| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: were most worthy of it and most suited for it; for God all things doth
know.
God truly verified for His Apostle the vision that ye shall verily
enter the Sacred Mosque, if God please, in safety with shaven heads or
cut hair, ye shall not fear; for He knows what ye know not, and He has
set for you, beside that, a victory nigh at hand.
He it is who sent His Apostle with guidance and the religion of
truth to set it above all religion for God is witness enough!
Mohammed is the Apostle of God, and those who are with Him are
vehement against the misbelievers,- compassionate amongst
themselves; thou mayest see them bowing down, adoring, craving grace
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the painter gazed up in bewilderment. And then this man took the
revolver quietly from his hand and hid it in his own pocket.
Thorne pressed his teeth down on his lips until the blood came. He
could not speak; he looked first at the stranger who had mastered
him so completely, and then, in dazed astonishment, at the woman who
had sunk down beside him in the sand, clasping his hand in both of
hers.
"Adele! Adele! 'Why are you here?" he stammered finally.
"I want to be with you - in this hour," she answered, looking at
him with eyes of worship. "I want to be with my dear lady - to
comfort her - to protect her when - when - "
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: brayed with sticks like a green hide until none can know that you were
once a man. Send now and tell my words to Masapo the Boar. And to
Mameena say that soon I will come to take her with spears and not with
cattle. Do you understand? Oh! I see that you do, since already you
weep with fear like a woman. Then farewell to you till that day when I
return with the sticks, O Umbezi the cheat and the liar, Umbezi,
'Eater-up-of-Elephants,'" and turning, Saduko stalked away.
I was about to follow in a great hurry, having had enough of this very
unpleasant scene, when poor old Umbezi sprang at me and clasped me by
the arm.
"O Macumazana," he exclaimed, weeping in his terror, "O Macumazana, if
Child of Storm |
