DreamerOracle's Christmas Carol
Hello ATS I decided to make my own version of this classic parable.
The Miser in our history is Ego in its many forms.
Religious Ego
Political Ego
Mans Ego
Womans Ego
It is required of every man and woman that the spirit within should walk abroad among your fellowmen, and travel far
and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world–oh, woe is
the!–and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness! We wear the chain we forged in life. We made it link
by link, and yard by yard; we girded it on of our own free will, and of our own free will we wore it. Is its pattern strange to you? Or would you
know, the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have
laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!
We have none to give. It comes from other regions, Humans, and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men. Nor can we tell you what we
would. A very little more is all permitted to us. We cannot rest, We cannot stay, We cannot linger anywhere. Our spirit never walked beyond our
counting-house–mark us!–in life our spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before us!
How it is that we appear before you in a shape that you can see, we may not tell. We have sat invisible beside you many and many a day. That is no
light part of our penance. We are here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping our fate. A chance and hope of our
procuring, humans.
You will be haunted by Three Spirits. Without their visits you cannot hope to shun the path we tread. Expect the first as the clock strikes the
witching hour on the 21st.
Mods if you wish to move it do so but it will contain my own Dream Predictions in the end.
edit on 20-12-2011 by DreamerOracle because:
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