The VALIS Trilogy Author:Philip K. Dick This trilogy includes three of Philip K. Dick's works: Valis, The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer. — The basic premise of this series is that a transcendent God (or Vast Active Living Intelligence System) not only exists, but also periodically "breaks through" into our own material world, "the Black Iro... more »n Prison." If we are receptive, or desperate enough, it makes itself known (i.e. grants "gnosis"- the knowledge of the true state of things.)
In the Divine Invasion, sets in the far future, the time has come when VALIS, the Logos, the greater face of God, or whatever name you choose to limit it by, breaks through into our "black iron prison" to reclaim it and banish the Empire and the Adversary behind it.« less