The only definitive succession can be derived from the internalization of the elements of generation. Open thy ears, open thy mind. The vision is a flight, and as a flight it is an alteration of mind. The message is a divine message, mortally received and mortally transmitted. The oracle is the divine servant, the channel of the gods, the voice of deity, willfully disposed to all natural forces and energies.
Flames burst from the fissure and rise to the heavens.
For a brief time the brooding shadow of the rising beast is hidden by a wall of fire. The beast's shrill cries, however, can still be heard with each tremor of the earth. It so desires to escape, to break free, to loose itself from the bonds of sediment. The new earth is spilling over from the cracks. What was once red is now black.