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Portrait of H. Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard,  The Wizard (Haggard) — VIII. The First Trial By Fire (1896)

“ To love God and serve man; to eschew wizardry, wealth, and power; to seek after holiness, poverty and humility; to deny your flesh, and to make yourself small in the sight of men, that so perchance you may grow great in the sight of Heaven and save your soul alive.”
“I have no stomach for that lesson,” said Hokosa.
“Yet you shall live to hunger for it,” answered Owen. And the wizard went away angered but wondering.
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Portrait of H. Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard,  The Wizard (Haggard) — VIII. The First Trial By Fire (1896)

“ That night as Owen sat in his hut working at the translation of St. John, the door was opened and Hokosa entered.
“White Man,” said the wizard, “you are too strong for me, though whence you have your power I know not. Let us make a bargain. Show me your magic and I will show you mine, and we will rule the land between us. You and I are much akin—we are great; we have the spirit sight; we know that there are things beyond the things we see and hear and feel; whereas, for the rest, they are fools, following the flesh alone.
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Portrait of H. Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard,  The Wizard (Haggard) — VIII. The First Trial By Fire (1896)

“ In his dream the doctor answered: ‘How can the people honour a god that they do not see?’ Then the god said: ‘Rise up now in the night, all the company of you, and go take your stand upon the banks of yonder stream, and I will fall down in fire from heaven, and there on the plain you shall find my image. Then let your King move his Great Place into the valley beneath the plain, and henceforth my bolts shall spare it and him. ”
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