| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: also in battle, will be assured; our coats and shoes, and all other
instruments and implements will be skilfully made, because the workmen will
be good and true. Aye, and if you please, you may suppose that prophecy,
which is the knowledge of the future, will be under the control of wisdom,
and that she will deter deceivers and set up the true prophets in their
place as the revealers of the future. Now I quite agree that mankind, thus
provided, would live and act according to knowledge, for wisdom would watch
and prevent ignorance from intruding on us. But whether by acting
according to knowledge we shall act well and be happy, my dear Critias,--
this is a point which we have not yet been able to determine.
Yet I think, he replied, that if you discard knowledge, you will hardly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Joshua 14: 10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as He spoke, these forty and five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
Joshua 14: 11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
Joshua 14: 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spoke in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified; it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke.'
Joshua 14: 13 And Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Joshua 14: 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, unto this day; because that he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
Joshua 14: 15 Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15: 1 And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. Joshua 15: 2 And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looked southward.
Joshua 15: 3 And it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and turned abo 
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The sweet, fresh air, the star-shot void above, acted as a
powerful tonic to his shattered hopes and overwrought
nerves. He lay inhaling great lungsful of pure, invigorating
air. He listened to the voices of the Austrian soldiery above
him. All the buoyancy of his inherent Americanism returned
to him.
"This is no place for a minister's son," he murmured, and
turning over struck out for the opposite shore. The river
was not wide, and Barney was soon nearing the bank along
which he could see occasional camp fires. Here, too, were
Austrians. He dropped down-stream below these, and at last
The Mad King |
