| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: trail up into the mountains. Tell them to pack outfits before
goin' to bed. Say as your servants hev sloped, you might as well
go campin' with the cowboys. That's all. If we hev any luck
your' friends'll never know they've been sittin' on a
powder-mine."
"Stillwell, do you advise that trip up into the mountains?" asked
Madeline.
"I reckon I do, considerin' everythin'. Now, Miss Majesty, I've
used up a lot of time explainin'. You'll sure keep your nerve?"
"Yes," Madeline replied, and was surprised at herself. "Better
tell Florence. She'll be a power of comfort to you. I'm goin'
The Light of Western Stars |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: LADY CHILTERN. Here?
MRS. CHEVELEY. Yes. I missed it when I got back to Claridge's, and
I thought I might possibly have dropped it here.
LADY CHILTERN. I have heard nothing about it. But I will send for
the butler and ask. [Touches the bell.]
MRS. CHEVELEY. Oh, pray don't trouble, Lady Chiltern. I dare say I
lost it at the Opera, before we came on here.
LADY MARKBY. Ah yes, I suppose it must have been at the Opera. The
fact is, we all scramble and jostle so much nowadays that I wonder we
have anything at all left on us at the end of an evening. I know
myself that, when I am coming back from the Drawing Room, I always
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: They condemn all heresies which have sprung up against this
article, as the Manichaeans, who assumed two principles, one Good
and the other Evil- also the Valentinians, Arians, Eunomians,
Mohammedans, and all such. They condemn also the Samosatenes, old
and new, who, contending that there is but one Person,
sophistically and impiously argue that the Word and the Holy
Ghost are not distinct Persons, but that "Word" signifies a
spoken word, and "Spirit" signifies motion created in things.
Article II: Of Original Sin.
Also they teach that since the fall of Adam all men begotten in
the natural way are born with sin, that is, without the fear of
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