| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: to them. They were polite to him, but showed by their whole
manner that they had their own set and that he was not of it.
And Kasatsky wished to belong to that inner circle. To attain
that end it would be necessary to be an aide-de-camp to the
Emperor--which he expected to become--or to marry into that
exclusive set, which he resolved to do. And his choice fell on a
beauty belonging to the Court, who not merely belonged to the
circle into which he wished to be accepted, but whose friendship
was coveted by the very highest people and those most firmly
established in that highest circle. This was Countess Korotkova.
Kasatsky began to pay court to her, and not merely for the sake
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: sufficient to be worth troubling about; and in the second, who the
next-of-kin may be; for if the property is the booty, the next-of-kin
is the enemy."
La Cibot immediately began to talk of Remonencq and Elie Magus, and
said that the shrewd couple valued the pictures at six hundred
thousand francs.
"Would they take them themselves at that price?" inquired the lawyer.
"You see, madame, that men of business are shy of pictures. A picture
may mean a piece of canvas worth a couple of francs or a painting
worth two hundred thousand. Now, paintings worth two hundred thousand
francs are usually well known; and what errors in judgment people make
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: "things SHOWN"? It is not so easy naturally to get exact
information concerning these, but they seem to have been
specially holy objects, probably things connected with
very ancient rituals in the past--such as sacred stones,
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
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
