| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: double that height. Some think that it is perhaps the true Mount
Atlas, which the old Greeks named when first they ventured out of
the Straits of Gibraltar down the coast of Africa, and saw the
great peak far to the westward, with the clouds cutting off its
top; and said that it was a mighty giant, the brother of the
Evening Star, who held up the sky upon his shoulders, in the midst
of the Fortunate Islands, the gardens of the daughter of the
Evening Star, full of strange golden fruits; and that Perseus had
turned him into stone, when he passed him with the Gorgon's Head.
But you will see, too, that most of these red and black dots run
in crooked lines; and that many of the clusters run in lines
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: though he had helped once, at Jagadhri, at the Painting of the
Death Bull, which no Englishman must even look upon; had mastered
the thieves'-patter of the changars; had taken a Eusufzai horse-
thief alone near Attock; and had stood under the mimbar-board of a
Border mosque and conducted service in the manner of a Sunni
Mollah.
His crowning achievement was spending eleven days as a faquir in
the gardens of Baba Atal at Amritsar, and there picking up the
threads of the great Nasiban Murder Case. But people said, justly
enough: "Why on earth can't Strickland sit in his office and write
up his diary, and recruit, and keep quiet, instead of showing up
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: mighty over all!
What God opens to men of His mercy there is none to withhold; and
what He withholds, there is none can send it forth after Him; for He
is the mighty, the wise.
O ye folk! remember the favours of God towards you; is there a
creator beside God, who provides you from the heavens and from the
earth? There is no god but He; how then can ye lie?
And if they call thee liar, apostles were called liars before
thee, and unto God affairs return.
O ye folk! verily, God's promise is true; then let not the life of
this world beguile you, and let not the beguiler beguile you
The Koran |
