| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: year after year as the centre-figure of a thousand
ritual processions, would at last be dramatized and
idealized in the great race-consciousness into the form
of a Suffering God--a Jesus Christ or a Dionysus or
Osiris--dismembered or crucified for the salvation of
mankind. The Priest or Medicine-Man--or rather the
succession of Priests or Medicine-Men--whose figures
would recur again and again as leaders and ordainers of the
ceremonies, would be glorified at last into the composite-
image of a God in whom were concentrated all magic
powers. "Recent researches," says Gilbert Murray, "have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: know what to do."
"Run away!" exclaimed Inga. "Where did they go to?"
"Who knows?" said the man, shaking his head
despondently. "They departed together a few hours ago,
in a boat with forty rowers, and they took with them
the King and Queen of Pingaree!"
Chapter Fifteen
The Flight of the Rulers
Now it seems that when Queen Cor fled from her island
to Regos, she had wit enough, although greatly frightened,
to make a stop at the royal dairy, which was near
Rinkitink In Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: he had posed in his cravat a trifle prematurely.
"Madame, I understand you," he said, laughing. "I ought, therefore, to
be doubly thankful that Monsieur le marquis met me; he affords me an
opportunity to offer you excuses which might be full of danger were
you not kindness itself."
The marquise looked at the young man with an air of some surprise, but
she answered with dignity:--
"Monsieur, silence on your part will be the best excuse. As for me, I
promise you entire forgetfulness, and the pardon which you scarcely
deserve."
"Madame," said Rastignac, hastily, "pardon is not needed where there
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