| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: About this time the fathers who had stayed behind at Fremona arrived
with the new viceroy, and an officer fierce in the defence of his
own religion, who had particular orders to deliver all the Jesuits
up to the Turks, except me, whom the Emperor was resolved to have in
his own hands, alive or dead. We had received some notice of this
resolution from our friends at court, and were likewise informed
that the Emperor, their master, had been persuaded that my design
was to procure assistance from the Indies, and that I should
certainly return at the head of an army. The patriarch's advice
upon this emergency was that I should retire into the woods, and by
some other road join the nine Jesuits who were gone towards Mazna.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: vat:
The holy songs have sounded forth.
12 Like milch-kine coming home, the drops of Soma juice have
reached
the lake,
Have reached the place of sacrifice.
13 O Indu, to our great delight the running waters flow to
us,
When thou wilt robe thyself in milk.
14 In this thy friendship, and with thee to help us, fain to
sacrifice,
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: the might
of those who hate us.
4 Thy glory, Agni, I adore, kindled, exalted in thy strength.
A Steer of brilliant splendour, thou art lighted well at sacred
rites.
5 Agni, invoked and kindled, serve the Gods, thou skilled in
sacrifice:
For thou art bearer of our gifts.
6 Invoke and worship Agni while the sacrificial rite proceeds:
For offering-bearer choose ye him.
The Rig Veda |
