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JACQUELINE LICHTENBERG




BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK
CITY OF A MILLION LEGENDS

A Berkley Book/published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY
Berkley edition/February 1985

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Cover illustration by David Mattingly.
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To Sharon Jarvis, who asked for this series

To Susan Allison, who waited patiently for this book

To Margo Block,
my first collaborator,
who, more than twenty years ago,
showed me what I could do when asked

To Chasdo, Inanimate Collaborator, because this is its First Novel

Acknowledgments
I'd like to thank the people who have, wittingly or not, contributed to my development of the peculiar theory of karma and
reincarnation which I use as a background for the Book of the First Lifewave: Judy Thomases, who reawakened my interest in the
occult in the early seventies; Marion Zimmer Bradley, who clued me in to some excellent occult writers; Sybil Leek, who has the
gift of clarity; Grant Lewi, Noel Tyl, Robert Hand, Mark Schulman and Donald Yott, whose writings on astrology have proved
most valuable; legions of occultists who discuss such things as the theory that the twentieth century is seeing the reincarnation of
many of those involved in the fall of Atlantis; and the hoards of sf/f fans who have allowed me to read Tarot for them or who have
argued my hypotheses with me.
The theory of the workings of karma used in the Lifewave novels are my own derivations, and not to be confused with the
theories being tested by working esotericists, nor with Reality. The Lifewave novels are not textbooks, but works of fantasy, using
the serious theories of esotericists with as much literary license as hard-sf writers use the modern theories of physics.
One of the esoteric laws which Jean Lorrah has pointed out that I play fast and loose with here is the Magic Circle of twelve or