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"“Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the best feline of them all?”
Magda the forest cat was at it again: preening herself. Her vanity could only be matched by vanity itself and even then the latter elemental force would fall short of Magda’s own megalomania.
That was the height of Magda’s folly.
It was on this same day that Magda entered a castle. She was looking for new prey to feed herself but in truth it was more to soothe her own ego. A new kill. A new hunt. All were new opportunities for Madga to show off her skill. Her prowess.
Nature had dictated that she was to be three-parts assassin, that is the ultimate hunting machine, and, one-part adorable-cute forest cat that everyone fell head over heels for at first sight. She was a mystery, she was beautiful, and she was also very very lethal.
It was at this juncture, of new castle, of hunting for new prey, and of her feline megalomania that Magda met the most unexpected of outcomes.
A giant-sized mirror none like she had ever seen before in her life. It paled in comparison to her tiny pocket mirror as well the bathroom mirror she so very much adored and the bedroom mirror that she kept in her den.
“I must have it!” She immediately said upon catching sight of it. The encrusted jewels along the gold-gilded rim reflected rays that pierced down to the depths of her very tiny cat soul.
“But how?” She thought to herself. The mirror was too large. She couldn’t carry it herself and even if she could it wouldn’t fit in her den.
“A new home perhaps?” She started quickly turning over possibilities in her mind. The thoughts that arose then subsided, each equally unfulling and unrealistic as the last. Magda was close to giving a sigh of resignation when she approached the mirror and saw a figure hovering in it.
It was a reflection of herself but it looked different. There was this invisible-shadowy tone as well as the fact that the image in the mirror was autonomous – it moved on its own! It was Magda but different.
The real cat wore a lovely pink ribbon and had a taste for fine jewelry such as pearl earrings. While the Magda in the mirror wore a blue ribbon and wore mystical earrings made of pure platinum that seemed to have tiny lunar symbols etched into them.
The mirror figure in a very familiar tone spoke to Magda the forest cat, in no doubt a very familiar tone, one of Magda’s own voice: “State your wish, peasant.”
It seems no matter the Magda you dealt with, whether real-forest cat or supernatural-shadowy mirror figure they both shared a certain ruthlessness about them.
“My what? … Hey, who are you calling peasant!? You indignant little rube. I’ve seen horse manure with more character than that ribbon and earrings.”
The mirror cat gave the most self-indulgent of smiles. “This is the Cosmic Mirror. You clueless molly. It will show you anything you desire! Now state your wish before I am done with you and leave.”
Magda the forest-cat gave a small hiss. “Be done with me? I’ll show you which one of us is useless!” Magda was prepared to charge the mirror and headbutt it until she had an idea.
“I can see anything she asked?”
“Yes. That’s why I am here?”
Magda immediately lost sight of the brewing conflict with her alter-ego as her vanity took over her mind and swamped her thoughts. A heavy fog filled her mental apparatus and it became increasingly difficult to think except for one thing: Magda’s own self-importance.
It was with oft spoken words that Magda repeated her favorite phrase: “Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who’s the best feline of them all?”
The forest cat had hoped the annoying mirror figure would disappear, and indeed she did. Madga also hoped to see herself in the mirror’s reflection, in answer to her question. Indeed she did as well. However the reflection she saw had one crucial difference. It showed the real cat but there was a “in 1 year” banner of text floating above her head.
“Hey, what’s that suppose to mean?!” Magda continued her complaining, “I’m perfect meowww!” Magda roared.
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As Magda’s meow roared about the castle hallway, a wind filled the chambers she stood inside.
Magda’s alter-ego had neglected to mention that the Cosmic Mirror doesn’t just show you the objective truth. It also creates it for you! That is why it is always accurate because the thoughts we think become true for us.
The mystery of the universe is that we live in an inclusion-based system not an exclusion one.
The world as we know it is self-generating and self-expanding in character, creation is an act of ordering what is already there because everything is already provided. That also means that nothing in the universe is permanently destructive in its character. Many people are familiar with this truth as it is reflected in the modern-day insight of the natural sciences: that energy is only ever converted from one form into another and never created or destroyed.
