Project Divine Fire was first initiated in 270 BC, when Djowhty, a priest of Thoth, received a vision of a “Road to Heaven.” The church was, at the time, riven between Roman influence and Egyptian traditionalists. The Romans were attempting to equate Thoth with Mercury and there was a resulting battle in the heavens between the old Egyptian god and the Greek god of messengers and magic. As it happens, neither Hermes nor Thoth sent this vision to Djowhty. The vision came from a being who had long been concerned with the welfare of mankind, even as his concern ended up with him chained to a rock for all eternity.

The clerics who read this book, eventually titled the Book of Foreseeing, became part of splinter sect within the church, calling themselves the “Guardians of the Temple.” The majority of those who found truth within the book were the architects and planners of the church, who felt kinship with the author. The heresy never really spread beyond a handful of academics and, when the church was destroyed by Caesar Augustus in 16 BC, a pair of clerics secreted the book out of Egypt north.

The Book would go undiscovered for over a millenium, until 1119, when a small group of crusading knights were given charge of the captured Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Despite being clearly older than that language, the text of the book was in the Vulgate Latin used by the church of the time and the Knights knew they had stumbled upon something special. Building up a fortress around their find, they proclaimed themselves “The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon” for they believed that the wisdom contained in this “Book of Foreseeing” had to be the secrets of that wisest of kings, Solomon.

The Knights Templar would use the secrets of the Book of Foreseeing to empower themselves, defeating the hidden children of the demons that pretended to be the pagan gods of old. Unfortunately for the Knights, they were still mortal and prey to mortal failings. Several of the Grand Masters used the power of the book for their own purposes and their growing power finally drew the ire of the powerful of Europe. When King Philip IV and Pope Clement V declared the order traitors and heretics, they were undone. Once again, a small group was forced to spirit the book and its power into hiding, keeping the power of the gods out of the hands of the mortal church.

The most recent incarnation of Project: Divine Fire is the most subtle yet. Neither a church nor a militant order, the Order of Freemasons of the Scottish Rite have long been known as a charitable fraternal organization. They are an esoteric order, dedicated to “building the character of men.” Such character builds over degrees towards power that the average fish fry attendee can only imagine.

The project has a simple goal: grant divinity to mankind throug the “divine fire” – the power of Legend bound up in the ichor of the old gods and their children. In so doing, the author of the Book of Foreseeing hopes to make the old gods obsolete, stealing the worship that maintains them.