Malaika
The archangel who opens a new door – and coaxes Adam to walk through it.
Malaika arrives when Adam has run out of reasons to remain alive.
Her timing is not accidental.
Neither, apparently, is anything else about her.
A high-ranking angel in service to the Creator, Malaika travels the universe aboard Wanderer, an enormous, cloud-like vessel belonging to the Fifth Dimension. Her mission is as extraordinary as her means of transportation: she seeks those who have become lost inside their own existence and offers them another path.
She does not promise that path will be easy.
When Malaika first encounters Adam, he is suspicious, argumentative and full of questions. She responds with wisdom, humor and an impressive tolerance for human stubbornness.
Malaika proves she can be loving and ethereal one moment, teasing the next, and startlingly direct when Adam needs to hear something he would much rather avoid.
She rescues him from Novana, introduces him to possibilities beyond anything he has imagined, and delivers him to Taoland.
Then she does something even more important.
She leaves.
Because Malaika understands a truth Adam will take decades to comprehend: a guide can show someone a path, but cannot walk it for him.
But each time they part she leaves a letter with beautiful words of wisdom for her ward to live by.
As Adam builds a new life, Malaika returns at key moments. Sometimes she encourages him. Sometimes she challenges him. And when achievement, wealth and status begin masquerading as Adam’s purpose, she refuses to tell him what he wants to hear.
Even when Adam reaches the point where he thinks no longer needs her advice.
Especially then.
Malaika knows that Adam’s fear of failure often blocks the doorway to his transformation. She urges Adam to risk the unfamiliar, to uncover the inner gift of selfless love that he does not know he possesses, and to become a contributor rather than a selfish taker in his own life.
But beneath all her counsel lies a deeper mystery.
How much does Malaika already know about Adam's destiny?
She isn't saying.
Perhaps that is because destiny is something that even an angel must never reveal.
Again and again, Malaika opens new possibilities.
And whenever Adam hesitates, her message remains remarkably simple:
When a door is opened, push through it . . . and never look back.