| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: intensive study of other cases of amnesia and visions, feeling
that I might thereby obectivise my trouble and shake clear of
its emotional grip.
However, as before mentioned, the result
was at first almost exactly opposite. It disturbed me vastly to
find that my dreams had been so closely duplicated; especially
since some of the accounts were too early to admit of any geological
knowledge - and therefore of any idea of primitive landscapes
- on the subjects' part.
What is more, many of these accounts
supplied very horrible details and explanations in connexion with
Shadow out of Time |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 31: 35 Thus saith the LORD, Who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar, the LORD of hosts is His name:
Jeremiah 31: 36 If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever.
Jeremiah 31: 37 Thus saith the LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 31: 38 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner.
Jeremiah 31: 39 And the measuring line shall yet go out straight forward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.
Jeremiah 31: 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
Jeremiah 32: 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
Jeremiah 32: 2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: or really to know, what we confidently propose to do or say?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: And if a person does that which he knows or supposes that he
knows, and the result is beneficial, he will act advantageously both for
himself and for the state?
ALCIBIADES: True.
SOCRATES: And if he do the contrary, both he and the state will suffer?
ALCIBIADES: Yes.
SOCRATES: Well, and are you of the same mind, as before?
ALCIBIADES: I am.
SOCRATES: But were you not saying that you would call the many unwise and
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