John W. Warner IV Yawn. We live in interesting times… Unabashedly a firn-loving conspiracy researcher, stalwart UFO enthusiast, and scandalous revisionist historian, I have embarked on this series of written adventures with a hearty disposition, steeled nerves, a healthy sense of humor, and my colorful imagination at full throttle not unlike Bea herself, although she is armed with more healthy skepticism than I. Perhaps thats a good thing. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or Nancy Wake the Resistance fighter in WW2 France, Bea continues her Heros Journey with gusto and renewed verve during an unimaginably horrible, huge, bizarre, and complex war, one where many experienced a shattered psyche, a tested faith, and a sense of diminishing courage and loyalty when confronted with heavily-protected secrets laid bare. Luftwaffe pilot and lion cub mascot None of the main characters are my avatar (many friends have asked me), but they all have little bits of me in them, the positive and the, uh, not so much. We are all at odds with the light and dark within us, our powerful Yin-Yang emotions, our duality, its what makes us human, its what relentlessly drives us to better ourselves whilst unconditionally loving, forgiving, and helping others come what may. Something like that. Considering the changing times circa 2021, the world recovering from a pandemic and financial crisis, I must proclaim here and now that although I know a great deal about the history of the occult, secret societies, mystery schools, dogmatic rock-hard religions, sacrificial cults, and satanic practices that have flavored our history for many