| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Divinity who gives his life for his flock is no longer just
an ordinary Bull or Lamb, but Adonis or Osiris or Dionysus
or Jesus. He is betrayed by one of his own followers, and
suffers death, but rises again redeeming all with himself
in the one fellowship; and the corn and the wine and the
wild flesh which were his body, and which he gave for the
sustenance of mankind, are consumed in a holy supper
of reconciliation. It is always the return to unity which
is the ritual of Salvation, and of which the symbol is the
Eucharist--the second birth, the formation of "a new creature
when old things are passed away." For "Except a
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: By one that is an aged Hermit there.
[Reads.] 'When feathered foul shall make thine army tremble,
And flint stones rise and break the battle ray,
Then think on him that doth not now dissemble;
For that shall be the hapless dreadful day:
Yet, in the end, thy foot thou shalt advance
As far in England as thy foe in France.'
KING JOHN.
By this it seems we shall be fortunate:
For as it is impossible that stones
Should ever rise and break the battle ray,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: The stern was formed
A gilded shell
Red and gold
The brisk swell
Rippled both shores
Southwest wind
Carried down stream
The peal of bells
White towers
Weialala leia 290
Wallala leialala
The Waste Land |
