| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: for them by primordial analogies and the upward tendency of all
creation. He showed his audience the workings of Nature, and assigned
a mission and a future to minerals, plants, and animals. Bible in
hand, after thus spiritualizing Matter and materializing Spirit, after
pointing to the Will of God in all things, and enjoining respect for
His smallest works, he suggested the possibility of rising by faith
from sphere to sphere.
This was the first portion of his discourse, and by adroit digressions
he applied the doctrine of his system to feudalism. The poetry--
religious and profane--and the abrupt eloquence of that period had a
grand opening in this vast theory, wherein the Doctor had amalgamated
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: little hawthorn which grew, thick with blossom, under the lofty
arcade of the oak. With his dagger, which alone remained to him of
all his arms, young Shelton severed the rope, and instantly, with a
dead thump, the corpse fell in a heap upon the ground.
Dick raised the hood; it was Throgmorton, Sir Daniel's messenger.
He had not gone far upon his errand. A paper, which had apparently
escaped the notice of the men of the Black Arrow, stuck from the
bosom of his doublet, and Dick, pulling it forth, found it was Sir
Daniel's letter to Lord Wensleydale.
"Come," thought he, "if the world changes yet again, I may have
here the wherewithal to shame Sir Daniel - nay, and perchance to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 8: 8 And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 8: 9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Isaiah 8: 10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand; for God is with us.
Isaiah 8: 11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, admonishing me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying:
Isaiah 8: 12 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful.
Isaiah 8: 13 The LORD of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
Isaiah 8: 14 And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Isaiah 8: 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.'
Isaiah 8: 16 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'
Isaiah 8: 17 And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.
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