| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: and, though he was gray-faced, tight-lipped, his eyes took on the
cool, bright gleam of Link's.
Cactus barred the way, rocks barred the way, gullies barred the
way, and these Nels addressed in the grim humor with which he was
wont to view tragic things. A mistake on Link's part, a slip of
a wheel, a bursting of a tire at a critical moment, an instant of
the bad luck which might happen a hundred times on a less
perilous ride--any one of these might spell disaster for the car,
perhaps death to the occupants. Again and again Link used the
planks to cross washes in sand. Sometimes the wheels ran all the
length of the planks, sometimes slipped off. Presently Link came
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: and lo! they are in the dark; and the sun runs on to a place of rest
for it; that is the ordinance of the mighty, the wise.
And the moon, we have ordered for it stations, until it comes
again to be like an old dry palm branch.
Neither is it proper for it to catch up the moon, nor for the
night to outstrip the day, but each one floats on in its sky.
And a sign for them is that we bear their seed in a laden ship,
and we have created for them the like thereof whereon to ride; and
if we please, we drown them, and there is none for them to appeal
to; nor are they rescued, save by mercy from us, as a provision for
a season.
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: O gracious Artists, out of your deep hearts
'Tis some great Sun, I doubt, by men unguessed,
Whose rays come struggling thus, in slender darts,
To shadow what Is, till Time shall manifest.
[1] See the germs of Democracy in the yoga teaching of the
Hindus, and in the Upanishads, the Bhagavat Gita, and other
books.
With the Cosmic stage comes also necessarily the rehabilitation
of the WHOLE of Society in one fellowship (the
true Democracy). Not the rule or domination of one
class or caste--as of the Intellectual, the Pious, the Commercial
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
