| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance;
drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of
planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a
divine
thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to
lay
his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father
compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my
nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough
and
lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the
King Lear |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 18 Marked above all, amid the brown, is the red mare Vrsanvati,
Obedient to the rein and whip.
19 O bound to me by deeds of might, not even the man who loves
to
blame.
Hath found a single fault in you.
HYMN LVIII. Indra.
1. I SEND you forth the song of praise for Indu, hero-gladdener.
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: returned to the House chamber the clock pointed to five minutes to
twelve.
Rawson and two or three of the staunchest Hardy men relieved
Farnum of his charge in the cloak room and took care of the two
doubtfuls. The seats of Bentley, Miller, Pitts and Killen were
still vacant, and there was a tense watchfulness in the room that
showed rumors were flying of a break in the deadlock.
Already the state senators were drifting in for the noon joint
sessions, and along with them came presently the missing
assemblymen flanked by O'Brien and Frome adherents.
The President of the Senate called the session to order and
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