If they say, "I am the beginning and the end," people will say, "You are not yet very old, how can you be the beginning?" In the mystical way of knowing past, present and future, there are numberless manners of knowing it. There are people who can tell it by looking in the fire, or in a cup of tea, or by coffee-grounds, or by laying cards, by looking in the crystal, or by asking a spirit or a god.