| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites in a single night.
From the statistics given in the Sacred Book these naughty
savages proved to him absolutely conclusively that the numbers
of fugitives were such that even supposing them
to have marched--men, women and children--FIVE ABREAST
and in close order, they would have formed a column 100
miles long, and this not including the baggage, sheep
and cattle! Of course the feat was absolutely impossible.
They could not have passed the Red Sea in a night or a
week of nights.
But the sequel is still more amusing and instructive.
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: Not to undoe with thunder; In his face
The liverie of the warlike Maide appeares,
Pure red, and white, for yet no beard has blest him.
And in his rowling eyes sits victory,
As if she ever ment to court his valour:
His Nose stands high, a Character of honour.
His red lips, after fights, are fit for Ladies.
EMILIA.
Must these men die too?
PERITHOUS.
When he speakes, his tongue
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: bodies of Phorcys and Hippothous which they stripped presently of
their armour.
The Trojans would now have been worsted by the brave Achaeans and
driven back to Ilius through their own cowardice, while the
Argives, so great was their courage and endurance, would have
achieved a triumph even against the will of Jove, if Apollo had
not roused Aeneas, in the likeness of Periphas son of Epytus, an
attendant who had grown old in the service of Aeneas' aged
father, and was at all times devoted to him. In his likeness,
then, Apollo said, "Aeneas, can you not manage, even though
heaven be against us, to save high Ilius? I have known men, whose
The Iliad |
