| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: musical regeneration of which he believed himself to be the Messiah.
"Listen," said he, "you who so far have not insulted me. I will tell
you the story of my life; not to make a boast of my perseverance,
which is no virtue of mine, but to the greater glory of Him who has
given me strength. You seem kind and pious; if you do not believe in
me at least you will pity me. Pity is human; faith comes from God."
Andrea turned and drew back under his chair the foot that had been
seeking that of the fair Marianna, fixing his eyes on her while
listening to Gambara.
"I was born at Cremona, the son of an instrument maker, a fairly good
performer and an even better composer," the musician began. "Thus at
Gambara |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: east wind, sprung up after them:
GEN 41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told
this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
GEN 41:25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one:
God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
GEN 41:26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears
are seven years: the dream is one.
GEN 41:27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after
them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east
wind shall be seven years of famine.
GEN 41:28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: mutation, or solely to education," she gravely pursued. "We
certainly have improved. It may be that all these higher qualities
were latent in the original mother, that careful education is
bringing them out, and that our personal differences depend on
slight variations in prenatal condition."
"I think it is more in your accumulated culture," Jeff suggested.
"And in the amazing psychic growth you have made. We know very little
about methods of real soul culture--and you seem to know a great deal."
Be that as it might, they certainly presented a higher level of
active intelligence, and of behavior, than we had so far really
grasped. Having known in our lives several people who showed
Herland |
