The spell keeps breaking.
One word at a time.
Class 3 is in session.

⚡ CLASS IS IN SESSION ⚡

LESSON 17 — “LORD”

From Old English:
“Hlāford” = bread guardian
“Hlāf” = loaf / bread
“Weard” = guardian / keeper

LORD = The one who controls the bread.

Whoever controls the food —
controls the people.
The word knew.
From the beginning.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 18 — “LADY”

From Old English:
“Hlƿdige” = bread kneader
“Hlāf” = loaf
“Dige” = to knead

LADY = She who kneads the bread.

The lord controlled it.
The lady made it.
Both — defined by bread.

The original economy —
was a kitchen.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 19 — “BANK”

From Italian:
“Banca” = bench / table

Medieval money changers
sat at benches in the marketplace.

BANK = A bench.

When a money changer
could not pay his debts —
his bench was broken.

“Banca rotta” = broken bench.
BANKRUPT.

The bench is still there.
Just bigger.
With marble floors.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 20 — “INTEREST”

From Latin:
“Inter” = between
“Esse” = to be

INTEREST = to be between.

Originally — interest meant
“that which is between” —
the concern — the stake —
the thing that matters.

They turned “what matters”
into a percentage.
Charged monthly.
Compounding.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 21 — “MUSCLE”

From Latin:
“Musculus” = little mouse

Roman anatomists noticed —
when a muscle moves under skin —
it looks like a mouse
moving under a cloth.

MUSCLE = Little mouse.

Every time you flex —
you are releasing
a thousand little mice.

You’re welcome.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 22 — “COMPANION”

From Latin:
“Com” = together
“Panis” = bread

COMPANION = One you share bread with.

Not one you agree with.
Not one you work with.
Not one you follow.

One you share bread with.

Choose your companions
accordingly.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 23 — “TRAVEL”

From Old French:
“Travailler” = to toil / to suffer
From Latin: “Trepalium” = an instrument of torture

TRAVEL = To suffer.

The road was dangerous.
The journey was hard.
To travel was to endure.

Now you know why
the Bounder feels like
a calling — not a vacation.

The road was always
the initiation.

⚡ THIS ⚡

LESSON 24 — “INAUGURATION”

From Latin:
“Inaugurare” = to take omens from birds
“In” = into
“Augur” = a priest who reads bird signs

INAUGURATION = To be confirmed by the birds.

Every president.
Every king.
Every ceremony of power.

Confirmed —
by the reading of birds.

Gilbert —
has been inaugurating
everything —
from the beginning.

⚡ THIS ⚡