| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: look for wild flowers in the wood."
The student from Bonn got up and left the room. I begged the poet to
repeat the verses once more. At the end of the sixth verse I saw from the
window the sister of the Baroness and the scarred youth disappearing
through the front gate, which enabled me to thank the poet so charmingly
that he offered to write me out a copy.
But we were living at too high pressure in those days. Swinging from our
humble pension to the high walls of palaces, how could we help but fall?
Late one afternoon the Frau Doktor came upon me in the writing-room and
took me to her bosom.
"She has been telling me all about her life," whispered the Frau Doktor.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: mantles and pelisses, were now on the snow, crouching before the fire.
One door of the carriage was already torn off.
No sooner did the men about the fire hear the tread of the major's
horse than a hoarse cry, the cry of famine, arose,--
"A horse! a horse!"
Those voices formed but one voice.
"Back! back! look out for yourself!" cried two or three soldiers,
aiming at the mare. Philippe threw himself before his animal, crying
out,--
"You villains! I'll throw you into your own fire. There are plenty of
dead horses up there. Go and fetch them."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: remarkable and epoch-making book, Cosmic Consciousness (first
published at Philadelphia, 1901).
[2] 2 Peter iii. 4; written probably about A.D. 150.
I say that all through the historical age behind us there
has been evidence--even though scattered-- of salvation
and the return of the Cosmic life. Man has never been so
completely submerged in the bitter sea of self-centredness but
what he has occasionally been able to dash the spray from
his eyes and glimpse the sun and the glorious light of
heaven. From how far back we cannot say, but from an
immense antiquity come the beautiful myths which indicate
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
