| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: In mournful pomp the matrons walk the round,
With baleful cypress and blue fillets crown'd,
With eyes dejected, and with hair unbound.
Then bowls of tepid milk and blood we pour,
And thrice invoke the soul of Polydore.
"Now, when the raging storms no longer reign,
But southern gales invite us to the main,
We launch our vessels, with a prosp'rous wind,
And leave the cities and the shores behind.
"An island in th' Aegaean main appears;
Neptune and wat'ry Doris claim it theirs.
Aeneid |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: and potent master among dreamers. He had known that the Great
Ones themselves are not beyond a mortal's power to cope with,
and had trusted to luck that the Other Gods and their crawling
chaos Nyarlathotep would not happen to come to their aid at the
crucial moment, as they had so often done before when men sought
out earth's gods in their home or on their mountains. And with
his hideous escort he had half hoped to defy even the Other Gods
if need were, knowing as he did that ghouls have no masters, and
that night-gaunts own not Nyarlathotep but only archaic Nodens
for their lord. But now he saw that supernal Kadath in its cold
waste is indeed girt with dark wonders and nameless sentinels,
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: grievous torment?'
Said he, 'She desired me for my person.' And a witness from among
her family bore witness: 'If his shirt be rent from in front, then she
speaks the truth and he is of the liars; but if his shirt be rent from
behind, then she lies and he is of the truth tellers.'
And when he saw his shirt rent from behind he said, 'This is one
of your tricks; verily, your tricks are mighty! Joseph! turn aside
from this. And do thou, woman, ask pardon for thy fault; verily,
thou wert of the sinners.'
And women in the city said, 'The wife of the prince desires her
young man for his person; he has infatuated her with love: verily,
The Koran |
