Hiding behind an international oil and mining corporation ORMUZD LTD, the neo-Nazi Thule Society is about to unleash the first of three large-scale disasters. The Thule Society's plan is to usurp the ancient Mayan prophecy that foretold the beginning of the spiritual rebirth of the world in 2012 and instead establish a new world order under a white-supremacist dictatorship. When British schoolteacher Paul Francis stumbles across knowledge of the Thule Society's plan, his best friend is murdered, and Paul is nearly killed by chemical poisoning. Paul's wife and their two grown children soon become involved in the quest to save the world by joining forces with The Circle of Lights, a small international group of mystics of different faiths that opposes the Thule Society's plan. Along with a Jesuit priest, a Cabalistic rabbi, a Sufi Shaykh, a Magus of a Masonic Rosicrucian Society, a Tibetan Buddhist master, a Hindu yogi, and a Wicca priestess, Paul and his family vow to stop the dark forces threatening mankind. The group's united goal is to bring mutual understanding, tolerance, harmony, and love to humanity?and to persuade the whole world to see the truth of Oneness before it is lost forever.