| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: ever united though separated in life by great distances. Consent, the
essence of all good marriage upon earth, is the habitual state of
Angels in Heaven. Love is the light of their world. The eternal
rapture of Angels comes from the faculty that God communicates to them
to render back to Him the joy they feel through Him. This reciprocity
of infinitude forms their life. They become infinite by participating
of the essence of God, who generates Himself by Himself.
"The immensity of the Heavens where the Angels dwell is such that if
man were endowed with sight as rapid as the darting of light from the
sun to the earth, and if he gazed throughout eternity, his eyes could
not reach the horizon, nor find an end. Light alone can give an idea
Seraphita |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: whether he had, for some unknown reason or capricious change of
mind, voluntarily left the service, none of his countrymen in the
camp of the Allies could form even a conjecture. Meantime his
creditors at home became clamorous, entered into possession of
his property, and threatened his person, should he be rash enough
to return to Scotland. These additional disadvantages aggravated
Lady Bothwell's displeasure against the fugitive husband; while
her sister saw nothing in any of them, save what tended to
increase her grief for the absence of him whom her imagination
now represented--as it had before marriage--gallant, gay, and
affectionate.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: And this it is: If any Counsellor
Be convicted of high treason, he shall
Be executed without a public trial.
This Act, my Lords, he caused the King to make.
SUFFOLK.
A did indeed, and I remember it,
And now it is like to fall upon himself.
NORFOLK.
Let us not slack it, tis for England's good.
We must be wary, else he'll go beyond us.
GARDINER.
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