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'Overview of the Legend
and Mythology
of the Seventh Son'
This
Legend although mentioned in specific detail through many books of
the old and new testaments of the King James version of the Bible,
predates it, back to the dawn of time in all major philosophies and
cultures of the world.
The Legend states the 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' is the unborn one
in the poetic sense, 'He' being preordained by his birthright too be
a 'Maker of Things' endowed with gifts of 'second sight' 'predicting
the future' 'healer' 'lucky' and a 'devil may care attitude' being referred
to as the 'Divine One' or the 'Chosen One' who has a 'special purpose
in life' for the 'Lord of Hosts' who is also cursed by the good & evil
forces battling for his eternal soul.
He is a person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and
diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific,
omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented
letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude
and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the
nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago.
He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting
to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In
the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday
of existence headed the procession of being.
His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization,
and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality
and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest
of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit
up to write a history of human civilization in the Books of Life!
There has been over 200 autobiographies or reflections of 'Seventh Sons'
down through history, and it is also linked with musical scores performed
by various artists starting with the blues great 'Willie Dixon' whom
wrote the original lyrics that was taken from Benjamin Elijah May's
'A Black Man's God as reflected in his thinking' that Johnny Rivers
rerecorded in his anthology of 1965 to 'Iron Maiden' who devoted an
entire CD Disc to the Legend of which their lyrics were based on 'Orson
Scott Cards' series of books on the 'Seventh Son'.
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