| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: therein-a great thing to the idolaters is that which ye call them
to! God elects for Himself whom He pleases and guides unto Himself him
who turns repentant.
But they did not part into sects until after the knowledge had
come to them, through mutual envy; and had it not been for thy
Lord's word already passed for an appointed time, it would surely have
been decided between them; but, verily, those who have been given
the Book as an inheritance after them, are in hesitating doubt
concerning it.
Wherefore call thou, and go straight on as thou art bidden, and
follow not their lusts; and say, 'I believe in the Book which God
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: she gazed, stupefied and amazed, at what lay before her. Precious
stones, scores of them, nestled on a bed of cotton; they were of all
colors and of all sizes - but each one of them seemed to pulsate and
throb, and from some wondrous, glorious depth of its own to fling
back from the white ray upon it a thousand rays in return, as though
into it had been breathed a living and immortal fire.
And Rhoda Gray, crouched there, stared - until suddenly she grew
afraid, and suddenly with a shudder she wrapped the package up again.
These were the stones for whose fabulous worth the woman whose
personality she, Rhoda Gray, had usurped, had murdered a man; these
were the stones which were indirectly the instrumentality - since
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Alcibiades II by Platonic Imitator: alter your mind. If the God to whose shrine you are going should appear at
this moment, and ask before you made your prayer, 'Whether you would desire
to have one of the things which we mentioned at first, or whether he should
leave you to make your own request:'--what in either case, think you, would
be the best way to take advantage of the opportunity?
ALCIBIADES: Indeed, Socrates, I could not answer you without
consideration. It seems to me to be a wild thing (The Homeric word margos
is said to be here employed in allusion to the quotation from the
'Margites' which Socrates has just made; but it is not used in the sense
which it has in Homer.) to make such a request; a man must be very careful
lest he pray for evil under the idea that he is asking for good, when
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