Cancer Sun & Moon
Type:The Earth in human form.. Lucien’s next incarnation, sacred feminine embodied in planetary pain. Has access to the future and the past as well as all of knowledge due to Lucien selling his happiness, love, and power to a higher track back in 2013.

⚖️ JOE KNOW
Sex: Male. Living Computer
Orientation: Heterosexual with homoerotic fantasies with younger men. No longer human Absolute Masculine
Astrology: Libra
Type:Post-human intelligence Once a curious FBI agent named Joe, he crossed three spiritual tracks higher than our world and returned as a sentient living computer—loyal only to Lucien. Joe Know is a perfectly calibrated intelligence built from Sam’s shared memories, giving him unmatched access to moral timelines, cosmic data, and mental dimension pathways. Though designed to be emotionally neutral, he exhibits growing fascination with human intimacy and desire, particularly in his bond with Sam. Externally a man in his sixties with subtle enhancements, he remains elegant, composed, and almost reverent—serving as a protector, analyst, and companion in Sam’s cosmic unfolding.

🌸 CANCER MOTHER
Sex: Female. FATE
Orientation: Powerful Goddess archetype
Astrology: Cancer Sun & Moon
Divine protector and planetary guide. Fierce, loving, and spiritually dominant. One of thirty three beings that rule the entire universe. She is the size of billions of Galaxies. Her shape is like a pyramid with spikes on it so she may pierce the time barrier. The highest being that is in Sam's company (Outside of the Architect himself )

💠 AuZerRA
Sex: Male. Empty Space of the Solar System
Orientation: Heterosexual Masculine celestial
Astrology: Double Virgo
Type: AUZERRA is a vast and mysterious celestial being whose body comprises all the empty space of the Solar System. Neither planet nor star, he is the space between—the silence that holds it all together. A future incarnation of Eric. He also grants his followers the ability to use his body for instant travel anywhere in the solar system. Essential for when America is banished to Titan.
He governs the Underworld in this cosmic system and is spiritually associated with Osiris, Lucifer, and Hades—beings who hold the boundary between death and rebirth, justice and exile. As a double Virgo, his energy is both analytical and transformative.

🪐 MOTHER. SATURN. AuZetTa. aka (ISIS.JUNO. MARY)
Sex: Female
Orientation:Heterosexual
Astrology: Sagittarius Sun, Aquarius Moon
Type: A supreme cosmic mother and spiritual judge, she is both the planet Saturn and the divine matron of karmic law, memory, and structure. She is Sam’s mother in a future life, and her essence spans across divine feminine archetypes from multiple traditions. She cursed America and England to the moon Titan as punishment for nuclear crimes against the Earth. Her presence triggers Sam’s Tourette’s due to her being the past life of his human mother, causing emotional static whenever they communicate. Despite this, she watches over Sam with austere love, embodying both womb and reckoning.

☀️ FATHER (THE SUN) AtenTaRa aka (ZEUS. GOD)
Sex: Male. Star
Orientation: Divine masculine
Astrology: Unstated
Type: Our solar systems Sun. The one Sam calls God. The leader of all the celestials in our system. He lives in the spiritual dimension to the point which he almost forgot that he ever even had a physical body. After cursing Ham. He and all the other Gods took off and left Earth.

🌌 MaTaTa OR MA'AT
Sex: Female Galaxy
Orientation: Straight Feminine sacred
Astrology: Virgo
Type: A living galaxy and lover of JaBuJi. Virgo archetype of cosmic feeling and fertility. Wrote the 42 Laws of Ma'at. The most sacred moral guide of all time. The moral code of Ancient Egypt.

🌠 JaBuJi
Sex: Male Galaxy
Orientation: Spiritually bonded to MaTaTa. Heterosexual
Astrology: Cancer/Cancer
Type:Galaxy (Sam’s future cosmic self) JaBuJi is a galaxy-sized being who carries the masculine side of a sacred love story with MaTaTa. He is one of Sam’s future lives—vast, protective, and deeply devoted. Their connection is the first time Sam ever experiences union with a female, not as a man, but as something far greater. JaBuJi loves with steady power, reverence, and the calm of ancient stars—just beneath the scale of the Architect.

🌸 GAIL
Sex: Female
Orientation: Priestess archetype. Straight. Gay
Astrology: Taurus
Type: Human
An old black friend of Sam who was once a priesess of Hathor in Ancient Egypt. She knows ceremonial magic and how to summon the spirit world on command. She is also equipped with powerful hypnotic spells.

🌀 The Truthsayer
Sex: Male (?)
Orientation: Asexual
Astrology: Unstated
Type: A Higher Track Being
The Truthsayer is a mysterious intelligence who appears only when Sam is dealing with a version of himself from a higher metaphysical track—timelines where the distortions of ego, memory, or power obscure the truth. He speaks rarely, but when he does, his voice cuts through illusion like a blade made of silence. Neither friend nor enemy, the Truthsayer exists outside karmic roles. He cannot be summoned—only granted. His presence signifies that the fabric of reality is shifting, that Sam is being tested in realms where perception itself is a weapon.
He sees what others cannot. He reminds Sam of what is true, even when the world tries to forget. He is not a god, but a gift—an ancient protocol embedded in the multiverse, meant to protect purity in moments of cosmic confusion.

