| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
Mr. William Brewster Gilbert Winslow
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: desires to do so. And no doubt this view of the origin
of Religion is perfectly correct. But it must be pointed
out that it does not by any means exclude the view that
religion derives also from an Animism by which man recognizes
in general Nature his foster-mother and feels himself
in closest touch with HER. Which may have come first, the
Social affiliation or the Nature affiliation, I leave to
the professors to determine. The term Animism may,
as far as I can see, be quite well applied to the social
affiliation, for the latter is evidently only a case in which
the individual projects his own degree of consciousness
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: not see a palace ready for her reception and a table spread with
delicacies; but being faint and hungry, she drank the milk and ate
the fruits, and thought them of a higher flavour than the products
of the valley.
They travelled forward by easy journeys, being all unaccustomed to
toil and difficulty, and knowing that, though they might be missed,
they could not be pursued. In a few days they came into a more
populous region, where Imlac was diverted with the admiration which
his companions expressed at the diversity of manners, stations, and
employments. Their dress was such as might not bring upon them the
suspicion of having anything to conceal; yet the Prince, wherever
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