| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: talk.
Lucien had quite intended to emulate the famous false modesty of those
who bend their heads to pass beneath the Porte Saint-Denis, and to
slip unobserved into the room; but Petit-Claud, having but one friend,
made him useful. He brought Lucien almost pompously through a crowded
room to Mme. de Senonches. The poet heard a murmur as he passed; not
so very long ago that hum of voices would have turned his head, to-day
he was quite different; he did not doubt that he himself was greater
than the whole Olympus put together.
"Madame," he said, addressing Mme. de Senonches, "I have already
congratulated my friend Petit-Claud (a man with the stuff in him of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: "No, no," I replied with animation. "This fragment of rock has been
shaken down by some shock or convulsion, or by one of those magnetic
storms which agitate these regions, and has blocked up the passage
which lay open to him. Many years have elapsed since the return of
Saknussemm to the surface and the fall of this huge fragment. Is it
not evident that this gallery was once the way open to the course of
the lava, and that at that time there must have been a free passage?
See here are recent fissures grooving and channelling the granite
roof. This roof itself is formed of fragments of rock carried down,
of enormous stones, as if by some giant's hand; but at one time the
expulsive force was greater than usual, and this block, like the
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: human-limbed God--some Hercules, Mithra, Attis, Orpheus,
or what-not--or even by the great name of Humanity
itself, it was still in any case the Saviour, the living
incarnate Being by the realization of whose presence the little
mortal could be lifted out of exile and error and death and
suffering into splendor and life eternal.
It is impossible, I think, not to see that the myriad worship
of "Saviours" all over the world, from China to Peru,
can only be ascribed to the natural working of some such
law of human and tribal psychology--from earliest times
and in all races the same--springing up quite spontaneously
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
