| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: the result of definite self-conscious reasoning, such as we use,
carried out by each individual; but are (as has been abundantly
proved by Samuel Butler and others) the systematic
expression of experiences gathered up and sorted
out and handed down from generation to generation in
the bosom of the race--an Intelligence in fact, or Insight,
of larger subtler scope than the other, and belonging
to the tribal or racial Being rather than to
the isolated individual--a super-consciousness in fact,
ramifying afar in space and time.
But if we allow (as we must) this unity and perfection
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: than incarnate in a body. And I have told, too, how I bought a
picture.
All this was a thing apart from the rest of my life, a locked
avoided chamber. . . .
It was not until my last year at Trinity that I really broke down
the barriers of this unwholesome silence and brought my secret
broodings to the light of day. Then a little set of us plunged
suddenly into what we called at first sociological discussion. I
can still recall even the physical feeling of those first tentative
talks. I remember them mostly as occurring in the rooms of Ted
Hatherleigh, who kept at the corner by the Trinity great gate, but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: The third day, when her father and mother and sisters were gone, she
went again into the garden, and said:
'Shake, shake, hazel-tree,
Gold and silver over me!'
Then her kind friend the bird brought a dress still finer than the
former one, and slippers which were all of gold: so that when she came
to the feast no one knew what to say, for wonder at her beauty: and
the king's son danced with nobody but her; and when anyone else asked
her to dance, he said, 'This lady is /my/ partner, sir.'
When night came she wanted to go home; and the king's son would go
with her, and said to himself, 'I will not lose her this time'; but,
Grimm's Fairy Tales |
