| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: or according to suggestion.
They seem to have become peculiarly
intractable toward the middle of the Permian Age, perhaps one
hundred and fifty million years ago, when a veritable war of resubjugation
was waged upon them by the marine Old Ones. Pictures of this war,
and of the headless, slime-coated fashion in which the Shoggoths
typically left their slain victims, held a marvelously fearsome
quality despite the intervening abyss of untold ages. The Old
Ones had used curious weapons of molecular and atomic disturbances
against the rebel entities, and in the end had achieved a complete
victory. Thereafter the sculptures showed a period in which Shoggoths
At the Mountains of Madness |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: Whatever follies young members of them may have committed; whatever
Jahn and his Turnerei; whatever the iron youths, with their iron
decorations and iron boot-heels; whatever, in a word, may have been
said or done amiss, in that childishness which (as their own wisest
writers often lament) so often defaces the noble childlikeness of
the German spirit, let it be always remembered that under the
impulse first given by Freemasonry, as much as that given by such
heroes as Stein and Scharnhorst, Germany shook off the chains which
had fallen on her in her sleep; and stood once more at Leipsic, were
it but for a moment, a free people alike in body and in soul.
Remembering this, and the solid benefits which Germany owed to
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