| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: Finally he turned with an abrupt movement.
"Good-by!" he cried. "When mortal eyes next behold me they will be
those of one fit to command my services! As for you, your days will
be passed in obscurity and your name be unknown to fame.
Good-by,--forever!"
The room filled with a flash of white light so like a sheet of
lightning that the boy went reeling backwards, half stunned and
blinded by its dazzling intensity.
When he recovered himself the Demon of Electricity had disappeared.
Rob's heart was very light as he left the workshop and made his way
down the attic stairs.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: heart that should be theirs. The Far Eastern love of Nature amounts
almost to a passion. To the study of her ever varying moods her
Japanese admirer brings an impersonal adoration that combines oddly
the aestheticism of a poet with the asceticism of a recluse. Not
that he worships in secret, however. His passion is too genuine
either to find disguise or seek display. With us, unfortunately,
the love of Nature is apt to be considered a mental extravagance
peculiar to poets, excusable in exact ratio to the ability to give
it expression. For an ordinary mortal to feel a fondness for Mother
Earth is a kind of folly, to be carefully concealed from his
fellows. A sort of shamefacedness prevents him from avowing it,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: Two human figures (if that of the Dwarf could be termed such)
issued from the solitary abode of the Recluse, and stood as if in
converse together in the open air. The taller form then stooped,
as if taking something up which lay beside the door of the hut,
then both moved forward a little way, and again halted, as in
deep conference. All Hobbie's superstitious terrors revived on
witnessing this'spectacle. That the Dwarf would open his
dwelling to a mortal guest, was as improbable as that any one
would choose voluntarily to be his nocturnal visitor; and, under
full conviction that he beheld a wizard holding intercourse with
his familiar spirit, Hobbie pulled in at once his breath and his
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