As the wind picked up in the castle chamber, it circled Magda the forest-cat, increasing in intensity until it completely surrounded her. A wall of wind and then engulfed her. As Magda tried to escape it she found herself lifted off the ground and was transformed from majestic forest-cat to squabbly forest mouse.
It was in this manner the truth of Magda’s being became known to her. The shadowy-mirror figure reappeared in the reflection of the mirror, they were still the same in appearance as when they had met Magda the first time.
“What’s going on?! … What’s wrong with me? … Why am I like this?” Magda the forest-mouse demanded. “You … you did this to me!” Magda the forest mouse said in fright as she looked at her little mouse paws.
“No. Magda the forest cat. You did this to yourself. It was your wish, silly.”
“My wish? My wish?! My wish was to be the most perfect adorable lethal forest cat that ever lived!” Magda let out a painful meow, “and now I’m it’s prey!” Tears on the verge of her little mouse eyes.
“Yes, silly. And now you get to become it.”
“Become it? How? I can go back?!”
“Yes, you will return to being a forest cat in exactly one year.” Magda was about to smile but the shadowy-mirror figure continued talking, “but you have to survive until then.”
“Survive? … I don’t understand.”
“You have spent your life living in the regal nature bestowed to you by nature. You have been given everything. Privilege, certain creatures only dream of. And yet you remain entitled and want more.”
Magda was ready to roar back that “a queen only ever wants more! – it is her right!” yet she remained silent. Magda was scared to anger her mirror alter-ego now that she was no longer in her predator form.
The Magda of the mirror gave a coarse smile to her real-world counterpart, it was filled with the same self-indulgent smile as in her first encounter with the scared forest cat now turned mouse.
The mirror Magda spoke and broke the silence, “After you have survived as a mouse for one year you will become a better predator … and I will help you.”
“You’ll do what?”
“You heard me. Meow.”
“You’re lying!” Magda the forest-mouse said. “If you’re me, and I’m you. Then I know what you’re thinking and you know what I’m thinking! If I were in your position I would play the long con. I would make you think I’m your friend and savor every minute of being in the blind spot of my prey.”
“However you miss one important fact, silly.”
“And what’s that?”
“You already said it. You toothless excuse of a vermin. I am you and you are me. I can’t kill you. I can only enable you. To help you is to help me. We are the same feline. Do you understand?”
Magda was reluctant to accept such a truth but it did sound convincing to her – she did accept it in time. The two did indeed forge a friendship. Magda the mirror figure and Magda the forest mouse. Every day Magda the forest mouse would live in terror and anxiety as all manner of creatures hunted her. However she carried the mirror figure in an ultra-tiny pocket mouse mirror that was really a small piece of highly-polished glass. She saw reflections in it and in it Magda the mirror figure lay.
The supernatural figure gave her advice and comfort and support. It was in this manner, as harrowing as an experience the one year was, Mada survived the tumultuous ordeal. It was also through these trials and tribulations that she learned to trust her alter-ego figure very much and they did develop a certain kind of positive “working” relationship. One might even call it a “friendship,” and it was with this relationship that Magda’s own personality was transformed and softened. Her characteristic ruthlessness and extreme vanity remained but it was also partially abated and subsumed by other qualities that the one year of survival as a mouse had produced in Magda.
Then, of course, much to the forest-mouse’s surprise, on the last day of her voyage as a mouse. As Magda was beginning to see the light and believe she would be re-born. Her alter-ego, over and against their friendship, ate the mouse on the very last day.
The experience was in many ways more harrowing than the year living as a mouse. That is, in as far as death is physically painful and being betrayed is emotionally hurtful. It was all very horrible to experience first-hand.
However, as Magda the forest-mouse died that day, she was also reborn and a new era of Magda the forest-cat was born. Indeed, Magda the new forest-cat was very much improved in character. She retained all her old memories, of both her lives, and carried them with her into all her experiences.
She ate only when she needed to, she indulged in the ability of her strength but not to an ornate degree, and she was humbled in all the abundance life had bestowed upon her.
This was the story of Magda the forest cat and herein she finally found peace and was free from folly."
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