| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: trail and that up to this, point at least, Lys still had lived.
I made over twenty miles that day, for I was now hardened to
fatigue and accustomed to long hikes, having spent considerable
time hunting and exploring in the immediate vicinity of camp.
A dozen times that day was my life threatened by fearsome creatures
of the earth or sky, though I could not but note that the farther
north I traveled, the fewer were the great dinosaurs, though they
still persisted in lesser numbers. On the other hand the
quantity of ruminants and the variety and frequency of
carnivorous animals increased. Each square mile of Caspak
harbored its terrors.
The Land that Time Forgot |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: the deathless gods, who keep the wide heaven? Nay, but it
is Poseidon, the girdler of the earth, that hath been wroth
continually with quenchless anger for the Cyclops' sake
whom he blinded of his eye, even godlike Polyphemus whose
power is mightiest amongst all the Cyclopes. His mother was
the nymph Thoosa, daughter of Phorcys, lord of the
unharvested sea, and in the hollow caves she lay with
Poseidon. From that day forth Poseidon the earth-shaker
doth not indeed slay Odysseus, but driveth him wandering
from his own country. But come, let us here one and all
take good counsel as touching his returning, that he may be
The Odyssey |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: who seek to be justified by the Law are fallen from grace and are in grave
danger of eternal death. If this holds true in the case of those who seek to
be justified by the moral Law, what will become of those, I should like to
know, who endeavor to be justified by their own regulations and vows?
They will fall to the very bottom of hell. "Oh, no," they say, "we will fly
straight into heaven. If you live according to the rules of Saint Francis,
Saint Dominick, Saint Benedict, you will obtain the peace and mercy of
God. If you perform the vows of chastity, obedience, etc., you will be
rewarded with everlasting life." Let these playthings of the devil go to the
place where they came from and listen to what Paul has to say in this
verse in accordance with Christ's own teaching: "He that believeth in the
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