Introductions typically attempt to present the essence of a book, highlighting the
most important elements of the story you are about to read. My introduction does
not do that. Rather, I will be telling you the story of how this unique text came to
be, its journey from the 1920s until today.
This is a book that contains the diary of a man who never intended his words to
be revealed to the world. It chronicles an experience that was never shared for
fear of ridicule and disbelief. As you work your way through his very personal
memoire, the reason for secrecy will soon become clear– the author claimed to
have lived in the future and returned back to his original era, 20th century central
Europe, to record a detailed account, outlining exactly what happened during his
journey.
The real protagonists of this amazing, true story are two persons: Paul Amadeus
Dienach, the author and the man who claimed to have lived in the future; and
George Papachatzis, Dienach's student of German language studies to whom he
left his notes - the diary you hold in your hands today.
After making the first acquaintances, let's start unravelling their story step-by-
step.
Paul Amadeus Dienach was a Swiss-Austrian teacher with fragile health. His
father was a German-speaking Swiss and his mother was an Austrian from
Salzburg. Dienach travelled to Greece in the Autumn of 1922, after having
recovered from a one-year coma caused by a serious illness, hoping that the mild
climate would improve his condition.
During his time in Greece, Dienach taught French and German language lessons
in order to provide himself with a minimum income. Amongst his students was
George Papachatzis, a student that Dienach appreciated more than any of the
others. Papachatzis describes his teacher as a "very cautious and very modest
man that used to emphasize the details".
Dienach, as we learn from Papachatzis, was born in a suburb of Zurich and lived
his adolescence in a village nearby the large Swiss capital. He later followed
humanitarian studies with a strong inclination to the history of cultures and
classical philology. It is believed that he eventually died from tuberculosis in
Athens, Greece, or on his way back to his homeland through Italy, probably
during the first quarter of 1924.
Before Paul Dienach died, he entrusted Papachatzis with part of his life and
soul– his diary. Without telling Papachatzis what the notes were, he left him
with the simple instructions that he should use the documents to improve his
German by translating them from German to Greek.
Papachatzis did as he asked. Initially, he believed Dienach had written a novel,
but as he progressed with translations, he soon realized the notes were actually
his diary… from the future!
At this point we have to clarify something crucial. Dienach is thought to have
suffered from Encephalitis lethargica, a strange neurological disease that
develops an immune system response to overloaded neurons. The first time
Dienach fell into a lethargic sleep it was for 15 minutes. The second time it was
for a whole year…
During this year that Dienach was in a coma in a Zurich hospital, he claimed to
have entered the body of another person, Andreas Northam, who lived in the
year 3906 AD.
Once he recovered from his coma, Dienach didn't talk to anyone about his
remarkable experience because he thought he would be considered crazy.
However, what he did do was write down the entirety of his memory relating to
what he had seen of the future. Towards the end of his life, he even stopped his
teaching job in order to have as much time as possible to write everything he
could remember.
Dienach describes everything he experienced of the environment and people of
the year 3906 AD, according to the mind-set and limited knowledge of a 20th
century man. This was not an easy task for Dienach. There were many things he
claims not to have understood about what he saw, nor was he familiar with all
their terms, technology, or the evolutionary path they had followed.
In his memoires, he claims that the people of the future fully understood his
peculiar medical situation, which they called "conscious slide", and they told
Dienach as many things as they could in relation to the historical events that took
place between the 21st and 40th century. The only thing they didn't tell him was
the exact story of the 20th century, in case Dienach's consciousness returned
back to his original body and era (as he did) – they believed it would be
dangerous to let him know his immediate future and the future of his era in case
it disturbed or altered the path of history and his life.
By reading Dienach's unique personal narration page by page, you will be able to
decode what he claims to have seen in relation to mankind, our planet, and ourevolution.
Many may wonder – what happened to the diary in all that time, from the distant
year of 1926 until now, almost a century later?
George Papachatzis gradually translated Dienach's notes – with his not so perfect
German – over a period of 14 years (1926-1940), mostly in his spare time and
summer breaks. World War II and the Greek civil war delayed his efforts of
spreading the amazing story that landed on his desk all those years ago.
