| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: case the First Mother cannot help him: such a separation is part
of the bewilderment that is ever the first outcome of her eternal
work of thrusting the life energy of the world to higher and
higher organization. She can show him no way of escape from the
destruction he foresees. Then from the innermost of him breaks
the confession that he rejoices in his doom, and now himself
exults in passing away with all his ordinances and alliances,
with the spear-sceptre which he has only wielded on condition of
slaying his dearest children with it, with the kingdom, the power
and the glory which will never again boast themselves as "world
without end." And so he dismisses Erda to her sleep in the heart
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: we would let it stand at that.
Now Tom he got all that notion out of Walter Scott's
book, which he was always reading. And it WAS a
wild notion, because in my opinion he never could've
raised the men, and if he did, as like as not he would've
got licked. I took the book and read all about it, and
as near as I could make it out, most of the folks that
shook farming to go crusading had a mighty rocky
time of it.
CHAPTER II.
THE BALLOON ASCENSION
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 104: 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down--unto the place which Thou hadst founded for them;
Psalms 104: 9 Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass over, that they might not return to cover the earth.
Psalms 104: 10 Who sendest forth springs into the valleys; they run between the mountains;
Psalms 104: 11 They give drink to every beast of the field, the wild asses quench their thirst.
Psalms 104: 12 Beside them dwell the fowl of the heaven, from among the branches they sing.
Psalms 104: 13 Who waterest the mountains from Thine upper chambers; the earth is full of the fruit of Thy works.
Psalms 104: 14 Who causeth the grass to spring up for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; to bring forth bread out of the earth,
Psalms 104: 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, making the face brighter than oil, and bread that stayeth man's heart.
Psalms 104: 16 The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon, which He hath planted;
Psalms 104: 17 Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.
Psalms 104: 18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the conies.
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