| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: Madame de Chantelle looked plaintively at her sturdy
monitress. "You don't expect me not to ask if she's got a
family?"
"No; nor to think the worse of her if she hasn't. The fact
that she's an orphan ought, with your ideas, to be a merit.
You won't have to invite her father and mother to Givre!"
"Adelaide--Adelaide!" the mistress of Givre lamented.
"Lucretia Mary," the other returned--and Darrow spared an
instant's amusement to the quaint incongruity of the name--
"you know you sent for Mr. Darrow to refute me; and how can
he, till he knows what I think?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: nothing the devil hates worse than the Gospel. It is one of his little tricks
to blame the Gospel for every evil in the world. Formerly, when the
traditions of the fathers were taught in the Church, the devil was not
excited as he is now. It goes to show that our doctrine is of God, else
"behemoth would lie under shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and
fens." The fact that he is again walking about as a roaring lion to stir up
riots and disorders is a sure sign that he has begun to feel the effect of our
preaching.
VERSE 18. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good
thing, and not only when I am present with you.
"When I was present with you, you loved me, although I preached the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: gait. That they were true black men of earth's dreamland was at
once apparent, but it seemed less likely that their rites and
costumes were wholly things of our earth. Ten feet from Carter
the columns stopped, and as they did so each trumpet flew abruptly
to its bearer's thick lips. Wild and ecstatic was the blast that
followed, and wilder still the cry that chorused just after from
dark throats somehow made shrill by strange artifice.
Then down
the wide lane betwixt the two columns a lone figure strode; a
tall, slim figure with the young face of an antique Pharaoh, gay
with prismatic robes and crowned with a golden pshent that glowed
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
