| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: verily, to Him do we return.' These, on them are blessings from
their Lord and mercy, and they it is who are guided.
Verily, Zafa and Merwah are of the beacons of God, and he who
makes the pilgrimage unto the House, or visits it, it is no crime
for him to compass them both about; and he who obeys his own impulse
to a good work,- God is grateful and doth know.
Verily, those who hide what we have revealed of manifest signs and
of guidance after we have manifested it to men in the Book, them God
shall curse, and those who curse shall curse them too. Save those
who turn and do right and make (the signs) manifest; these will I turn
to again, for I am easy to be turned and merciful.
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: of a sudden I was commanded to strip myself of my garments, and
this I did with no little shame, till I stood naked before them
all. Now the priests came forward and examined every part of me
closely. On my arms were the scars left by de Garcia's sword, and
on my breast the scarcely healed marks of the puma's teeth and
claws. These wounds they scanned, asking how I had come by them.
I told them, and thereupon they carried on a discussion among
themselves, and out of my hearing, which grew so warm that at
length they appealed to the emperor to decide the point. He
thought a while, and I heard him say:
'The blemishes do not come from within the body, nor were they upon
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: nineteen times before she went out, and each time that she did so
she threw into the air seven pink stars. She was three feet and a
half in diameter, and made of the very best gunpowder. My father
was a Rocket like myself, and of French extraction. He flew so
high that the people were afraid that he would never come down
again. He did, though, for he was of a kindly disposition, and he
made a most brilliant descent in a shower of golden rain. The
newspapers wrote about his performance in very flattering terms.
Indeed, the Court Gazette called him a triumph of Pylotechnic art."
"Pyrotechnic, Pyrotechnic, you mean," said a Bengal Light; "I know
it is Pyrotechnic, for I saw it written on my own canister."
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