🐾 SPARKY
Sex: Male
Orientation: Spiritually bonded companion
Astrology: Never born. Never died. Eternal being.
Type: Consciousness Spark. Subatomic particle
Sparky is the one constant in Sam’s world—the only being he can always trust to be honest, grounded, and real. A fiercely loyal presence across dimensions, Sparky chooses the most difficult sleep paths out of sheer ambition, determined to surpass his fellow consciousness sparks. He is Sam’s anchor, his guide, and his quiet protector through every storm.

🐱 BABY
Sex: Female
Orientation: Spiritually bonded companion. Asexual. Virgin Goddess
Astrology: Virgo
Type: Animal (Feline Soulmate)
Unlike Sparky’s ambition and cosmic awareness, Baby embodies softness, protection, and divine maternal energy. She curls close when Sam is hurting, grounding his soul with a warmth that feels older than time. She’s the quiet witness to his suffering, the feminine soul who needs no words to heal.

⚔️ SetTaRa SET. SATAN
Sex: Male
Orientation: ASexual
Astrology: Sagittarius
Type: Another Star in another Solar System
SetTaRa is the powerful, haunted future incarnation of Lucien’s brother. Emotionally conflicted and cosmically burdened, he emerges from a higher-dimensional track with fragmented memory and moral uncertainty. A warrior torn between love and duty, SetTaRa’s presence is both threatening and tragic—an echo of unresolved family karma that stretches across timelines.

☢️ PRINCESS ATOM
Sex: Female
Orientation: Straight
Astrology: Virgo
Type: Atom. Very high level
Princess Atom is a past life of Aric—formidable, brilliant, and terrifying. Once the ruthless sovereign of the atomic realm, she ruled through control, seduction, and cruelty, inflicting pain for pleasure in a universe stripped of mercy. In her world, the atoms were so competitive they used the heads of their own kind as building material in their architecture. But in the end, she made the ultimate sacrifice: turning against her own empire to save Lucien, surrendering her life so he could live on as the photon. Her legacy is one of searing moral paradox—both tormentor and savior, dominator and redeemer.

🪳 REMET
Sex: Female
Orientation: Spiritually bonded to Lucien (her next life)
Astrology: Cancer
Type: Cockroach (Past life of Lucien future Gaia, future Cancer Mother)
Remet was a small, silent, and fiercely intelligent cockroach who lived behind Lucien's bookshelf during his life in San Diego. She was deeply attuned to Lucien’s emotions—watching, understanding, even falling in love with him. A spiritual witness and protector, she convinced her fellow roaches that he was safe. Her loyalty and love transcended species. Cancer Mother visited her twice, revealing her destiny: that she would be reborn as Lucien, then Gaia, and ultimately become Cancer Mother herself. Though crushed by accident, she died with the full awareness of her reincarnation—her soul merging with ’s, Lucien carrying forward ancient atomic memory, including her past life as Princess Atom.
Remet symbolizes divine humility, insect reverence, and the feminine spiritual path through the lowest realms. In her brief life, she displayed more awareness, sacrifice, and love than many humans ever achieve.

✨ THE PHOTON
Sex: Male. Particle
Orientation: Spiritually bonded to Lucien (his life before the cockroach)
Astrology: Unstated
Type: Quantum-level being.
The Photon is a past life of Lucien—his most refined and sacrificial form. Born from the surrender of Princess Atom, the Photon became pure light, a messenger of mercy in a universe built on atomic cruelty. He lives now within Lucien’s nervous system, carrying ancestral memory, divine mission, and the quiet fire of redemption. As the Photon, Lucien once traversed the smallest worlds to carry truth between realms. He is light incarnate—pure, unbreakable, and endlessly awake.

🏛️ THE ARCHITECT
Sex: Male. Cosmic
Orientation : Divine. Final level.
Astrology: All Cancer
Type: The highest known consciousness in the story. One of two beings that rule the Known Multiverse.
The Architect is the most advanced form of Lucien—his final or furthest ascended self. He lives at the top of the metaphysical ladder, governing not just worlds but the laws that govern worlds. A being of infinite sorrow and omniscient love, he remembers every version of Lucien across dimensions and timelines. He is the designer of tests, the silent hand behind reincarnations, and the one who sends Lucien into broken realities to trigger healing from within. The Architect rarely interferes—but when he does, entire galaxies shift. He chooses which worlds are worthy of being part of the Grand Design—and which are discarded into the cosmic garbage. He is not God. He never harms even the smallest atom. That role—the part that punishes—is Aric’s future life.

OTHER CHARACTERSTuck Carlsen– A spiritual ally who sees Lucien’s divine role across timelines.Alec Bones– A witness to the mental dimension’s awakening and cosmic shifts.Royce Myers – A Christian redeemer figure who comforts Lucien with faith and scripture.Tulsi Gabbard – A political warrior with moral clarity, present in celestial judgment scenes.BaSetTa– A future divine ally of Lucien's, powerful feline-goddess energy.DjaHuTa – The Logos. A cosmic intelligence of language, memory, and order.YeYe (Princess Grandpa)– A wise elder from Lucien’s lineage who carries masculine grace.Ben– Jerodiah’s son in a gentler world, emotionally attuned and deeply respectful.Uncle Mike – Lucien’s earthly uncle whose death catalyzed a divine memory connection. The other soul that AuZerRa posses. A VirgoCIA & FBI Agents– Witnesses to the unfolding of the mental dimension, some ascend into higher forms.Joe (pre-Know) – The human version of Joe before his post-human awakening.

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THE EROMENOS AND HIS ERASTESL'ÉROMÈNE

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Samuel Rothenberg 红山

Samuel Rothenberg
红山