| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: we were in the midst of the abiding-place of the Fire
People.
This abiding-place was a splendid strategic selection.
It was a peninsula, protected on three sides by the
curving river. On only one side was it accessible by
land. This was the narrow neck of the peninsula, and
here the several low hills were a natural obstacle.
Practically isolated from the rest of the world, the
Fire People must have here lived and prospered for a
long time. In fact, I think it was their prosperity
that was responsible for the subsequent migration that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: because in his decrees he always makes exception of the
article of death and of necessity.
10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who,
in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for
purgatory.
11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of
purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown
while the bishops slept.
12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not
after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.
13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: more practicable routes; and it was now a part of the world
untrod from year to year by human footing. Judge of our
dismay, when turning suddenly an angle of the cliffs, we
found a bright bonfire blazing by itself under an impending
rock; and on the face of the rock, drawn very rudely with
charred wood, the great Open Eye which is the emblem of the
Mormon faith. We looked upon each other in the firelight; my
mother broke into a passion of tears; but not a word was
said. The mules were turned about; and leaving that great
eye to guard the lonely canyon, we retraced our steps in
silence. Day had not yet broken ere we were once more at
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