Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

“Dienach reminds me of William James (William James, an American thinker, 1842-1910)

, Renan, Huxley and other thinkers of the central and Western Europe of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, who feared that Christianity no longer satisfies—namely in its dogmatism—an increasing number of the modern educated people of the Western world. Christian doctrines have more and more difficulty, the aforementioned thinkers say, staying in touch with what is already known of existence, as this is revealed to us by the course of the world and the development of knowledge during these last two centuries. From then on, their roads part. These crypto-materialistic thinkers have the tendency to replace religion with an infinite admiration towards science and even towards evolutionary humanism. They also hold that religions that place themselves ‘above worldly matters’ speak of things that do not exist and that it is high time the West adopted a religion taking the course and direction towards the fullest possible development of man’s spiritual and moral abilities, towards the harmonious and fullest realisation of the highest and most beautiful predispositions and worthy tendencies. Dienach is of the opposite mind. He does not only believe that there are realities that are characterised as ‘metaphysical’ and ‘otherworldly’ by man. He also believes that what ‘objectively exists’ is of a grandeur and beauty which is inconceivable by the human-receivers. It also stands higher and escapes (‘exceeds’) all that was said so far by the greatest religions, the most valued philosophical teachings, the most ambitious cosmic-theoretical conceptions and, generally, the highest spiritual preachings on this planet throughout the history of the human spirit. Dienach envisions a great new spiritual preaching, Volkic Knowledge as he calls it. The latter shall be a spiritual teaching of unprecedented level, excellent and wondrous, which tends to replace the already known accepted dogmas of Christianity and its theological basis in the ontological field with a broader, higher and more universal view of the world, life and every sphere of existence. This shall be done without offending the established values of the Christian tradition and its incomparable moral teachings in the slightest.”

My educated Greek Macedonian theosophist and respectable friend was of another, totally different, opinion.

“I am totally convinced,” he told me upon returning the manuscripts to me “that the Diary has not been written by Dienach in Athens in 1923-1924. It has been written in northern Italy and other European regions in 3905 and 3906 by Andreas Northam. He was its real author. Dienach’s personality and life are a simple ‘strong memory of pre-existence’, which occupied for many months, almost a year, Andreas Northam’s thoughts, emotional world and generally his spirit and his whole thinking. Dienach is ‘a simple copyist from memory’. He did nothing but write ‘for a second time’ in 1923-1924 what was written by Andreas Northam ‘for the first time” in 3905 and the following year. The temporal antinomy is clearly set on the human scale, so this whole story seems incredible from the start. One may say that I am being irrational. However, this antinomy in the flow of time only exists for human standards, for human perception potential, only for human standards, which can only understand the meaning of aligned time with yesterday, today and tomorrow. Extremely rare are the cases when the human spirit overcomes the obstacles, transcends human standards and acquires means of perception beyond the senses, telepathy, clairvoyance and a great number of things beyond the ‘established’ kinds of psychic potential. Time may very well actually be—in its objective nature—different from our own human perceptions thereof, which are subjective and anthropomorphic.”