| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Of a better; and still, in its favor, descant
On the strength and the beauty which, failing to find
In any one man, we ascribe to mankind.
IV.
Alfred Vargrave was one of those men who achieve
So little, because of the much they conceive:
With irresolute finger he knock'd at each one
Of the doorways of life, and abided in none.
His course, by each star that would cross it, was set,
And whatever he did he was sure to regret.
That target, discuss'd by the travellers of old,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: All through, the practice of the Eucharist goes
on, in varying forms adapting itself to the surrounding
conditions; and where in the later societies a religion
like Mithraism or Christianity includes people of very
various race, the Rite loses quite naturally its tribal
significance and becomes a celebration of allegiance to a
particular god--of unity within a special Church, in fact.
Ultimately it may become--as for a brief moment in the history of
the early Christians it seemed likely to do--a celebration of
allegiance to all Humanity, irrespective of race or creed
or color of skin or of mind: though unfortunately that day
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: heart. Death must have been instantaneous.
The most mysterious thing about this strange affair was
discovered during the autopsy. It is incredible, but it is
absolutely true, as it is vouched for under oath by the
authorities who were present, that the bullet which was found
in the heart of the dead man was made of solid gold. And yet,
strange as is this circumstance, it is still more a riddle how
the murderer could have escaped from the room where he had shot
down his victim, for the keys in both doors were in the locks
from the inside. We have evidently to do here with a criminal
of very unusual cleverness and it is therefore not surprising
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