| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: septentrionibus, ut ante dictum est, posita est,] non modo frumenta in
agris matura non erant, sed ne pabuli quidem satis magna copia suppetebat;
eo autem frumento quod flumine Arari navibus subvexerat propterea uti
minus poterat quod iter ab Arari Helvetii averterant, a quibus discedere
nolebat. Diem ex die ducere Haedui: conferri, comportari, adesse dicere.
Ubi se diutius duci intellexit et diem instare quo die frumentum
militibus metiri oporteret, convocatis eorum principibus, quorum magnam
copiam in castris habebat, in his Diviciaco et Lisco, qui summo
magistratui praeerat, quem vergobretum appellant Haedui, qui creatur
annuus et vitae necisque in suos habet potestatem, graviter eos accusat,
quod, cum neque emi neque ex agris sumi possit, tam necessario tempore,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: they consumed and assimilated the god represented by the victim,
and thus became filled with the divine ecstasy." Compare also the
Hindu doctrine of PrajSuch instances of early communal feasts, which fulfilled
the double part of confirming on the one hand the solidarity
of the tribe, and on the other of bringing the tribe, by
the shedding of the blood of a divine Victim into close
relationship with the very source of its life, are plentiful
to find. "The sacramental rite," says Professor Robertson-
Smith,[1] "is also an atoning rite, which brings the community
again into harmony with its alienated god--atonement
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: that particular moment, to be reminded that naturalness is
not always consonant with taste.
She seemed to guess his thought. "You don't like my saying
that you came for Lady Ulrica?" she asked, leaning over the
table to pour herself a second cup of tea.
He liked her quickness, at any rate. "It's better," he
laughed, "than your thinking I came for Mrs. Murrett!"
"Oh, we never thought anybody came for Mrs. Murrett! It was
always for something else: the music, or the cook--when
there was a good one--or the other people; generally ONE
of the other people."
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