| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: with God, verily, God will decide between them on the resurrection
day; verily, God is witness over all.
Do they not see that God, whosoever is in the heavens adores Him,
and whosoever is in the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the
stars, and the mountains, and the beasts, and many among men, though
many a one deserves the torments?
Whomsoever God abases there is none to honour him; verily, God
does what He pleases.
These are two disputants who dispute about their Lord, but those who
misbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, there shall be
poured over their heads boiling water, wherewith what is in their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll: They always leave off chirping when a Fairy goes by--because a Fairy's a
kind of queen over them, I suppose--at all events it's a much grander
thing than a cricket--so whenever you're walking out, and the crickets
suddenly leave off chirping, you may be sure that they see a Fairy.
I walked on sadly enough, you may be sure. However, I comforted myself
with thinking "It's been a very wonderful afternoon, so far. I'll just
go quietly on and look about me, and I shouldn't wonder if I were to
come across another Fairy somewhere."
Peering about in this way, I happened to notice a plant with rounded
leaves, and with queer little holes cut in the middle of several of
them. "Ah, the leafcutter bee!" I carelessly remarked--you know I am
Sylvie and Bruno |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: believe in them. But to-day they cannot control for each other, either
profit or harm;' and we will say to those who have done wrong,
'Taste ye the torment of the fire wherein ye did disbelieve!'
And when our signs are recited to them they say, 'This is only a man
who wishes to turn you from what your fathers served;' and they say,
'This is only a lie forged,' and those who misbelieve will say of
the truth when it comes to them, 'It is only obvious sorcery!'
But we have not brought them any book which they may study, and we
have not sent to them before thee a warner.
Those before them said it was a lie, and these have not reached a
tithe of what we had given them. And they said my apostles were liars,
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