| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: hide her face behind her sleeve. But almost in the same moment her whole
form appeared to collapse in the strangest way, and to sank down, down,
down -- level with the floor. Tomotada had spring to support her;-- but
there was nothing to support! There lay on the matting only the empty robes
of the fair creature and the ornaments that she had worn in her hair: the
body had ceased to exist...
Tomotada shaved his head, took the Buddhist vows, and became an itinerant
priest. He traveled through all the provinces of the empire; and, at holy
places which he visited, he offered up prayers for the soul of Aoyagi.
Reaching Echizen, in the course of his pilgrimage, he sought the home of
the parents of his beloved. But when he arrived at the lonely place among
Kwaidan |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: "so that it maketh him wisshe that he had not done it". Also they
take fortunes for masses and then don't say them. "If the Abbot
of westminster shulde sing every day as many masses for his
founders as he is bounde to do by his foundacion, 1000 monkes
were too few." The petitioner suggests that the king shall "tie
these holy idell theves to the cartes, to be whipped naked about
every market towne till they will fall to laboure!"
Church History
King Henry did not follow this suggestion precisely, but he took
away the property of the religious orders for the expenses of his
many wives and mistresses, and forced the clergy in England to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: And when Moses' wrath calmed down he took the tables, in the
inscription of which was guidance and mercy for those who dread
their Lord.
And Moses chose from his people seventy men for our appointment; and
when the earthquake took them he said, 'O my Lord! hadst Thou
willed, Thou hadst destroyed them before and me. Wilt Thou destroy
us for what the fools amongst us have done? This is naught but Thy
trial, wherewith Thou dost lead astray whom Thou pleasest and
guidest whom Thou pleasest; Thou art our patron! forgive us and have
mercy on us, for Thou art the best of those who do forgive!
And write down for us in this world good, and in the future too;
The Koran |
