| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: have been forced, for acts of dishonesty, to leave the office in 1788.
Georges laughed as he looked through the archives.
"Well, well," he said, "my cousin and I are rich, and we'll give you a
fete such as you never had before,--something to stimulate your
imaginations for that register. To-morrow (Sunday) you are bidden to
the Rocher de Cancale at two o'clock. Afterwards, I'll take you to
spend the evening with Madame la Marquise de las Florentinas y
Cabirolos, where we shall play cards, and you'll see the elite of the
women of fashion. Therefore, gentleman of the lower courts," he added,
with notarial assumption, "you will have to behave yourselves, and
carry your wine like the seigneurs of the Regency."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: descent with that remote Zodiacal cluster in the sky! Also
it may be mentioned that on the Arabian and Persian globes
of Abenezra and Abuazar a Virgin and Child are figured in
connection with the same constellation.[3]
[1] Carefully described and mapped by Dupuis, see op. cit.
[2] For the harvest-festival of Diana, the Virgin, and her
parallelism
with the Virgin Mary, see The Golden Bough, vol. i, 14 and ii,
121.
[3] See F. Nork, Der Mystagog (Leipzig, 1838).
A curious confirmation of the same astronomical connection
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: conceal and what ye display; for God knows the nature of men's
breasts!
Has there not come to you the story of those who misbelieved before,
and tasted the evil result of their affair, and for them was
grievous woe?
That is because their apostles came to them with manifest signs, and
they said, 'Shall mortals guide us?' and they misbelieved and turned
their backs. But God was independent of them; for God is rich and to
be praised!
Those who misbelieve pretend that they shall surely not be raised:
say, 'Yea! by my Lord! ye shall surely be raised: then ye shall be
The Koran |
