The Hidden Minds

The Framework

Power

Service / Power

Authority spent to lift others, against authority hoarded to guard your standing.

Every profile lands somewhere between service and power. Use this page to see which figures are pulled most strongly toward each pole, then follow the links down into the stories themselves.

Most toward Service

  1. 01MarthaLove that stayed busy so it would not have to sit still.
  2. 02RuthA foreign widow who clung where everyone else, sensibly, let go.
  3. 03JonathanThe crown prince who handed his own succession to the man who would take it.
  4. 04Mary MagdaleneSeven demons gone, and the first clear mind at the empty tomb.
  5. 05EstherA hidden self that had to choose, once, to be seen.
  6. 06SamuelGiven away to the temple as a child, he heard God when the priests had gone deaf.

Most toward Power

  1. 01PharaohEach refusal hardened the next, until the "no" became his fate.
  2. 02HamanRage at one man who would not bow, scaled up into a plan to erase a people.
  3. 03AbsalomA wound his father never answered, turned into a throne and a knife.
  4. 04NebuchadnezzarMade godlike by power, unmade into a beast, healed by looking up.
  5. 05SaulA king who could not bear that anyone might rule better.
  6. 06PilateHe washed his hands of the verdict he had the power to stop.

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