| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Droll Stories, V. 1 by Honore de Balzac: seen them in Latin, and have translated them for the benefit of
Christians.
"Alas!" said Marie d'Annebaut, "thou art my strength and my life, my
joy and my treasure."
"And you," replied he "you are a pearl, an angel."
"Thou art my seraphim."
"You my soul."
"Thou my God."
"You my evening star and morning star, my honour, my beauty, my
universe."
"Thou my great my divine master."
Droll Stories, V. 1 |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: When they have visions of scenes they have never seen
in the flesh, memories of acts and events dating back
in time, the simplest explanation is that they have
lived before.
But they make the mistake of ignoring their own
duality. They do not recognize their
other-personality. They think it is their own
personality, that they have only one personality; and
from such a premise they can conclude only that they
have lived previous lives.
But they are wrong. It is not reincarnation. I have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: of Fleeming's education, it was almost enforced by reasons of
economy. But it was, no doubt, somewhat hard upon the captain.
Certainly that perennial boy found a companion in his son; they
were both active and eager, both willing to be amused, both young,
if not in years, then in character. They went out together on
excursions and sketched old castles, sitting side by side; they had
an angry rivalry in walking, doubtless equally sincere upon both
sides; and indeed we may say that Fleeming was exceptionally
favoured, and that no boy had ever a companion more innocent,
engaging, gay, and airy. But although in this case it would be
easy to exaggerate its import, yet, in the Jenkin family also, the
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