| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: that they are not descended from gods. They are the Children of the
Sun, or what not. The children of light, who ray out such light as
they have, upon the darkness of their subjects. They are at first,
probably, civilisers, not conquerors. For, if tradition is worth
anything--and we have nothing else to go upon--they are at first few
in number. They come as settlers, or even as single sages. It is,
in all tradition, not the many who influence the few, but the few
who influence the many.
So aristocracies, in the true sense, are formed.
But the higher calling is soon forgotten. The purer light is soon
darkened in pride and selfishness, luxury and lust; as in Genesis,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: offering, unto the priest:
LEV 6:7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD:
and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in
trespassing therein.
LEV 6:8 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
LEV 6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the
burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon
the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be
burning in it.
LEV 6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen
breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: if we had to keep him for a few days. He might die not of his
wound, but of inanition, if I did not succeed in giving him
suitable food, fairly plentiful and dispensed at fairly frequent
intervals. In that case, I ran a risk of ascribing to the poison
what might well be the result of starvation. I must therefore
begin by finding out if it was possible for me to keep the Mole
alive in captivity. The animal was put into a large receptacle
from which it could not get out and fed on a varied diet of
insects--Beetles, Grasshoppers, especially Cicadae {15}--which it
crunched up with an excellent appetite. Twenty-four hours of this
regimen convinced me that the Mole was making the best of the bill
The Life of the Spider |
