| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: SA1 25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered
together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And
David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
SA1 25:2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel;
and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a
thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
SA1 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife
Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful
countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was
of the house of Caleb.
SA1 25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tao Teh King by Lao-tze: He in the unchanging excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.
Who knows how glory shines,
Yet loves disgrace, nor e'er for it is pale;
Behold his presence in a spacious vale,
To which men come from all beneath the sky.
The unchanging excellence completes its tale;
The simple infant man in him we hail.
2. The unwrought material, when divided and distributed, forms
vessels. The sage, when employed, becomes the Head of all the
Officers (of government); and in his greatest regulations he employs
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: dreamer Snireth-Ko, has ever beheld. The close aspect of the moon
as the galley drew near proved very disturbing to Carter, and
he did not like the size and shape of the ruins which crumbled
here and there. The dead temples on the mountains were so placed
that they could have glorified no suitable or wholesome gods,
and in the symmetries of the broken columns there seemed to be
some dark and inner meaning which did not invite solution. And
what the structure and proportions of the olden worshippers could
have been, Carter steadily refused to conjecture.
When the ship
rounded the edge, and sailed over those lands unseen by man, there
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
