| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: knees. No one was paying any attention to her. And Jim was
holding the front door open, while three of the guards hesitated
in the vestibule. The noises continued from the back of the
house, and as I stood on the lowest stair Bella came out from the
dining room, with her face streaked with soot, and carrying a
kettle of hot water.
"Jim," she called wildly. "While Max and Dal are below, you can
pour this down from the top. It's boiling."
Jim glanced back over his shoulder. Carry out your own murderous
designs," he said. And then, as she started back with it, "Bella,
for Heaven's sake," he called, "have you gone stark mad? Put that
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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: old and rude images of the gods, magic nature-symbols, like
that half-disclosed ear of corn above-mentioned (Ch. V.). "In the
Temple of Isis at Philae," says Dr. Cheetham,
"the dead body of Osiris is represented with stalks
of corn springing from it, which a priest waters from
a vessel. An inscription says: 'This is the form of him
whom we may not name, Osiris of the Mysteries who sprang
from the returning waters' [the Nile]." Above all, no doubt,
there were images of the phallus and the vulva, the great
symbols of human fertility. We have seen (Ch. XII) that
the lingam and the yoni are, even down to to-day, commonly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: and the darkness.
CHAPTER SEVEN
HOW I REACHED HOME
For my own part, I remember nothing of my flight
except the stress of blundering against trees and stumbling
through the heather. All about me gathered the invisible
terrors of the Martians; that pitiless sword of heat seemed
whirling to and fro, flourishing overhead before it descended
and smote me out of life. I came into the road between the
crossroads and Horsell, and ran along this to the crossroads.
At last I could go no further; I was exhausted with the
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