| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: himself
who hates Me.
8 Mighty is homage: I adopt and use it. Homage hath held in
place the
earth and heaven.
Homage to Gods! Homage commands and rules them. I banish even
committed sin by homage
9 You Furtherers of Law, pure in your spirit, infallible, dwellers
in
the home of Order,
To you all Heroes mighty and far-seeing I bow me down, O Holy
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: How absurd!
Then in what way, Socrates, will all things participate in the ideas, if
they are unable to participate in them either as parts or wholes?
Indeed, he said, you have asked a question which is not easily answered.
Well, said Parmenides, and what do you say of another question?
What question?
I imagine that the way in which you are led to assume one idea of each kind
is as follows:--You see a number of great objects, and when you look at
them there seems to you to be one and the same idea (or nature) in them
all; hence you conceive of greatness as one.
Very true, said Socrates.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: displace his pledge of combat.
The date of the following story is about the latter years of
Queen Elizabeth's reign; and the events took place in Liddesdale,
a hilly and pastoral district of Roxburghshire, which, on a part
of its boundary, is divided from England only by a small river.
During the good old times of RUGGING AND RIVING--that is, tugging
and tearing--under which term the disorderly doings of the
warlike age are affectionately remembered, this valley was
principally cultivated by the sept or clan of the Armstrongs.
The chief of this warlike race was the Laird of Mangerton. At
the period of which I speak, the estate of Mangerton, with the
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