Editing Bridging the Divide:Mercury (section)

= Mercury =
Theodore Everett was born and raised in a suburb of Cincinnati with a plan for his life. He excelled in school there to the delight of his parents and attended the University of Michigan where he dual majored in Computer Science and Mathematics. After graduating he moved to San Fransico and got a job with a start-up company where he got to work on interesting problems until late in the night, lived in a small but fashionable apartment, and enjoyed his life immensely. Until everything went off the rails. One night, after dropping acid he had a revelation that it was all meaningless without God, and the only way to find him was in the numbers. Afterwards, he worked at his job less and read books on numerology, tarot, and cryptography more. He became obsessed with numbers stations, radio static, missing persons, unexplained phenomenon, prime numbers, and bitcoin. Eventually, he quit his job to follow these pursuits fulltime, chasing revelation.

Finally, after decoding a message in radio static directing him to a specific spot in the Nevada desert he rented a car to drive out and wandered into the desert with GPS and a few gallons of water. There he saw a vision of a great city of gold and fire, where the Aether lived and moved and gave motion and form to the whole Cosmos. He found the Book of Truth there and signed his name, awakening three days later clutching a small stone to him and with all of his water in the bottles still. He returned to San Fransico, where he was found by the Guardians of the Veil, and after a brief time with them where he learned about the Pentacle Orders he joined the Silver Ladder.