| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: Chapter 4. Language.
A man's personal equation, as astronomers call the effect of his
individuality, is kin, for all its complexity, to those simple
algebraical problems which so puzzled us at school. To solve either
we must begin by knowing the values of the constants that enter into
its expression. Upon the a b c's of the one, as upon those of the
other, depend the possibilities of the individual x.
Now the constants in any man's equation are the qualities that he
has inherited from the past. What a man does follows from what he
is, which in turn is mostly dependent upon what his ancestors have
been; and of all the links in the long chain of mind-evolution, few
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Daniel 1: 9 And God granted Daniel mercy and compassion in the sight of the chief of the officers.
Daniel 1: 10 And the chief of the officers said unto Daniel: 'I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces sad in comparison with the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.'
Daniel 1: 11 Then said Daniel to the steward, whom the chief of the officers had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
Daniel 1: 12 'Try thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Daniel 1: 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the youths that eat of the king's food; and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.'
Daniel 1: 14 So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and tried them ten days.
Daniel 1: 15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of the king's food.
Daniel 1: 16 So the steward took away their food, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.
Daniel 1: 17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Daniel 1: 18 And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the chief of the officers brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal - and the men
wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast. Then,
very softly and slowly, the acre-great lintel began to give inward
at the top; and they saw that it was balauced
Donovan slid or
somehow propelled himself down or along the jamb and rejoined
his fellows, and everyone watched the queer recession of the monstrously
carven portal. In this phantasy of prismatic distortion it moved
anomalously in a diagonal way, so that all the rules of matter
and perspective seemed upset.
The aperture was black with a
Call of Cthulhu |
