| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: god of the stranger, who fareth in the company of reverend
strangers."
'So I spake, and anon he answered out of his pitiless
heart: "Thou art witless, my stranger, or thou hast come
from afar, who biddest me either to fear or shun the gods.
For the Cyclopes pay no heed to Zeus, lord of the aegis,
nor to the blessed gods, for verily we are better men than
they. Nor would I, to shun the enmity of Zeus, spare either
thee or thy company, unless my spirit bade me. But tell me
where thou didst stay thy well-wrought ship on thy coming?
Was it perchance at the far end of the island, or hard by,
The Odyssey |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: down its middle was nearly a hundred feet across, but was exceedingly
shallow - in most places not more than a few inches deep. The sides
of the valley were about seventy feet high, but very sloping; they
were clothed from top to bottom with little, bright-leaved trees -
not of varied tints of one colour, like Earth trees, but of widely
diverse colours, most of which were brilliant and positive.
The floor itself was like a magician's garden. Densely interwoven
trees, shrubs, and parasitical climbers fought everywhere for
possession of it. The forms were strange and grotesque, and each one
seemed different; the colours of leaf, flower, sexual organs, and
stem were equally peculiar - all the different combinations of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: the slimy rocks in the bed of the Rhine.
This is the way of the world. In older times, when the Christian
laborer was drained dry by the knightly spendthrift, and the
spendthrift was drained by the Jewish usurer, Church and State,
religion and law, seized on the Jew and drained him as a
Christian duty. When the forces of lovelessness and greed had
built up our own sordid capitalist systems, driven by invisible
proprietorship, robbing the poor, defacing the earth, and forcing
themselves as a universal curse even on the generous and humane,
then religion and law and intellect, which would never themselves
have discovered such systems, their natural bent being towards
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