| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: beside himself at the table. "Nobody except your comrade could be
so welcome as you," said he, "and this is why. An enemy of mine
one time gave me a ruby ring, and though I knew nothing of it, it
was the ring of discord that bred strife wherever it came. So, as
soon as it was brought into the house, my wife and all my friends
fell out with me, and we quarrelled so that they all left me.
But, though I knew it not at that time, your comrade was an
angel, and took the ring away with him, and now I am as happy as
I was sorrowful before."
By the next night the servant had come back to his home again.
Rap! tap! tap! He knocked at the door, and the wise man who had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: ancients. For most of these in their explanations of the poet, assert that
he meant by Athene 'mind' (nous) and 'intelligence' (dianoia), and the
maker of names appears to have had a singular notion about her; and indeed
calls her by a still higher title, 'divine intelligence' (Thou noesis), as
though he would say: This is she who has the mind of God (Theonoa);--using
alpha as a dialectical variety for eta, and taking away iota and sigma
(There seems to be some error in the MSS. The meaning is that the word
theonoa = theounoa is a curtailed form of theou noesis, but the omitted
letters do not agree.). Perhaps, however, the name Theonoe may mean 'she
who knows divine things' (Theia noousa) better than others. Nor shall we
be far wrong in supposing that the author of it wished to identify this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: of a little dry gulch some eight feet deep, the horses decided it was a
suitable place to stay. It was the bishop who persuaded them to change
their minds. He told the driver to give up beating, and unharness. Then
they were led up the bank, quivering, and a broken trace was spliced with
rope. Then the stage was forced on to the level ground, the bishop
proving a strong man, familiar with the gear of vehicles. They crossed
through the pass among the quaking asps and the pines, and, reaching
Pacific Springs, came down again into open country. That afternoon the
stage put its passengers down on the railroad platform at Green River;
this was the route in those days before the mid-winter catastrophes of
frozen passengers led to its abandonment. The bishop was going west. His
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