| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: inform you of that which ye have done.
But those who believe and do right, we will make them enter
amongst the righteous.
And there are those among men who say, 'We believe in God!' but when
they are hurt in God's cause, they deem the trials of men like the
torment of God; but if help come from thy Lord they will say, 'Verily,
we were with you!' does not God know best what is in the breasts of
the worlds? God will surely know those who believe, and will surely
know the hypocrites.
And those who misbelieved said to those who believed, 'Follow our
path, we will bear your sins; but they could not bear their sins at
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: "They're hungry, too," he said.
"Oh, what cunning things!" cried Dorothy, catching up one and petting it.
"Be careful!" said the piglet, with a squeal, "you're squeezing me!"
"Dear me!" murmured the Wizard, looking at his pets in astonishment.
"They can actually talk!"
"May I eat one of them?" asked the kitten, in a pleading voice. "I'm
awfully hungry."
"Why, Eureka," said Dorothy, reproachfully, "what a cruel question!
It would be dreadful to eat these dear little things."
"I should say so!" grunted another of the piglets, looking uneasily at
the kitten; "cats are cruel things."
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lines of wildly leaping creatures such as we were now
engaged with, and with them some strange new monsters which
ran with great swiftness, now erect and now upon all fours.
"It will be a great death," I said to my companion. "Look!"
As he shot a quick glance in the direction I indicated he smiled.
"We may at least die fighting and as great warriors should,
John Carter," he replied.
We had just finished the last of our immediate antagonists
as he spoke, and I turned in surprised wonderment at the
sound of my name.
And there before my astonished eyes I beheld the greatest
The Gods of Mars |
