| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: anything short of that to whomsoever He pleases; but he who associates
aught with God, he hath devised a mighty sin.
Do ye not see those who purify themselves? nay, God purifies whom He
will, and they shall not be wronged a straw.
Behold, how they devise against God a lie, and that is manifest
sin enough.
Do ye not see those to whom a portion of the Book has been given?
They believe in Gibt and Taghut, and they say of those who misbelieve,
'These are better guided in the way than those who believe.' These are
those whom God has cursed, and whom God has cursed no helper shall
he find.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: are but pigmies); there was Bouret and Beaujon--none of them left any
representative. Finance, like Time, devours its own children. If the
banker is to perpetuate himself, he must found a noble house, a
dynasty; like the Fuggers of Antwerp, that lent money to Charles V.
and were created Princes of Babenhausen, a family that exists at this
day--in the Almanach de Gotha. The instinct of self-preservation,
working it may be unconsciously, leads the banker to seek a title.
Jacques Coeur was the founder of the great noble house of Noirmoutier,
extinct in the reign of Louis XIII. What power that man had! He was
ruined for making a legitimate king; and he died, prince of an island
in the Archipelago, where he built a magnificent cathedral."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: Cornelius did not even turn his head; he had heard the heavy
step of Gryphus in the lobby, but this step had perfectly
satisfied the prisoner that his jailer was coming alone.
Thus Cornelius did not even look at Gryphus.
And yet he would have been so glad to draw him out, and to
inquire about Rosa. He even very nearly made this inquiry,
strange as it would needs have appeared to her father. To
tell the truth, there was in all this some selfish hope to
hear from Gryphus that his daughter was ill.
Except on extraordinary occasions, Rosa never came during
the day. Cornelius therefore did not really expect her as
The Black Tulip |
