| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: they were transformed," replied Ozma. "Mrs. Yoop is now
the only yookoohoo in my dominions, and the yookoohoo
magic is very peculiar and hard for others to
understand, yet I am resolved to make the attempt to
break these enchantments. I may not succeed, but I
shall do the best I can. From the directions our
friends are taking, I believe they are going to pass by
Jinjur's Ranch, so if we start now we may meet them
there. Would you like to go with me, Dorothy?"
"Of course," answered the little girl; "I wouldn't
miss it for anything."
The Tin Woodman of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: quality woolen blankets properly and smoothly
folded, a pad made of two ordinary collar-pads sewed
parallel by means of canvas strips in such a manner
as to lie along both sides of the backbone, a well-fitted
saddle, and care in packing will nearly always suffice.
I have gone months without having to doctor a single
abrasion.
You will furthermore want a pack-cinch and a
pack-rope for each horse. The former are of canvas
or webbing provided with a ring at one end and a
big bolted wooden hook at the other. The latter
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Lord, FELLOW SOLDIER, CAPTIVE or BONDMAN,[3] which were so
common at the time as to be almost a cant in Mithraism and
the allied cults. In I Peter ii. 2[4], we have the verse "As
newborn babes, desire ye the sincere MILK of the word, that
ye may grow thereby." And again we may say that
no one in that day could mistake the reference herein
contained to old initiation ceremonies and the new birth (as
described in Chapter VIII above), for indeed milk was
the well-known diet of the novice in the Isis mysteries, as
well as On some savage tribes) of the Medicine-man when
practising his calling.
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