On the Eve of Christmas in 1944, Papachatzis was staying with friends at a
house which was also used occupied by the Greek Army. When the soldiers
caught sight of Dienach's notes, which were of course in German, they
confiscated them because they considered them suspicious. They told
Papachatzis that they would return them only after they had examined their
contents. They never did. But by then, Papachatzis had already finished the
translation.
George Papachatzis tried to track down information about Dienach, by visiting
Zurich 12 times between 1952 and 1966. He could not find a single trace of him,
nor any relatives, neighbours, or friends. Dienach, who is thought to have fought
with the Germans during World War I, probably never gave his real name in
Greece, a country that had fought against the Germans.
After the end of World War II and the Greek Civil War, Papachatzis gave the
translated diary to some of his friends – masons, theosophists, professors of
theology and two anti-Nazi Germans– and after that, when everybody realized
what they had in their hands, the diary was kept within a close philosophical
circle and in the Tectonic Lodge, in which he was a member. The book was
taken very seriously by the Masons, who did not want the information spread to
a larger circle. They considered the book to be almost holy, containing wisdom
about the future of humanity, and better kept only for the few.
Finally, after strong disputes, George Papachatzis decided to publish Dienach's
Diary. It was during the period that Greece entered the hardest phase of the 7
year dictatorship in 1972. Strong protest from certain church circles – who
considered the book heretic – and the fall of the dictatorship a year later,
condemned the first edition to oblivion. No one was interested in the future when
the present was so intense and violent.
All these factors, along with the difficult language and the rough style of
Dienach's notes, which mixed together elements of his past, along with his
experience of the future, made the diary even more difficult to understand. Onlya few had the time and patience to decode the secret knowledge that lay encoded
within almost 1,000 pages.
Another edition followed in 1979 in Greece titled "The Valley of the Roses".
However, again the book disappeared and it was hardly mentioned again, apart
from the few that knew of its existence.
After all the silence, Papachatzis died, and his family did not wish to carry on
with his work.
Twenty two years passed before the diary was picked up again by the
independent publisher Radamanthis Anastasakis, who decided to publish the
book on a small scale, exactly as it was previously written.
That's when I discovered the book for the first time and started to "restore" it,
without the sentimentalities that kept Papachatzis from doing something more
than an exact translation of the 'holy' scripts of his teacher. Almost a century
after the original script was written, this was a task that had to be undertaken so
that a 21
stcentury reader could really understand what a20
thcentury man wanted
to say.
And so I did it, making sure not to change any of the content, but filtering out
irrelevant notes pertaining to Dienach's early life and emphasizing his
experience of the future, but in a simpler language and without the gaps that
Dienach's narration had.
I have tried to keep the true essence of his story intact. This was my debt to
Dienach, whose chronicles from the future completely changed my perspective
of life. Nothing more, nothing less. My only goal was to make it accessible to all
of you, because if Dienach's experience was indeed real, this book contains
revolutionary information – something the Masons clearly recognized – and has
the potential to radically change your view of the world and mankind.
Now that you know the background to this unique story, I will simply deposit
the future in your hands with an abstract from the introduction of the 1979
edition of the book by George Papachatzis, the man who personally knew
Dienach:
"The translator of the original texts knew Dienach personally. His belief is that
the inspiration and writing of these texts wasn't an imaginary creation of
Dienach, based on his education and insightful abilities. It is a true phenomenon
of parapsychology that was linked to his life. Maybe he has also added his own
things, maybe he didn't see or live all of the events that he so vividly describes
and presents. What is certain is that most of the basic elements of his texts aretrue experiences that he had; he lived in advance a part of the future to come
and a metaphysical phenomenon of incredible clarity happened to him - a
phenomenon of parapsychology that rarely happens with such an intensity and
roughness. Because of him, what is going to happen on Earth starting from the
last decades of the 20
th century up to 3906 AD, is now known to us, at least in
general terms."
I have to tell you that while Papachatzis was just a student at the time of
receiving Dienach's diary, he went on to become a very respectable man of his
era. He was Vice President of the European Movement (National Council of
Greece), Founding Member of the Greek Philosophical Society, and a Professor
of Philosophy and Culture. He risked a lot in publishing Dienach's work and this
on its own reflects his unwavering belief in its authenticity.
Now I leave you with Dienach's diary, a chronicle from the future…
Achilleas Sirigos
May 2015