| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: drive you out; for sedition is worse than slaughter; but fight them
not by the Sacred Mosque until they fight you there; then kill them,
for such is the recompense of those that misbelieve.
But if they desist, then, verily, God is forgiving and merciful.
But fight them that there be no sedition and that the religion may
be God's; but, if they desist, then let there be no hostility save
against the unjust.
The sacred month for the sacred month; for all sacred things
demand retaliation; and whoso transgresses against you, transgress
against him like as he transgressed against you; but fear ye God,
and know that God is with those who fear.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: in Scotland, found there another Templar and brother Mason,
ominously named Harris; took to the trowel in earnest, and revived
the Order;--on the Masons who built Magdeburg Cathedral in 876; on
the English Masons assembled in Pagan times by "St. Albone, that
worthy knight;" on the revival of English Masonry by Edwin, son of
Athelstan; on Magnus Grecus, who had been at the building of
Solomon's Temple, and taught Masonry to Charles Martel; on the
pillars Jachin and Boaz; on the masonry of Hiram of Tyre, and indeed
of Adam himself, of whose first fig-leaf the masonic apron may be a
type--on all these matters I dare no more decide than on the making
of the Trojan Horse, the birth of Romulus and Remus, or the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which I was later to find distinguished them from all
other trails that I ever have seen within or without the earth.
It would run on, plain and clear and well defined to end
suddenly in the midst of a tangle of matted jungle, then Ja
would turn directly back in his tracks for a little distance,
spring into a tree, climb through it to the other side,
drop onto a fallen log, leap over a low bush and alight
once more upon a distinct trail which he would follow back
for a short distance only to turn directly about and retrace
his steps until after a mile or less this new pathway
ended as suddenly and mysteriously as the former section.
At the Earth's Core |
