| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac: often talked nonsense together about God, ourselves, and nature. He at
that time affected pyrrhonism. Jealous of his place as leader, he
doubted Lambert's precocious gifts; while I, having lately read /Les
Enfants celebres/, overwhelmed him with evidence, quoting young
Montcalm, Pico della Mirandola, Pascal--in short, a score of early
developed brains, anomalies that are famous in the history of the
human mind, and Lambert's predecessors.
I was at the time passionately addicted to reading. My father, who was
ambitious to see me in the Ecole Polytechnique, paid for me to have a
special course of private lessons in mathematics. My mathematical
master was the librarian of the college, and allowed me to help myself
Louis Lambert |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Constitution: escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein,
be discharged from such Service or Labor, But shall be delivered up on Claim
of the Party to whom such Service or Labor may be due.
Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union;
but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction
of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two
or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the
Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules
and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging
to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so
The United States Constitution |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: averted. It is known that they are CIRCULAR in character, and
that though the wind on their outskirts often reaches a speed of
100 miles an hour, in the centre of the storm there is a space of
complete calm--not a calm of the SEA certainly, but a complete
absence of wind. The skilled navigator, if he cannot escape
the storm, steers right into the heart of it, and rests there.
Even in the midst of the clatter he finds a place of quiet where
he can trim his sails and adjust his future course. He knows
too from his position in what direction at every point around
him the wind is moving and where it will strike him when at
last his ship emerges from the charmed circle.
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
