| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll: Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.
"A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Through the Looking-Glass |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors
and the degenerate murals aping and mocking the things they had
superseded-run back, before we had seen what we did see, and before
our minds were burned with something which will never let us breathe
easily again!
Both of our torches were turned on the prostrate
objects, so that we soon realized the dominant factor in their
incompleteness. Mauled, compressed, twisted, and ruptured as they
were, their chief common injury was total decapitation. From each
one the tentacled starfish head had been removed; and as we drew
near we saw that the manner of removal looked more like some hellish
At the Mountains of Madness |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: that this word: Thou shalt have no other gods before Me, in its
simplest meaning states nothing else than this demand: Thou shalt fear,
love, and trust in Me as thine only true God. For where there is a
heart thus disposed towards God, the same has fulfilled this and all
the other commandments. On the other hand, whoever fears and loves
anything else in heaven and upon earth will keep neither this nor any.
Thus the entire scriptures have everywhere preached and inculcated this
commandment, aiming always at these two things: fear of God and trust
in Him. And especially the prophet David throughout the Psalms, as when
he says [Ps. 147,11]: The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him,
in those that hope in His mercy. As if the entire commandment were
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