| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: moving in some altogether new direction, but strictly according
to Analogy, so as to make every particle of his interior pass through
a new kind of Space, with a wake of its own -- shall create
a still more perfect perfection than himself, with sixteen terminal
Extra-solid angles, and Eight solid Cubes for his Perimeter.
And once there, shall we stay our upward course? In that blessed
region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold
of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! Let us rather resolve
that our ambition shall soar with our corporal ascent. Then,
yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension
shall fly open; after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth --
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: nature, which they name the flesh, he is called the fleshly,
outward, old man. The Apostle speaks of this: "Though our outward
man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. iv.
16). The result of this diversity is that in the Scriptures
opposing statements are made concerning the same man, the fact
being that in the same man these two men are opposed to one
another; the flesh lusting against the spirit, and the spirit
against the flesh (Gal. v. 17).
We first approach the subject of the inward man, that we may see
by what means a man becomes justified, free, and a true
Christian; that is, a spiritual, new, and inward man. It is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Kent looked at her in mingled sympathy and doubt. - What did her
words imply - further tragedy?
"Jimmie might not have died from angina pectoris," he said, "and
still not have been poisoned -"
"You mean -"
"Suicide."
Slowly Helen took in his meaning, but she volunteered no remark,
and Kent after a pause, added, "While I have not seen Coroner
Penfield I did hear last night what killed Jimmie." Helen
straightened up, one hand pressed to her heart. "It was a lethal
dose of amyl nitrite."
The Red Seal |
