| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: things that are pleasing unto God and God is kind unto His servants.
O ye who believe! enter ye into the peace, one and all, and follow
not the footsteps of Satan; verily, to you he is an open foe. And if
ye slip after that the manifest signs have come to you, then know that
God is the mighty, the wise.
What can they expect but that God should come unto them in the
shadow of a cloud, and the angels too? But the thing is decreed, and
unto God do things return.
Ask the children of Israel how many a manifest sign we gave to them;
and whoso alters God's favours after that they have come to him,
then God is keen at following up.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: In sweet reluctance through the tangled green;
Some other head must wear that aureole,
For I am hers who loves not any man
Whose white and stainless bosom bears the sign Gorgonian.
Let Venus go and chuck her dainty page,
And kiss his mouth, and toss his curly hair,
With net and spear and hunting equipage
Let young Adonis to his tryst repair,
But me her fond and subtle-fashioned spell
Delights no more, though I could win her dearest citadel.
Ay, though I were that laughing shepherd boy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: head, shoulder to shoulder bare, as if incorporate?[45]
[43] Cf. Plat. "Crit." 46 D; "Hell." IV. iv. 17; Arist. "Birds," 1245.
[44] "Grammarian's." Plat. "Protag." 312 B; 326 D; Dem. 315. 8.
[45] Like Hermia and Helena, "Mids. N. D." iii. 2. 208.
As yes, alack the day! (he answered); and that is why, no doubt, my
shoulder ached for more than five days afterwards, as if I had been
bitten by some fell beast, and methought I felt a sort of scraping at
the heart.[46] Now therefore, in the presence of these witnesses, I
warn you, Critobulus, never again to touch me till you wear as thick a
crop of hair[47] upon your chin as on your head.
[46] Reading {knisma}, "scratching." Plat. "Hipp. maj." 304 A. Al.
The Symposium |
