| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: coeperunt. Ubi prima impedimenta nostri exercitus ab iis qui in silvis
abditi latebant visa sunt, quod tempus inter eos committendi proelii
convenerat, ut intra silvas aciem ordinesque constituerant atque ipsi sese
confirmaverant, subito omnibus copiis provolaverunt impetumque in nostros
equites fecerunt. His facile pulsis ac proturbatis, incredibili
celeritate ad flumen decucurrerunt, ut paene uno tempore et ad silvas et
in flumine [et iam in manibus nostris] hostes viderentur. Eadem autem
celeritate adverso colle ad nostra castra atque eos qui in opere occupati
erant contenderunt.
Caesari omnia uno tempore erant agenda: vexillum proponendum, quod
erat insigne, cum ad arma concurri oporteret; signum tuba dandum; ab opere
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: God direct; that it was not to confess its sins, at the age of six,
to its mother, or to its father, but was only to have recourse to
the priest. But the words, to say the least of them, are rash.
Then comes the very obvious question:
"'Do you know why? It is because God, when he was on earth, gave to
his priests, and to them alone, the Divine Power of forgiving men
their sins. It was to priests alone that Jesus said: "Receive ye
the Holy Ghost." . . . Those who will not confess will not be
cured. Sin is a terrible sickness, and casts souls into hell.'
"That is addressed to a child six years of age.
"'I have known,' the book continues, 'poor children who concealed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: that many philosophical writers, his predecessors or
contemporaries, professed materialism. These writers have not
reached us, or have reached us in mere fragments. The same thing
has happened in almost all ages; the greater part of the most
famous minds in literature adhere to the doctrines of a
supersensual philosophy. The instinct and the taste of the human
race maintain those doctrines; they save them oftentimes in spite
of men themselves, and raise the names of their defenders above
the tide of time. It must not then be supposed that at any
period or under any political condition, the passion for physical
gratifications, and the opinions which are superinduced by that
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