| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: religions which preceded it. In some respects--that is,
where it was especially fanatical, blinkered, and hostile to
other sects--it was WORSE. But to those who perceive
that the Great Spirit may bring new birth and salvation
to some under the form of Osiris, equally well as to others
under the form of Jesus, or again to some under the form
of a Siberian totem-Bear equally as to others under the
form of Osiris, these questionings and narrowings fall
away as of no importance. We in this latter day can see
the main thing, namely that Christianity was and is just
one phase of a world-old religion, slowly perhaps expanding
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: She bent over her machine, grinding rhythmically, then stooping
to see the stocking that hung beneath, pulled down by the weight.
He watched the handsome crouching of her back, and the apron-strings
curling on the floor.
"There is always about you," he said, "a sort of waiting.
Whatever I see you doing, you're not really there: you are
waiting--like Penelope when she did her weaving." He could not help
a spurt of wickedness. "I'll call you Penelope," he said.
"Would it make any difference?" she said, carefully removing
one of her needles.
"That doesn't matter, so long as it pleases me. Here, I say,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: I used to know a man who had two thumbs on each
hand and a wart on the inside of his upper lip, and
died in the hope of a glorious resurrection, and so on,
and so on, and so on, till even that hungry village
questioner began to look satisfied, and also a shade
put out; but he had to respect a man of my financial
strength, and so he didn't give me any lip, but I
noticed he took it out of his underlings, which was a
perfectly natural thing to do. Yes, they changed my
twenty, but I judged it strained the bank a little, which
was a thing to be expected, for it was the same as
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