| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: sad the gentle face had grown, how thin her robe, and weak her wings,
and yet how lovingly the golden shadows fell around her and brightened
as they lay upon the wand, which, guided by patient love, had made
his once desolate home so bright, he could not be cruel to the one
who had done so much for him, and in kindly tone he said,--
"Little Fairy, I offer you two things, and you may choose
between them. If I will vow never more to harm the flowers you may
love, will you go back to your own people and leave me and my Spirits
to work our will on all the other flowers that bloom? The earth
is broad, and we can find them in any land, then why should you care
what happens to their kindred if your own are safe? Will you do this?"
Flower Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: the elite of marrying men about his youngest daughter. Those who may
have tried to solve the difficult problem of settling a haughty and
capricious girl, will understand the trouble taken by the unlucky
father. Such an affair, carried out to the liking of his beloved
child, would worthily crown the career the Count had followed for
these ten years at Paris. From the way in which his family claimed
salaries under every department, it might be compared with the House
of Austria, which, by intermarriage, threatens to pervade Europe. The
old Vendeen was not to be discouraged in bringing forward suitors, so
much had he his daughter's happiness at heart, but nothing could be
more absurd than the way in which the impertinent young thing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Apostle Paul we know, and something of 'John' the
Evangelist and writer of the Epistle I John; and that the
'Christian' doctrines dated largely from the preaching and
teaching of these two we cannot doubt; but Paul
never saw Jesus (except "in the Spirit"), nor does he ever
mention the man personally, or any incident of his actual
life (the "crucified Christ" being always an ideal figure);
and 'John' who wrote the Gospel was certainly not the same
as the disciple who "lay in Jesus' bosom"--though
an intercalated verse, the last but one in the Gospel, asserts
the identity.[1]
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
