Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine (original title in German : Dein Schicksal ist vorherbestimmt: Pater Ernettis Zeitmaschine und das Geheimnis der Akasha-Chronik) by Peter Krassa is a 1997 book about Pellegrino Ernetti, a Benedictine monk who claimed to have developed a time machine, the "Chronovisor". Father Ernetti stated that he watched Christ dying on the cross, and attended a performance of a previously unknown play by the Roman playwright Quintus Ennius. It includes an appendix with the Latin text of the Ernetti Thyestes fragment, reputed to be an excerpt from a lost play by Quintus Ennius. The book was translated from the German by Miguel Jones, and published by New Paradigm Books in 2000. ^[1] Although the book is technically a biography of Ernetti a great deal of it is about unrelated topics, such as Helena Blavatsky, Theosophy, Rudolf Steiner, and Anthroposophy, which Krassa attempts to weave together with Ernetti's efforts, because he argues that these historical occultists were seeking after the same goal as Ernetti, to access the Akashic records of history. The content of the English language edition differs substantially from the original German because those responsible for the translation discovered new facts unknown to Krassa, as they explain in a note before the book begins.