| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: He surveyed her with his smile audacious, let his amused eyes
wander down from the mobile face with the wild-rose bloom to the
slim young figure so long and supple, then serenely met her
frown.
" Y'u don't look it."
" No? Are you the owner of a composite photograph of the teachers
of the country?"
He enjoyed again his private mirth. "I should like right well to
have the pictures of some of them."
She glanced at him sharply, but he was gazing so innocently at
the purple Shoshones in the distance that she could not give him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: powerful of all ties.
The stranger had one of those broad, serious heads, covered with thick
hair, which we see so frequently in the pictures of the Caracci. The
jet black of the hair was streaked with white. Though noble and proud,
his features had a hardness which spoiled them. In spite of his
evident strength, and his straight, erect figure, he looked to be over
sixty years of age. His dilapidated clothes were those of a foreign
country. Though the faded and once beautiful face of the wife betrayed
the deepest sadness, she forced herself to smile, assuming a calm
countenance whenever her husband looked at her.
The little girl was standing, though signs of weariness were on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: ceaseless source of joy. Swedenborg was led to see these nuptials of
the Spirits, which in the words of Saint Luke (xx. 35) are neither
marrying nor giving in marriage, and which inspire none but spiritual
pleasures. An Angel offered to make him witness of such a marriage and
bore him thither on his wings (the wings are a symbol and not a
reality). The Angel clothed him in a wedding garment and when
Swedenborg, finding himself thus robed in light, asked why, the answer
was: 'For these events, our garments are illuminated; they shine; they
are made nuptial.' ('Conjugial Love,' 19, 20, 21.) Then he saw the two
Angels, one coming from the South, the other from the East; the Angel
of the South was in a chariot drawn by two white horses, with reins of
Seraphita |
