Light Rising Novel

This fictional narrative is grounded in historical and astrological facts. The setting begins in the palace of the Parthian Empire’s capital city of Ctesiphon in 3 BC during King Arsaces XXII’s thirty-fourth year of reign.

This ancient Iranian, Arsacid empire sat between the Roman Empire in the west and the Han dynasty of China in the east. The empire’s territory extended from the Persian Gulf in the south up to the Caspian Sea against the contested Armenian Kingdom. Ctesiphon sat on the east bank of the Tigris River, and its ruins are approximately forty miles northeast of Babylon and twenty-two miles southeast of present-day Baghdad.

As part of the Zoroastrian faith, King Arsaces XXII (born Phraates IV) employed Magi as advisors and counselors. The Zoroaster, also known as “Zarathustra” or “Zarathushtra,” religion was initiated by Zarathustra in the 6th century BC. He was a religious reformer and prophet that eventually led to the creation of the Magi Order. They were known to be philosophers, astronomers, priests, conjurers, enchanters, soothsayers, and interpreters of dreams and visions.

Our main character belongs to this order, which is popularized in the Western World as “the wise men from the east who came to Jerusalem,” mentioned in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. The Magi paying homage to a fifteen-month-old Jesus (Yeshua) in Bethlehem (Bet’Lechem) is documented. The distance What is not well known or even presented as a plausible hypothesis is, “How did they know where to look and when to look for the newborn King of kings?”