| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: name should not be mentioned there, and who strives to ruin them? 'Tis
not for such to enter into them except in fear, for them is disgrace
in this world, and in the future mighty woe.
God's is the east and the west, and wherever ye turn there is
God's face; verily, God comprehends and knows.
They say, 'God takes unto Himself a son.' Celebrated be His
praise! Nay, His is what is in the heavens and the earth, and Him
all things obey. The Originator of the heavens and the earth, when
He decrees a matter He doth but say unto it, 'BE,' and it is.
And those who do not know (the Scriptures) say, Unless God speak
to us, or there comes a sign. So spake those before them like unto
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: into misanthropy, she touched her heart. Jemima (she had only a
claim to a Christian name, which had not procured her any Christian
privileges) could patiently hear of Maria's confinement on false
pretences; she had felt the crushing hand of power, hardened by
the exercise of injustice, and ceased to wonder at the perversions
of the understanding, which systematize oppression; but, when told
that her child, only four months old, had been torn from her, even
while she was discharging the tenderest maternal office, the woman
awoke in a bosom long estranged from feminine emotions, and Jemima
determined to alleviate all in her power, without hazarding the
loss of her place, the sufferings of a wretched mother, apparently
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: But now it is time to proceed to my predictions, which I have
begun to calculate from the time that the Sun enters into Aries.
And this I take to be properly the beginning of the natural year.
I pursue them to the time that he enters Libra, or somewhat more,
which is the busy period of the year. The remainder I have not
yet adjusted, upon account of several impediments needless here
to mention: Besides, I must remind the reader again, that this is
but a specimen of what I design in succeeding years to treat more
at large, if I may have liberty and encouragement.
My first prediction is but a trifle, yet I will mention it, to
show how ignorant those sottish pretenders to astrology are in
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