THE GREAT MYSTERY OF NADIRIA

The mystery of the Lost Colony of Antarctica has baffled scholars for decades. A vibrant, thriving colony that flourished for over 30 years simply vanished overnight. No trace of the over 300 colonists was ever found. The return of the first rescue mission in 1901 yielded few clues. Many speculated that the colonists marched into the sea, but all the ships were accounted for save one. The Recovery and Salvage Expedition of 1921 brought back many answers, but also many new questions.

The colony of Nadiria was first occupied on
February 7, 1866. Nadiria subsisted on annual resupply expeditions launched from Constonia in southern Argentina. Many of the supplies, as well
as the fleet of ships, came from the Southern Star Shipping Line in New York. The Southern Star was wholly owned by Angus Kilbourne, patriarch of one
of the Founding Families of Nadiria. When Kilbourne and his wife Kathleen joined the colony, he put his brother Bruce in charge of the company. Bruce Kilbourne was a fair manager, but not the tycoon his brother was. Under Bruce's management, the Southern Star began a slow decline. Finally, in
1895, the Southern Star Shipping Co. falls into bankruptcy and shuts its doors. The majority of
the ships at Constonia were recalled to New York
to pay off debts.

Most important in the collapse of the Southern
Star Line was the inability to send Heaven's Fire chemicals to Nadiria. As soon as the colonists determined that the resupply expedition would not come, the Council of Elders enforced rationing of Heaven's Fire. The colony had an emergency supply of the precious chemicals, but only enough for one
or two years. When the shipping company
collapsed, the Elders of the Church in America
sought other means to help the colony. They mounted one last resupply mission warning the colony of the collapse of the shipping company. Unfortunately, most of that small expedition was
lost in a hurricane off the Bermuda islands. By the time the people of Constonia realized that the expedition from New York was lost, it was late February. An emergency rescue expedition was launched from Constonia, but it failed to reach Nadiria due to unseasonal ice floes.

The following year's resupply expedition never arrived as well, and Nadiria became cold. Entire levels of the colony were cut off from the heating system and lights throughout the colony were extremely dim. On August 17, 1899, all journal entries stop throughout the entire colony. Every single journal, record, diary, and receipt stop on
that date. Numerous journal entries from the previous few days mention a "preparation" or "journey" but no specific information was found.

Something calamitous or incredible happened on
that fateful day in August. There has been much speculation regarding the fate of the colonists, but
no hard evidence of what really happened was ever found. Ongoing research at the Nadiria Historical Society in Paris, founded by the infamous Mme
De La Rue, holds much promise.

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THE CHURCH OF SPIRITUAL COMMERCE

"Life is an exchange," Samuel Brundt was wont to say. "An exchange of heat, energy, force, love,
hate, art. There are spiritual and material transactions occurring every minute. Our monetary system is a microcosm of this." (Excerpt from, The Great Transaction, by Samuel Brundt, New York 1843) The Church of Spiritual Commerce grew out
of the philosophy and teachings of Samuel and Constance Brundt. It officially formed in New York City on January 1, 1838 as a metaphysical society
of like-minded thinkers, and had an initial
membership of sixteen people.

Samuel Brundt was a prolific pamphleteer and author, writing many small books, tracts, and pamphlets, which he distributed in America and around the world. His philosophical and theological views were hotly debated in the academic circles of America at the time. Many believed him to be a crackpot, but some believed he had discovered a valuable new way of looking at the world. He
believed in the phrase, "as above, so below." And
as such, he felt that many earthly or material patterns reflected spiritual patterns, and universal human constructs also reflected universal truths.
Therefore, monetary systems represented a
human reconstruction of the functioning of the universe. Where a barter system might crudely represent a physical exchange of forces, a monetary system represented the more evolved or abstract idea of energy. It is energy that lies beneath
physical exchanges of force, so the concept of a monetary system represents the abstract forces behind social interaction. This idea, together with
all its implications, became one of the central concepts in his new cosmology.

The concept of "spiritual transactions" led to a
unique view of the role a church member must take within the community. Since all members of the church engaged in "spiritual transactions," it follows that as well as receiving teachings and spiritual insights from the church, all members must equally contribute teachings and insights to the community in return. Also, the Brundt's actively sought out the best and the brightest from the literary, artistic,
and scientific communities for their members. This resulted in an unprecedented torrent of intellectual and creative activity within the Colony. Every member was extremely active in creating art, philosophy, and writings and continually published and distributed their work within Nadiria. This is
the main reason why Samuel Brundt ensured that a printing press and several engravers and type-setters were among the first of the arrivals at the Colony.

Constance Brundt was the Dream Prophetess of
the Church. She had a unique ability to see beyond the temporal veil with her dreams, and she gave guidance and revelations to the church with them. Her gift, she believed, was a direct connection to
God - a tap into the Great Source of Life and Being. She studied many different dream techniques,
those of the Egyptians, Indians, and traditions gathered from the South Seas. Urged by her
husband Samuel, Constance experimented with
using his natural number system to generate
dreams. This proved so fruitful, that she developed an entire system for "dream-seeding" using his natural numbers. Eventually, this evolved into the creation and use of Dream-Dollars for application
in dream seeding. Constance designed the visual content and iconography of the famous Dream-Dollars, while Samuel created the numerological system on which it was based.

Together they devised the plan to use Dream-
Dollars as a form of social engineering. By having
the whole colony abandon a standard number
system and adopt a more irrational, "natural" number system, the Brundt's hoped to bring about
a change in the way the colonists thought and imagined. They believed that constructs such as language and mathematics shape the mind and determine the way we think and create. By
radically changing something as basic as the
number system people use, Samuel Brundt
believed he could radically change the human thought process, to evolve it into a higher, more perfect process. The number system is elucidated
in several of his writings, most notably in his tract, The Wheel of Light (New York, 1845). Samuel Brundt felt that because of the strong effects
Dream-Dollars had on dreaming, they would have
a tremendous impact on the subconscious minds
of the spenders of his money.