| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: are almost always able to stifle sedition in its very cradle,
taking advantage of the irrepressible and boundless hopefulness
of the human mind. Art also comes to the aid of Law and Order.
It is generally found possible -- by a little artificial
compression or expansion on the part of the State physicians --
to make some of the more intelligent leaders of a rebellion
perfectly Regular, and to admit them at once into
the privileged classes; a much larger number, who are still below
the standard, allured by the prospect of being ultimately ennobled,
are induced to enter the State Hospitals, where they are kept
in honourable confinement for life; one or two alone
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: the promise of something better than Paganism and better
than Christianity is very precious. It is surely time
that it should be fulfilled.
The tracing, therefore, of the part that human self-
consciousness has played, psychologically, in the evolution
of religion, runs like a thread through the following chapters,
and seeks illustration in a variety of details. The idea
has been repeated under different aspects; sometimes,
possibly, it has been repeated too often; but different aspects
in such a case do help, as in a stereoscope, to give
solidity to the thing seen. Though the worship of Sun-gods
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
PSA 109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
PSA 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up
and down as the locust.
PSA 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of
fatness.
PSA 109:25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me
they shaked their heads.
PSA 109:26 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
PSA 109:27 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD,
hast done it.
King James Bible |
