| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: most careful to see that no inkling of the true nature
of their vital affliction reached beyond their own race.
How long it would take for the race to become extinct
it was impossible even to guess; but that this must
eventually happen seemed inevitable.
The Mahars had offered fabulous rewards for the capture
of any one of us alive, and at the same time had threatened
to inflict the direst punishment upon whomever should
harm us. The Sagoths could not understand these seemingly
paradoxical instructions, though their purpose was quite
evident to me. The Mahars wanted the Great Secret,
At the Earth's Core |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: and we are to run over to New York for six weeks.
Bennett told me yesterday that it was decided."
Hilda looked up delightedly at the tall
gray figure beside her. He was the only thing
she could see, for they were moving through
a dense opaqueness, as if they were walking
at the bottom of the ocean.
"Oh, Mac, how glad I am! And they
love your things over there, don't they?"
"Shall you be glad for--any other reason, Hilda?"
MacConnell put his hand in front of her to ward
Alexander's Bridge |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: particular god--of unity within a special Church, in fact.
Ultimately it may become--as for a brief moment in the history of
the early Christians it seemed likely to do--a celebration of
allegiance to all Humanity, irrespective of race or creed
or color of skin or of mind: though unfortunately that day
seems still far distant and remains yet unrealized. It
must not be overlooked, however, that the religion of
the Persian Bb, first promulgated in 1845 to 1850--and
a subject I shall deal with presently--had as a matter of
fact this all embracing and universal scope.
To return to the Golden Age or Garden of Eden. Our
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
