| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: the flames of oral illumination.
"There they all are," said Monsieur Becker, pointing to a second shelf
on which were some sixty volumes. "The treatises on which the Divine
Spirit casts its most vivid gleams are seven in number, namely:
'Heaven and Hell'; 'Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Love and the
Divine Wisdom'; 'Angelic Wisdom concerning the Divine Providence';
'The Apocalypse Revealed'; 'Conjugial Love and its Chaste Delights';
'The True Christian Religion'; and 'An Exposition of the Internal
Sense.' Swedenborg's explanation of the Apocalypse begins with these
words," said Monsieur Becker, taking down and opening the volume
nearest to him: "'Herein I have written nothing of mine own; I speak
Seraphita |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: 5 With offerings I propitiate the branches of this swift-moving
God,
the bounteous Visnu.
Hence Rudra gained his Rudra-strength: O Asvins, ye sought
the house
that hath celestial viands.
6 Be not thou angry here, O glowing Pusan, for what Varutri
and the
Bounteous gave us.
May the swift-moving Gods protect and bless us, and Vata send
us rain,
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: He suggested curves of beauty,
Curves pervading all his figure,
Which the eye might follow onward,
Till they centered in the breast-pin,
Centered in the golden breast-pin.
He had learnt it all from Ruskin
(Author of 'The Stones of Venice,'
'Seven Lamps of Architecture,'
'Modern Painters,' and some others);
And perhaps he had not fully
Understood his author's meaning;
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