| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: ignorance. He reply'd, I am a poor ignorant fellow, bred to a
mean trade, yet I have sense enough to know that all pretences of
foretelling by astrology are deceits, for this manifest reason,
because the wise and the learned, who can only know whether there
be any truth in this science, do all unanimously agree to laugh
at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant vulgar give it
any credit, and that only upon the word of such silly wretches as
I and my fellows, who can hardly write or read. I then asked him
why he had not calculated his own nativity, to see whether it
agreed with Bickerstaff's prediction? at which he shook his head,
and said, Oh! sir, this is no time for jesting, but for repenting
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: cases, kept its word. I should advise him to command in
person this little army, which would, believe me, increase,
and to die, standard in hand, and sword in its sheath,
saying, `Englishmen! I am the third king of my race you have
killed; beware of the justice of God!'"
Monk hung down his head, and mused for an instant. "If he
succeeded," said he, "which is very improbable, but not
impossible -- for everything is possible in this world --
what would you advise him to do?"
"To think that by the will of God he lost his crown but by
the good will of men he recovered it."
Ten Years Later |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Cow
omniform and all-impelling,
Even may they form wealth for us,-the Rbhus, dexterous-handed,
deft in
work and gracious.
9 So in their work the Gods had satisfaction, pondering it
with
thought and mental insight.
The Gods' expert artificer was Vaja, Indra's Rbhuksan, Varuna's
was
Vibhvan.
The Rig Veda |
