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" ...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until soon it could no longer be discerned which was coming and which going, which following and which leading, the old or the young man. Now it seemed to be the young man who showed honour and obedience to the old man, to authority and dignity; now again it was apparently the old man who was required to follow, serve, worship the figure of youth, of beginning, of mirth. And as he watched this at once senseless and significant dream circle, the dreamer felt alternately identical with the old man and the boy, now revering and now revered, now leading, now obeying; and in the course of these pendulum shifts there came a moment in which he was both, was simultaneously Master and small pupil; or rather he stood above both, was the instigator, conceiver, operator, and onlooker of the cycle, this futile spinning race between age and youth. "
― Hermann Hesse , The Glass Bead Game
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" Prophecy of Balance (Year of the Cat)
“There must be balance,” Source repeated,
“For mankind to flourish on the Earth-Throne he’s seated.”
His life is a gift from the gods, they created,
And the power to wield choice, but the outcome is weighted.
Seeing the harm and chaos humans manifest,
Wore heavily upon the goodness within their immortal breast.
But the gods disagreed, and two groups they split,
Each one possessing their own talent and wit.
One side fights for freedom of Man’s soul,
But the other wants slavery, and Man to control.
So Source cried, “Enough! Now Observers will be sent,
To assist with human minds you’ve cleverly bent!”
For balance, the pendulum won’t sway too far to one side,
And Universal Laws each god must abide.
The gods agreed, but did not stop with their plan,
To influence mankind as much as they can. "
― Kendi Thompson , Year of the Cat: The Thirteenth Realm (Book 1)