The Paladin's Odyssey (The Windows of Heaven)

THE PALADIN’S ODYSSEY

The Paladin’s Odyssey

Book 2 of
The Windows of Heaven
A
Novel
Series by K.G. Powderly Jr.

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Dedication

For Shannyn: no father could be more proud of his daughter
, and her husband, Wes—thanks for the humor and help when times were darkest
.

For my granddaughter, Laurelin Mae Jordan—grow strong and courageous
in Christ
, for these stories are to you a legacy from your Popi
For Rob, Jaime, and
Jim, without whose belief in the fundamental worth of this project—a belief generously put to deeds by their time and creative effort on my behalf—I would have canned it and moved on.
The Lord reward you
each
kindly and generously
Tha
nks also to Martin, that great “L
urking Sasquatch,
”
who oversees web site and other essentials from a distance, where he always appears as a photographic blur in the background.

For my departed wife Dianne, who dances before the Once and Future King. These books are a tribute to your patience, encouragement
,
and caring.

For the Promised Seed: the suffering servant, wonderful counselor, mighty God, and the once and future King who waits to welcome us with those who are willing at Time’s End

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other
possibilities, that
makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

—Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind

Acknowledgements

Chapter epigraphs appear from the following books with thanks and respect:


All Bible quotations not from the
King James Version
(KJV)
or
Revised Standard Version
(RSV)
come from any of the following versions and will be identified accordingly:
o
New International Version (NIV)
 1973 by New York Bible Society International
o
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Ca.

o
New King James Version (NKJV)
 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

o
James Moffatt Translation
, James A.R. Moffatt,
 1954.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wartime Writings
© 1982 by Editions Gallimard, English translation copyright © 1986 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.


R.H. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
© 1913 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Milton, Book IV of Paradise Lost

Jim Leffel, Engineering Life: Human Rights in a Postmodern Age
Summer 1997, Christian Research Journal or
http://www.equip.org/free/DE311.htm

S.L.A.
Marshal
, World War I
© 1964 by American Heritage

Legends of the Torah,
Rabbi Jeremiah ben Eleazar

Plato, Critias,
translated by Benjamin Jowett,
The Harvard Classics
, ©1909–14


Slavonic Enoch (2 Enoch)
Translated by W.R. Morphill, M.A.


Ethiopic Enoch (1 Enoch)
Translated by Richard Laurence, LL.D in
The Book of Enoch the Prophet
, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co. (1883)

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
©1988 by Touchstone Books

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