| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: of him
who shineth spotless as the Sun.
5 Thy glories are, as lightnings from the rainy cloud, marked,
many-hued, like heralds of the Dawns' approach,
When, loosed to wander over plants and forest trees, thou crammest
by
thyself thy food into thy mouth.
6 Him, duly coming as their germ, have plants received: this
Agni have
maternal Waters brought to life.
So in like manner do the forest trees and plants bear him within
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: laughing thing unchanged into the desert, and the frost, and the snow.
They do not know that what walks beside them still is the Joy grown older.
The grave, sweet, tender thing--warm in the coldest snows, brave in the
dreariest deserts--its name is Sympathy; it is the Perfect Love."
South Africa.
II. THE HUNTER.
In certain valleys there was a hunter. Day by day he went to hunt for
wild-fowl in the woods; and it chanced that once he stood on the shores of
a large lake. While he stood waiting in the rushes for the coming of the
birds, a great shadow fell on him, and in the water he saw a reflection.
He looked up to the sky; but the thing was gone. Then a burning desire
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools.
Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form.
Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.
When, in the course of development, class distinctions have
disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the
hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power
will lose its political character. Political power, properly so
called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing
another. If the proletariat during its contest with the
bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to
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