| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: STUDENTS with the ideas and mental attitudes of the cosmic
state. Non-differentiation (Advaita[1]) is the root attitude of
the mind inculcated.
[1] The word means "not-two-ness." Here we see a great subtlety
of definition. It is not to be "one" with others that is urged,
but to be "not two."
We have seen that there has been an age of non-differentiation
in the Past-non-differentiation from other members
of the Tribe, from the Animals, from Nature and the Spirit
or Spirits of nature; why should there not arise a similar
sense of non-differentiation in the FUTURE--similar but more
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: of the shop, Mr Verloc descended into the abyss of moral
reflections. With the insight of a kindred temperament he
pronounced his verdict. A lazy lot - this Karl Yundt, nursed by a
blear-eyed old woman, a woman he had years ago enticed away from a
friend, and afterwards had tried more than once to shake off into
the gutter. Jolly lucky for Yundt that she had persisted in coming
up time after time, or else there would have been no one now to
help him out of the `bus by the Green Park railings, where that
spectre took its constitutional crawl every fine morning. When
that indomitable snarling old witch died the swaggering spectre
would have to vanish too - there would be an end to fiery Karl
The Secret Agent |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: his desert. He had settled to his safety and accepted perforce his
extinction; figuring to himself, with some colour, in the likeness
of certain little old men he remembered to have seen, of whom, all
meagre and wizened as they might look, it was related that they had
in their time fought twenty duels or been loved by ten princesses.
They indeed had been wondrous for others while he was but wondrous
for himself; which, however, was exactly the cause of his haste to
renew the wonder by getting back, as he might put it, into his own
presence. That had quickened his steps and checked his delay. If
his visit was prompt it was because he had been separated so long
from the part of himself that alone he now valued.
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