The Fifth Mountain
Paulo Coelho
Translated By
Clifford E. Landers
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Zarephath, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Luke 4:24–26
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Epigraph
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
PROLOGUE
PART I
I HAVE SERVED A LORD
HE WALKED FOR MANY HOURS
ELIJAH AWOKE THE NEXT DAY
ELIJAH JOURNEYED FOR DAYS
ELIJAH’S PRESENCE WAS SOON
LITTLE BY LITTLE ELIJAH BECAME
AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE VALLEY
IN THE DISTANCE
SHOUTING INSULTS AND HURLING STONES
AFTER MUCH TIME HAD PASSED
PART II
THE HIGH PRIEST SAID
AKBAR WOULD GO ON EXISTING
THE HIGH PRIEST REMAINED
THE NEXT DAY
ELIJAH STILL LIVES
TWO MORE MONTHS PASSED
THE PRISONER
THE LORD SPOKE UNTO MOSES
ELIJAH CONTINUED WALKING
HE WAS AWAKENED
LET’S GO
ELIJAH, THE WOMAN, AND THE BOY
I’M HUNGRY AND THIRSTY
THE NEXT DAY THEY AWOKE
THE BOY AND THE MAN
HE LOOKED AT THE BOY
BEHOLD, OH LORD
THE NEXT DAY
ANOTHER DAY WENT BY
ELIJAH AWOKE WITH A START
THE WOMAN WHO HAD ASKED
TWO NIGHTS LATER
THE DAYS BECAME WEEKS
ELIJAH AWOKE SAYING
CARAVANS NO LONGER CAME
THE CHIEF TRADER SAW
AND IT CAME TO PASS
FROM THE STONE WHERE HE SAT
ELIJAH AND THE BOY
FIVE YEARS LATER
ELIJAH RETURNED TO
MARIA CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN
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NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
In my book The Alchemist, the central thesis lies in a phrase that King Melchizedek says to the shepherd boy Santiago: “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
I believe this with all my heart. However, the act of living one’s own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to take us back to the path of our Personal Legend—or to make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny. I think I can better illustrate what I am saying by relating an episode in my life.
